ahha ...read that was quite entertaining

I thought it was - thanks for confirming my suspicion. Wow. No one ever told me about how it was actually a scam.

It's not a scam. It's just for rich people. Poor people have no reason to attend.

That has nothing to do with it. I'm quite tired of your pointless sarcasm. If you don't have anything reasonably necessary to say, just stay off the board. You're basically spamming. Stop acting like you're so much better than everyone else.

Wow, you find scams everywhere, even when inspiring writers/poets that want to send in their hard work. I'm very sorry that you got ripped off of that poetry site. Good thing you got most of your money back ($50) though.

I say everyone on cB sends them a fake poem and make them go bankrupt from spending too much money sending out letters and processing paper! Muahahahaha!

yeah my friend got scammed from them :/ i was about to fall for it too until they warned me

i did that a couple of years ago...it is a scam, because the only poeple buying the book are the people who wrote the poems...and i know my poems werent that good when i was 12 so i wonder what kinda of crap was in that book

i rememeber my friends getting all worked up over it and they even fighted over it too.. because well long story.. quite sad actually.. we all knew it was a scam.

yeah i got a letter from them to cause i signed up. i thought that it was cool that i was gonna be in a book and i was thinking of buying it. and then i saw the cost i was just like $50 for a book f**k no. so yeah i started to think that they were scaming me so yeah.

When I was 9 poetry.com sent me something like that. My English teacher said I was a good poet, so I thought I'd enter. Luckily, when I got the notice, my mom saw it and told me it was probably a scam.

Yep. I've submitted like 10 poems there over 4 years ago and recieved the same letters and blazay blazay blah. I was pretty excited about it but never bought the book. Then over the next few years they kept sending me the same letters and encouraging me to buy their book. That's when I realized that there was something fishy about the entire thing.

It's not sarcasm, have you read the pamphlet? only rich people go to crap like this. Quit being so accusatory. I've done nothing to you.

There. It is a scam. I doubt that 20/20 would broadcast something that wasn't true.

Hey, you don't have to do something to me to tick me off. But technically you did by posting something completely unnecessary on one of my pooems. You left a pretty bad impression. Oh well, as if I care.

LMFAO
thats funny stuff

The same thing happened to me, i got a letter saying i was a semi-finalist and everything else...i almost bought the book too but i thought it was a little strange.

thanks for the memo, i wont fall for the trick

i got a medal from them though :\ i have it on my wall of accomplishments lol. my name was on a list with about 50 other people as "honorable mentions" :( kinda far from winning the grand prize.

ooh ive been there before, but to find rhyming words. lol

wow I hate people who scam your money
Gosh. Its a good thing you didnt send it yet lol.
Saved you 50 bucks

oh heh. i sent my poem in there to copyright it o_O; anywho, i got the mail too but i didn't buy the book O_o; and i didn't even want to x_X; and they said my poem would be on a page of it's own >_>;; so.. i dunno xD anywho, i'm sleepy so yeah.. this will be my last post of the day and ill sign the petition or whatever it is x_x; since i believe scamming is wrong.. anyways nights.

edit: my friend won 10, 000 from it tho.. but she was supposed to fly there and well, she didn't ^^;;

^ Did they tell your friend that if she attended the thing in Washington DC, she might win $10,000? Because I don't think they'll notify you that you have won. Besides, they do that to thousands of people—and they end up wasting their money for nothing.