Adam Ginsberg

Denise
#1. February 23rd, 2007, at 5:16 PM.

Before considering a product from Adam Ginsberg, I would read this article. I would also take into consideration that it took a while to get November’s payment (got in January with January’s payment after repeated calls and emails).

I was told January’s payment would be around the 15th of February. I emailed them and got a response that their affiliate manager was out of down and they would be done on Monday the 19th. They are not answering their phone nor responding to e-mails, nor has the payment been made.

Various phone numbers for them are disconnected.

I’m owed over $2,000 in affiliate commissions and I am probably not the only one.

Tim Walker
#2. May 24th, 2007, at 6:30 AM.

Unfortunately Adam Ginsberg has left a trail of destruction behind him in every venture, and his eBay history is no exception. There are complaints all over the Internet about him going back for at least the past four years. He’s banned from ever selling on eBay again, yet he still maintains that he is approved of by eBay, and routinely sells coaching and courses to newbies for $6000 to $10,000. Avoid Adam Ginsberg if you know what’s good for you. All the evidence is readily available if you care to look. See http://www.adamginsbergscam.com

J Merrill
#3. June 1st, 2007, at 9:06 AM.

That site isn’t coming up, but there’s a link here from http://www.adam-ginsberg-complaints.com - seems like a LOT of people are seriously pi**ed off with Ginsberg.

Martin
#4. June 2nd, 2007, at 2:22 PM.

I’ve been representing Adam Ginsbergs new site and found it quite good. Commission s have always been paid on time though paypal. My only concern is there is no affiliate area so I can not see how many visitors I’m taking to his site.

DG
#5. July 26th, 2007, at 7:50 PM.

I met Adam Ginsberg during his tenure as an office manager for Vector Marketing (do a web search for Vector Marketing if you’re not familiar with its poor reputation).

It seems “questionable methods” have surrounded him all his career.

Henry Parsons
#6. October 18th, 2007, at 7:09 AM.

I’m not sure where to begin with Adam Ginsberg. Stay away from this guy, he’s really bad news. I had dealings with him in his eBay days and got ripped off by him buying a billiards table. Paid him and it never came. I think his username was pegasusbilliards or something like that. Last time I checked, Adam was trying to sell his eBay coaching program. This from a guy who’s now banned from selling on eBay?! If he wasn’t stealing people’s money this would be hilarious. But in fact, it’s a deadly serious problem.

seal:)
#7. December 6th, 2007, at 11:58 AM.

lets face it u can get banned off ebay for any thing,.. sell the wrong item etc etc,

im not backing this adam ginsberg guy, seems like hes left more then a few people out of pocket,.

theirs no magic to selling on ebay, clean listings, good pictures, thats it,

u will get buyers trying to scam u, ebay trying to scam u paypal trying to scam u

has any one got any data on the amount of people who have been ripped off on ebay,.?? lol i would like to see that,

its not worth it,.. back to the good old days = sunday markets,

if you are going to use ebay, then site up ur own site, and make sales on ebay then draw them people to your own site, ebay is brain washing people by stating paypal is safe,. do not do sales outside of ebay etc etc,. but ur own site is the best way to do it

Traci
#8. December 8th, 2007, at 12:23 AM.

I work in eBay’s fraud dept and it’s actually very difficult to get banned from selling on eBay. We do suspend sellers for varying periods, but as longa as they rectify issues we’ll reinstate them. In my tenure with the company I can only think of a handful of cases where we’ve had to ban sellers completely. I can’t comment on Mr Ginsberg because I don’t know the specific details. I do know there were some serious feedback issues with his accounts. Look, the bottom line is if you’re a genuine seller and not trying to scam anyone, you’ll be fine and we’ll take care of you. We don’t tolerate any shady or fly by night sellers that don’t deliver the goods they list on eBay.

Jack Wallis (UK)
#9. December 8th, 2007, at 1:51 AM.

