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Bhavesh
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# Posted: 16 Feb 2009 20:35
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I am the individual organizing the Class Action Suit. Anyone who wants in is welcome the more the merrier. I am asking everyone to fill out a questioner. I will not discuss details of who is involved with me but let's just say I am lining up my soldiers and plan of attack. I asked for my money back and Thrive (Zachary Bradshaw) told me go ahead and sue us you won't win. That is more than likely true if I go it alone but if I take a small army and bring the attorney generals, the police, the DA, the banks that represent the credit card used, and any politician I can think of to get involved I will create a small war. My goal is to win this conflict I am taking no prisoners. Thrive destroyed my holidays changed my way of life and now they have 15K of my undivided attention. My heart and soul are in this. Join me now and help me lynch these crooks. Classactionsuiteagainstthrive at yahoo dot com
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enoughalready
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# Posted: 16 Feb 2009 21:21
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The fact that people are starting to do something about the Thrive Learning Institute is what will finally get the word out. It is good to let people be aware of the original company that contacted you. In our case it was Internet Auction Solutions who did the sales pitch and then TLI who were to be the coaches. And I can't stress enough how important it is for everyone to lodge with the the BBB in Utah and the other places that I mentioned on Feb. 8 post.
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darthpwnage13
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# Posted: 19 Feb 2009 16:52
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darthpwnage13: THRIVE LEARNING INSTITUTE IS A SCAM!! DO NOT DO IT! They stole my money and hid it in the contact that you have 3 days to cancel from the time you tell the salesman "yes" or there is never any way to ever get a dime back if you cancel! I also found out by research they use college students that do NOT do online business themselves to teach you!
The previous post I made on Jan 12 was not about Thrive Learning Institute. It was meant for Tafiti Consulting. Tafiti Consulting ripped me off. Since I canceled with Tafiti I have joined up with Thrive and the difference is like night and day. Everyone at Thrive Learning is very helpful and professional and actually help me make PROGRESS!
I now have a very profitable website and am working on my second with the help of my training team at Thrive.
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brondby
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2009 12:42
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Hi,
I live in the UK and was contacted by 'phone by a 2 gentlemen from Thrive, they offered to teach me how to have multiple streams of income on the internet. To cut a long story short they wanted 5.660 USD, they sent me an agreement form by email which I had to sign and return within 3 days and I gave them credit card details. They payment is still pending, but I have decided not to go ahead with the programme, I have not signed and returned the forms (2 days have passed, so I still have until tomorrow, Saturday). I have emailed them to let them know that I will not be going ahead and contacted the credit card company. One of the gentlemen rang me this afternoon, I told him about my decision and he said that he didn't think I should quit and if I did I would have to pay 15% (percent) of the fee, which comes to approx. 600 British pounds! He said that was what it said in the terms of agreement, but surely, if I haven't signed anything and haven't had anything for my money they can't charge me any money!!
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IMarketer
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2009 17:33
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So in one month, they have not only taught you to build a website, but to make it very profitable as well????
I'd like to see it.
darthpwnage13: The previous post I made on Jan 12 was not about Thrive Learning Institute. It was meant for Tafiti Consulting. Tafiti Consulting ripped me off. Since I canceled with Tafiti I have joined up with Thrive and the difference is like night and day. Everyone at Thrive Learning is very helpful and professional and actually help me make PROGRESS! I now have a very profitable website and am working on my second with the help of my training team at Thrive.
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IMarketer
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2009 17:37
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I do understand that you may not have quit Tafiti Consulting on Jan 12 and joined Thrive after that date, but you posted your complaint about Tafiti on this thread without bothering to post about your sucess????
darthpwnage13: The previous post I made on Jan 12 was not about Thrive Learning Institute.
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used and abused
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2009 20:56 · Edited by: used and abused
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yes, and after a single month he has not only built a fully successful website but has started another???? Maybe he is selling only one item?
I would like to see it too...lol.
Secondly, I am confused as to how anybody could be so confused as to who had ripped them off, I certainly have no doubt about who ripped me off.
