What do you know about X Factor?

Not to be a debbie downer but I'm not sure how you can approach an MFA site "differently". The formula is pretty simple: create a site (small or large) and place ads on it. Ad positioning can be modified and you can get involved in arbitrage but outside of that, I'd be curious to see how it can be done "differently".

Money's tight for a lot of us, but I consider those books the best value I've gotten for my money and they do/did work.

I don't think it is a con. I DO think that John needs a good swift kick for delaying his latest release for so long.

I completely agree with this post. I got conned into paying in May as well and he has been promising his course for 3 months now! I have requested a refund and he keeps saying that he will refund me my money on such and such a date and he never does. I am now out to tell anybody not to buy from this guy! He is just taking your money! By the way, I paid $97!

Really??? I doubt it. Been hearing these very same words for months now. Many release dates have been set, but have come and gone with no course release. Still waiting...

"The Happy Publisher?" Ha ha, that's really funny. Well, he may be a happy publisher, but I'm certainly not a happy customer!"

No, I don't

Hope I'm wrong, but I think it will be a long wait.

Good luck with that. I'm still waiting for mine...

I also bought his original course. As far as being legitimate, my conclusion at this time is no.

I hope so too.

Thanks for your input, and for your promise to keep us posted of developments.

Agreed 100%

Of course, with those frank words, look for this thread to be deleted soon by WF mods...

Well, apparently you haven't read the posts in this thread, because that's what we're saying here - it's a scam because we paid money for something we haven't received. Please read the previous posts in this thread to come up to speed on what we're talking about.

Maybe it's because some people like to have all the info in one step-by-step course, rather than spending hours looking for it "for free on forums and blogs." There's nothing wrong with that, as long as the information provider actually does release the book or course as promised.

I don't support the guy, but when you spent your money, didn't you already know that no product existed?

If you didn't get a download right away, why wait months for trying to get a refund?

I don't understand everyone bitching about something that never existed to begin with.

So is this course worth the money and the wait? Has anyone made any money from this method yet?

When did his xfactorpublishing.com & adsensemasterscourse.com sites go down? (including the forum)?

I just barely noticed about a week ago, but I see the last post was from over 3 weeks ago?

This is the reply I got from John today regarding my deposit for the shared income web coaching we had agreed to do together:

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I apologize for the delay in replying. I'm not online any longer because I have taken an offline marketing job traveling and doing business to business sales.

(I lost all of my savings and cannot sustain my online work projects or ebooks).

I owe you a deep apology and this email is to let you know that I just overloaded my work orders way too much and my team fell through to help.

It's been one disaster after another in my life over the last 12 months and unfortunately my customers have suffered.

...But I don't want to give you any more excuses.

For that I am sorry and I will be sending you a full refund as soon as I possibly can. It may take some time as I try to scrape up funds but I will be doing the best that I can.

Bankruptcy may be my best option right now and it will help me clear up funds to send you a lot sooner if I do.

Things are down and out here for me and I understand if you are upset, but in no way was it intentional to get behind on my projects and put you in a bind with your payment. Please accept my deepest apologies and I'll be doing the best I can to get a refund to you in the shortest time I possibly can.

Regards,

John

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I am not expecting to see my cash again but I have opened a paypal claim. I'd say he's cleaned out the account already though. :/

honestly, I should have seen it coming.

Of course his intent was malicious! What do you call it when someone is "supposedly" in financial trouble, and consciously asks people to send them more money up until the very last day they disappear? That is a planned result. And if you never saw his health site, it never existed.

Don't try getting into his head, just judge him based on his actions.

Possible lesson learned: If someone asks for your money, and they don't provide a verifiable phone number and mailing address, run in the other direction. Of course, there are easy ways around this but it's a first step.

I'm writing this post to share some of my experiences with the xFactor machine.

Just a few days ago I attempted to log on to the Adsense Masters Course forum and saw that it no longer exists.

Early on, I had purchased xFactor ebooks and the right to join/use the forum, after it had been closed down once before to weed out those who trolled (and those who complained too loudly).