I’ve signed up four months ago with this guy in England at an event called The Money Masters UK. A lot of problems are said of him on this page, but I can tell you he must have changed.

His team have looked after me when I write to them, and when I have problems they nearly always help me within about 24 hours or so.

I don’t call that bad service or anything as he’s been there for me.

Ginsberg also told me that he helped a company on Ebay once and they sold billiard tables and sometimes did not deliver them like they should have. But he helped the company get started and wasn’t the billiard guy. So maybe he’s not as bad as some people make out.

Give him a fair chance when you see him because he’s been the real deal for me and Mavis (my wife).

Hiram Bromley
#11. December 9th, 2007, at 7:16 AM.

I would have to agree with Jack. I attended a training that Adam Ginsberg had in Los Angeles in February of 2007. The training was great - Adam was there for all 3 days and really inspired the class to take action and make some money on eBay.

Most of the class, including me, were no to selling on eBay. Actually, I created my eBay account the day before the class.

I’m not lighting the world on fire - but I am making about $1200 a month on eBay, which is great part time extra income for me. I still have my full time job.

Adam Ginsberg never tried to sell me a coaching program - this wasn’t mentioned in his training and has never been mentioned to me since I’ve been involved with his program so I’m not sure what others are commenting on.

I did attend a 2nd, refresher training program in October, and that one was simply awesome.

Jack made a good point about the service as well. Sometimes it takes a couple of days for the support team to get back to me, but overall I’d give their student support a 9/10. Maybe 3 or 4 years ago it wasn’t so good, I can’t say.

I’d say, meet him and then make a judgement for yourself. What he teaches really works.

Alex
#12. December 23rd, 2007, at 2:46 AM.

To the person who said Adam Ginsberg was not directly selling billiards - he says in his “how to buy sell and profit on ebay” DVD that he had a billiard business and started listing them on ebay by his moms advice and that is how he got started on ebay.

Gayle Armstrong
#14. March 14th, 2008, at 4:09 PM.

I read his book “how to buy sell and profit on ebay” followed his lead at the back of the book and have been highly disappointed since. I’ve been to his website and all he is trying to do is keep making money. His promises this time is free membership and downloads and when you click on the follow me links it stops at a page asking you to spend another $300 - $400 dollars. No free membership, no downloads, etc. He pushes his Ztemplates in his book but again they don’t exist. Found other places to develop a website and use on Ebay for what his site charges for a month I get a years worth of service. While his book is good his information and his greed to bilk people out of money is much better.

Many places tell you to make the most profit sell information. He has truly done his share in this market. Agreeing with another writer he does state in his book he used to sell pool tables and even talks about customers complaining when the shipping crate was damaged. Seems he changes his story to meet his needs at the time. Be wary of anything you purchase from him.

Mat
#15. April 11th, 2008, at 12:49 PM.

Anyone waiting for the Secrets to Auction Milionaire DVD program ? It was supposed to come out 1st April 08. They have a ticket system for contacting the office, a seperate email address and a phone number. I have tried all several times, but have had no answers to my enquiries.
They had no problem taking the money, but have since fallen off the face of the earth. I am also horrified to read that he has been barred from ebay. That makes me feel sick.

Lyndon
#16. April 12th, 2008, at 12:03 PM.

Looks like Adam or one of his staff has put up a webpage http://adamginsbergcomplaints.com to try and deflect the avalanche of complaints about him.

Clever tactic, but at least the independent review sites, BBB, RipOffReport.com and so on contain more than enough ammunition to make most people stay away from him.

I don’t understand why he doesn’t just give up trying to pretend he’s a legitimate eBay coach and move to another industry, start again and not rip people off this time.

Darlene
#17. April 21st, 2008, at 7:22 PM.

