OnlineBookClub.orgReviews of onlinebookclub.org

Signed up as a reviewer weeks ago and onlinebookclub.org is the only website I've ever used my email for (which happens to be my paypal email as well). I've never received any spam or ads before, but just recently I begin getting fake invoices billed to my PayPal, that if I was not savvy enough would have paid for and lost money. It doesn't end there - spam emails of gift cards, shipments stuck, etc. I'm worried this company could be selling user data, especially considering the fact that I submitted my government-issued ID for verification. I doubt they ever delete such info, and the fact that these are being verified by moderators whom we don't know and who could be anybody and do anything, including downloading these government IDs and selfie screenshots for who-knows-what is even more worrying. I doubt if they even subscribe to data protection laws as they should, and the fact that the people who are encharged with such sensitive data and documents (moderators or admins or whatever they call themselves) are anonymous and entirely shrouded in mystery doesn't help anything. I tried deleting my account from the site but they don't delete your data as they should. My email (as probably ID) is still there. I wouldn't be so paranoid if this wasn't an email I've only used on Online Book Club, and if the coincidence of starting to receive spam right after signing up wasn't too much. I value my privacy more than I value their meager money. If a user deletes their account from the website, I don't know why they should still keep their data, email, IDs, paypal info, etc. And I wonder why I only started receiving spam right after signing up, if not that this website or someone inside the website leaked my data.

At this point I don't care whether I will be reinstated anymore. The 4+ score here is probably from people who have been compelled to give it but it's only because they have not run into any problems yet. And Scott has a ridiculous rule against leaving negative reviews on third party sites but at this point i have nothing to lose. I dont see myself ever returning to such an headache. First, there is hardly any help these days. You can email back and forth and be taken into circles without any help. They've a ridiculous number of reps who are good for nothing at solving any reviewer's problems. You'll send thirty emails and only be exchanged between reps without your case being attended to. I value my mental health to be following up with people who don't want to help in any way. Second, editors and admins nowadays agree on everything and there's nothing you can do. I was banned for using AI and the editor gave totally no evidence other than that "they used 3 different AI checkers and they said my review is AI written". It has been proved time and time again that AI checkers are not always accurate. Plus I used AI ONLY to edit my review since it's so damn hard to get any good scores alone, and always make sure I add a prompt for the AI not to change anything else. There are always some errors that slip that AI will help spot and remove, so it isn't a surprise if such reviews turn up as AI written but AI checkers don't take this into consideration. This and so many more negative experiences are reasons I don't want to review on Onlinebookclub anymore and the reason I can't recommend it to anyone else with a sane mind.

The Service was not as stated. I have ordered a few things through the Online Book Club and find them to be more controlling about their image than the delivery of the product. I ordered the book of the day and so far the return on investment is not up to par and I even paid a discounted rate. If I had paid the full amount, it would have been an even bigger waste of money. I have learned after the fact about the poor service and the other options and better options that are available for a new author. (with a great book) I was asked to remove my last post in exchange for a chance to make it right. I honored their request and never heard back from them, so I am writing a new post as a result of their failure to keep their end of the deal. My only suggestion is do your homework before working with this company. Their audience isn't what they are pitching.

My experience with the app: - User experience is non-existent. Navigating the website is torture - It took them over 2 months to evaluate my review. Only after I contacted them, they provided a feedback - Even though the review adheres to the guidelines, they deducted points for everything without providing any examples Definitely would not spend my time reading subpar books for free. Do not bother.