Also considering he thought it was thrive at the time....but he didn't sign up with thrive until later.
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darthpwnage13
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2009 21:03 · Edited by: darthpwnage13
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No, I did not post that the day I became unhappy with tafiti... I have been with Thrive Learning for about 5 months. They have helped me create a very profitable website, www.firingairsoft.com, and starting on the second. The only reason why you guys aren't having success with Thrive is because you are too lazy to do the homework they give you. One thing I have learned is to pick the minds of the coaches and you will be surprised what you can learn.
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used and abused
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2009 21:20 · Edited by: used and abused
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I spent 90 hours a week working on my website for three months and entered over 2000 products.I had one piece of shipping information to add and thrive told me "something was broke" their exact words. Then they said they didn't know when it would be fixed.
Also I didn't pay 5000k only to spend 2k more on advertising. There are so few stories as yours, I find you are not credible and you probably work for thrive anyway.
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darthpwnage13
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2009 21:40 · Edited by: darthpwnage13
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used and abused: I spent 90 hours a week working on my website for three months and entered over 2000 products.I had one piece of shipping information to add and thrive told me "something was broke" their exact words. Then they said they didn't know when it would be fixed. Also I didn't pay 5000k only to spend 2k more on advertising. There are so few stories as yours, I find you are not credible and you probably work for thrive anyway.
You invested in an education more than website technical support. If you dont like their builder I doubt they will have a problem with you taking your site elsewhere. It is the business fundamentals and marketing strategies that is what you want to learn from Thrive. That is what I focused on and I am pleased with them.
Also, it does not take 2k worth of advertising. You can do it completely for free if you want just depending on if you want to focus on SEO or quick, PPC traffic. I juse used a couple hundred in PPC traffic using google adwords to boost me and the SEO strategies I learned from Thrive helped establish the rest of the traffic.
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used and abused
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2009 22:26
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you are so full of it, first of all you weren't really reading my posts or others.....I was misled in the first place on what I was buying, I only proceeded because I did not know this until my RIDICULOUS 3 day period was up for a refund.....secondly they would NOT, I REPEAT, NOT help me finish my website which as I stated in my previous post was because of one single piece of shipping info, which only they could add. They did not call me back or respond to my emails.......WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT???? And it was made very clear to me that I would have to pay additional money to advertise...pay per clicks affiliates, etc. in order to get my website higher on the seasrch engines. This also included $200 a month in merchant fees, which I apparently could have gotten for a lot less, except that thrive only had 6 merchants that would work with their website. I had no money left as thrive cleaned me out and secondly, I REPEAT AGAIN, since you dont seem to get it.. I was told by the person who sold me the package that my initial investment PAID FOR EVERYTHING!!
You have also not answered my question of how such a smart person such as yourself could have been SO CONFUSED ABOUT WHO WAS RIPPING YOU OFF????????
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darthpwnage13
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# Posted: 21 Feb 2009 01:01
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I am sorry you had a bad experience, that is unfortunate, but I did not. As far as the confusion goes it was simply a typo is all.
used and abused: pay per clicks affiliates, etc
Pay per clicks affiliates? What in the world is that? Pay per click and affiliates are two different things. Anyway there is no need to do this I just thought I would share my experience with others to help them make their own decision.
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used and abused
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# Posted: 21 Feb 2009 09:03 · Edited by: used and abused
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I forgot to put a comma...it was a typo.
I also wanted to add that you shouldn't have to pick the coaches brains. The coaches are supposed to give you that information, that is what you have paid for.
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IMarketer
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# Posted: 21 Feb 2009 09:43
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www.firingairsoft.com was registered 11 months ago.
What type of page ranking are you getting on google?
I was only able to find your website with firing airsoft guns.
If you put in airsoft guns, which would seem like a logical search phrase, it doesn't show up on the first 20 pages out of 180.
Doesn't seem like you would get much traffic from that.
Lots of competition.
Didn't see a PPC ad.
Nice looking website though.
I really hope the story is true and you are getting your money's worth.
