Krislee T.

***FYI***
Pubby offered rewards for positive reviews on this website, so take any reviews from around September 2021 with a grain of salt. (Screenshot below)

I have been using Pubby for almost a year, and I have gotten several good reviews from it. I have also been able to find other authors' work that I otherwise would never have picked up.
The idea of anonymous reviews to support other indie authors is good, but you have to execute that idea well. As of right now, Pubby is not executing their idea well at all.
While most people who sign up for a verified purchase of your book, there is an increasing number of people who sign up for a verified purchase but leave a B. S. review without even looking at the book synopsis.
This is extremely dangerous and unfair for the author's standing with Amazon because they can and will actually ban an author from publishing with them. I have reminded the Pubby support team of this several times, and yet, all they do when I report a fraudulent review is give me a partial refund of their point system "snaps". As far as I know, those fraudulent reviewers are going on their merry way with all the extra snaps I paid while Pubby keeps inflating their snaps every day.

I still think Pubby is a good idea, but they need to listen to constructive criticism and CHANGE if they want to stay in business. I am going to give them a few more chances after I have made my requests clear to improve, but if I don't, I will be forced to pull my book from the site for the sake of my struggling author career.

If it comes to that, then I will be VERY vocal about Pubby and why authors should run the other way from it, because if they do NOT improve VERY quickly, then I will come to the conclusion that they are simply another scam that struggling indie authors fall for, and I want to protect my fellow writers from that.

If they DO improve, and I can actually get quality, verified purchases from Pubby readers, then I will tell my author friends about it and let them choose if such an expensive (because it is very expensive) investment is worth it.

Do better, Pubby.