Balboa Press Avis

FRAUD!
I have not received any royalties. They refuse to pay royalties in any other way than by paycheck. In my country, Norway, paychecks were outdated five years ago, and the banks completely stopped processing paychecks three years ago.
This issue was not addressed when we signed the agreement. It is essential to be able to pay royalties to their authors. Their ignorance is shocking. They show absolutely no interest in solving this problem. If they create contracts without being able to pay, I consider this to be FRAUD!

Date de l'expérience: 13 mai 2024

Balboa Press, even though they say they can do things I have found that they are very difficult to deal with.

I have had my book published by them and am still waiting for things to be done. My book was published 8 months ago now. They seem to like to take your money and then it all stops.

Their ROYALTY PAYMENTS are only paid by check or if you have a US bank account they can do a bank transfer. If you live outside the US like I do, and our banks have phased out using checks and do not cash overseas checks anymore but can cash it if you want to pay a large fee.

Now I have to try and get another way to get my ROYALTY PAYMENTS. It seems strange to me that I can do a direct transfer payment to people/businesses overseas personally from my bank to theirs, so I do not understand how they cannot do the same.

BE WARY OF DOING ANY BUSINESS WITH BALBOA PRESS!!

Presently I would suggest to anyone to look into this sort of thing a lot before using any publisher!!

Date de l'expérience: 17 mai 2024

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Date de l'expérience: 28 avril 2024

It's too bad I cannot rate balboa a big 0
What a poor and unethical service. Not only do they fail to provide the services I paid for, but also failed to respond to follow-ups regarding the services purchased. Their royalties are not transparent as I purchased several books to test this and never got a royalty for these copies reflected on my account. Anyone who wishes to unite to seek justice can contact me here Storefulfillment101 at gmail.com

Date de l'expérience: 21 février 2024

I'm constantly hounded to invest more money for promoting my book when I've already spent more than I originally intended.
Also I asked one of your employees what the wholesale price was for a bookstore to purchase directly from Balboa Press. her answer was that booksellers pay the retail price.

Date de l'expérience: 11 février 2024

Disgraceful! Quick to take your money. Book quality is really poor and then they try and sell your book at a ridiculous price that will ensure you will never get any sales! The only efficient service I received was when they eagerly took thousands of dollars from me! NEVER use Balboa to publish your book!

Date de l'expérience: 01 mars 2024

Pushy and salesy.

Unfortunately, my experience with Balboa Press was one where I felt inferior as an experienced Writer and Author.

Carl, was pushy and salesly. He continued to give me timelines and continued calling for an answer. When I decided that they were not the publishers for our book, he told me it was 'not a loss to them'.

What a disgraceful way to treat someone.

We are not numbers, we are people.

Shame on Hayhouse for allowing this to happen under their name and brand.

Date de l'expérience: 31 janvier 2024

Virginia, Brandon, and Jose each and all went out of their way to assist this old woman who thinks she's got something to share with the world, or at least with some in the world of simple spirituality.

Date de l'expérience: 22 février 2024

My experience with Balboa has been smooth sailing from start to publication. It was like belonging to a family who cared about my work. I felt at all times, I was dealing with caring individuals. The cream on the cake was the extraordinarily artistic individual who handled the layout of my pages. Could you take a look and see for yourself? My book is titled "My Feng Shui".

Date de l'expérience: 04 novembre 2023

I had a wonderful experience with Balboa. The whole process was simple and fluid. Each assistant was super helpful, friendly, and responsive to any questions I had.

I really appreciated the extra help with marketing ideas.

From other reviews I was worried about hard selling on extra add ons, but that wasn't my experience at all. I had a great call with a marketing director who offered awesome ideas + a great marketing package that I will do later. So they will try to sell you on extra marketing but they respected my decision and I felt no pressure.

Also for first time authors... My book had been revised several times and edited before I started the process with Balboa. They didn't make suggestions on any edits - so you need to feel very confident about your manuscript.

Date de l'expérience: 29 décembre 2023

My publishers were friendly, helpful, understanding, and the process went smoothly. I felt very appreciated and they were kind to me. Balboa Press is pretty easy and simple and I am thankful for my team. Thank you for this opportunity and overall I am very happy with my decision to go through them. Namaste!!! Kat

Date de l'expérience: 22 décembre 2023

I found handover between different phases of the process was not well managed. I never knew when to stop contacting one person and go to the next.
I think having one point of contact throughout the process to ask and communicate with would be very helpful.
Also, when one phase ended, but I had no idea what was next so I may have messaged the person previously responsible the reply and response time was greatly increased or msgs went unanswered.
The process could use greater clarity.

Date de l'expérience: 15 avril 2023

Balboa Press and their associated companies fell short in many respects. A long time to reply to requests for information and to follow up and implement what was agreed. Books arrived weeks after they should have been shipped. Changes to book internal and external finalised months after changes submitted and only with several rounds of follow up. Spelling mistakes found due to low English skills of those working for the firm. Constant calls from high pressure sales people to keep selling marketing packages costing thousands of dollars with questionable impact given how many books are on sale around the world. The company appears to be taking advantage of people’s dreams particularly those of older customers writing their life stories.

Date de l'expérience: 19 novembre 2023

Balboa assigns representatives that stay with you throughout the writing and publishing process from start to finish. I love this about Balboa. They do what they say they’re going to do. The author needs stamina and must be well motivated to work through all the details of getting the manuscript completed and uploaded.
I was not as please with the final aspects of design, especially. I felt that close attention was not given to some things, so I had to make requests, which were granted. Royalty percentage is low. Be aware. Overall, I’m happy with balboa services because they have expertise in so many areas.

Date de l'expérience: 27 septembre 2022

Balboa press, have always been kind and courteous, and extremely professional. And I'm proud of each and every one of them employees, very attentive to my needs as an author of six books. 50 more ready for publishing, although editing take some time on my end. Thank you and God bless Herb

Date de l'expérience: 21 octobre 2021

I am so pleased I chose Balboa initially for the affordability and did not expect the level of courteous, professional and dedicated support I received throughout the entire process. The formatting by Balboa was such. blessing and I am so happy with the finished product. I just received my first case of 250 books and very pleased

Date de l'expérience: 05 août 2023

extremely helpful company that gives you the option of accepting their advice or following your own ideas. If you should need help they are always ready to give whatever help you need. They don't force their opinions onto you leaving you to decide for yourself.

Date de l'expérience: 17 novembre 2022

The end product was better than I expected. The printing was done in a very fast time ad I was pleased with this. The finished product was very much to my liking. The people I dealt with were always helpful.
The only downside was the constant pressure to buy and spend more without receiving assurances that these additions would do anything to enhance my project. The staff were always ready to listen to me and make suggestions of alternatives

Date de l'expérience: 14 juin 2023

I wish I could give zero stars.
They are interested in you until they get your money then they go into ignoring mode never giving royalties they send you a US cheque you can't cash in Australia then say you have to wait a year for the cheque to expire.
I haven't seen anything I assume they want to hold everyone's money as long as possible. I'm publishing my next book myself. Hay house should be embarrassed to be associated with balboa press at this point!

Date de l'expérience: 21 avril 2022

Hi, My name is Matumayini Lilia Mboleza, I love reading and writing books most of times. I been experienced on how to write books according to the thought for thoughts of advantages and disadvantages of English manners. I love working with the Balboa Press publisher company which is so wonderfully and excellently idea that I could handled by myself. I love Balboa Press publisher company, so much. This company is the world most fantastic and good company to work with.

Date de l'expérience: 11 décembre 2022