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7/10/2008 - Horace writes:
In 1999, I would sit home and watch one of Don Lapre's hour long money making advertisements. He would get excited and just about fall out of his seat telling you that you could turn $30.00 into thousands, over and over again by placing tiny classified ads in the newspaper. Here's what Don says you will receive by ordering his money making program:
Don's personal list of over 7,000 newspapers from all over the country.
Don's personal list of over 1,000 products.
learn all the secrets Don used to generate over $80,000 a week out of his one-bedroom apartment.
Learn how to maximize your profits with Don's keys to advertiding with little or no money.
learn how to get in on the incredible Internet craze that is creating wealth for people.
The package is valued at $250.00 and for a limited time the entire package can be yours for $39.95 plus $15.00 shipping and handling.
Well I really wanted to find something that I could do to make good money without having to go to work. So I sent money to him and received a package with materials that show you how to write classified ads. Um, well from what I saw, any idiot can write a classified ad. The package also included a booklet with a listing of drop-ship companies. I wrote to a few of the companies and received two responses. The materials they sent me seemed to be photocopies of some of their products and the companies didn't seem to be all that legit.
Needless to say I never made one single copper cent off of this program, and I lost $54.95. The only person who is actually making anything off his program is Don lapre. At the time the claims were that he was worth millions at age 28. I don't doubt it.
6/23/2008 - Kiva writes:
After seeing the Greatest Vitamin In The World advertise on Tv I decided to do the business. Well after joining the business I get a phone call from Don Lapre's office stating that I can join some co op advertising for more money. This co op was to put my website on a rotation and have people place under me. Well, I fell for it and yes, they did place around 10 people underdneath me. Then a month or so later I get another call advertising something else. Stating that if I fork out more money my rotation will be in a better position and they will do most of my advertiseing for me. Well needless to say $1500 later, nobody else was place underneath me nor was I receiving any hits on my site.Not to mention all the advertising I was doing on my own ( passing out flyers & cards, classified ads, ppc etc). A couple months later I tried to go on my website and it wasnt there anymore. The only thing that came up was a page talking about the company had been sold and the new owners will contact me. The company was suppose to be better then ever before. I then started requesting for a refund and didnt receive a return call or email from anyone. However a year later, today I received a call from a business recovery service stating that their owner was scam by Don lapre and he received most of his money back $4000. They stated that the FBI and IRS was investigating Don Lapre and for a fee of $150 they will be happy to help me recovery my money back as well. When I told them I need to investigate them as well,because of the things I went through with Lapre the gentleman on the line stated that they cant guarantee my money back. And the funny thing about this was the name of their company was a traveling business. Tell me how is it that a traveling business is in the business scam money recovery services too. I believe Lapre has taken on a new company and is contacting his old victums, so home business seekers beware. Since then I have found an amazing home business that is legit. And I am receivng my pay checks.
4/10/2008 - Eric writes:
I bought the Vitamin program had sold over 30 bottles an signed up over 50 under me an I didnt make a dime. Never was payed. lost $75.00
I tried to get my money back. No one will help. Not even the FTC. I guess he has the goverment in his pocket. If I scamed that many people I would be in Jail. Not DON he is free to steal the world.
2/18/2008 - pete writes:
buyer beware! Don lapree is one of the biggest scam artist out there. his time is coming though as im sure someone has a plan to take care of this lowlife scum of the earth maggot. this guy should be put in jail along with beck,lesco,sheets and others. the government should make a prime example of these people who take advantage of others with scams and info that is useless.. buyer beware everyone.
2/8/2008 - Rick writes:
I bought Don LePre's Money Making Package, tried to exercise the "Money Back Guarantee", and never saw my money again. I foud out later he filed bankruptcy, and thus the money back guarantee is null and void. I was very disappointed because Don actually seems to be a likeable guy on TV. He is a Charlatan to be sure, plan and simple. One of Don's "11 Keys to Success" is "Do What is Right". If only he would adhere to his own advice. Don, if you are reading this, do what is right, and stop ripping people off. I ask you Don, what does it profit you to gain the whole world in this life, but lose your soul for eternity. As for myself, I forgive you Don.