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IMarketer
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# Posted: 22 Feb 2009 09:57 · Edited by: IMarketer
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One other interesting thing I found.
www.firingairsoft.com domain name is registared in:
Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062[i][/i]
United States
I deleted other info I found about the registar, but it isn't someone named Tom.
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enoughalready
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# Posted: 22 Feb 2009 15:30 · Edited by: enoughalready
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Yes, that certainly is interesting. Thrive is supposedly located in Lindon, Utah and when you do a google earth search, you will see that Pleasant Grove is located right next to Lindon. Only minutes away. Go figure!!
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used and abused
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# Posted: 23 Feb 2009 16:22
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Dear IMARKETER,
I just want to thank you for taking the time to research some of the comments made in these posts.
I have been too busy writing to the dep. of justice and all other areas of the senate I can think of in hopes that eventually one of them will take notice. So I haven't had much spare time to look into much else.
In the meantime, the research you are doing is very helpful. I really hope you will continue to do so.....it all helps.
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IMarketer
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# Posted: 23 Feb 2009 16:44
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used and abused
No problem.
I just hate to see people taken advantage of.
In the IM world, it taints every decision you make.
Is it a ripoff or is it legit?
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# Posted: 23 Feb 2009 17:05
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That is for sure... I wont even consider looking into that type of business now. My son has been looking for a vehicle the last few days and out of the three that he looked at 2 were people trying to scam him through ebay. It seems it is so bad that it is exactly as you say, what is legit and what is a scam? My son could have easily fallen for that had he not had someone to warn him about it.
I feel that Thrive is alot bigger than what most think though, so I feel I have to do what I can until I run out of steam on this. I believe Thrive and their associates count on people giving up right away as soon as they run into an obstacle. And that's okay.... life does go on, but if we all think that way, the situation only gets worse for everyone.
I plan to keep bugging everybody I can think of until someone listens, whether I get my money back or not.
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joeblow2009
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# Posted: 27 Feb 2009 15:01
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darthpwnage13...you have to be an employee of Thrive, or someway affiliated.
There is no way someone can forget who ripped them off. Typing out a company's name is not a typo.
The about face you pulled on this message board is embarrassing. In case anyone wants any more evidence this person is a "Thrive insider", check out these post from darthpwnage13 on another message board.
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=115243&goto=nextoldest
The poster appears to be pretty knowledgeable about Thrive, Tafiti, the industry, etc. Then, within a month's time, the story changes.
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IMarketer
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# Posted: 28 Feb 2009 09:55 · Edited by: IMarketer
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Good information Joe.
Yeah, in Jan. badmouthing Thrive and one month later Thrive has given him a stable business????!!!
I'm guessing that www.firingairsoft.com is owned by Thrive and given as an example, when clients want to see what they will be learning to build.
joeblow2009: darthpwnage13...you have to be an employee of Thrive, or someway affiliated. There is no way someone can forget who ripped them off. Typing out a company's name is not a typo. The about face you pulled on this message board is embarrassing. In case anyone wants any more evidence this person is a "Thrive insider", check out these post from darthpwnage13 on another message board. http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=115243&goto=nextoldestThe poster appears to be pretty knowledgeable about Thrive, Tafiti, the industry, etc. Then, within a month's time, the story changes.
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# Posted: 1 Mar 2009 12:06
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IMARKETER,
Was the company that ripped you off and convicted of fraud, assocciated in any way with Thrive that you may know of?
I am hoping that I can find a company associated with them that has had charges of some sort brought against them.
Also there are alot of complaints on scam.com about Bright Builders.
Bright Builders is also the Light wave Builder that Thrive uses.
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# Posted: 1 Mar 2009 22:03
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used and abused
No, I've been contacted by Thrive and 2 other companies that may have been associated with Thrive, but the company I lost my money to, was out of Texas and in a completely different business.
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Laila
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# Posted: 2 Mar 2009 04:02
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I was contact by a company called Unity Marketing Inc and when I asked them for the web address they gave me www.whythrive.com. Is this the same company? Please help before I invest my last cash reserve.