I was looking for ways to make a little extra money and I read about reviewing books for cash. Just a buck here a buck there but hey free books to leave a review yes, please. This site showed up a lot and seemed to have good reviews so I signed up and joined. There is a lot of rules such as making note of any swear words, any adult content, any misspellings, and so on. No problem. You also need to submit a few reviews before getting paid. Again no problem. I start looking for a book, I find an interesting one and I read and review it. Come to find out that book was a Unicorn on this website. What do I mean? That book was a rare find. If you want to review most books you have to have a Kindle Unlimited subscription. Why because most books are only free on Kindle Unlimited. For those that are not, and offer you the book for free without the subscription, requires you to post a review on Amazon. Now for a person who buys a lot of stuff on Amazon, this is not a problem. However, if most of what you "buy" from Amazon is free Kindle books you are out of luck. Why? Because to review anything on Amazon you have to spend over $50 a year. To some people, $50 is a lot of money and they can't afford to spend that on Amazon. In the end, you are left with maybe one book every few months you will be able to review. Meaning it will take a couple of months at least before you can even earn anything on onlinebookclub. Nice concept they just need to work out the problems. update: changing the score because the site has only gotten worse, and the owner tried to have my review removed because I only spoke the truth. Only when Trustpilot realized my review did not contain defamatory content and reposted my review did the owner "try" to reach out. I just noticed after reading a bunch of reviews, all the other low scores for this site everyone gets the same copy-pasted answer from "Scott". If they do want to work hard and prove that their company is so great, a copy-pasted replay to everyone is not how to do it. Someone who is getting flagged and banned for AI generation when they didn't use AI at all, people getting banned and not refunded after they paid for a book, or even people finding the ID requirement suspicious and unsafe are all going to need to be talked to in a different manner and with different words. An owner of a legit site where you have strict reviewing guidelines would know this. Also a bit of an update to the site as well. Shortly after posting this review, the rules were updated to include the fact that you had to give them your ID to review for them anymore. I asked them why they did this only after I pointed out that there were NO books to review without buying the books or having Kindle Unlimited. They acted like they had no idea what I was talking about. They refused to talk to me until I changed one of my settings and because I updated my settings they happily told me to get bent and made it to where I could not review on their site anymore even if I was able to find another "unicorn" to review. I would gladly give this site a negative rating if I could with how the company has treated me and others. I hope those of you who are in the same boat as me and looking to get a few extra dollars a month by reading and reviewing books do not make the same mistake I did and try to stick it out with this company in hopes of things getting better. Good luck finding a company to work for.

My account was banned without further explanation, it is almost impossible to contact their customer service and I didn't get help in their Facebook group either. Mi experiencia con ellos fue terrible. Recibí un libro de muestra para leer y brindar mi reseña en los correos jamas mencionaron un limite de tiempo. Lastimosamente yo enferme durante un par de semanas y no pude leer, un día simplemente recibi un correo donde me habían baneado y es imposible recuperar mi cuenta. No los recomiendo en absoluto

I paid for a four-tier Review (four weeks), and haven't even gotten the review in two months. So I complained to BBB, and now their CEO, Scott, is asking me to change the review. Also, an employee sent me a link to a completed review of my past order and marked the current review closed. Extremely unprofessional and unethical firm. Please avoid them at all costs. Also, note that I had asked for a specific reviewer (who incidentally also reviewer my other two books). OnlineBook Club kept citing that reason as the reason for the delay . But when the Review finally came, it was done by someone else. So Onlinebookclub intentionally kept me in the dark. ALso, theor owner Scott wanted me to delete this review for a positive book review

Scott Hughes, the owner of the company, refuses to abide by his refund policy, clearly stated on his website. He adds to it as he wishes so that he doesn't have to refund money to dissatisfied customers. He has refused my request for a refund because I had the audacity to write negative reviews about his company. Nowhere in the refund policy does it state that as a condition of a refund. He has ignored my request through the Better Business Bureau as well. Authors - actual customers of this website - stay far, far away! Now, he has replied with utter nonsense. An author decides to have a review published publicly when the review is ordered, not after. The reviewers he uses are not professional book reviewers as he promised. (Authors have no way of knowing that until the book review is put on his site.) They're just random folks around the world who want to make extra money. None of his "freebies" are legitimate, since he can't offer what he promises - a professional book review. I will quote here from his email he sent right before I ordered - "To say all of our services come with a satisfaction guarantee is an understatement. If after using our services you are "just satisfied", then that is NOT good enough. I work so hard to make OnlineBookClub.org the best it can be. I work 7 days a week, 365 days a year. I am not satisfied if you are only satisfied. I won't stop until you are MORE than satisfied." You can't satisfy me, Scott, because you didn't deliver what I ordered - a professional book review. FYI - there is a difference between a professional book review and just an ordinary reader's book review. You gave me that, but it isn't what I ordered. One of the free services he offered was a "5 star review" for my book on Amazon. That goes against Amazon policy - a guaranteed 5 star review would be a fake review. If I accepted it, I would be in danger of my book being kicked off Amazon. He offered me half a refund, then said he wouldn't give me the rest until I deleted any negative reviews I had posted online. Does that sound legitimate to you? Does that sound like a company that doesn't give refunds? And now, Scott has gone to the bottom of the barrel. I never at any time asked you to put a 5 star review on Amazon. The person who reviewed my book for your site gave it a 5 star review on your site. And, since I could not use her review as an editorial review as she is not a professional book reviewer, I asked for a regular reader's review. I did not ask that the review be by her or that it be a 5 star review. That was your choice to ask her to do it. She bought an ebook version of my book in the UK and then put up a review. Please, feel free to contact Amazon and I will be happy to send them a copy of all your emails, as well as the fact you are selling "editorial reviews" that are not editorial reviews. And, if you want to admit to Amazon that you are allowing your employees to put up fake reviews on their site, that's your business.