Beth Sandland

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deelyboppers said:
Maybe I misunderstand the meaning of ‘PR SAMPLE’, but doesn’t that mean that she was given it free in hopes of her posting about it? Because she’s selling a bar cart that she posted last year as a PR sample. I know she’s entitled to do with it as she pleases but it just doesn’t sit well with me..
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I didn’t realise I live so near her, I thought of messaging for it as it’s very my style and I’ve wanted a bar cart 😂 I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to sell on PR samples in the US...
 
deelyboppers said:
Maybe I misunderstand the meaning of ‘PR SAMPLE’, but doesn’t that mean that she was given it free in hopes of her posting about it? Because she’s selling a bar cart that she posted last year as a PR sample. I know she’s entitled to do with it as she pleases but it just doesn’t sit well with me..
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Countless bloggers do this. She isnt the first and certainly won’t be the last. It makes me so angry that they’re making money off essentially free stuff. I bet she doesn’t claim the income on her tax return either.
 
SO she also has a book club and before the middle of May it was free. You got to join the facebook group, have discussions about the book that was chosen for that month blah blah. I appreciate it's not everyone's cuppa tea, but since lockdown I've definitely been reading more than usual and it was nice to put your thoughts down somewhere sometimes with people who wanted to hear...

Then, Beth introduces this new book club phase where any pre-exisiting members could choose the £0 fee for the next 4 years or whatever, or you could contribute £5 a month or something like that if you had spare monies... I'm presuming most if not all must have chosen the £0 offer as then maybe a couple of days before the official launch where the pre-existing member codes would no longer work, apparently, everyone who clicks £0 had issues with their account (I call bs) and so she made it so that if you wanted to continue to be part of the videos with authors, etc. you had to pay even though it's all currently via zoom anyway and free publicity for the author!! It didn't sit well with me especially when maybe people in the facebook group had been furloughed or lost their jobs due to COVID, etc. I get that she's trying to m ake a business out of it, but to say that pre-exisiting members could have free access as they were 'founding members' to then go back on that word was irritating.

I feel like she's very self righteous, stuck up. I also didn't like the post about miscarriage. I understand that it is great to raise awareness especially having lost a baby myself, but that for me isn't content and neither was it really awareness. If maybe she had posted links to charities or helpline for people who are suffering from loss and maybe are struggling mentally due to it, that would've been a more constructive post to have made. The one person on IG I admire for this is feathering the empty nest. She's so open and honest, always puts out help and guidance, okay one is her charity that she set-up, but it's still going to help people!!
 
She said on the Facebook group that all the profits from the book club would go to operating costs and be put back into the bookclub. I call bullshit!
 
fishsticks said:
SO she also has a book club and before the middle of May it was free. You got to join the facebook group, have discussions about the book that was chosen for that month blah blah. I appreciate it's not everyone's cuppa tea, but since lockdown I've definitely been reading more than usual and it was nice to put your thoughts down somewhere sometimes with people who wanted to hear...

Then, Beth introduces this new book club phase where any pre-exisiting members could choose the £0 fee for the next 4 years or whatever, or you could contribute £5 a month or something like that if you had spare monies... I'm presuming most if not all must have chosen the £0 offer as then maybe a couple of days before the official launch where the pre-existing member codes would no longer work, apparently, everyone who clicks £0 had issues with their account (I call bs) and so she made it so that if you wanted to continue to be part of the videos with authors, etc. you had to pay even though it's all currently via zoom anyway and free publicity for the author!! It didn't sit well with me especially when maybe people in the facebook group had been furloughed or lost their jobs due to COVID, etc. I get that she's trying to m ake a business out of it, but to say that pre-exisiting members could have free access as they were 'founding members' to then go back on that word was irritating.

I feel like she's very self righteous, stuck up. I also didn't like the post about miscarriage. I understand that it is great to raise awareness especially having lost a baby myself, but that for me isn't content and neither was it really awareness. If maybe she had posted links to charities or helpline for people who are suffering from loss and maybe are struggling mentally due to it, that would've been a more constructive post to have made. The one person on IG I admire for this is feathering the empty nest. She's so open and honest, always puts out help and guidance, okay one is her charity that she set-up, but it's still going to help people!!
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AND I’m pretty sure that the parties that will be put on, you have to pay for tickets too. I mean, I get needing to ask for a bit of money, but the full amount that new members will have they pay is extortionate for what you actually get!
 
All of that wouldn't be so bad, if only a few weeks ago she hadn't gone on a huge rant about how somebody had misquoted her about making money from her book club and she said she didn't and never planned to...a few weeks later she starts charging a £6 fee to join! I think an optional donation or even a fee of £1 per person was more than enough. Like people have said on here, there are so many offering the same thing for free!
 
I just don’t know why she didn’t mention him at all. She never used to talk about it him even before she went travelling, and I totally understand him not wanting to be all over her Instagram, just because that’s how she makes her money, it doesn’t mean he has to be involved. But it seems like she used to deliberately not mention him- maybe to be more ‘relatable’ to people if she’s single? But acting as if she was travelling alone when in fact she was travelling with him wasn’t great. She kept saying about how she felt ‘safe’ in areas and talking about the pros and cons of doing the group travelling things- both of which you’d feel totally different about if you were a young woman on your own than if you were with your boyfriend! Honestly I think it was very shortsighted, which unfortunately I find she can be sometimes..
 
What I found bizarre was when she was advertising sex toys and then she answered a question and answer saying it was the best! 😂
 
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