I did manage to make one Adsense micro site but I grew weary of writing about the subject. That site makes about $5.00 per month, not enough, obviously, to sustain a living.

The last ebook that I paid for (that would be version 3) was quite detailed, and potentially useful for someone like me, who prefers to build authority sites.

I knew that I wouldn't be interested in anything more substantial, such as private coaching. I did assume that he would deliver promptly on the more expensive services but I wasn't going to invest so I didn't keep track of it.

I was a bit annoyed by the long delay in receiving the ebook that I had paid for. I was counting on reading it and making money as soon as I internalized the information. When the 3rd edition was finally ready, I knew that I would never buy another product from him, no matter how inexpensive, because he had some sort of challenges in his internal/external life that were going to prevent him from being timely.

Because of the delays in getting the final ebook, my time (time is money) ran out. I couldn't make it (his system) work or so I thought, in the time I had left before all my funds were gone. I began to repress my anxiety.

The thought of going back into the profession (dispensing meds) that I had worked in for over 20 years was repulsive to me. And it wasn't like I could just go back; the market had completely shifted and those jobs were scarce to non-existent. I was caught in a double-bind. My anxiety deepened. That type of chronic negative thinking apparently sealed my fate and on November 14, 2013 my good health was replaced with a myriad of bizarre symptoms, starting with an inability to sleep normally.

Now, seven months later, I have what some people call severe Tension Myoneural Syndrome (others call it ME, CFS, or fibromyalgia). All you need to know about it is this: It so effectively fatigues my mind and body that working and socializing is nearly impossible. How is it, then, that I'm able to write this long letter, if I'm so mentally tired? I started 3 days ago...

Clearly, there are those of you who feel angry about not getting what was promised to you. I empathize with all of you who thought you were putting a down payment on your future and got nothing. I hope that he somehow repays all of you. You deserve that.

I'd like to make a comment about how you might feel better about your situation, even if you lost a lot of money.

You will feel better emotionally if you just decide to believe that he never intended to harm you financially. Why? Because if you decide that he WAS deceptive, you'll trigger additional negative emotions that feed into your overall reaction of not getting something you paid for. Your health is too important to dwell on the inconsistencies of another person.

You can debate endlessly about whether John Robinson deliberately intended to mislead you or if he was just the victim of his own personality styles. I believe that he was sincere about everything that he said, but somehow, his positive thinking philosophy regarding life jumped up and bit him on the arse. If the events he mentioned really did happen, then he would have a lot of explaining to do (to himself) about why he appeared so successful with a publishing business but so "unlucky" in his personal life. That's a heap of tragedy to confront, no matter who you are.

My opinion is that he was an optimist who truly believed that he could deliver on his promises. From what I've read about optimists who are entrepreneurs (especially when doing something technical, like writing), they overestimate their abilities. He was no different. He may have also been a perfectionist, constantly updating/correcting his material until it was "just right". Maybe at some point he realized that his "stuff" didn't work anymore but he was driven to find a way that did. Figuring all that out takes time. It was a recipe for trouble.

As I deal day-to-day with my illness, I think about all the negative emotions I had fed into my body. Maybe I could have dodged this bullet if I had just focused on the joy of being healthy and that maybe I could still create an income my way, in time, without John's help.

Perhaps some of you might think that this post is actually coming from xFactor in disguise but no, I'm just somebody who (also) had a life-altering experience and I'm trying to put my world back together again.

Before you write back with hostility (I'm really not defending John's actions, even though some of you may think I am), consider what I've said. It's not what he's done to you that is as important as what you tell yourself what it means. Despising him will have a hurtful impact on you, not him. Don't store the hate (it'll end up in your body), just let go of it.

Was xFactor to blame for my current situation? Nah, I was the one who waited for him to deliver. And I was the one who focused on failure rather than on achievement. Now my biggest challenge is to accept what has happened to me and to focus on recovery, for as long as it takes.

I wish all of you success. Learn from your experiences, then grow. I wish I'd done that.

Thanks for reading.