Wealthy Affiliate: is it a scam?

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Wealthy Affiliate ( WA ) is  an internet marketing ( IM ) program that will help you make money online.

It is user friendly for people that are new to online marketing ( newbie and wannabes friendly ).

But there are dozens of similar programs and systems saying the same thing.

There are other legitimate and honest programs available.

And, there are many others that are complete scams, rip offs, and fraud schemes.

These scamming, illegal, illicit, dishonest and illegitimate programs all they want is your money and don’t offer you anything of value.

How do you set apart the scam program from the legitimate one?

First, you read carefully their presentation page and offer, that is, their salesletter or page.

If there are any claims that seem too good to be true, probably, that’s correct, they are too good to be true, meaning that the offer is a scam.

Most of the time they offer you over night riches, get rich quick schemes, one click to riches, a button that you will click and the money start pouring in.

They might say that they will do all the work for you, if they do all the work for you, why  don’t they just do it for them, in the first place?

Of course, there are outsourcing services that will do all the work for you, but then you will need a great amount of money to use that service, probably, thousands of dollars.   The difference with these scams is that they offer you all that for $47!

Some might offer you a free trail, a one dollar ($1) trail.  All they want is your information and to get you into the program, and then the upsells, downsells, side sells and one time offers (otos) appear.

Others offer you free things then you have to pay for other needed tools to be able to use the “free” thing.   Most of the time they offer you a free website, but after one hour of video presentation you are taken to the hosting offer, usually a minimum of six month fee.   And you must use their hosting provider for the “free” website to function.

Some will ask for your credit card information, even with a free offer, they could use it for identity theft.

Usually these scam programs could cause you all kinds of problems after you pay.

They usually don’t provide what they said they would give you.   You lose your money, and if refunds were “guaranteed” you could have a very hard time getting that refund, if you get to have it.

Then there are functional programs that are over hyped.   They say that they are newbie friendly, but when a newbie buys or join the program and gets to the member’s area, they find that it is complex, overwhelming, no logical order of training, if any, many trainings take for granted many things that newbies don’t know.

Many times the price paid is high for the quality given, support is low, if any, and for the program, system or tool to work you have to invest additional cash.   The problem with this is that you get to know this after paying for could be an “introductory” price.

This is some of the things you  have to ask yourself by reading the initial salesletter of the program.  Most salesletters are over hyped, they will tell you how easy, fast, low cost, even free, completely newbie friendly, no hassle, perfect program they are giving you.  Some will even tell you that no additional investment is necessary, but inside you get an OTO if you want the program to work like they said in the sales presentation, if not, you will have to do it manually and it will be hugely time consuming.   And, you might not know how to do it manually, anyway.

After you have read carefully, your other diligence is to do a search on the reliability of the program.   This is what most online marketers do before joining any program, they have been scammed so many times with time wasters, and rip offs, that the reputation search has become a common act for experienced marketers.

You do a search, most using Google, using the program’s name + scam, or rip off, or fraud.  Probably, you will receive thousands of results, specially, if the program has been around for some time.   If the program is new, you might not receive many, if any, in this case you should google search for program creator or creators, promoters or resellers.

Many of the results are reviews by people that really do reviews, very few, but most will be from the creators or affiliates that want you to buy the program.

There are even scam sites that in reality are promotions of the program.  In these you notice that everything said about the program is positive, if anything negative is mentioned, it is some minor thing, like it takes up to 24 hours to receive a reply from support.

How can you rely on a review or scam report?  It can be tricky.  If the reviewer is too pushy trying to sell you the program, it could be honest, but not much reliable.  If the scam report by telling you how good is the program, then in reality, it is not a scam report, it is a sales presentation in disguise of the program.

In this case you can do a search on the reviewer or scam reporter.   There are some scam reports that you can use as a guide, for example, idreportcard, scam.com.

Ok, now to our business, is this review an honest and legitimate one, or am I trying to push you to buy WA system?

Well, I am not trying to push you to buy WA, because what you learn here you can apply to any program that you are inquiring about!

Let’s see:

* There isn’t a long salesletter with over hyped offerings

* The website presentation is divided into several sections so that it is easy for you to navigate and look for whatever you want to look at

* What you see is what you get: there are no upsells, otos, downsells, sidesells

* You have only two options to join: a forever, always, free account, and a paid, premium, account, that’s it

* The free account provides you with two free hosted websites, yours forever: free

* You are told that the free account has some limitations: there is a graph showing them, no surprise

* The paid premium account is only $47 per month

*  You are told from the start that there is no magical, get rich tonight, button, and no one click to fortune system

* You are told that online success requires work, training, dedication, and that it is a long-term venture

* The only additional tool you need is an autoresponder, you have to use your own

* Since you use your own autoresponder, you control your mailing list, it isn’t WA owners’ list, it’s yours

* You get intensive and extensive training

* You can share and have discussions with the owners and with other members

* Many more benefits for you

 

WA has had only two complains in eight (8) years (BBB), when most legitimate and honest companies have had several complains in that time span.  The problem is not necessarily the complains, its how the company manage them.  Is the company responsive to them?   WA is!

Based on the information provided I consider that WA is a legitimate and honest company.   It is not a scam.

But judge by yourself, see what WA has to offer you:

Click here: Wealthy Affiliate (WA)

Click the link and look it over and see and compare with other programs

There is no rush to push you to join, if you do it, do it as an informed person, don’t get taken by the over hyped presentations of other programs.

Your friend,

Antonios

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If you have any questions about WA or would like to offer any affiliate marketing insight you have gotten over the years (from your personal experiences), please leave a comment below.  I would love to hear all about it!

 

If you join through my link I could receive compensation for it.

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