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Sunday Morning Ripoff Report: Your "Solomon's Secret" Pre-Order

6/19/2016

 
Swordgate afficionados will remember when, in the midst of the giant "Roman sword" bellyflop, J. Hutton Pulitzer removed or made inaccessible his websites for the books Solomon's Secret and Commodus's Secret (it was one of my top ten great moments in Swordgate history). Solomon's Secret had been available for pre-order (meaning you pay for the book but you don't get it right away) since at least November of 2014.  The goal posts for publishing the book(s) have been moved back several times since then. The only website I can find for Solomon's Secret now is this Facebook page, which claims the book will be coming out this July:
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Screenshot from the "Solomon's Secret" page on Facebook indicating a July 2016 date for shipment of the books you pre-ordered.
This is not the only time I've seen the "how do we get a refund" question posed but a customer who has run low on patience.  All along, Pulitzer has promised that refund requests will be honored. This is a quote from the now-invisible Solomon's Secret website:

"As far as orders, it is an automated process, and if you decide not to wait, it is an automated 100% guaranteed return process and, you can go back to order and cancel, and it will be process and then the one reserved for you, just becomes someone else’s gain."
Another unsatisfied Solomon's Secret pre-order customer recently posted a complaint on the Ripoff Report website:

"Pre-ordered Solomon's Secret book.  Book has been postponed and postponed while the "author" self-publishes all sorts of other stuff.  He won't respond or acknowledge inquires about status of book or refund."

There is a single rebuttal to the complaint, filed by someone claiming to be Pulitzer:


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I cannot find any evidence that the sales of Solomon's Secret are being handled by Amazon.  When I go to the "Commander Pulitzer" author page, I get a list of 345 treasure hunting books, the most recent of which were published in March of 2014. Solomon's Secret is nowhere to be found.

I'd love to see a copy of a receipt for ordering this book, if you've got one. Email it to me at [email protected]. You can remain anonymous if you like.

Anyone want to gamble on whether not you'll get your copy of Solomon's Secret (and Commodus's Secret) in July? I know where I'd put my money.

Thanks to Mike Morgan for posting the link to the Ripoff Report on the Fake Hercules Swords group on Facebook.
Darin Theobald
6/27/2016 06:24:09 pm

The Paypal money back guarantee is only good for 6 months. After that you are out of luck.

Mike Morgan
6/27/2016 06:58:00 pm

Yes, unfortunately, PayPal offers no remedy for now. Have you tried the email address that Pulitzer supplied in his rebuttal: [email protected] to request a refund? As we understand, the book was ordered directly through Pulitzer and not through Amazon. Is this correct? In the "Fake Hercules Sword" facebook group, we were also trying to help someone else with this problem, you and she exchanged comments under https://www.facebook.com/…/solomons-secret…/435308426672486/

You might be interested in reviewing a thread in the "Fake Hercules Sword" group and perhaps sharing the results of your refund quest.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/458600194323519/ scroll down to look for the post
Hartman Krug feeling funny.
May 28 at 6:30pm
Fight for Truth...........yeah rrrrright.........

Wishing you good luck.

Mike Morgan
6/27/2016 07:07:01 pm

Correction. The page where you and she exchanged comments should be:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/hutton-pulitzer/solomons-secret-and-commoduss-secret-the-package-worth-the-wait/435308426672486/

Darin Theobald
7/3/2016 03:19:35 pm

They set up a special site which is now private that we ordered from. Nothing about Amazon. Now I cannot find the Facebook page for Solomon's Secret.

I did get him to answer a message but he told me all I could do is get a refund through Paypal.

Someone contacted us about going a more legal route. I was already thinking that.


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