Thanks
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# Posted: 2 Mar 2009 07:47
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Yes, they are The same company. You do NOT want to have anything to do with them.
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# Posted: 6 Mar 2009 19:40 · Edited by: used and abused
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I just wanted to give an update on Thrive's BBB accreditation in case there are some who may not know this.
When I filed my report with the BBB, Thrive was definately a BBB member and though I am not 100% certain, I am quite sure that their rating at that time was an 'A'.
If you check Thrive's accreditation with the BBB now, it says they are NOT a member and they now have a rating of 'C'.
I feel this is quite an achievement for such a short period of time. The BBB listed my complaint as 'ASSUMED SATISFIED', though I followed their guidlines to the letter. I have just recently complained to them about this dishonest information to the public and thought I should mention this in case someone else may have missed this status on their complaints as I did.
I would also like to add that I sent my complaint to the Govenor of Utah and received an email a few days later from them saying they were going to do an investigation. If anyone is still having problems with Thrive, this may be a good opportunity to send your complaint to them.Here is the link to their site:
http://www.utah.gov/govenor/contact/index.html
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2009 03:44
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Laila: I was contact by a company called Unity Marketing Inc and when I asked them for the web address they gave me www.whythrive.com. Is this the same company? Please help before I invest my last cash reserve.
i dont think they would give you that address if they dont benefit from it somehow. But, find out for sure though.
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2009 17:58
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Everyone out there stay away from Thrive period!!! They are bad news. Here are some of there names; The Summit Group, The Sellers Lounge, Concept Executions, Biz Review, Infusion Media, Auction Sizzle, Diverse Marketing, Internet Auction Solutions, Platinum Trading Solutions, Momentum Marketing, Biz Review and possibly Tafiti .....
Please File a complaint with the following agencies and especially the Governor of Utah if you have been ripped off!!
Please file a complaint with the Governor of Utah!! http://www.ontheissues.org/Jon_Huntsman.htm
FTC http://www.ftc.gov/ 877-438-4338.
File a complaint with the Attorney General's office in your state and ask to get your money back. http://www.usdoj.gov/
Also file a complaint at www.IC3.gov IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 gives the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of suspected criminal or civil violations.
Thrive is not accredited with the BBB of Utah and at present has a rating of a C. file a complaint here as well. http://www.bbb.org/online/consumer/default.aspx
Again Please file a complaint with the Governor of Utah http://www.ontheissues.org/Jon_Huntsman.htm
Again do not do business with Thrive or you will regret it and you will not get your money back !!!!
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2009 19:12
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Sorry about the link I provided for the Govenor of Utah everyone. I tried to copy and paste it but that did not work, so I typed it out as it read in the search bar. It does not take you to the right sight, but Bhavesh has provided the correct link for you.
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# Posted: 15 Mar 2009 12:47
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Sorry guys, not sure what I did then but will continue ... On Sat 14 March, at 10am, I received a phone call from a member of my team, Eric, who said that it was now up to me to initiate contact with the team via phone calls or emails. I asked if the contact number was toll free and he couldn't tell me. I said I would call him back at 1pm (aussie time) and rang about 1.20pm and got an automated message that no one was available to take my call. It was then I started feeling sick in the stomach that I had made a hasty decision in signing away my valuable dollars. I am a solo mum with near 10 year old twin boys, currently unemployed and old enough to know better, thought and hoped that internet marketing might be a way out of the 9 to 5 rut and lead to a better quality of life and financial security for my little family.
However, getting back to everything that I have read this evening on this forum re Thrive, I feel quite angry (at myself and them!) and am hoping I can get a refund. Unfortunately, I have tried to opt into Bhavesh's class action website but no go. I have also gone onto the website for the governor of Utah (as he has no email link) and no go there either. I'm wondering 1) what my options are at this stage 2 weeks in from signing up and wanting to opt out of the program, 2) legal obstacles etc living in Australia, and 3) how to get a refund? Hopefully you wise people on this list who have done such great groundwork to date to bring this indecent, disreputable company to be accountable can advise me what I need to do next!!
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