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Pubby used to be a great way to get reviews, but they've gone way downhill in a short time, especially when it comes to Verified Reviews. Verified Reviews are reviews where the reader must purchase the book, read it, and then review it; so as the reader, you are putting money out to review the book...this process SHOULD be legitimate. BUT, the reader is at the mercy of Amazon to actually post that the review is a "Verified Review"...half the time they don't post that, and Pubby penalizes you for it by taking away the snaps they originally awarded you (snaps are used to up your book to the reading library so others can read and review for you.) It's not the reader's fault if Amazon doesn't post that "verified review" stamp....and Pubby won't accept your receipt of purchase as evidence that you did in fact purchase the book. So, don't be surprised if you go into your account and find your snaps in the negative by thousands, and they aren't helpful at all in resolving these issues. They ask for "Detailed Receipts" Amazon's digital receipts aren't always "Detailed" sometimes, if you purchase more than one digital book at a time, they lump them together on one receipt, they don't break it down...it just shows the total paid...but Pubby won't accept that...seriously?! The next complaint I have is that it is OBVIOUS that many times readers aren't reading the books, this completely removes the legitimacy of Pubby's reviews. I have seen many instances where reviewers simply copy/paste information from the book's page on Pubby and paste it into a review showing that they obviously did not READ the book.

Pubby used to be a decent way to get reviews, but there were always some people who just took advantage and wrote whatever without even looking at the books. Now you can’t trust it at all. They’ve automated everything to death and never admit when they make a mistake. In their eyes, the client is always wrong. If your review fails to get stamped as a verified purchase by Amazon despite the fact that you bought, read, and reviewed the book, you get blocked from verified purchases even if you show proof of purchase. If you write a review the author didn’t like, they block your account and force you to remove it or not be able to use the site anymore even if you read the book and reviewed it accurately. It isn’t a trust worthy site. Don’t waste your money.

Man oh man. Pubby has some authors that also try to get your information so they can message you on Facebook to purchase their editing service. I declined one, that's when I was hit with a bad review. I was supposed to have verified purchase review and the reviewer giving me the poor review didn't even buy by book. Based on the AI generated review they clearly did not even read the book but yet I will have a bad one star review now all because someone that wanted to sell me something found me through pubby and after I rejected them they gave me a bad review. I know there is nothing I can do about it so I am just shutting down my pubby account. It did more harm than good.

I received three reviews that were negative. They were all three supposed to read my book on Kindle unlimited and during the time I had zero page reads, which means they did not read my book but all rated me low and I escalated to puppy they agreed with me since I showed them I had zero page reads and refunded me my Snaps but it still doesn't change the fact that I got three negative reviews by people who didn't even read my book. I looked at one profile and this person rates every book in my genre negatively I would steer clear at this platform

Currently waiting on these people coming back to me. I'm trying to cancel free trial, but there is no cancellation button, despite their "chat assistant' saying there is one. They had better not take many from my account or I'l be contacting fraud office.

I have had my book published on Pubby since the 9th of August and since that time I have had several reviews for my book however I request five more requests to have my book read and reviewed but nothing is happening. I have left several messages with Pubby support and they have not responded. Not worth the money in my opinion.

I was using pubby just fine until I started to give (very honest) 1 -3 star reviews on some titles that were obviously poor quality and written with Ai. Pubby suspended my account stating they received too many complaints that I was not leaving authentic reviews. I asked them to cite specific cases and they have never gotten back to me. From my experience and in my opinion it seems like Pubby is only interested in providing their clients with glowing five star reviews regardless of the junk they permit on their platform.

They closed my account without notification and they just banned me from their website while my 30,000 snaps are not yet redeemed to reviews for my upcoming book, they took my money and left me nothing, they are scammers. You better look for other options like bookbite, getbooksreviewed or e.t.c I'll never use their services ever again