I am not sure what to think of Adam Ginsberg now. You cannot
reach him by phone - at any number on anything you have paid
good money for from him. Either no one answers, or you leave
a message that no one ever returns, or you receive the classic
that number is no longer in service. You are forced to leave
your information in drop down boxes on his site that prevent
you from accessing any information from his site - what is up
with all of that? Not very good internet ettiquette from the
internet guru. We are being charge monthly for something
we have no idea about and you cannot reach anyone. Come
on Adam - Man Up! We are your customers - at least offer
some courtesy - some human decency. What goes around
comes around . . .

jon
#18. May 16th, 2008, at 3:26 PM.

You can never get Adam Ginsberg by phone and he never calls back. His customer service support is really lousy. You can leave a dozen messages and no one reponses or calls you back ever.
He is a terrible Jewish who will never refund you back despite his personal guarantees on stage. Certainly he is not a man of his words.
Everyone should stay clear of Adam Ginsberg’s books, products and events if you do not want to be cheated of your hard-earned money.

Ken Drayson
#19. July 2nd, 2008, at 1:41 AM.

Adam’s original eBay accounts that were frozen by eBay before he was banned from selling on the site can still be seen today:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=pegasusbilliards&ftab=AllFeedback&myworld=true

One or two negatives is bad enough - this guy had pages of them! I see that the eBay community put pressure on eBay to get the police involved with a criminal investigation, I wonder what came of that.

marc fields
#20. August 18th, 2008, at 3:42 AM.

To the person up top who said adam is a “terrible jewish”. That is why all prejudice people are generalized as stupid people. Your english is so terrible that other racists like yourself have to be embarassed . Saying someone is a terrible jewish does not make any sense, which trailer park did you grow up in? You may consider getting an education before you criticize others. By the way I am not jewish, I just happen to be educated.

calvin lau
#21. September 17th, 2008, at 4:11 AM.

HELP!!

i have sign up for adam’s class and he promise us to do this affiliate program. now i haven’t get one single click since. and he never give us a phone number! i am being charge USd7000 already . and still charging me..

this is a freaking rip off.. at least have some courtesy. i am bringing this up to US attorney and have this problem solve.

I hope this adam will at least be a man and clarify things.

By the way …. anyone know about ebay partner network? i have been declined for US program. But my sites is driving traffic to ebay.com everyday . how can i do this without making money..

please help

thank you
calvin

Sean Weaverman
#22. September 29th, 2008, at 6:07 PM.

Hmmmm, I find these comments so fascinating. I understand that under the concept of “freedom of speech” anyone can say anything they want - even if it’s factually inaccurate. But at what point does it get taken out of context.

Comments about Adam’s religion is clearly unrelated to whether or not his customer service team answer the phone. For the record, I have been a customer of Adam’s for more than 3 years and have seen his customer service program increase significantly over time.

For example, he has a full time support team that answer the phone from 8 am to 10 pm (PST) monday to friday. He has a toll free phone # for people to call: (888-355-7770 option 1 for anyone who says they can’t find his phone number) and a 24/7 support ticket center: http://www.adamginsbergsupport.com

For the person who says that http://www.adamginsbergcomplaints.com was set up by Adam or one of his staff….do you know Adam? Are you one of his staff? Or, is this simply your opinion. Facts, Lyndon, Facts. If you have a fact - state it. Sorry, I’m not a big fan of opinions that are simply not true.

Teza Muzinda
#23. October 4th, 2008, at 5:26 PM.

Does anyone know about Adam’s new program called MyAuctionGenerator. He promises that it will a drop shipping program involving wholesellers of all sorts of name brands and all you do is pay for the shipping expenses after sales have gone through.

Does any one know how the program actually works, or should I say…whether it does work? Does it use PayPal? Is it via eBay’s website.

I went to the MyAuctionGenerator website and the Testimonial section was blank with the message ” Comuing Soon” Mmmmmm….very interesting indeed.

P.S. I agree with one of the previous writes about attacking someone’s when thay have done wrong. This is to the person who brought Adam’s ethnicity into this thread and all those who think like him….Grown up! Comments like that are downright rascist and childish. There are both good and bad in EVERY race, culture and creed…even your’re not perfect yourself.

