My Review of The Predator Software

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Please forgive the fact that I'm not a regular Warrior Forum poster. I knew of this site didn't realize how truly informative it was until recently.

I did purchase George Brown's Predator Software at $797 (I fell for the scarcity ploy I'm afraid). I'm not out to bash anyone, but truth be told, I regret buying it.

Watching the launch video made predator seem like a novel concept that could potentially be a great idea (I had never hear of the other Craigslist software, btw). So I went in with high hopes.

Being a new product, with a new members area, there wasn't a ton of information to go through, the software was very straight foward, which is one good points, but that's where the good stops for me...

I have followed the videos that George and Antony provided in the Predator member's area. Even after two Predator updates the software still isn't working properly for me. I should have come here to research first. I have literally sent in about six different tickets (three of which were refund requests) to GB's customer support and haven't gotten one single response.

I'm not sure whether they're on vacation or what the deal is, but this has truly been the most unresponsive customer service experiences I've ever had online. More than likely I will have to go the claim route via my bank to get a refund, as it's been nearly 5 days with no response.

If you're thinking about buying Predator I encourage you to do your research, because this week has been a true hassle .

Oh and I don't know if this is because I'm living outside the US, but I had two internet accounts locked for "suspicious activity." In the member's area FAQ it's stated that because Predator's emails are targeted, on-subject emails that they aren't SPAM, but at the end of the day the Predator team doesn't decide that, the email company does. I personally don't think it's worth the locked/potentially shut down accounts and that's my honest to goodness opinion.

Does the software make you money? I wish I could say, but I haven't really been able to use it since I made the purchase. Maybe someone else has had a better experience than I have, because frankly I'm not the best marketer in the world...not even close.

I'm sure George is well respected in the Warrior Forum, but to any administrator who reads this, please don't delete it...I've been as tactful as I possibly can (though I truly feel like screaming). I think people need to be able to make an informed decision.

I don't earn much money at all, but I've been trying so hard to figure out this Internet Marketing thing... But this experience feels like a kick in the stomach for a guy who doesn't have so much success online yet.

I want so badly to succeed, but I won't be buying any more courses. I've learned my lesson once and for all. It's back to hard work and fundamentals for me.

Be careful out there...

Donald
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  • Profile picture of the author coloma21
    Hey there,

    It's weird how you mentioned "getting back to fundamentals", because Predator is as basic as you can get... E-mail Marketing!

    The version 1.2.11 is finally out ... should start working now... I know mine has, I've been using it for the past couple of days now

    Remember, it's all about testing first... once u get a decent market & conversion, then you can scale up like crazy... But always test first!
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    • Profile picture of the author Focused Action
      Originally Posted by coloma21 View Post

      Hey there,

      It's weird how you mentioned "getting back to fundamentals", because Predator is as basic as you can get... E-mail Marketing!

      The version 1.2.11 is finally out ... should start working now... I know mine has, I've been using it for the past couple of days now

      Remember, it's all about testing first... once u get a decent market & conversion, then you can scale up like crazy... But always test first!
      Email marketing is providing valuable benefits and solutions to people who voluntarily subscribed to your list because you enticed them with a great free report or who like the content you provide. They generally look forward to receiving your next "valuable" message.

      Email marketing is NOT using software to scrape emails from a public website, then spamming them with unwanted messages in hopes they click on a CPA or affiliate link.

      Maybe you were joking with your post
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    • Profile picture of the author Donimo
      Originally Posted by coloma21 View Post

      Hey there,

      It's weird how you mentioned "getting back to fundamentals", because Predator is as basic as you can get... E-mail Marketing!

      The version 1.2.11 is finally out ... should start working now... I know mine has, I've been using it for the past couple of days now

      Remember, it's all about testing first... once u get a decent market & conversion, then you can scale up like crazy... But always test first!
      What are you? Some kind of sales man for this predator? Because you definitely sound like it. You are the only person out of every single person I've seen who seems to think Predator is great, and we are all doing things wrong.
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      • Profile picture of the author robg1
        Originally Posted by Donimo View Post

        What are you? Some kind of sales man for this predator? Because you definitely sound like it. You are the only person out of every single person I've seen who seems to think Predator is great, and we are all doing things wrong.
        He posted the same reply in another Predator thread :confused:
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      • Profile picture of the author coloma21
        Unlike you,

        I'm actually an online marketer....

        You can keep crying all you want how nothing is every working... but that isn't getting you any closer to making any income...

        Real marketers make things happen... This dude the other day added me on skype, and he was also making money on predator... so i don't understand why it's so hard to believe?

