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IMarketer
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#281 · Posted: 21 Jul 2009 19:12
Oh sorry, you meant the other one that was pending.
I don't remember.
IMarketer: I believe they had Thrive in their name. I checked their member profile, but there wasn't anything there.
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donbroro
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#282 · Posted: 21 Jul 2009 20:30
I had seen those pending posts also. The other one was by lewis. I guess administration decided not to post them. They must not have been very nice. All the hard work of the members here must be paying off.
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#283 · Posted: 22 Jul 2009 00:09 · Edited by: Vishal P. Rao
I disapproved the post because the member had an anonymous profile with a link to http://thrivelearning.blogspot.com in the message body telling how many people are impressed with their program.
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#284 · Posted: 22 Jul 2009 00:54
Thanks Vishal!
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janiegirl
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#285 · Posted: 22 Jul 2009 07:44
Thank you so much Vishal
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janiegirl
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#286 · Posted: 22 Jul 2009 07:48
Vishal, Was that the case with both of the posts? There were 2 posts that were pending approval. Just curious. thanks
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#287 · Posted: 22 Jul 2009 07:57
good looking out Vishal!
Thank You!
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#288 · Posted: 23 Jul 2009 00:12
janiegirl: Vishal, Was that the case with both of the posts? There were 2 posts that were pending approval.
I don't remember exactly. If it was from the same user, then I guess it may be so.
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#289 · Posted: 28 Jul 2009 18:41
Thrive is a rip off scheme. They trick people into believing that they can regain their investment in 3 months or less. They don't tell you about the "3 day" cancelation policy that protects them from refunding your money. Once they have your credit card number, they immediatly charge your account without ever offering any immediate services. Representatives from Thrive use alot of big talk on how they are doing nothing wrong and how you cost them X amount of dollars in just talking you into their scam. Paul Castielo from Thrive offered me 50% refund of my investment. I declined because I felt there was no way they could have spent that amount in just a few phone calls. I'm sure I'll get a response saying Thrive is acredited to the BBB in Utah. I worked for several months with the BBB and they were very little help. Thrive has more rights than the consumer. I had hoped that my case would reach arbitration. Thrive declined any arbitration. This proves without a doubt who the BBB really protects. It's a shame we live in a world where companies such as Thrive can prey on unsuspecting people, and trick them into their scams. I have done a little research on Thrive, and there are more complaints against them than there are praises. I will continue to speak my mind and warn people about Thrive. I am filing a Civil suit against Thrive and any other business affiliated with them. I don't know if I'll ever get a refund, but I will continue to write on blogs, local and national news, and even my local congressman. I will do whatever it takes to get the satisfaction I deserve for being ripped off by Thrive.
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#290 · Posted: 29 Jul 2009 15:03
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#291 · Posted: 31 Jul 2009 17:09 · Edited by: Nothappy
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#292 · Posted: 31 Jul 2009 20:29
To not happy = I understand completely. I thought I was reading about my situtation. The same thing happened to me concering the merchant account. Thrive is slippery and very dishonest to say the least. I am in the process of filing all the complaints I can. So don't you give up. You are not the guilty one.
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#293 · Posted: 3 Aug 2009 05:15
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struggler
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#294 · Posted: 4 Aug 2009 14:46
Hi, Traderp, it's been about half a year since you joined thrive learning. How's the income? Does thrive actually work? I see in this forum that there are mixtures of comments regarding them but I want to see your point of view.
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#295 · Posted: 4 Aug 2009 15:06
Hey Nothappy, I feel like I'm going through the same path as you are, I've already started the program and I've been meaning to cancel just because I was afraid from looking at comments on this website. I called Alex but he never replied back to me. After that I called the first rep who I set up to start this program to ask about this matter but he never got back to me. Rodney Moss was his name. until I got the first lady who gets the phone who first says "corporate office, how may I direct your call" to get the rep Rodney to call me. Which was my 4th time calling after I left my voice message to him. Also, whenever I need to ask help from coaches they always say they will be in meeting, or they'll ask you if they can call you back because they have another appointment which is atleast 2-3 hours of waiting time. This goes against the contract guaranteeing us an unlimited support. What kind of unlimited support makes people wait for 3 hours for the next call? We don't have time to wait. Plus, why is it different with everyone's cost to do this? I was charged about $9000 but it's different cost with different people. Asking for how much saving we had in the first place was fishy now that I look back into it. I hope I can get my money back. I'm going to try to freeze my card so they can't take any more money from me. Man, I am such an idiot for falling into this if it was a scam!