12/20/2007 - DW writes:
Don Lapre is a villian. Anytime this person suggests a product or biz, run the other direction. I was fooled the first time with the reminder service, another scam. This time, I spent a paltry $300 for a vitamin website only to have the agent yell at me because I wouldn't purchase more. If there's class action on this guy, the line up to sign would be tremendous. Anytime you see a Arizona address, ask questions as you might be surprised to see Lapre attached to the other end of his latest scam.
12/11/2007 - Thierry writes:
i spent over $3500 buying-promoting and advertising this product.i never made a dime. i just fell like i was cheated. i am sure i sign up a few hundred but yet i never been credited
12/4/2007 - David writes:
I spended over $3000 for advertising the web site, but didn't make any penny. Now the web site no longer exist and their phone number disconnected. Any one try to sue him. Please let me know or email me []. Thanks.
9/14/2007 - Deborah writes:
Well where do I start. Quite a while a go now I (yes stupidly)I ordered and then returned this scam due to conversations by one individual(and my conversation was suppose to have been recorded). I even have been in contact with their lawyers(so they say). I was sent a form to fill out (twice) and was to wait for my refund. Then I find out they are being sued left right and center and to make money (to pay all of his creditors) he has to scam more people. This has been since 1999.Would it not have been easy to give back my measly 314.25 u.s.funds. I am sure they owe way more than that. Now whenever I see his smug mug I just want to reach in and give him a huge slap and say to him I know your mama is not proud of you. You should be ashamed of yourself.
7/30/2007 - Kent writes:
Bought "guaranteed website traffic" from this rip-off company. Never happened. Don LaPre is a criminal. I'm reporting him to two Attorney Generals, California and Arizona.
7/23/2007 - Leila writes:
hi, i saw the infomercial and when i called got talked into spending about $700. Everything looked good in the beginning. I got 8 people signed up. I had 10 people selling under me. After 7 months not a single bottle was sold by any of them. I complained and they gave me another 8. Still nobody sold not 1 single bottle. Also, the extra $ I spent to have people redirected to my site, after jan. 1 nobody signed up anymore. I tried talking to them, then the person wouln't be working there anymore and I had to start over. Lots of time on the phone. I had a 1 year guaranteed refund so I got them to send that on paper. Finally I just contacted my credit card company and they refunded the money. It wasn't even a credit card just a bank card with a VISA sign on it so it was covered by VISA's refund service. I immediately got my money back. Always use a card with a visa or mastercard sign on it and go through your card company to get a refund. Good luck!
6/29/2007 - Malene writes:
I too bought into the Don Lapre programs and was also involved in trying to get my money back when he filed bankruptcy. That was a joke... What I don't understand is why someone like the IRS hasn't gotten on to him. If he is cheating the people who buy his products, you can only guess that he isn't reporting any of that income and is either putting it under his wife's name (if he has one) or is hiding it off shore somewhere. Well Don and your henchmen, remember the golden rule. What goes around comes around. (3x's over)
6/27/2007 - Edward writes:
My grandfather had bought a get-rich-quick scam before, it involved buying and selling property notes. As a once successful businessman he had decided to buy it and after that all we got was a guy in New York who was completely clueless about t. well about a year later he bought this "Greatest Vitamin in the world" packet for $4,500 and was enthusiastic about it. Of coarse My father will now have to tell him he has been cheated yet again out of a great amount of money.
5/9/2007 - Todd writes:
I urge anyone ripped off by this product to file an FTC and a Better Business complain agains this guy and this company. He cost me over two thousand dollars, his programs are a joke, his web site offered a joke, his product a way to rip off others only and not a product. He is a con man, a thief and a liar. You cannot get a refund and talking to his "sales customer service" staff is a small version of hell. They are condescending liars and theives. Anyone that is ripped off by this guy contact the FTC and file a complain. I also urge you to write your states attorney general personally on this guy and his company. Perhaps if enough do this this guy will go where he belongs, prison and poor where he can con cigerettes from his boyfriend bubba for the rest of his life. He is a liar and a thief nothing more. Do not get suckered from this crook!! IF you did write your states attorney general and file a complaint with the FTC and BBB!! Enough complaints, enough lawsuits and enough court actions will put this crook where he belongs!!!