        Do yourself a favor, drop from predator, and quit at the online marketing game... because you suck at it...


        Some Of My Accounts:

        http://content.screencast.com/users/...My%20Stats.png


        Where's your income proof?

        Exactly...



        Originally Posted by Donimo View Post

        What are you? Some kind of sales man for this predator? Because you definitely sound like it. You are the only person out of every single person I've seen who seems to think Predator is great, and we are all doing things wrong.
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        • Profile picture of the author askloz
          you lie, predator was not released on the 10th, the restream wasnt until the 24th... you taking some BS IMers advice and showing stats that dont count?

          Originally Posted by coloma21 View Post

          Unlike you,

          I'm actually an online marketer....

          You can keep crying all you want how nothing is every working... but that isn't getting you any closer to making any income...

          Real marketers make things happen... This dude the other day added me on skype, and he was also making money on predator... so i don't understand why it's so hard to believe?

          Do yourself a favor, drop from predator, and quit at the online marketing game... because you suck at it...


          Some Of My Accounts:

          http://content.screencast.com/users/...My%20Stats.png


          Where's your income proof?

          Exactly...
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          • Profile picture of the author coloma21
            wtf?

            Dude, i didn't say this was purely from predator alone...

            I'm just simply proving that i'm an online marketer, not some "representative" of predator....

            And plus, predator doesn't even have an affiliate program... So how would it be possible for me to make $$ promoting the predator product?




            Originally Posted by askloz View Post

            you lie, predator was not released on the 10th, the restream wasnt until the 24th... you taking some BS IMers advice and showing stats that dont count?
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          • Profile picture of the author coloma21
            And trust,

            I'm not lying at all.... This is just my smaller accounts too, it's not like i'm showing off $1000/day dude...

            Believe it or not, people do in fact make money online... It's just unfortunate that only 10% of us do, while the rest of the 90% continue to whine & cry...

            But that's okay with me... because i'll be making my money, while you are left in front of the screen still wondering how i even got there...

            Cheers!




            Originally Posted by askloz View Post

            you lie, predator was not released on the 10th, the restream wasnt until the 24th... you taking some BS IMers advice and showing stats that dont count?
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            • Profile picture of the author StevenUK
              Originally Posted by coloma21 View Post

              And trust,

              I'm not lying at all.... This is just my smaller accounts too, it's not like i'm showing off $1000/day dude...

              Believe it or not, people do in fact make money online... It's just unfortunate that only 10% of us do, while the rest of the 90% continue to whine & cry...

              But that's okay with me... because i'll be making my money, while you are left in front of the screen still wondering how i even got there...

              Cheers!
              Don't listen to a word coloma21 says, every post he makes is bigging up George Brown and his products.

              This is what REAL users of Predator are saying:

              138 Posts/Reviews from REAL Predator users
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              • Profile picture of the author Mr. Ken Russell
                It's a scraper tool with a crappy SMTP email sender. The concept works - the tool doesn't. Anyone dumb enough to spend that amount of money on this deserves what is coming to them. Another sales pitch filled with empty promises.
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        • Profile picture of the author Donimo
          Ha! You think because I think Predator is illegal and useless, I make no money online, and I should just quit the game?

          Dont talk out your ass. LOL. Your making what? $50 a week? Wow! That's amazing.

          I am making much more than that from methods far in front of the 'Predator', so don't insult me.

          Originally Posted by coloma21 View Post

          Unlike you,

          I'm actually an online marketer....

          You can keep crying all you want how nothing is every working... but that isn't getting you any closer to making any income...

          Real marketers make things happen... This dude the other day added me on skype, and he was also making money on predator... so i don't understand why it's so hard to believe?

          Do yourself a favor, drop from predator, and quit at the online marketing game... because you suck at it...


          Some Of My Accounts:

          http://content.screencast.com/users/...My%20Stats.png


          Where's your income proof?

          Exactly...
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  • Profile picture of the author doitright316
    I have bought the Predator software and it does work how George has shown on the live web binar, although due this being the first big release of the software it was always going to have some bugs especailly when used by more and more people, so for this reason I do have the patience to wait for the team at Predator to fix these bugs as and when they do come up.

    They have been releasing software updates every other day now which is good as it shows they are going to iron everything out, don't get me wrong the software is not running as smooth as I would like but that is to be expected.

    I'm having issues with sending tons of emails out at the moment as the mail accounts just go down once its 15-30% through the sending.

    I have also been unable to get the Web Mailer working at all even though I have purchased a captcha service, has anyone actually got this WebMailer working yet ?

