Recently, my wife and I attended the free training seminar. Of course, we were excited and used a credit card to pay for the upcoming three day training future session. When we arrived home after the free training seminar, I started thinking about our experience. I checked this site and others and found concerns as stated above. The next morning, I called Sellers Playbook in Minneapolis asking the lady representative, who answered the phone, if I could get my $997 back because my wife and I decided to not participate in the upcoming three day weekend training seminar. The representative told me to look at the "yellow copy" of last night's Sellers Playbook with the signatures that I, my wife, and their representative signed. On the reverse side, check out #10. Cancellation. You must send Sellers Playbook a "written notification with your signature and date to the address provided before midnight of the third business day after the contract effective date". Do this, pay the extra amount from the post office and have Sellers Playbook sign that they received your letter, then your card will be refunded, mine was!
I signed up for a 1,000 dollar course designed to teach me everything I needed to know to successfully build an ecommerce business through Amazon. The course was three days long. We were told that we would receive refunds if we were disatisfied on the first day. Cleverly enough on the second day we were told that to be truly successful we needed to invest 40 thousand dollars for their assistance and education, including proprietary software.
That night, I knew something was wrong so I did a bit of research. Not surprisingly, it is very difficult to locate information online regarding this company. But through a series of property record checks through public records, whois searches, and creative googling I discovered that this is a recycled SCAM that has been used by the same individuals for years.
They barely changed the model of the scam or the cost to the consumer either. It's usually a 3 day seminar followed by a 40k upsell. Our speaker Scott Stewart was taken to court for this because of his "Rich Dad" seminar. The owner, Jessie Tieva pulled this with a real estate seminar just in 2016. I believe she learned the tactic from Armondo Montelongo who has numerous complaints regarding a similar scam a couple of years prior.
These people work together. When the scam stops working, they chop off the LLC from the main corporation and start anew.
Seller's Playbook has supposedly been around for years, but their corporate headquarters in Minneapolis is located in some sort of manufacturing building in a business park. It's probably just their legal location. The LLC was just registered this year. As was the website.
Under previous names, these people have sold educational material for an unimaginable sum and if you dig as deep as I did, it certainly appears that the material is worthless and there have been people who have needed to turn to the courts.
But they'll keep getting away with this unless the word gets out. Scott Stewart had the arrogance to explain how a good corporate infrastructure includes the ability to sever ties without legal repercussions. He said this to the crowd he intended to sell 40k of education to.
Scott, you're a poor consultant (yes, consultant) and I hope that you enjoy those dirtbikes that you keep purchasing with the hopes and dreams of the people gullible enough to believe you.
Amazon Sellers Playbook is a total SCAM! I just came back from their seminar and I just felt so bad for the people that were lining to pay for the stupid course! I felt like I needed to put my experience out there to prevent others.
I been watching a lot of youtube videos and recently bought a very effective course for $99, I went to the Amazon Sellers Playbook to see if I could learn more about selling on Amazon, and since I already have some knowledge so I started figuring out he was lying a lot about stuff like tools to find what products sell best, he said there were just a few, that are not effective and expensive LIE!!!! There are some really good ones that give really good statistics.
He just wants you to pay him to get his tool, that looked pretty shitty for what I saw. Please DO RESEARCH before paying this expensive courses, there are so many Facebook groups out there where people giving advice about courses that have worked for them, webinars, tools youtube channels that are reliable.
I'm surprised to read there are people that paid 1k or even 32k WHATTT that is crazy!!!! FYI he is now selling the course for only $500 dollars I guess his business is going down after all the fraud he has made! This is terrible it makes me so mad that there are people out there taking advantage of others.
I was so naive on not checking reviews on before going to this seminar. I've been wanting to start my own Amazon business for a long time and when this showed up on my Facebook news feed I felt that it was a great opportunity to start selling on Amazon. I attended the seminar and unfortunately fell for this false dream of making up to 6 figures in such short time. I payed $497 for the 3 day workshop which might not sound as bad as $1k but still, it's hard earned money which I might not get back.
Sadly, I bought this course on a Saturday (Feb/17/2018) and today is Thursday (Feb/22/2018) so I can't cancel my attendance, hence not get a refund for this mistake.
Would anyone have any suggestions on what to do from this point onward? Any way to get my money back? Or not attend this course?
I purchased the Seller's Playbook (SP) for $9,000 while at the 3-day training seminar which cost $1,000 to go to. In May 1st, 2017. I was verbally promised SP would purchase my first product for me with guidance through product research, and that THEY would find other sellers to pitch in to MOQ's with and that SP would ALSO pitch into MOQ's. None of this happened, in fact the same coach that offered and signed my SP contract with me then turned around and said "we actually do not provide those services". The SP rep knew I had a maximum credit line of $12,000 (all applied credit cards, I was denied any further credit cards due to credit limits). Now the list of suppliers promised was actually a list of websites to companies which sold different products and most happen to have "wholesale pricing" for "bulk customer accounts". Some of these supplier websites were better than others.
