I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
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I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
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Re: I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
#2I think it's quite the stretch to describe someone as a celebrity just because they have 800k instagram followers. And yeah, that site is full of scammers with high follower counts.
I own a couple of nice names and constantly have people with million+ followers messaging me trying to scam me for them.
Re: I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
#3I think it's quite the stretch to describe someone as a celebrity just because they have 800k instagram followers. And yeah, that site is full of scammers with high follower counts. I own a couple of nice names and constantly have people with million+ followers messaging me trying to scam me for them.
Well if you have 500 people willing to pay $500 for a course I would call you a celebrity. Not because of the number of followers, but because of the value of those followers.
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#4Wow, great write up. Thanks a lot for taking the course and talking about it, perhaps it was because you went into it willing to burn $500 but many would stay silent.
I can't believe at the missed business opportunity here. It sounds like she could have easily pulled 7 figures from running those classes. Even if she hired a "business manager" of sorts for a cut to grow her lessons, it would have been a really financially rewarding endevour.
One thing that boggles the mind is how many people were not planning to request a refund! I couldn't imagine spending $500, not receiving what I paid for, and being okay with that.
Honestly, it still surprises me how much some Instagrammers make. A friend of mine runs a food IG (~3,000 followers local to the area) and pulls in 1-2 free meals a week, effectively funding the content creation costs. Another friend is in the ~40,000 follower range and gets paid something like $50-$200 + meals for each event -- you just go and book a time slot on their website.
Yet for me, IG feels so fake, but there are enough repeat advertisers that there must be real users out there who follow and purchase influencer recommendations.
Re: I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
#5Don't think of it as having been scammed, but moreso that you paid your $500 tuition to the school of life. You won't make that mistake again.
What honestly shocks me is the "aw shucks" attitude in the email from Teachable. I get that they're sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place, and they did issue as many refunds as they could, but to turn to students and say "we've paid out the remaining amount of money... so sorry about that!" is like rubbing salt into the wound.
If she moved to a custom payment gateway, they probably know what it is, and that gateway ought to know about the scam she's pulling. After all, they have an incentive to keep these bad actors from using their systems.
Re: I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
#6Don't think of it as having been scammed, but moreso that you paid your $500 tuition to the school of life. You won't make that mistake again. What honestly shocks me is the "aw shucks" attitude in the email from Teachable. I get that they're sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place, and they did issue as many refunds as they could, but to turn to students and say "we've paid out the remaining amount of money...…
The key lesson here is to always pay everything with a credit card.
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Re: I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
#8I think it's quite the stretch to describe someone as a celebrity just because they have 800k instagram followers. And yeah, that site is full of scammers with high follower counts. I own a couple of nice names and constantly have people with million+ followers messaging me trying to scam me for them.
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Re: I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
#9Wow, great write up. Thanks a lot for taking the course and talking about it, perhaps it was because you went into it willing to burn $500 but many would stay silent. I can't believe at the missed business opportunity here. It sounds like she could have easily pulled 7 figures from running those classes. Even if she hired a "business manager" of sorts for a cut to grow her lessons, it would have been a really financi…
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Re: I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
#10I think it's quite the stretch to describe someone as a celebrity just because they have 800k instagram followers. And yeah, that site is full of scammers with high follower counts. I own a couple of nice names and constantly have people with million+ followers messaging me trying to scam me for them.
I wonder how many people would recognize my name. I’d guess 2,000 tops. Somebody who 800,000 people have heard of seems like a celebrity to me.