Adam Ginsberg and his eBay course,
which I paid 3,071.01 (US$ 4,899) in June 2009 in London
has brought me nightmares as they are the WORST products and
services that I have ever received in my life! I believe that I was
misled and deceived in to signing the contracts and just like many
other victims I feel I have been ripped off by Adam Ginsberg
International.
Despite the fact that I am a customer
of Adam Ginsberg International, just because I have asked for a full
refund, I have been treated like dirt and even have been threatened
with court action by Adam Ginsberg's staff and lawyers. I am outraged
and disgusted by his lack of business ethics and the unfair business
to consumer practices he employs and have decided to share my
experience with the world.
The truth is that if you are unhappy
about a product or service or have had a negative experience with a
company, you are likely to tell 10 times more people than that you
would if it had been a good experience. It is a universal law that
the kind of business that Adam Ginsberg is running won't last very
long and I am hoping it happens sooner rather than later...
To date, Adam Ginsberg still has kept
all my money unlawfully and unethically, despite the fact I have
requested a full refund on numerous occasions both individually as
well as a member of a full refund request group with eight other
classmates. My classmates and I have received several abusive,
threatening and nasty emails from their customer service and they
even hired a solicitor in London to try to scare us off by sending
us threatening and abusive letters via emails. I have kept all these
emails for my future records.
As you can read from other scam
reports, this is the same method that Adam Ginsberg has used to
attack other victims. When his customers posted negative reviews and
comments about Adam Ginsberg, his eBay and other courses online and
created websites to expose him, he hired lawyers to send them
threatening letters to try to remove these sites and reviews. This is
the old trick and dirty methods used by unethical and dodgy companies
to tackle the refund issues and complaints from their customers.
From my experience of dealing with Adam
Ginsberg and his company I have found they behave outrageously, are
unethical and are operating their business unlawfully and
unethically. I would like every media, press and consumer protection
agencies in the UK and USA to step up to do thorough
investigation against Adam Ginsberg
International to prevent him from preying on more victims like me.
In the UK, I have reported and
complained about Adam Ginsberg and his company to Consumer Direct,
(08454 04 05 06) and the Office of Fair Trading . The Office of Fair Trading gives the
following definition A scam is a scheme designed to con you out of
your cash. Scammers are becoming more sophisticated and aim to con us
all. Do I believe Adam Ginsberg is designed to con us out of our
cash? The Answer is Yes, I believe that I have plenty of
evidence to prove this.
Everyone that I have met and spoke to
who has purchased Adam Ginsberg's eBay courses all want their money
back. I can make a list of 18 names, including one PhD doctor from
London. These people are furious about Adam Ginsberg and told me that
they have been conned and fooled by Adam Ginsberg. These are only
the people that I know and have spoken to directly, not taking into
account the possible hundreds and thousands of other victims.
Adam Ginsberg even hired people to be
his rebuttals to comment on his scam reports. This further proves
that he is very aware that many of his customers are and will be very
unhappy after purchasing his courses, as these are designed to con
our hard-earned cash out of our pockets. He is even prepared to
tackle this issue, by rebutting and trying to wipe out all the
negative reviews and comments about him by hiring attorneys to send
threatening emails and letters.
In June 2009, I attended an Internet
Traffic seminar, which was organised by Mark Anastasi at the Hilton
Hotel in London. I was misled and conned by Adam Ginsberg's empty
promises of financial freedom, easy cash, his turnkey system and by
the exaggerated glossy sales pitch; I signed up to the contracts
without having a proper amount of time in which to read their terms
and conditions.
We were told by Adam Ginsberg that his
Drop-shipping warehouse (Doba) is zero risk with zero wholesale
expense and that it had 1.2 million products available for
drop-shipping on the internet. All these products are available at
the LOWEST wholesale price on the internet, it is awesome, it is
completely turnkey. This tuned out be a big lie, as later we
discovered that many of the products in the Doba warehouse are priced
much higher than the exact same products selling on eBay.
Before signing the contract, I called
my husband and told him that I was going to sign up with the eBay
course. My husband told me that he was going to do a quick search
about Adam Ginsberg on the internet. Soon my husband called me back
and told me NOT to sign up as he found lots of negative reviews and
feedback about Adam Ginsberg on the internet.
However, at that time I simply could
not believe what my husband was telling me as I had been overloaded
with Adam Gisnberg's misleading and deceitful information, empty
promises, financial freedom and therefore I did not listen to my
husband. It was one of the biggest mistakes that I have ever made in
my life by signing up with Adam Ginsberg's eBay course, I lost the
tuition fee of 3,071.01 (US$ 4,899) plus
more of my precious time and money on eBay listing fees and paying
his monthly software fees, which he does not deserve.
