Thursday, April 21, 2011

Tom Lucas Scams

I'm so disappointed!

This guy, Tom Lucas, is an Affiliate marketer and I don't like to say something very bad about a fellow marketer, but really, he promise people more than the products offer.

It is one thing to market a product, but it's another thing to give guarantees that you can't met or willing to met at all.

Tom Lucas attached his name to Auto Blog Syndicate and promise to pay your money back within 60 days. I bought the software but since day one it didn't work and I contact support. After one week I finally got some response from them after numerous of emails and they didn't answered my questions or gave any support on the product.

What this product do is to get affiliate links from Clickbank in a niche and then you set it up on a website with RSS feeds. But after I had put in all my information to point it to my website, with my Clcikbank affiliate ID, nothing happen.

I contact them over and over again. When I asked my money back, they tell me that they are proud about their product and that they want to serve their clients and then they asked all the questions again, which I had answered over and over again.

Now they just ignore any of my emails and I told them that if I don't get my money back, I will tell the world about this scam.

Tom Lucas still got the cheek to send more offers to me. How on earth can I trust anything this man is offering to me! How can anybody ever believe what he got to offer, even though it might be a good product.

I think it's time that scammers have to bring to the surface. I would accept it if Tom just answered me back after I sent emails to him about this matter. If he told me that he is only an affiliate and that he will send the vendor an email too, but nothing. He talked in the video as if he is the vendor and HE made the promise to pay people's money back if it doesn't work for them - no questions ask.

What a joke!

I can't think that they got people's money and then disappear from the earth.

Did you experience something like this before?  What have you done about it?

I would like to hear from you.

Regards
Nabreska du Plessis

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Autoblog Syndicate - Scamming unaware marketers.





This is very sad that certain marketers scamming other marketers, and unaware newbies with software in order to be-rich themselves - to other people's expense.

Tom Lucas, the inventor of this software, or so he claims, tells people that this software is the real thing and that you can make a lot of money from it, if you follow their instructions. I bought it because "you won't lose anything as I personally give you a 60 day money back guarantee, no questions ask," he said, but all that lovely talk is all it is.

I bought this software six weeks ago and follow the instructions as they gave it in the member's area. But when it comes to the point where the software is supposed to take you further, it stops with an error.

I contact support with this email:

"Hi

I have installed autoblogsyndicate and tried to load
everything as you have told me. I'm totally confused now
because nothing works. I just don't know what I have to
do, what I'm supposed to do or what to fill in in all the spaces.

I tried hostjest, hostmonster, but I always get this message:
32x3x3
(this indicates how many times I tried to get through the whole process but end at a dead end.)Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'intmall.info' (4) in /home/autoblog/public_html/autoblog/databaserestore.php on line 32
Error connecting to MySQL server:

Can't you provide a video where you can show me step by step to do
it. Because I really want to use this, but it's a week since I bought this
product and I still can't get one blog up and on the go.

I'm starting to thing that this might be a scam because I'm standing
in front of wall

Hope to get an answer soon

Thank you"


Their reply:

"Hi,

Thank you for contacting us and letting us know about these potential issues.

It is the first we have heard of them so I have forwarded your message to our programmers and they will investigate ASAP.

If there is a problem it will be promptly fixed.

Thanks again and have a great day,

Kind regards,

Olivia
ABS Support"


I tried again and again and ask other savvy marketers to help me and they too got the same error. I wrote to Autoblog Syndicate again and again and then I warned them that I'm going to set up a blog and tell people about this.

I recieved this email back from them after nearly 4 weeks.

"Hi,

Thanks for your email.

We take the quality of our software very seriously, so if it is not functioning properly for you, we want ot find out why. Could you please provide more information to help us trouble shoot and isolate the issue.

Could you please tell us:
- Which step the problem happened on
- Which browser and version are you using?
- The button or link you clicked right before obvserving the problem
- Which host you are using
- Which theme you chose (if you got to that step)
- The install path of your site (if you got to that step)
- The URL of your final blog (if it was created)

Many thanks,"


I answered each and every question and till today there's no reaction. I even sent an email directly to Tom Lucas again with no results even from him. I asked my money back, still with no results or any reaction and then I gave them 72 hours. The 72 hours ended on the 8th of March.


I was still fair to them and gave them another week, written another email and then I had it. It's 4 days since the last email and now it's time to tell people that Autoblog Syndicate doesn't meet there own criteria at all.  

I lost $37 and people like Tom Lucas and Autoblog Syndicate give marketers a bad name and taste in the mouth.

Tom Lucas is no man of his word. 

Be Warned! Autoblog Syndicate is a scam!