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Originally Posted by Promo Publishers
My information is public, anyone who wants to know can find out whose behind Promo Publishers and are free to call me with their questions.
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How about answering questions in public, in text form?
Like, how many authors do you have, and how much of the price of the Kindle are they willing to support? What kind of contract do you have with them--what happens if they change their mind about paying to distribute their works?
How many units are they willing to pay for?
Where's the profit for you--are those authors not only paying for half a Kindle, but a 10% promo fee to you?
How will you deal with returns for faulty devices, or complaints about badly-formatted ebooks?
What format will the ebooks be in? Will they be DRMd, or transferable to other devices?
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Do you choose to hide behind the curtain of a msg board ID, or do you have the strength to make public the real name and contact info behind the board ID "avaloncourt".
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Welcome to America. Lemme 'splain some basic business rules:
When you go into business, the customer has the right to know certain things about you. These include the owner's legal name, the business address, the business license # for whatever location it's licensed in, contact info, and sometimes other details like what kind of insurance is applicable.
The business does not have the right to know equivalent information about its customers. If you have a store, I get to walk in & buy things with cash, without ever telling you my name or address. If I'm online, and I send you PayPal money, you get my name, but still not my address, my credit card number, or my bank of choice.
You're the one making the offer--Kindles at half the price the creators sell them at. You're the one who has to convince people that there's some reason they should buy from you instead of Amazon. $250 discount sounds incredible... but then, I can always find some guy on a street corner willing to sell me a flat-screen TV for $300, as long as I don't ask him where he got it, or how he's licensed to do business from the back of a van.
For all we know, you've got a friend at the Amazon shipping docks, who's going to slip you a couple of boxes of Kindles when they come in.
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Is there a reason you have the courage to bash me publically here where no one knows your identity, but still you refuse to call me personally to speak directly with me about your concerns?
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Why call, when the results of that conversation might not be sharable with the public? Why don't you just answer things here?--or at your site's FAQ page, so all your potential customers can be assured that your insanely good price is the result of a legitimate business plan, rather than an attempt to scam someone?
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Because of this, most people I know would consider you the fake.
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Avaloncourt hasn't claimed to be anything but "guy on a message board who wonders how this business could be legit." You're the one making claims.