Business ProfileforAuthor Reputation Press LLC

I paid Author Reputation Press (ARP) $3500 on 8/27/2024 for a marketing service aimed at producing an advertisement in the magazine, Christianity Today (CT), for a book I wrote and that *** had agreed to publish. I was convinced to spend the money by ****** ********* in a series of phone calls on the evening of 8/26/2024. ****** identified himself as a founder of *** and claimed that he had spoken to the Board of Directors of ** and had convinced them to run an advertisement for my book in the next issue, and that he urgently needed the $3500 to finalize the deal. He claimed that he and I would have to co-sign a contract with CT for the advertisement in the immediate future. I never received such a contract. Instead, I was sent a contract exclusively with *** the following day for a marketing campaign, which listed Christianity Today and my book in the official receipt. On 9/5/2024, I sent an email to **** *******, the Marketing Fulfillment Officer of ***, inquiring about the status of the ad and the supposed contract with CT. **** replied that *** had sent the book information to CT and that *** was awaiting feedback. After ****** ********* tried to sell me another service using similar high-pressure sales tactics, I became suspicious and called the ************************* myself on 9/26/2024. The ** staff member I spoke to said they had no record of *** as a customer of theirs, and that the issue in which the ad was supposed to appear had already been published. On 9/27/2024 I then demanded my $3500 back from *** and then received a series of emails from ****** **** of ARP, who admitted on 9/30/2024 that CT had disowned ARP and was no longer accepting their calls. ****** then tried to sell me other services in place of the original marketing service. I declined any replacement service and demanded my money back by *** 10/4/2024. I have not received any pledge from the company to return my money to this day.