baba-prague
This is really just to share what's become a bit of a bugbear recently. We regularly get asked for review copies of our deck - which is great and we're only too happy to help. But what do you do with people who write bogus requests pretending to be journalists?
We've had a couple of these recently and I've found it makes me really annoyed. It's time-consuming to check out the person and it's oddly offensive when you realise they have never published a review in their lives and are just trying to get a free copy.
The real reviewers tend to be great and very professional (like the reviewers we know so well here on AT - couldn't be better). Often magazine reviewers will even offer to return the deck after review (we never ask for this though!) and will nearly always send a copy of what they've written. We've been surprised with free books from time to time - only to find we are in there!
But these people who write pretending to be something they are not - grrrr. Does it irritate you as much as it does me? How do you respond? I'd love to share on this one!
We've had a couple of these recently and I've found it makes me really annoyed. It's time-consuming to check out the person and it's oddly offensive when you realise they have never published a review in their lives and are just trying to get a free copy.
The real reviewers tend to be great and very professional (like the reviewers we know so well here on AT - couldn't be better). Often magazine reviewers will even offer to return the deck after review (we never ask for this though!) and will nearly always send a copy of what they've written. We've been surprised with free books from time to time - only to find we are in there!
But these people who write pretending to be something they are not - grrrr. Does it irritate you as much as it does me? How do you respond? I'd love to share on this one!