Business Sells Customer Counterfeit Textbook, Gets Nuked From Orbit

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mattstaff
Nov 5, 2020 1:00 PM EST

It's businesses like these that ultimately need to be taken out. After this enraged customer realized they've been sold a counterfeit textbook, they did what anyone determined to take their revenge would do: they internet stalked that business, and eventually managed to nuke them right out of orbit. It was the only way to be sure that this business wouldn't put any other poor students through the ringer. 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/AbortRetrylmplode • 3y Nuked a business from orbit because I got a D- This revenge story is two years in the making and is long, so my apologies. Two years ago I started a distance PhD program. My very first full semester in the program consisted of an intro course which is basically "Welcome back to school. Here's how to do research. Here's how to do APA citations." A LOT of it focused on proper APA writing and one of the first assignments was just doing a simple ab
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    Text - By this time I was thinking I was out of my mind. I sent a Strongly Worded Letter (tm) to the APA that basically said, "What the hell is wrong with you guys selling a book like this?" They wrote back and did the business equivalent of patting me on the head and saying, "We're sorry you don't like our book." Then I started REALLY looking at the book. And I started noticing a lot of typos. Eventually everything clicked and I realized "Holy shit.these are OCR (optical character recognition)
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    Text - provided a pirated version of the book." Well, the seller didn't appreciate that and wrote me back a SUPER nasty email saying that my suggestion that they were selling counterfeits was very offensive, all their books were brand new from the publishers, and that I was a bitch they were going to report to the police for slander. Okay, I was pretty upset about the shitty grade, but you wrote me back and swore at me and threatened to report me to the police? Now I'm pissed. I start by looking
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    Text - This is the part where I went full Internet stalker. I searched for their company name and found it was a registered LLC. I got the address from their state's listing of small business registrations (which turned out to be a fairly nice looking house per Google Maps) then looked up property tax records on the house to get the owner's name. I found the owner on Facebook and found they had a business website listed under a completely different name that they'd shared all over their FB timel
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    Text - Today I happened upon my old APA manual and I started wondering whatever happened to them so I dug up the emails with the info and went looking. They no longer have seller profiles on any of the sites. Their website has been taken over by a domain re-seller. The house appears to have been sold last year (which may not be related, but l'd like to think it is.) And the owner's Facebook page lists them as now working at a place that turns out to be a PayDay lender. I dug through their timeli
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    Text - "How did those minor errors cause you to get such a bad grade?" Because part of the assignment was doing the citations for the abstract and because of the incorrect italicizing (caused by following the APA guide) and my own error on the abstract of leaving off the running head I got the D-. This professor is a great professor but she's also a hard ass that goes all or nothing on us on our APA style. I've got her again this semester so pray to the spaghetti monster to intercede on my behal
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    Text - "Grad school is a waste, online school sucks, etc." Cool story. I work in academia and my field has no upward mobility without a PhD. I'm doing this through a major university, not a degree mill. You're entitled to your opinion though. "I don't believe you." Again, you're entitled to your opinion. I dumped all the info I could easily find that wouldn't put my personal info or the seller's personal info out there. If you want to call BS then that's fine. 10.3k 338 ↑, Share
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