Fraud Alerts on the internet serve as excellent publicity for a company with a good name

Fraud alerts for a company such as Dandelion Books, often drive traffic to the website.

It was Irish author and dramatist, Brendan Behan (1923-1964) who said, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.”

Behan has proven to be more right than wrong.

In the case of Dandelion, notorious for its uncensored books and outspoken authors, fraud alerts and other forms of slander are part of everyday business. Often it's the dirt that delivers the click--for yet another book sale or trusting client.

Ironically, according to Google, the only way to get these angry postings removed is to ask the perpetrator to withdraw them (!)

“Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”