The first editions of all the Chrillo books were absolute crap. I submitted reviews to Amazon saying how bad they were. They went up, and then several days later they dissapeared. I asked Amazon why the y went away and they said because they critisized the author. So I rewrote without those parts, and they went up. Again they dissapeared. This time they told me they received a complaint that my posts were copyrighted and should be removed. Well, since I know for a fact that I wrot ethem myself, I know they were legit. Each time I worte a review, new glorious reviews were spammed in, often cutting and pasting text from other glorious reviews. My negative reviewswere constantly being removed, even when they fit every rule Amazon has.
Clearly Chrillo is keeeping bad reviews out of amazon and probably the other online bookstores, and spamming with hundreds of fake ones. I will never buy his books again, and I'm ashamed of Wiley for publishing second editions. I brought this up to them and they promised to investigate, and I never heard another thing.
I did look at hack attacks rev #2 in the store, and it's still pretty crappy. I can understand the media folks not taking a fine toothed comb to the books, so while I can be sure Carmadara's review was legit, it's still pretty innacurate.
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Clearly Chrillo is keeeping bad reviews out of amazon and probably the other online bookstores, and spamming with hundreds of fake ones. I will never buy his books again, and I'm ashamed of Wiley for publishing second editions. I brought this up to them and they promised to investigate, and I never heard another thing.
I did look at hack attacks rev #2 in the store, and it's still pretty crappy. I can understand the media folks not taking a fine toothed comb to the books, so while I can be sure Carmadara's review was legit, it's still pretty innacurate.