I don’t recall of a group of people who are perfect in conducting everyday life such as business, family matters, etc. We all fall short as a human race, EACH and EVERYone of us…there are no exceptions. SO please don’t go about pointing out people’s race and culture, gender etc when they have done something wrong, as if ethnicity dictates how dishonest and evil people turn out to be in life. Isn’t that the same type of twisted thinking on which genocides and so called ‘ethnic cleansing’ acts are based on???

A person’s race is very separate to who they are as a person (learn to distinguish the two, please…) If this was so then there would be more differences than similarities in this world, yet its’ the other way around.

Finally, we now live is a very diverse and multicultural world. Move with the times, change your thinking or get left behind with your ignorant and bigamist self. The choice is yours.

Sarah
#24. November 17th, 2008, at 5:13 AM.

The only thing that is more of a rip-off than Adam Ginsberg himself, is his mom-and-pop support team, who replied to me sarcastically every email, refuse to be contacted by phone, and refuse to give me a mailing address of where to ship back these ridicoulous “Secrets of an Auction Millionaire” DVDs. These DVDs are a total rip-off - it’s nothing you can’t find playing around on Ebay and searching on Google.

And seeing as how absolutely confident Adam and his team are about their products, they give a whole THREE day money back guarantee! Sure, it takes them 3 days alone to deliver the product, but that’s okay. When you try to refund on the third day, they take 5 days to insult you, and still refuse to comply with their legal duties.

Please don’t get ripped off like me - stay away from this guy!

James Michaeals
#25. December 7th, 2008, at 4:21 PM.

Well, let’s see. I just returned from Adam Ginsberg’s live 3 day eBay / internet training and it was one of the best experiences of my career. I’ve attended more than 20 live trainings and this one was by far the best (although they did start 10 minutes late on the first day).

It would seem that “Sarah” is simply clueless. I have been a student of Adam Ginsberg’s for more than a year. He has an amazing customer service team - with hours from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm. by both phone, email and through their support ticket center.

In regards to Adam’s refund policy, all I can say is that from my experience he has the highest of integrity and runs his business in a professional way.

It’s always interesting when someone chooses to post a comment on a message board like this, clearly with the intent of making false comment to make someone look bad. Smells like a jealous competitor.

Since working with Adam, my income has gone from $350/month online to more than $12,500/month.

Adam is the real deal and those that take the time to work with him and his staff know that.

James
Dallas Texas

PS - I really like Seans message above that provides Adam’s complete contact info, support info, etc. If you are a student or potential student, base your thoughts on your own experiences, not on someone who is clueless. My experience has been exceptional!

Jason L.
#26. December 20th, 2008, at 3:18 AM.

Hmmm, Sarah’s comment is an interesting one. I have been working with Adam and his team for more than 2 years with great success. I actually make more than $10,000 a month online as a result of using Adam’s system.

As stated several times above, all you have to do is call his office to reach a live person. The # is 888 355 7770 option 1 if you can’t be bothered to scroll up the page to look for it.

The only reason someone would be unhappy with Adam is if they didn’t take responsibility for their own actions - hardly something you can blame him for.

Ma
#27. February 26th, 2009, at 4:56 PM.

