http://guaka.org/tag/scam en http://guaka.org/flugladen-scam <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">tag: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/scam">scam</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/flugladen">flugladen</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/flights">flights</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>"Ass wholes of this flugladen.de. price doesn't include luggage..and they don't give the option to include luggage in the website order..you need to call them for that or the flight company..so now ... needs to order the luggage which is like 30 euro extra or so..it was written in mega small letters and i didn't notice this crap when I ordered."</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:15:08 +0000 Guaka 21788 at http://guaka.org http://guaka.org/guaka-new-blog-post-http-guaka-org20101125books-llc-scam-amazon-scam-amazon-books-llc <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">tag: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/books">books</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/scam">scam</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/llc">llc</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>new blog post... <a href="http://guaka.org/2010/11/25/books-llc-scam-amazon" title="http://guaka.org/2010/11/25/books-llc-scam-amazon" rel="nofollow external">http://guaka.org/2010/11/25/books-llc-scam-amazon</a> #<a href="http://identi.ca/tag/scam" rel="tag">scam</a> @amazon #<a href="http://identi.ca/tag/books" rel="tag">books</a> #<a href="http://identi.ca/tag/llc" rel="tag">llc</a></p> </div></div></div> Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:53:11 +0000 Anonymous 546 at http://guaka.org http://guaka.org/2010/11/25/books-llc-scam-amazon <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">tag: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/scam">scam</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/amazon">amazon</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/books-llc">books llc</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/semitic-languages">semitic languages</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I love books about linguistics and I've been learning Hebrew and Arabic for a while now. So I was happy to see this title on Amazon: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Semitic-Linguistics-Proto-Semitic-Constructus-Nonconcatenative/dp/115770347X/ref=cm_cr_wr_img">Semitic Linguistics: Proto-Semitic Language, Semitic Root, Status Constructus, Broken Plural, Nonconcatenative Morphology, Emphatic Consonant</a>.</p> <h2>Scam LLC</h2> <p>I ordered it without too much thought. When the shipment arrived I was a bit surprised at how thin the book was, which costs almost 10 quid. I took it with me on a trip without looking into it. In the train I opened the book and I felt had. It's fucking scam.</p> <p>Apparently <strong>Books LLC</strong> is taking articles from Wikipedia and putting them up for sale on Amazon. Perfectly legal, thanks to the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. But it's still a fucking rip-off. Especially since they can come up with tons of new "books" every day like this.</p> <h2>The problem lies with Amazon</h2> <p>The main problem here lies with Amazon. I really don't understand why they accept selling this book. It screws up their name and it will be a while before I order books again there without deep scrutiny of the books - which makes it less likely I'll buy there.</p> <p>Today I shipped back the book, which costs me 6 euros, but it's worth every euro if it makes Amazon consider taking Books LLC crap off of their online store... And apart from writing it off with this blog post I left some more reviews for books from Books LLC on Amazon.</p> <p>Meanwhile it would be good if the Wikimedia Foundation dives into this and starts selling printed Wikipedia articles themselves. Or if some <a href="http://onlineprintingservices.info/">online printing service</a> would step up and provide this service. I would be happy to buy these since it would look much better, and the money would go to support Wikipedia. And if it turns out to be a genuine success we won't have to look at Jimbo next year whenever we look up something on Wikipedia ;)</p> <h2>Other scams</h2> <p><a href="https://hucksters.net/person/rasmus-refer/">This guy</a> is a total scammer. Did some work for him, never paid me. He's on a continuous path of scamming and these days he's probably doing the same thing as an "artist".</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:50:52 +0000 Guaka 545 at http://guaka.org