Complaint Review: Adam Ginsberg International - Los Angeles California

We first heard Adam at an 'Empowernet' conference in Melbourne, Australia Sept, 2013. He was one speaker of many. He offered a follow-up workshop on help with how to sell things on ebay. If you bought his book for I think $39 you could attend for free & he'd donate all proceeds to charity. We only got the book recently (a year later after much nagging), because he's released a new version. They sent us the old version!

In November we attended the full day seminar. Adam was a really great speaker & seemed to have great products. We thought we were just going to learn a bit about ebay to sell stuff from home & that was it. He opened our eyes to the business opportunity available in selling new products on ebay.

He of course offered a number of products to 'help' with our ebay success:

• Template Optimizer (make ebay listings look really good, also had ability to import products directly from Amazon and Walmart to resell at higher price) - monthly fee or around $500 outright - we bought it outright
• Auction Optimzer (ability to search products you were thinking of selling & would list best day to sell, what time period, whether better to do buy it now or auction, best words to use in title etc) - can't remember now if we paid for this separately
• Millionaire Auction Program (ebay online & webinar training, personal coaching via skype, 3 day workshop, personal coaching with Adam, 12 month technical support, access to all future changes & training etc) $11,997
• Millionaire Internet Program (Click to trade program, 6 months trader coaching, 2 day mastery immersion training, 12 months phone & webinar support, 4 x 30 min one on one sessions with Adam $13,003) - purchasing the two programs together we 'saved' $5000
• Just Chew It products (during the seminar Adam would hand out energy gum or chocolate & if you bought the 'sample' packs for about $110 they would post the product out & you'd also get first chance of becoming affiliates for the product & get a cut of the selling price - become retailers but get at wholesale price) - yes we bought this too - the product seemed to work. Website - justchewitenergy.com 

Template & Auction optimzer programs we had access to straight away. We found these programs quite good & figured out how to use them even though no real training given. By this stage we were finding the email support quite frustrating as it took forever to get an answer about anything. We were getting no reply as to when click to trade would start.

Click to trade was something to do with google adwords. You could pick a product that was sold on amazon. Put it into the click to trade program, with all the google words that people would search for, and then an advert would be created in google. If someone clicked on your ad it would take them to a automatically created website with reviews etc on product and when they clicked to buy the product it would take them to amazon. You would then get paid as an affiliate through amazon for any purchases made on amazon at that time but you'd also have to pay google for the ads.

After about 6 months of constant nagging we were given access to the program. Then it never worked! We received one webinar training session in that whole time. This program has now been made obsolete.

Also around this time (February I think) we were finally given skype training sessions with Jared for ebay & some of the finer details. These sessions were ok but we haven't finished them & there were times that he was a no show insisting we got the time conversion wrong etc.

Ebay training via Adam & webinars is non-existant. He announced via a 'Spy Rivals new version' training webinar yesterday (11th Sept, 2014) that he was no longer doing any ebay training. Hmmmmm....

Following a webinar on the Just Chew It products in January 2014 I think, we bought the affiliate program - just under $3000! We were to get a heap of product for this and be top of the chain affiliates - any new affiliates would come under us from then on and we'd get a percentage of what they sold. We'd also get a personal website that customers could order from. We were constantly emailing about where our product was to be told time and time again that it was sent and sent again.... We also didn't get our website until about two months later but still no product. We were then told we'd get our product at the Sydney 3 day ebay workshop in March 2014.

At this point we were still optimistic about the whole ebay, click to trade thing even though extremely frustrated. We'd been selling stuff and starting to import product to sell. We feel that we'd really done everything without any of their help at all apart from using template optimizer.

We found the ebay 3 day workshop quite good although lack of communication about venue etc until the last minute was extremely frustrating as we had to book flights & accomm. Adam also introducted Amazon selling this weekend. At this workshop they brought with them a lot of the Just Chew It product which we bought $800 worth. They gave it to us cheaper per bag as it would help until they solved their Australian customs issue with getting the product into the country. We now think they were offloading their product onto us as they already had a new product in mind!

We also spent about $3000 on Adam's SpyRival program. This is a program that allows you to look up any ebay user and see exactly how much money they make, what they are selling and also what sells better on Amazon and ebay etc. This program is ok but really caters to USA. Ebay's own Terapeak program does an even better job worldwide for a small monthly or annual fee. Nothing unique about his program we've since found out.