We were fooled by the seminar organiser
and Adam Gisnberg as we were not given enough time to read their
unfair terms and conditions on the contracts. We were only given a
14 people only limit and 20 minutes to sign up with his course;
a hard sale tactic and urgency strategy used by the seminar organiser
and Adam Ginsberg to trick us to sign up with the course immediately
rather than have time to think about it in a calm and rational
manner.
In the UK, by law, we have at least
SEVEN business days to cancel any purchases we have made. However,
Adam Ginsberg's contract states that we only have THREE business days
to cancel the purchase. This unfair business term has put off many
people from cancelling the course including me, when we had cooled
down our heads after the hard sales pitches.
When you are going to the seminars, do
not trust any of the seminar organisers. I have learned from my
experience that you must do your own research and home work before
signing up with any courses. By the industry standard, seminar
organisers make 50% of their commissions from each of the sales a
speaker makes. That is the reason why the seminar organisers would
let snakes and sharks to speak at their events and even promote and
glorify them.
The seminar organisers often like these
snakes and sharks as they are usually very good at sales with sleek,
oiled pitches to lure the newbies. They are usually trained as
professional speakers and often over-promise and under-deliver. They
also tell the audience what they want to hear, and lure you in with
their false promises of financial freedom, wealth creation and fast
and easy money.
These speakers know that there are
always people that can be lured by these empty promises and they know
how to target and use these people's psychology to ensure that they
sign up with their courses. As human beings we all want to get rich
quick, but as you know most of these get-rich-quick schemes are just
scams. Just remember that if it sounds too good to be true then it is
most likely a scam.
I have noticed that there are several
big seminar organisers that invited Adam Ginsberg to their events in
the UK who are actually based overseas and therefore it is very
difficult to bring the organisers and speakers to the UK courts of
justice. Take for example when I signed up at Mark Anastassi's event,
his company is registered in Cyprus and there is no address for his
UK operation. When I contacted him in Cyprus and his sales director
in the UK for help regarding my request for a refund from Adam
Ginsberg they just ignored me by not replying to my emails and
telephone calls. Adam Ginsberg is a USA citizen and it is very
difficult to bring him to the UK courts of justice as well.
Be wary of some dodgy seminar
organisers and speakers who trying to dig in to your pockets but
refuse to be held responsible for your refund issues. I am not
denying that there are many good seminars out there that can help
your personal development and can truly help you to create wealth.
Personally, I have benefited tremendously by attending a property
investment seminar in 2007, which has changed my life.
I attended the Adam Ginsberg's workshop
in July 2009 in London, but it was a complete waste of my time and
money. Even though it was a small workshop, Adam Ginsberg brought
someone called Michael, who mesmerised
us all several times a day by switching
off all the lights, making it dark in the room and then asking us to
close our eyes and listen to him.
He talked about something like bye bye
to the past.. but this bye sounds too much like buyas
Adam Ginsberg was doing up-sales during the workshop, which cost
another 3,000 (US$ 4,800) to
sign up for. I really feel sorry for people who signed up for this
untested online stores scheme. I met three people who signed up with
this up-sale course in other seminars and they all told me that they
want to get their money back. I have never come across anyone who had
one good word to say about Adam Ginsberg and his courses, other than
his employees.
During the 3 day course we were taught
very basic things about eBay listings, many of these were things that
even the most basic computer user already knows how to do. We were
asked to practice taking pictures and upload these on eBay, which
again, most people already know how to do, it is not in eBay's
interest to make this particularly hard. Ginsberg's system was full
of bugs and was not ready to use. We wasted an entire afternoon
trying to use their system, while Adam Ginsberg sat at the back of
the room making phone calls to his technical guys in the United
States. The system had not even been trialled properly and yet we
were being sold it as the finished product.
We were also taught about Facebook and
Twitter, stuff we had already learnt from free seminars. Adam
Ginsberg also played a YouTube clip called show me the moneyfrom
the movie Jerry Maguire again and again and made us sick of
watching it. They had noAuction Millionaire Secrets to teach,
so they used these social media tidbits to help pass the time.
At that time, I did not know that in
2004, Adam Ginsberg was permanently banned from eBay due to
overwhelming negative customer feedback and because of violating eBay
policies. If you are reading this report, wake up and avoid him like
the plague and stay away anything to do with Adam Ginsberg, as far
away as possible. You have been warned about Adam Ginsberg and his
eBay course! There are two more parts to my report.
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