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#296 · Posted: 5 Aug 2009 15:17
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workerbee
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#297 · Posted: 5 Aug 2009 18:10
Well, here's another sad Thrive story to add to the heap. My husband and I purchased their "Chief Executive" Program in February at a seminar at a local hotel. We paid $3995 for what we thought was a web site with merchant account, mentoring and help with the website, search engine placement, a vast knowledge library, internet tools, ebay research and listing tools, a search engine optimization cd that we could re-sell, and a link to a site where thrive gives away free 2 page websites. We were supposed to be paid up to $900 whenever someone upgraded from the free websites that we promoted. As soon as we paid the original #3995 they started trying to sell us more instruction and mentoring. We started getting really nervous when they wanted to know what credit cards we had and what our available credit limits were. We gave them a figure to see what they would say. Amazingly, the amount that the continuing education would cost happened to be the amount that we told them we had left on our credit cards! After we told them we didn't want to purchase any more they left us alone, and I mean really left us alone. It is very difficult to get a response from them unless they are trying to sell you some more bogus services. Technical support is open Monday thru Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. I am in a different time zone and am at my day job while they are open. It doesn't really matter though, because you always have to leave a message, and sometimes they call you back. We were so excited when we first signed up that we were blinded to what was going on. Just yesterday, after leaving countless messages and talking to quite a few people at Thrive, I finally talked to a gentleman who answered me truthfully. What we really got for our money is the website, but not really the website, just the ability to pay them $39.99 for hosting and templates to build the site. All of the other extra stuff is only available to us as long as we continue to pay the monthly fee. If we cancel it, we lose the ability to use any of it. The only thing I have been able to use so far is the ebay reasearch and listing tool. That is actually really nice. Unfortunately, the cd we were supposed to sell is pretty crappy and we would not want to sell it. Same with the free web sites. Once a person signs up for one, Trive would probably drive them crazy, so we don't want to inflict that on anyone. We even paid an additional $175 to have a second web site that we could keep or sell. We are so dumb! I already had a site going with Godaddy, but it is not a merchant account and I thought I really needed all of this "mentoring" I was going to get with thrive. What I didn't know was that I could get EVERYTHING I need from Godaddy and they don't charge you $3995. I just got my quick shopping cart from Godaddy this morning and it is going to be a fraction of the cost of Trive's mess, and they have people there to help you 24/7. Anyway, I have to go back to work here at my day job to make money to pay for the load of ____ that I bought from Thrive! See ya!
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#298 · Posted: 5 Aug 2009 20:18
Thanks so much for this forum! It took awhile to find this, but the hopeless feeling I have been feeling for three months is all but gone now! In April of this year I was contacted by Internet Auction Solutions, who also asked a lot of personal questions regaring my credit. The call was set up with Arthur Morton was done the next night, and he showed us how with a $20 profit, and a 75% success rate, and we could easily make $5000 per month, and PROMISED us that with the THRIVE education system that we would be able to use the software to find these exact products, and the THRIVE team would also assist us in setting up the E-bay auctions. Since I had done a vast amount of research to find the products that were profitable with no success, and I had relayed this to Arthur, he told us this was the solution to our problems. He even went so far as to say that since this was an educational course it was 100% tax deductable, so it really would not cost us anything! What a deal!!
Then, when it was time to pay, they required it be recorded, which I thought was kind of odd, but by now I was so SURE we were doing the right thing, no worries. Then we talked to out Team, and things then changed quite a bit. When I started doing what they asked, as far as finding products and using Lightwave, the results just weren't there! SHOCKER! So I asked my team where the great deals were, and that we were assured that they would direct us, they said that it was not their job, but was ours! NOT WHAT WE PAID $8455.36 FOR!
After I did another weeks of meetings, and finding other forums with the same issues, I requested a refund. I requested a chargeback, which did work for awhile, but not forever. I did get a call from David Andrews, and we spoke for 78 minutes about what I expected. HE actually agreed, and assured me that the Thrive team would help me find those products after all. Again, the Thrive team said that was not "Their job" and had no insight into this, but we just need to find the products and use lightwave, just like I had before.
I've had enough, and can't take anymore! I called David again, but he would not speak to me, and will not return my calls. I was going to contact my lawyer and pursue a settlement, but after seeing that some have had success I am now asking for help!
Please help!!!!!
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#299 · Posted: 5 Aug 2009 21:31
Me again. I know that some have gotten their money back, but has anyone been able to get it back from Internet Auction Solutions?
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#300 · Posted: 6 Aug 2009 00:35
Thanks for the reply, Nothappy. I have signed the petition. This crime must be stopped. I've gathered all the resources that I thought I was suspicious of them and am going to consumer protection agency to present all the research I did and experience I had with them. I've read many depressing stories from people doing the thrivelearning. I literally was not able to sleep just because I was scared how my life is going to be from paying the debt. There are more than enough people complaining about this matter and I am sure that Federal agency, Government, and many different investigators who searches these kind of matters will move. As for thrive, I will not give up until I make them give up. We have the evidence, I know we can find a way to win against them.
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