    I have managed to use craigslist to send out over 2000 emails, although now my mail accounts are not functioning properly, maybe I will get a private email server.

    Don't get me wrong I think this has the potential to make me a lot of money and thats why I will stick around and hope he implments and gets all the features working as they should be, I have not recieved any response to my support tickets as of yet but I suspect they have hundreads coming in so that is to be expected although they should hire more people.

    some concerns I have but it doesn't really worry me too much.

    1. I think George may have needed more money to complete the software and get it working 100% which is why the beta has been released, I could be tottally wrong but it's no where the finished product yet.

    2. I would like to see George on the Web binars after all he is the brains behind the software right ? this other dude is OK but I love George and the way he goes about things and is why I will stick by him as I can see the oppurtunitys to make money and a lot of it.

    I would just like to see a bit more support from George even though he must be very busy on working on updates and such.
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    797 seems a bit harsh for such simplicity
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    • Profile picture of the author ysckyler
      Originally Posted by StevenUK View Post

      You are an amusing guy, coloma21, or should I say puppet, George's puppet.

      As for making money online, I could probably buy your whole life about 1000 times over.

      If you want proof, PM me.

      It's a shame the moderators deleted the other Predator threads, because I asked if you wanted to put your money where your mouth is, with a $500 wager, based on your boasting, although based on your screenshot earlier, that would equate to a couple of months income for you, so doubtful you would have take it.

      Shame, would have been interesting......... especially now your 'Guru' is being slated all over the internet, for a product you are still claiming is a 'good purchase'.

      I am in support of you. That guy coloma21 is just trolling. Everyone who bought it

      1) Cant get the software to work
      2) Even it work, their google account got shutdown quickenough
      3) No response from George team

      So it funny how one guy can make it all work and having non issue. So either coloma21

      is either

      1) Working for George (i think so)
      2) Really like this product and making it work (i doubt it)
      3) Just trolling (i think so too)

      Just ignore him, i doubt it anyone who will want to buy this product anyway, one good review againts so many bad one would put off even the most ardent fan of george.
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      brush up on can-spam act... not illegal
      CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Originally Posted by usmanjilani View Post

      Hey I'm not trying to have a go at any one here in the forum, but those of you who purchased the google predator, please take a long look in the mirror and try to think whether the Internet Marketing business is for you.

      GP is nothing but an unethical spamming tool and is ILLEGAL. And as I stated earlier you can get fined up to $16,000 per email if reported of spamming and found guilty. 100,000 email, you do the math! Please do things with integrity and honesty, and that in the long run will pay off.

      All you need to do is learn SEO inside out, and master SEO according to how Google want you to do it and there are plenty of great courses available out there and great backlinking software! A new one that is released is omgmachines.com. I was on there webinar last week, and looked quite impressive and showed how they do SEO according to Panda and Penguin. Another great tool for backlinking is the GSA Search Engine Ranker. I'm in no way linked with these companies and am just sharing knowledge with my fellow Internet Marketers.

      All the best people!
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      • Profile picture of the author StevenUK
        Originally Posted by askloz View Post

        brush up on can-spam act... not illegal
        CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        Emails need to adhere to 3 basic types of compliance defined in the CAN-SPAM Act: unsubscribe, content and sending behavior compliance.

        Sending via Gmail, as demonstrated, and the likes will not offer the above.
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    • Profile picture of the author The Copy Nazi
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      Originally Posted by Donald Ash View Post

      Update: I did eventually get an email from customer service like two days ago:



      The letter went on from there, but there was not one mention of four separate tickets requesting a refund.

      Though I did appreciate getting a response, it was too little too late. By that point I was just totally put off. I had already uninstalled the software, and contacted my bank. I did receive a credit for the $797.00 from my bank and they are contacting SWReg to resolve the claim.
      Hang on...2500 Support Tickets? On a product that was only supposed to go out to 50 wasn't it? And then he generously released another 40 (I think) and a few more. 2500 Support Tickets. Now if only half of them are buyers...at what? $800. Thats a Mill right there - if my math is correct.

      The Support person did say "all from people that saw the video presentation".
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  • Profile picture of the author amuro
    I may not be able to afford the software.

    But I recorded the livecam and using the strategies he teaches manually, I made about $150 in commissions. The sites he showed like Craiglist, Gumtree and sites I found myself like Adpost, USA Free Ads and Pennysaver as well as the email template he uses which I also noted and created my own versions as well.

    However I did not just email them once and made sales right away. I told them I am making recommendations as an Amazon affiliate and referred them to my site before they buy. My site was created in accordance with George's Google Sniper strategies.

