FanStory
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Fan Story has locked my father, a paid subscriber, out of accessing his account claiming his account had been restricted and for him to check his private message to see why. Unfortunately, private message doesn't work, so he has been restricted from using his account for 2 or 3 months according to him.

They need to either refund his money, or let him access his account. He is not getting what he paid for.

I have personally emailed them prior to filing this complaint.

Fanstory withdrew $9.95 Transaction #7UD03069XF663272A from PayPal account on 8/16/21. I did not authorize this charge.

I paid $69 dollars to enlist. It is stated on the site that within a week if you change your mind you can get a refund. I changed my mind within half an hour after exploring the site and finding it a complete mess.
On reading some reviews it seems that other people feel similar.
I have messaged them three times, the first within the first half hour.
I would very much like my money back, otherwise the site is a scam.
I have never come across such a bad site. Karen Steele

You will enjoy a 7-day worry free trial period following your purchase. If you are not satisfied, we will refund your purchase.

Tom Enis the Administrator here at FanStory has again bannedme from this site.
This is the fifth time.
This time for Writing Generic Reviews.
That means that he feels I 'Cut and Paste.'
My reviews vary as to content
I have been nominated for the Reviewer of the Month many times.
I also include him in charge Piece with Acceditation.
I can't even respond as to this complaint while my many hundreds of fans await reviews.
I am 'World Reconized by two "Who's Who's."
Covington and Strathmores.
Richard Edward Smrkovsky

Fanstory.com advertises contests for cash on Facebook. This is the lure and hook, but only top ranked writers win. The ranking is arbitrary where reviews from top ranked raise a writer's rank and prestige. Nothing is based on merit or writing skills. One's work can only move to the first page for reviews if one pays for first page. Tom End..administrator states that one can boost work by reviewing..but I reviewed day and night and could not boost it. I had multiple blue ribbons and my rank dropped below 200. People were above me who could not write coherent sentences. If the top group does not read ones work, it will not live. Many in the group are sock puppets and one man is at least ten users. Tom controls the final contestants for contests..a conflict of interest. This whole site is an unholy scam. It was a nightmare ..

I joined Fanstory.com in September 2015 having already reached Legendary Poet status with poetry.com which I think is a good site. Fanstory.com is certainly not a good site. I have been writing poetry since 1975 and therefore consider myself experienced enough to judge a poor writer from an exceptional writer when writing reviews. Fanstory.com has a five star rating system but you virtually get death threats from members if you rate them below five even if their work should have been flushed down the toilet and thrown out with the trash. You are not allowed to be free when judging or reviewing a poem, members are your best friends when you give them five or six star reviews but want to virtually sue you or give you a bad review in return even if your poem has been rated exceptional by other members if you dare give them below a four. If the board which I think monitors reviews unfairly sees a bad review given by a member irrespective of whether it is deserved or not they close the account even when the member may have bought hundreds of dollars of member dollars for their poetry to be promoted higher which I think is a scam anyway poetry should get there on its own merits and not have to be paid for and there is often no explanation save a warning in your private message inbox like a naughty schoolchild to say that next time you are out. This website is a money making lottery, I have been sworn at, had death threats from many members who are that narrow minded about their work that they cannot see in the real world publishers would make them a laughing stock. I had to wait 25 years before I got my firdt poem published and I appear regularly on Classic FM and Radio Merseyside in England with my poetry because this is the real world and the real world just want the best. It is adog eat dog world out there but woe betide anybody even of status if they give anybody a poor review on this site they are shot down like Cher you shot me down bang bang and either have their account suspended or closed. You then have to bow and scrape to get back on the site which seems to be done automatically or quicker as member dollars appear in your account seconds after you purchase them but if you make a complaint to the board about an unfair review or being sworn at or given a death threat you have to wait days for a response which is often negative or if not agreed with your account is closed again no explanation which happened to me yesterday when I challenged the site owner Tom Ens who I called nothing but a poetry pimp and money launderer and manipulator of vulnerable people as I also suffer with bipolar disorder. They are all smiles when you give them money or buy member dollars from them but cannot or will not tolerate bad reviews where they are due or complaints to the board or they defend their actions when you challenge them. Fanstory is misleading and corrupt, its owners should be investigated by the FBI and their website closed. What I have disclosed above proves that is a scam and I am not the only one to have reported this about this site. PLease investigate this site and its corrupt money laundering pimp owners who wouldn't recognise a good poem from a toilet brush and remove it from the web until many other people are hurt either mentally or financially. THese are scam merchants who play on the vulnerable in our society and are a dishonest bunch of crooks, PLease investigate. from William Scriven 87A Milton Road WIDNES Cheshire UK WA8 7JR