In April 2014, Adam announces that Click to Trade is no more. It will not be supported anymore. If it worked for you, it will continue to work until google or amazon change something & they will then not fix it for you. If it didn't work, bad luck. But great news. They have a new program called IMM - Internet Money Multiplier. If you had Click to trade you would automatically be given access to this new program. Training on the program would be given at a 3 day workshop in Las Vegas! After a lot of consideration we spent the money to travel to Las Vegas to learn this new program. IMM sounded really great but was not anything at all like Click to Trade. It was running your own website/s business basically 'stealing' products off Amazon, making a whole website with a markup and getting Amazon to ship products for you. It is quite amazing in concept but a totally different business model to what Click to trade was meant to be. Your websites would be automatically updated with stock levels and automatic price adjustments to make sure you never lost out. You would then have to advertise on google like any other business. This is the only 'association' with click to trade. They both use google to advertise. 

One thing that really concerned us was that not a mention was made about the Just Chew It products. We paid $500 each for VIP tickets to have a special training sesssion with Adam, plus dinner & show and all it was, was Adam sitting in the back of the room while his mate Russell spoke about their new product - Z Beans - chocolate covered coffee beans.

We started speaking to other people at the seminar who were also feeling frustrated and ripped off with click to trade and lack of training and other empty promises.

IMM sounded really good though so we were trying to be positive. We have since had a few IMM training sessions with access supposed to be given in June, 2014. Following the June date, Adam was a no show to all subsequent webinar training sessions.

In this time we have asked numerous times for a refund on the Just Chew It affiliate program - they cannot get the product into Australia. No response. We have asked for a refund on the Click to Trade program and said we don't want access to the IMM program now. Not what we bought into. No response.

After months of silence we get an email from Adam advertising a new Amazon training program called tBace - for a special price of $2997. Here's the email:

On Thursday, September 11th, the next chapter in online selling begins with a

revolutionary program simply known as tBace.

http://tbace.com

tBace - also known as "The Best Amazon Course Ever" is a 6 month program

on how you can create a $1,000,000 business ANNUALLY on Amazon.  Heck,

since January 16th, 2014 I have personally sold over $1,200,000 on Amazon.

This program will take you step by step through ever step, every facet of

making money on Amazon from account set up to product sourcing to a

trip to China (optional) to a graduate workshop in Las Vegas to complete

automation with Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA).

No course like this has ever been created... and it will include weekly training,

a members website with archives, coaching, software and more.

You can register here:

http://tbace.com

While there is no limit to the number of people that can participate, on

Wednesday night, midnight, September 10, registration will close for a

minimum of 6 months.

Everyone that starts will start, finish and graduate together.

The program has a 100% tuition money back guarantee.  Follow the

program step by step, participate in all the training and if you don't

earn your money back you will qualify for a refund of what you paid

less what you sold.  It's that simple.  No risk. And, no chance of

failure.

Timing is of the essence.  The world is changing.  eCommerce is

changing.  While eBay is great, it pales in comparison to the huge

opportunity known as Amazon.  Heck, $1,200,000 from SCRATCH

in the last 8 months is just the start - and I'm going to show you

EVERY PIECE of the puzzle over the next six months.

In case you haven't heard, my last live workshop (for the next six

months) will be in a few weeks.  Then, I will not be conducting

ANY LIVE EVENTS until the tBace graduate workshop in Las Vegas.

95% of my teaching time over the next 6 months will be dedicated

to my tBace students.  With this course, you'll even get 1-1 skype

time with me personally!

http://tbace.com

Go now - get ready - the holiday season is upon us and we need to capitalize on this opportunity TODAY.

I look forward to working with you and helping you to create a 7 figure annual income!

Adam

Founder:  The Best Amazon Course Ever

Go Now and reserve your spot:  http://tbace.com

Sorry for the long long long report but we wanted to try and be factual. We feel like we have totally been ripped off and scammed by Adam numerous times. He is the best salesman in the world!!!! We do think that Template optimizer is good but that's about it. We did not want to be part of his IMM program where of course you can host all your websites with him for a monthly fee. What's to stop him charging higher and higher prices once you have all your businesses with him? He'll have you trapped.

He promises and doesn't deliver. We haven't received the majority of what was promised in the actual document we signed and all of it is way overpriced. What he teaches about Amazon is good but you don't need to pay thousands of dollars to hear it from him. It's all freely available on the internet!

Source your own products, use fulfillment by Amazon etc   This is building an actual business. We don't want anyone else to fall victim to his overpriced and underdelivered programs. He is very persuasive. A great salesman but at the end of the day he's only in it for himself and his own pocket and will continue to con and scam his way there! 

By the way, one of his best selling products on Amazon his a vibrator sex toy.