4/2/2007 - Annette writes:
not only have i tested or tried every product don lapre has to offer but i also know him personally. he is a crook and a scam artist i dont know how he gets away with the things he does. he is phoney and nothing he touches will be what he makes the customer believe it is. he is very smart at being a crook and taking peoples money he even cost me my business 15 years ago. he is not ever to be trusted and should be stopped my family has suffered severly with the scams he pulled on me
3/17/2007 - Johnny writes:
I bought into this SCAM years ago for about $1500.00, I think I had all the lines. I must have spent another 5 or 6 hundred dollars advertising them. I got back maybe $23 - 40 dollars in checks after investing $2000, the checks came for like $1 or $3 every week. When I stopped advertising them because I wasn't getting anything out of them Don Lapre himself called me from Florida. He tried to give me a load of crap that my problem was that I needed to put more money into advertising his lines and over time I would make that back and more. Then he before he hung up he said something like pretty soon your yahat will be parked next to mine. I refused to put another dime into the thing anymore, and asked a friend who was a cop about it. He went balistic said this reaked of a scam because I was paying him to rent his 900 lines then doing his advertising for him and he is giving me a commision. He said I owned nothing and Don had the right to cancel the agreement anytime. He called for me to try to get a refund they refused when he ID'ed himself as a dective they hung up on him. Being stuck and trying to recoup something, since I was a web developer I put adds on my websites (for free). Got no responce except a call I got from Don Lapre enterprises telling me I was in violation and my web adds must be done only by them I had to remove mine asap. They offered to rent me web space and a free webpage for each line I had for an extra $500. I told them to get lost. I only heard from them one more time when my lines expired they offered me to renew for $1000. I laughed in their faces and they went down to $400. I told them not to call anymore.
1/25/2007 - Kevin writes:
I actually interviewed for this idiot's company back in 1999 as a web developer to do all of those "free web sites" he was including as part of his package. Essentially, there were about 30 of us interviewing as a group, they took Polaroids of us all (interesting, wonder if my face is being used somewhere in his propoganda?) and then sat us all down to not interview about a web job, but to WATCH THE INFOMERCIAL! Then the "manager" came in, wearing a hockey jersey, how professional, and told us we were all hired and to call a number to find out our start time. He said they don't do background checks and don't care as long as you showed up for work. The office area consisted of a typical call center setup but unlike the average sweatshop, this had TVs going. :) hahaha And the "web" area was a bunch of picnic tables with computers. This guy is a carpet bagger and a criminal. He's been in the news several times about not being able to pay his employees. Also, one of his later infomercials talked about a movie he was starring in with Cindy Margolas including some scenes. Either that was all faked or the production company realized what was going on because the movie came out and neither were in the cast. ??? (Wednesday's Child???)
1/16/2007 - Roger writes:
I also own making money program and have 900 lines. I advertised in newspapers over and over never saw not one check. I spent about 1500.00 for program and another 2000.00 on the ads not one call per dons team checked every day and nothing. I was in college at time just trying to get a couple extra dollars a month but lost it all.
1/11/2007 - Michelle writes:
I was unlucky enough to suffer from insomnia as a college student. One night I fell for this con man. I purchased his product for $39 and realized that in order to make money I would have to give more money to him to make money. I was scammed about 400 dollars total and had to change my credit card account number because his "company" kept charging me. Oh, I never made any money from the 900 phone line. I still get upset with myself and ask, "Why was I so gullible?"
12/28/2006 - Renee writes:
Yep! We fell for it too! Don Lapre Scam. I cannot believe someone to stoop so low as to take money for someone in hopes of making money to support their families! All the people that work for him are nothing but scumbags too. Not only did we pay $3200 to get the business started but $$$ to print flyers, business cards, connect to search engines, etc... If you are even thinking about doing this, Don't !!!!!!!!
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