Here's the dark side, the REAL story about Scamstory:

As an extensively published, well-known writer and magazine editor for decades, and a one-time ''Top Ranked Number One Author" on the Fanstory site, I can tell you with authority that Fanstory is NOT a legitimate writing site. It's a narcissistic little online reality show run by spiteful, cowardly, no-talent schoolyard bullies. With a few notable exceptions, most of the writing there is pure unpublishable garbage.

Fanstory's owner and Supreme Ruler For Life, Tom Ens, is a despotic, draconian internet scam-artist who rules his little fantasy kingdom through fear, intimidation, repression of intelligent thoughts and ideas, and the deliberate encouragement of competitive discord between members.

A big part of his well-developed strategy is to divide and rule, just like a dictatorship, keeping members in line under the constant threat of Big Brother watching. This maniac has gone so far as to imply that he monitors the private email accounts of members, in order to revoke their membership for violating his ''site terms'' and speaking out about his atrocities, even in private.

Fanstory is an Orwellian nightmare. It's owner works his malevolent internet con-game through obvious favoritism to a few no-talent cronies and the iron-fisted enforcement of all sorts of arbitrary little rules, regulations and ''site terms'' which are exclusively and entirely subject to his own personal interpretation and whims.

Like the Wizard of Oz, this creep has raked in a fortune by feeding the egos of lonely pensioners and the like, bleeding their Paypal accounts dry by charging them a fortune to ''promote'' their work on the site. The more money they spend, the higher they rise in ''rank'', despite the overall poor quality of their work.

It's nothing but a scam, feeding on peoples' vanity. It's a classic case of The Emperor's New Clothes, where the few intelligent members who know what a corrupt little farce it all is are bullied into silence under the constant threat of expulsion if they so much as make a peep.

He's gotten away with terrorizing his shivering minions like this from behind a curtain of anonymity for years. Most of the members don't even know that the draconian "Tom" who threatens them with expulsion for the most petty of infractions on a daily basis is a real person. In his narcissistic little fantasy bubble of illusory omnipotence, this money-hungry weirdo and his unfortunate subjects seem to have lost touch with the reality that there are real consequences in the real world outside of Fanstory, where unprincipled scam-artists like this can and will be held accountable for their crimes.

I, for one, am in the process of initiating a lawsuit against this abomination of a ''writer's site'' and its owner, Tom Ens for the many absurd outrages committed against me and my work during my time as a ''Top Ranked'' member there.

If you're looking for a real, legitimate writer's workshop online, avoid Fanstory like the Black Hole of Calcutta. Its advertising policy borders on criminally misleading, and the whole thing just stinks to high heaven. Through massive amounts of false advertising, they manage to make it look all pretty and innocent on the surface, but the reality is as dark and corrupt as it gets. An ugly, unwholesome little nightmare!

If your are serious about your writing, don't drink the Fanstory Kool Aid. This site is the absolute pits!

Every review I've found gives this site a 5/5 and extols the virtues of the free reviews you can get. But you only get them if you sign up, which costs money. And, more interestingly, most of the reviews have links to other reviews that create a loop effect, allowing you to go from one to the next to the next then back to the first. I think these are really just nothing more then creative ads.