Reviews on WSOs genuine?

A few people believe there's a conspiracy to defraud but I honestly doubt it exists in the overwhelming majority of cases. Most of the time people ask for reviews before posting their offer and those reviews are then posted in the thread. As to their accuracy - who's to know. People tend to want to be nice. It's the negative reviews you need to look out for.

There is definitely a lot of circle jerk groups in IM, and you will certainly find that in the WSO section.

You can find plenty of "Follow my 90-day course to riches" sort of offers that have tons of reviews within 15 minutes of launching. That is a pretty dead giveaway.

Also if the review just praises the seller and mentions a lot of past products, but doesn't specifically talk about the product in the sales thread, I ignore it. Person probably did not even buy the product or has not even really looked at it yet. They are just helping out a buddy.

Hi bigmaz, you can check a special section in warriorforum, where people do advertise for reviewers and give free review copies or trials in return of positive feedback.

These are done to gain initial momentum and generate initial buzz for the product. But do understand that, if product is good, then this effect will carry on and people do write and praise for good products. But if not, then nothing can carry on bad products at its own.

Go and check yourself that section and see, how you can review some products and check them before hand.....

Some are from people promoting and some are from other forum members. How genuine and true I am not sure

I will always read the reviews on the second page, as that's where the reviews from people who have actually paid usually start coming in.

Just stop for one second and consider the logistics:

Putting qualified eyeballs on every single product beginning to end. Just that alone would require a massive force. Who decides if they are qualified?

The time from submission to actual posting would be insane.

The added costs to listing fees in order to cover the army of manpower required would effectively kill the WSO forum.

It is not now or will it ever be possible.

There are systems in place to deal with products you don't like or don't live up to the hype.

#1 Don't buy it!
#2 Get a refund!

Stop expecting others to protect you from yourself.

Threads like this always seem kind of strange to me... why is it that courses presented as WSO's are so heavily scrutinized/referred to as a scam when a buyer fails to achieve the exact same results as the author, but the same people that do that don't hold any other forms of study to the same standard?

Turn on the TV to see what I mean...

EVERY advertisement for a university or specialized training talks about how much more money you'll make with the education they're offering. Every. Single. One. And likewise, every one of them has testimonials from graduates who talk about their new job and how much their life has improved.

You don't see I.T.T. graduates whining that they we re "ripped off" because they didn't get a $200k job offer from the Department of Defense, do you?

Or law school grads whining about how they weren't able to just open their own practice and start raking in the cash?

Or buyers of books like "Rich Dad Poor Dad" or Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace course crying about how a couple weeks later they still aren't rich/are still in debt?

Traditional presentations of higher education, courses, etc. present the same type of "sensationalized" testimonials from individuals who've managed to accomplish these things, but they're never attacked the way IM courses are.

Why not? Because you know that "knowing is HALF the battle". I can teach you something I know, show you exactly what I'm doing step by step, but that doesn't mean you'll have the exact same results. And a logical person KNOWS that when it's presented in the traditional setting. Heck, the unemployment rate for college grads is through the roof right now - they were "sold the dream" and still can't get a job. Are they demanding refunds?

Yet for some reason when the same "dream" is presented online, suddenly logic is thrown out the window, instant gratification is mandatory, and anything that doesn't deliver it is a scam and must be riddled with fake testimonials?

Reviews are often very overestimating but there is a few good WSO's though. A good rule of thumb is to see if there are any negative reviews. If it is bad you can be assured that people will post negatives. People just work like that imo.