NOTHING on these websites was guided or even supported by SP, in fact I called 10 of the companies I found and NONE of them understood the name "Sellers Playbook". There were only a few companies with direct phone numbers to call and set up wholesale accounts with and the rep who answered knew SP and had an account with them. One was "Reach For The Sales" (RFTS). I was told by the RFTS rep that my account was not bound to SP in any way, and that he would love to continue earning my business. I traded ONCE with RFTS for bluetooth wireless speakers.
I sent the speakers to Amazon and a few weeks later my product was removed from another seller because I did not have rights to the product. SP never helped with this. I continued my journey with finding a supplier not "supplied" by SP. SP coaches ALL CONFIRMED the supplier I was in contact with and APPROVED the Fidget Spinner product I was about to purchase and even RECCOMMENDED me to buy these fidget spinners and send them to Amazon. My listings were denied by Amazon and the product became banned. At this point I was completely out of money, I had spent all $12,000 in credit ($3,000 on product, $9,000 on SP, and even $400 from my personal bank acct).
I then contacted my personal coach (the rep who signed my contract with me) asking for a refund. After weeks of barely any responses and no answers I finally contacted LegalShield (legal advice service) to ask what I could do about a refund from SP since NOBODY I had contact with was reponding to me or could give any answer. LegalShield then sent out a letter to SP requesting a partial refund of $8,000. SP legal department denied the refund. MY final attempt to get ahold of my personal SP rep finally worked as she told me that since I contacted a legal entity (LegalShield) that she could not talk to me.
This is not good customer service so far, nor does SP have a customer service or solution number or center. Ever since I have had no refund, I found out the speaker at the 3-day event is a hired sales speaker from Salt Lake City, Utah. He above all else lied the most about "promised services". I have tried continuously contacting SP in different ways to ask about a sort of refund or at least some customer service help, and nothing has been received. A Mrs Nagy (ommitting first name for now for security purpose) is the only person who submitted my request inside SP and her (assumed) husband mr Nagy (another salesman) also tried escalating this. I just dont see how a company who structures very HIGH PRESSURE sales to get you to buy $35,000 worth of their "coaching and success program", which they will lower that price according to your financial situation ($9,000 in my case, and even $3,000 in some of my friends cases), how this kind of company can even try and be considered HONEST is beyond me.
I am EXTREMELY UNHAPPY with this company and what they try and provide. They do NOT offer customer service. After learning the names of these exact speakers are also in a real estate "coaching service" which was being sold last year and that many of these people are salesmen from Salt Lake City, Utah. I just cant trust them. I still to this day wish to escalate for a rightful refund for SP's failed services and failed honesty. IF someone had $50,000+ or were very established Amazon sellers then I could understand how SP could help (because they do have a real warehouse). But the fact that they give extremely little chance of success ($3,000 limit for products when almost all MOQ's are $7,000+, generally around $15,000.) to people such as myself, just as long as you sign the contract and give them money.
Concise Summary: SP rep had me sign contract for $9,000 knowing of my very small chance of success with $3,000 in credit to use on product (MOQ's generally $15,000) and made promises which were never kept. Salesman from Salt Lake City also lied about services provided at the 3-day seminar (which cost $1,000 to attend). Suppliers provided are only website links, some website owners are not familiar with SP. Only a few contactable suppliers who understand who SP is and sell products generally with low profit margins even at "discounted wholesale prices". I used my $3,000 in credit plus $400 from personal bank acct to purchase many product ALL APPROVED by SP coaches . All the products failed and all money spent with no refund. Refund attempted in many ways including through legal advice, no refund given. No customer service received from SP, no escalation from SP. Unreliable, uncreditable company with FALSE promises.
Sellers Playbook Reviews
My fiancé and I were fooled into attending what was represented as a free training on a Facebook ad. Turned out to be a sales pitch seminar for a 3 day training. We paid the $997 because we were told that it was normally almost 2 thousand dollars., but if we bought right then he could bring me as a free guest. What a joke! We looked at the website and it was impressive. Until I showed the membership to my friend who sells on Amazon already. He was very upset at how much money we paid and said that the products this company was trying to make us purchase from them to sell on Amazon would never sell. He said they were not "well known brands" as we were promised and had a very bad sales rank. They are selling them at higher that Amazon's lowest prices and requiring that we buy hundreds of them at a time. So if I purchased from Sellers Playbook it would end up costing me a lot of money with very little chance of making any money. We attended the training anyway, hoping to get some value and we had been promised our money back if not happy. They taught us literally almost nothing and spent the whole time trying to get us to spend another $30,000 for their coaching. The coaches seemed to know very little about selling on Amazon either. Apparently this company claims to have relationships with every vendor at ASD in Las Vegas. I find that to be very hard to believe after reading other reports and researching how long they have been in business. I think this is a misrepresentation or a word play. The salesman at the 3 hour seminar did a big show about how the ASD vendors keep a special "price sheet just for Sellers Playbook". I want to see what the FTC thinks about those claims. Considering this company is less than six months old, it is highly unlikely that they have become that influential. Oh and we did not get our money back. You have to ask for your money back on the end of the first day and we did not realize that. It was awful and we feel duped and ripped off. Do a lot of research. There are a lot of Amazon training courses that can show you their success. These people are great at sales, but seem to have no evidence that they are great at Amazon sales outside of their big claims.
