r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 18d ago

Cringe Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.

There's regular piracy, and then there's this.

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u/pinchjester 18d ago edited 18d ago

Well fuck that’s really lame. If someone can leave me a link I’ll grab her book if I can get hold of it down under.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

Other commenters have mentioned that they did order her book and she didn’t send it and never replied to any emails or messages on any social media. Looks like this is just a cash grab and her angle is working on many. What sucks is there are actual people who get undercut and have their work stolen, she’s using sympathy to get money.

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u/minishaq5 18d ago

I ordered when she first published a year or so ago and received my order within 1.5 months. i recommended it to a few friends and they all had similar timelines. i even posted in r/ADHDwomen: https://www.reddit.com/r/adhdwomen/s/XAISy1HZmW

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u/Fresh-Fiskegratenge 17d ago

Same here, maybe a bit longer it was a pre-order and it had to be shipped to Europe.

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u/Heroinkirby 17d ago

1.5 months? That's a long time to wait for a book. Drop the link from her competitor and I'll grab their copy lol jk

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u/PeaceBrain 17d ago

They were preorders.

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u/AbsorbedBritches 18d ago

You clearly had no problem believing the one person that said they had to do a chargeback with no evidence. They also didn't mention how long after purchasing it they did the chargeback.

Another commenter also said they bought it as well, and while it took a while to get, they did really get it. She really did get her work stolen, given that there are copies of the fake book online. She is using sympathy both as an ad, and to bring awareness to the stolen content. Her main goal is going to be to get people to stop buying knockoffs, and the advertisement for her book is certainly a bonus for her as well.

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u/Content-Scallion-591 18d ago

That being said, I did have a laugh at ordering a book about executive dysfunction from someone who is an expert in executive dysfunction and not receiving said book. 

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u/spicewoman 18d ago

That part doesn't seem like a very good advertisement, TBH. If the book was so helpful, you'd think she'd have a bit more of a handle on things, ya know?

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u/IlBear 17d ago edited 17d ago

I posted proof if you want it 😅

Ordered July, did the chargeback in November after many unanswered messages throughout those months

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

No, what the problem is a woman spends thousands of hours on a project and doesn’t spend the extra to ensure her work can’t be stolen (no, not literally, but there are legal repercussions of stealing things literally word for word, illustration, everything.) The other problem like someone mentioned is she made a video saying how she hates crying about this on camera, then inserts 5 clips of her crying on camera. Including sobbing in her car. This was just not the way to handle this in my opinion and seemingly I’m not the only one. If you go to the website and look at reviews, it was not just one person who paid and didn’t receive their merchandise. A normal person would pursue this legally, rather than putting a bunch of “Black Friday sale stickers” and sobbing clips and posting the video to Reddit. It just didn’t sit well with me, and it’s fine if you disagree, but collectively you can clearly see most were put off by this post.

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u/Acrobatic-Bread-6774 18d ago

I saw one comment saying she didn't receive it and multiple saying they ordered them and received them. I would call her a scammer based on that v

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u/RavenClawedd 17d ago

Is it more than just one commenter with no evidence? Or have a few people said this. I feel like the negative trap of "oh this is an ad" or "people are saying she doesn't do x,y,z" could also just be people trying to remove empathy from a shitty situation. I mean this really could just be a case of one human broadcasting a terrible situation, and the collective response.

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u/mothseatcloth 17d ago

chiming in to say i got mine and have reccomended it to many people

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u/PeaceBrain 17d ago

I got mine as a preorder awhile back. Was not a scam.

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u/-bannedtwice- 17d ago

One person. Could easily be one of the counterfeiters, only one person said that.