    Though I made money on Clickbank few times, $150 is my first ever Amazon commissions. But instead of iphones, I am recommending Amazon Kindle Fire which is very hot right now as it possesses similar capabilities to iphones and ipads except communications since it is an ebook reader.

    The point I am trying to make is that software is designed specifically to automate and speed up the process. But it is the strategies as to whether you are able to grasp and take action with - that determine your results and earning potential.

    Because I email manually, I do not have any complaints of spam.
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    • Profile picture of the author TrafficBot
      Originally Posted by Glenn300 View Post

      PLEASE tell me George didn't copy PREDATOR from this guy!

      I was looking for something similar to predator when I ran into a lead generator called (Instant Lead Magnet) that came out in 2009.It was sold at paydotcom.com and is no longer available but had sold for $67.00 at the time.
      It looks and does exactly what the predator does to the tee. I am trying to find a copy of it if anyone knows where to get one. Check it out your jaw will drop when you see the video and you will know it is an exact copy.
      here's the link www.instantleadmagnet.com after I watched the video below it has a buy button but when I pushed it to buy it goes to paydotcom.com and says the product is no longer available.
      Just so you know I bought Predator so I can compare the two.
      I know Instant Lead Magnet very well and had used it extensively. I loved it but unfortunately, it no longer works anymore as craigslist has blocked the scraping feature now. I had made a post in another thread which was deleted about this exact point you mentioned. When I used ILM, the thing we were taught was to send out 1 email every 6 minutes to stay under the radar with CL and to avoid email spam filters. That rate worked well as I was able to inbox emails I sent. George didnt make mention of this suggesting you can send out hundreds of emails at a time. This is further from the truth. I knew ILM so well I became an affiliate of the product and did very well selling it. So well that the owner of Backpage bought a copy from me. Needless to say after I sold him a copy, the Backpage scraper stopped working. Even if old boy George get Predator to work it would only be a matter of time before CL would get wind of it and block it rendering Predator obsolete. These kinds of software need constant updating which as we know is extremely expensive to maintain. I dont think George"hit and run" Brown was willing to do that.
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    Can the mods kill this thread, we all know Predator is a bust.
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  • Profile picture of the author garywynder
    I've been reading all these very interesting posts in this thread here about this 'simply light years ahead' software which George Brown calls 'Predator' (He says EXACTLY the same thing in a YouTube Video he released about google sniper -- that it too was 'simply 'light years ahead' of anything else)! (I recently received an email from MIKE FILSAIME in which HE sent me a link to that very same video which George Brown made ages ago (about google sniper).

    I was actually on that livestream 'webinar' which G.B. put up all over the internet to push this so-called 'predator' 'software' onto his gullible and unsuspecting email subscribers. . .
    I was distincty uneasy about this product when I saw him demonstrating it on the livestream, and (with alarm bells going off all over the place in my mind), I decided (long before it even got to the issue of 'pricing' and 'scarcity' that I wasn't going to touch 'Predator' with a bargepole). (Not even for $47 or $37 - let alone nearly eight hundred dollars)!! I feel genuinely sorry for the people who were duped by this! Wow! It seems to me that we are talking High Ticket CRAP here (where this 'software' is concerned). . . Too many people here already on the Warrior Forum who were unfortunate enough to have actually bought this software have now reported over the weeks since its 'launch' that it doesn't even WORK (as was claimed it would by G.B.) at all! The only thing I can say is I am glad I didn't buy it - even though I could have done . . .
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  • Profile picture of the author kyhawk2
    I was able to get my refund. Hope all are as lucky.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Wightley
    I purchased it ran with it for about 2 weeks, did all the training and ZIP. I made no money at all, got no extra emails to my aweber account and in the end I got a refund. Getting the refund was not easy but I persisted and eventually they gave it back.

    May work for some but not me.

    Cheers Mark
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    • Profile picture of the author robo916
      So get this.... I requested a refund through my credit card company because I couldn't get any response through predator support and received one. Now today my cc company is telling me that predator is trying to re-bill me for software that I have uninstalled and don't even have anymore! I contacted predator, Swreg, and my cc company...oh heck nah...
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  • Profile picture of the author Richard Crooke
    I also was a victim (lol) of purchasing George's program. It was disappointing all the problems they were having with the software. Luckily, I charged the product on my AmEx, and once I filed a dispute, I received a full credit in 1 day flat.

    Whats funny is that I had a couple of support tickets pending for days, and once I received my credit from AmEx, George deactivated my access to Predator. Its interesting how fast they reacted to a credit vs actual customer support.

    I am sure George will relaunch this product, so buyer beware.
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