The only way to retrieve you $997
Recently, my wife and I attended the free training seminar. Of course, we were excited and used a credit card to pay for the upcoming three day training future session. When we arrived home after the free training seminar, I started thinking about our experience. I checked this site and others and found concerns as stated above. The next morning, I called Sellers Playbook in Minneapolis asking the lady representative, who answered the phone, if I could get my $997 back because my wife and I decided to not participate in the upcoming three day weekend training seminar. The representative told me to look at the "yellow copy" of last night's Sellers Playbook with the signatures that I, my wife, and their representative signed. On the reverse side, check out #10. Cancellation. You must send Sellers Playbook a "written notification with your signature and date to the address provided before midnight of the third business day after the contract effective date". Do this, pay the extra amount from the post office and have Sellers Playbook sign that they received your letter, then your card will be refunded, mine was!
I signed up for a 1,000 dollar course designed to teach me everything I needed to know to successfully build an ecommerce business through Amazon. The course was three days long. We were told that we would receive refunds if we were disatisfied on the first day. Cleverly enough on the second day we were told that to be truly successful we needed to invest 40 thousand dollars for their assistance and education, including proprietary software.
That night, I knew something was wrong so I did a bit of research. Not surprisingly, it is very difficult to locate information online regarding this company. But through a series of property record checks through public records, whois searches, and creative googling I discovered that this is a recycled SCAM that has been used by the same individuals for years.
They barely changed the model of the scam or the cost to the consumer either. It's usually a 3 day seminar followed by a 40k upsell. Our speaker Scott Stewart was taken to court for this because of his "Rich Dad" seminar. The owner, Jessie Tieva pulled this with a real estate seminar just in 2016. I believe she learned the tactic from Armondo Montelongo who has numerous complaints regarding a similar scam a couple of years prior.
These people work together. When the scam stops working, they chop off the LLC from the main corporation and start anew.
Seller's Playbook has supposedly been around for years, but their corporate headquarters in Minneapolis is located in some sort of manufacturing building in a business park. It's probably just their legal location. The LLC was just registered this year. As was the website.
Under previous names, these people have sold educational material for an unimaginable sum and if you dig as deep as I did, it certainly appears that the material is worthless and there have been people who have needed to turn to the courts.
But they'll keep getting away with this unless the word gets out. Scott Stewart had the arrogance to explain how a good corporate infrastructure includes the ability to sever ties without legal repercussions. He said this to the crowd he intended to sell 40k of education to.
Scott, you're a poor consultant (yes, consultant) and I hope that you enjoy those dirtbikes that you keep purchasing with the hopes and dreams of the people gullible enough to believe you.
SCAM SCAM SCAM!!
Amazon Sellers Playbook is a total SCAM! I just came back from their seminar and I just felt so bad for the people that were lining to pay for the stupid course! I felt like I needed to put my experience out there to prevent others.
I been watching a lot of youtube videos and recently bought a very effective course for $99, I went to the Amazon Sellers Playbook to see if I could learn more about selling on Amazon, and since I already have some knowledge so I started figuring out he was lying a lot about stuff like tools to find what products sell best, he said there were just a few, that are not effective and expensive LIE!!!! There are some really good ones that give really good statistics.
He just wants you to pay him to get his tool, that looked pretty shitty for what I saw. Please DO RESEARCH before paying this expensive courses, there are so many Facebook groups out there where people giving advice about courses that have worked for them, webinars, tools youtube channels that are reliable.
I'm surprised to read there are people that paid 1k or even 32k WHATTT that is crazy!!!! FYI he is now selling the course for only $500 dollars I guess his business is going down after all the fraud he has made! This is terrible it makes me so mad that there are people out there taking advantage of others.
Completely fell for it :(
I was so naive on not checking reviews on before going to this seminar. I've been wanting to start my own Amazon business for a long time and when this showed up on my Facebook news feed I felt that it was a great opportunity to start selling on Amazon. I attended the seminar and unfortunately fell for this false dream of making up to 6 figures in such short time. I payed $497 for the 3 day workshop which might not sound as bad as $1k but still, it's hard earned money which I might not get back.
