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  • Report:  #1248820

Complaint Review: Wealthy Affiliate - Internet

Reported By:
Justin - South easton, Massachusetts, USA
Submitted:
Updated:

Wealthy Affiliate
Internet, USA
Web:
www.wealthyaffiliate.com
Categories:
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They claim to help you build and develop your very own online buisness from scratch, however they fail to mention if you don't buy their premium membership they take all work work and destoy it, remove from the servers never to be found again!

I began by looking into Wealthy Affiliate and they say you can remain a free member and host your own website, but being a free non premium member your site will always appear with the siterubix sub-domain. I was completely content with that and was even going to upgrade to the premium upon making some money from the niche website i had created, however this is was the case.

I took their bootcamp and created my website, putting in months worth of hours into cultivating my website. I poured hard work and dedication into creating orginal, helpful content ,starting affiliate partnerships and overall making an amazingly diverse website with  truly unlimited potential. I really started to put my life into this and making it work. Also i was truly helping people with my website, which was more rewarding than ever. I fought off plagiarism of my articles i wrote. I was really starting to gain followers and were receiving numerous positive comments and reviews from individuals whom were greatful from the advice i was providing, was finally getting to be placed within the top three hits on numerous search engines and even getting offers from companies that wanted to partner with me for adspace and I thought WOW this is really going to work. Man was i so dead wrong.

Because I didn't go premium Wealthy Affiliate completely eliminated my website from their servers. They gave me no notice, they gave me no warning, not one single chance to save it, cause to be honest this had become my life at this point, to where i was so dedicated to becoming successful through affiliate marketing and was beginning to get my feet cemented and was getting noticed.They severed all my work, all my time, everything i had put into trying to become successful using the program. It was like a punch to the face when i went to log on and it was all gone, everything! I almosted fainted just from the shock of it all going to log into my website and looking back at me was this screen to begin making a website. Talk about disappointment and frustration. But i remained calm i thought this must be a mistake. They will fix it they have to. So I emailed them asking them what happened and to my utter surprise i never received any response. I thought maybe they are just looking into it, becauses there is no way they would do this to me. After about a week of of not hearing anything i wrote another email and again nothing. Another email and again nothing! So another just asking them to contact me in general and still nothing. To say the least i am at a loss of words and just don' know what to do. I finally decided its time to say something and see if anyone else would know what to do or even how to recover what i feel is a stolen website. I can't even begin to describe what this meant to me and how this has affected me just due to the fact of how much time i spent making this something special to me. 



2 Updates & Rebuttals

Finally got a response

#2Author of original report

Thu, September 03, 2015

So I finally heard back from them and they remove your site by saying they need to free up space on their servers. I told them as soon as i made so money i was going premium, due to not having the money, being my house was lost to a house fire and am rebuilding from scratch. And as to the gentlemans rebuttal I don't expect everything for free, I simply wanted them to keep their word as i had asked about staying a free member till i made some money and they told me it would not be an issue. Again I even mentioned i was going to acquire the paid membership,however i needed to make the funds to do so. But thats great your running your businesses from there I wish i still had mine and I will have to see if I consider paying for premium, after they lied about being able to keep my starter membership till i actually made something, if they can reinstate my website.


James

Massachusetts,
USA
I am a member as well.

#3General Comment

Wed, September 02, 2015

I am a happy member of WA and have been for many years and perhaps I can offer you some insight here.

Wealthy Affiliate is the only company I know of that allows you to create fully functional wordpress websites without restrcitions in terms of things like affliate links, advertising for free.  The websites are also ad free.

The fact that you had 6 months of free hosting and free websites that were completely ad free is pretty special.  Other companies don't offer this and you likely cost the company a good deal of money using their services/hosting. 

I believe they may even be able to restore your website if you ever do decide to rejoin and upgrade to Premium which gives you hosting for 50 websites. 

You do sound like someone that expects everything to be free in life and the fact that you cannot commit to $29 per month to run your business and have access to everthing that one could possible need to run their business definitely shows you are not serious about creating a business. 

I operate 4 very successful websites on the Wealthy Affiliate network and have had nothing but amazing support.  I think most people you talk to will say the same.

James

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