What is your worst experience online? Got ripped off?

Things happen.

I prefer to focus on what has gone GOOD in my business rather than what was gone BAD.

Nothing to be gained by living in the past (I don't think so, anyway).

Bad things happen. Learn. Move on. Don't dwell on them though.

The worse experience I have had...

Is looking back on a year and not having accomplished anything.

I was addicted to checking my email and seeing other peoples offers without ever taking action.

THAT

IS

THE

WORST

I finally started taking action and that's where I saw a change in my biz.

Aside from spending almost an entire year producing nothing and losing a lot of money, I would say that one of the worst that I can remember is paying an agency to accomplish a big project for my website content. This happened around 2 to 3 years ago. I paid around $4000 for their service. Half of the articles I got were good so I put my full trust in them. Half of the half were crappy and the other half was never delivered to me.

Bought 500 Clicks of Solo ads and never heard the person EVER again... 0 Clicks Delivered.

Paid a member on this forum $500 for mentoring and trusted him because of a decent post count. I was guaranteed to earn $30 a day from these CPA methods after 5 days. He gave me a couple of short lessons with some of the most simple/noob methods on the planet and then boom, never saw him again.

Found out he has done the exact same thing to others and now luckily I know more about him then he would expect.

I'm just inquiring , why we are not putting the name of these people so every body else would avoid dealing with them

I couldn't remember what country the agency was from. I just got really pissed off when I lost $4000. I am not sure if they are still in operation up to now. The last time I saw their website was 6 months after they took my money and gave me a very bad service. I couldn't imagine how they could still work despite what happened.

Worst experience is doing the same thing over and over for a year expecting different results but ended in the same place. But let's move on....

Spent months building traffic and backlinks then hit by google updates and you have to manually review/audit and delete those backlinks you built.

I don't think that there is anything wrong about sharing your worst experience to other warriors. Sharing them will not make you any less of a good Internet marketer. In fact, it is best to let others know about it for us to learn from it. Still, it's your call.

paid $2,500 for an odesk programmer and get a super buggy software UI.
and also a few other times got cheated by other freelancer.

now i can understand why these happen so often, this is due to the competition in freelancing, the one who need to survive will try everything to get project at cheap rate, but they know the price is not worth their time to complete it, but anyway just grab the job 1st.

after you have paid them 50% and the potato is half bake, they will tell you a lot of reason they can't continue.

i got one said, his notebook got stolen and all code gone..
another said, he quit the company
another said, what you ask is impossible to get done (when starting the project he told me c# have no limitation)

anyway, they don't care much, because odesk have payment guarantee to freelancer, if you finally don't pay them the balance, odesk will pay.

but the funny thing is, i found talented and very good + honest programmer on fiverr and have do bigger project successfully with them, if you want me to seek for a reason for this, i think this is due to all the Fxcker who is better in cheating win the battle on the freelance marketplace and the honest one got kick out and have to do the $5 job to survive.

My conclusion: freelancer is very danger, don't try this at home!

i once ordered this OTC medication for my skin condition, was a total scam, like i mean it looked like it was made in someones basement, and it probably was but you should have seen all the hype they used to sell it, guess it worked for them

I've lost money all the time falling to hyped up sales letters until I realized the problem was not the guys who were scamming me, the problem was with me for believing that people who could stoop so low to convince with 100,000words sales letters could actually have a product worth checking out.

Now I know better. I don't even bother to read super long sales letters with hundreds of "testimonials"...I mean if the product is so good, why trumpet that fact so loudly? It should sell itself based on its quality!

Coming across the usual scams all over the internet. Must have lost $$$$ in potential income by now.

Thing is to not dwell on it, as hard as it may seem. There must be some sort of karma in the world, right? RIGHT?!

What do people think about forced-continuity programs?

Here's what happened to me:

I bought a product (I really wanted) from Ryan Diess
But, there was a forced continuity. Which, of course,
I could cancel before the first payment went through
($97 after 30 days)!

I could not put it on my PayPal account due to the
amount, and (very foolishly) put it on a debit card!
Then, (oh no) I forgot about it....!

A year later I noticed a payment on my bank statement
I didn't recognise. (Yeah, there's a lot going through
that account, so its not easy to spot things - another
mistake)!

I did a Google search for the company and got to a
site which said something like "We are not Ryan Deiss,
if you need a refund from ......... go to ......." Can you
believe that?

Anyway, finally I got through to RD's company and
asked what the payment was for. Then, after they
replied I said I'd never used the service ($1k or so later)!

They gave me the last 3 payments back as a 'courtesy!'

Thanks! So, the idea was to get me to pay for something
I'd never use and then forget I was paying? Then, refund
3 months so I couldn't raise a complaint with my bank?

Call me cynical, but that's how it looks! That really, really
saddened me that a top-notch marketer could resort to
those 'tricks!'

So, I've moved on. Its in the past and another expensive
lesson...!

However, I hate forced continuity programs.

Richard