Sadly, I bought this course on a Saturday (Feb/17/2018) and today is Thursday (Feb/22/2018) so I can't cancel my attendance, hence not get a refund for this mistake.
Would anyone have any suggestions on what to do from this point onward? Any way to get my money back? Or not attend this course?
Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
I purchased the Seller's Playbook (SP) for $9,000 while at the 3-day training seminar which cost $1,000 to go to. In May 1st, 2017. I was verbally promised SP would purchase my first product for me with guidance through product research, and that THEY would find other sellers to pitch in to MOQ's with and that SP would ALSO pitch into MOQ's. None of this happened, in fact the same coach that offered and signed my SP contract with me then turned around and said "we actually do not provide those services". The SP rep knew I had a maximum credit line of $12,000 (all applied credit cards, I was denied any further credit cards due to credit limits). Now the list of suppliers promised was actually a list of websites to companies which sold different products and most happen to have "wholesale pricing" for "bulk customer accounts". Some of these supplier websites were better than others.
NOTHING on these websites was guided or even supported by SP, in fact I called 10 of the companies I found and NONE of them understood the name "Sellers Playbook". There were only a few companies with direct phone numbers to call and set up wholesale accounts with and the rep who answered knew SP and had an account with them. One was "Reach For The Sales" (RFTS). I was told by the RFTS rep that my account was not bound to SP in any way, and that he would love to continue earning my business. I traded ONCE with RFTS for bluetooth wireless speakers.
I sent the speakers to Amazon and a few weeks later my product was removed from another seller because I did not have rights to the product. SP never helped with this. I continued my journey with finding a supplier not "supplied" by SP. SP coaches ALL CONFIRMED the supplier I was in contact with and APPROVED the Fidget Spinner product I was about to purchase and even RECCOMMENDED me to buy these fidget spinners and send them to Amazon. My listings were denied by Amazon and the product became banned. At this point I was completely out of money, I had spent all $12,000 in credit ($3,000 on product, $9,000 on SP, and even $400 from my personal bank acct).
I then contacted my personal coach (the rep who signed my contract with me) asking for a refund. After weeks of barely any responses and no answers I finally contacted LegalShield (legal advice service) to ask what I could do about a refund from SP since NOBODY I had contact with was reponding to me or could give any answer. LegalShield then sent out a letter to SP requesting a partial refund of $8,000. SP legal department denied the refund. MY final attempt to get ahold of my personal SP rep finally worked as she told me that since I contacted a legal entity (LegalShield) that she could not talk to me.
This is not good customer service so far, nor does SP have a customer service or solution number or center. Ever since I have had no refund, I found out the speaker at the 3-day event is a hired sales speaker from Salt Lake City, Utah. He above all else lied the most about "promised services". I have tried continuously contacting SP in different ways to ask about a sort of refund or at least some customer service help, and nothing has been received. A Mrs Nagy (ommitting first name for now for security purpose) is the only person who submitted my request inside SP and her (assumed) husband mr Nagy (another salesman) also tried escalating this. I just dont see how a company who structures very HIGH PRESSURE sales to get you to buy $35,000 worth of their "coaching and success program", which they will lower that price according to your financial situation ($9,000 in my case, and even $3,000 in some of my friends cases), how this kind of company can even try and be considered HONEST is beyond me.
I am EXTREMELY UNHAPPY with this company and what they try and provide. They do NOT offer customer service. After learning the names of these exact speakers are also in a real estate "coaching service" which was being sold last year and that many of these people are salesmen from Salt Lake City, Utah. I just cant trust them. I still to this day wish to escalate for a rightful refund for SP's failed services and failed honesty. IF someone had $50,000+ or were very established Amazon sellers then I could understand how SP could help (because they do have a real warehouse). But the fact that they give extremely little chance of success ($3,000 limit for products when almost all MOQ's are $7,000+, generally around $15,000.) to people such as myself, just as long as you sign the contract and give them money.
Concise Summary: SP rep had me sign contract for $9,000 knowing of my very small chance of success with $3,000 in credit to use on product (MOQ's generally $15,000) and made promises which were never kept. Salesman from Salt Lake City also lied about services provided at the 3-day seminar (which cost $1,000 to attend). Suppliers provided are only website links, some website owners are not familiar with SP. Only a few contactable suppliers who understand who SP is and sell products generally with low profit margins even at "discounted wholesale prices". I used my $3,000 in credit plus $400 from personal bank acct to purchase many product ALL APPROVED by SP coaches . All the products failed and all money spent with no refund. Refund attempted in many ways including through legal advice, no refund given. No customer service received from SP, no escalation from SP. Unreliable, uncreditable company with FALSE promises.