Yeah.. I met this Ginsberg at a Internet Marketing Summit in Dallas Oct. 08. Signed up , and as Sarah said and is 100% right, they give you 3 day money back guarantee. Then, it also says, if you come to the training and by the end of the first day you still don’t want it and have learned “nothing”, then supposedly you can leave.
Well, I tried to return the DVD’s and get my 2 grand back, no way they said, after giving the run around. What the heck, I went to the training. At the training come to find out there were at least 15 other people that tried to return the thing and were denied. THen several others that tried to leave at the end of the first day and get their money back.. no way! NO ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE was given their money back!
Worst of all, some were actually conned into buying yet another program for 8 to 10 grand extra! Now that is just dumb.
THis supposed great “drop ship” thing he is offering, there are SEVERAL other programs like that. DO YOUR HOMEWORK FOLKS!
The only reason I right this comment is to assist others in NOT making the mistake I made. Lost 2 grand!
Oh, and the “TEMPLATE OPTIMIZER” that he also sells you, there are several others out there, including AUCTIVA which is for free!
THen he also sells AUCTION OPTIMIZER, the thing that is supposed to give you all this data on ebay on what and how to sell an item. Well, guess what, there are plenty of OTHER alternatives for that too.
SO.. PLEASE, hold on to the door frame if need be, but don’t be sucked in like I was, and well, according to this post and simple searches on the internet many were worldwide.
He does seem to charm the older folk, the retired folk. I guess he works on them since they most likely have more money laying around if they are well to do. So, the guy from UK… willing to bet he is a senior citizen. Please do keep us posted about all the money you are making, or any realizations.
Sorry if you were already sucked in,
and good luck holding out if you weren’t .

Darrell
#28. April 8th, 2009, at 3:11 PM.

Fascinating how the ‘pro Ginsberg’ writeups come in bursts. You can almost see them in a meeting prior, getting their coaching to go out and counter all this negative stuff about their employer if they like their job!

BUYER beware .. I too am out $2000 buying crap code from this pitchman. He pitch’s that he made millions on eBay but leaves out the fact that he is one of the few people totally banned from selling there … THAT alone should cause one to worry. The software “Template Optimizer” is a simple HTML creator of your text, so you can then ‘cut and paste’ the html in your listing. One cannot count less than probably 1000 tools that do that. But it also ‘hosts’ your pictures for you, so they also post! true .. and he charges you $15 a month for that ‘hosting’ after your first 30 days. Now THAT is good money if you can get it .. since anyone with an ISP address can host their own photos that ebay will link to, or if you want a public hosting site, really large ones are available for no more than $5 a month. He does integrate with a good dropshipper (that by the way if you like, you should just work with directly [Daco] as they also integrate directly with eBay, offer research, etc.

Sorry, Ginsberg is nothing but a pitchman taking your money and delivering little if anything for the residual money you will continue to pay him afterwards.

steve
#29. April 15th, 2009, at 9:01 AM.

I paid US$4000 to Ginsberg Consulting in November 2007 for training from one of his ‘associates’ - who decided to cancel. Apparently Ginsberg took $2000 and the associate $2000 of my money - that I am still trying to get back. So not only don’t they deliver, but refuse a refund of any kind 3 days after you have paid - the same as if any customer cancels a contract.
Keep your money and avoid this guy at all costs.

MikeK
#30. April 24th, 2009, at 4:53 PM.

Hi, I attended AG’s training during Sept 26-28, 2008, at Istana hotel after paying 3k RM. There were 160+ people. However, the contents were in the beginning, some Ebay, but somewhere from the 1st day afternoon, the tide changed with more about selling his other stuffs, like Template Optimiser, then the Instant Store Builder.
The internet connection was down almost 3 days making it impossible to go online. At that time, we thought Istana Hotel’s IT systems were terrible; but think of it now, it may have been a method to dupe most of us completely that it is easy to use.
Many were made to pay large amounts on 2nd and 3rd day, i.e. 900USD for TO, and 4000USD for ISB.
The modus operandi as you all know, is to use the NLP method to coax the ppl to believe the things he said. Apparently 23 of us, who spent around 16k RM buying the both items totally believed that we will make money with some effort. The software are only registrable online, with T.O. getting 1 year support, and ISB getting life support.
My lessons learnt is in the rush to decide, many made uncalculated mistakes in putting their credit cards up for signing. After 0.5 months of so, I realised that it is fruitless to have invested - there are almost no returns. The big catch is this - we have to spend another >3000USD to really see money coming in using T.O. and ISB. This means we have to invest in buying up more than 1 dotcom account a week, i.e. >50 accounts a year, i.e. 150USD/ acc/ 3 years. THIS WAS NOT MENTIONED during that 3 day seminar. Therefore your TCO is 3.9kUSD + another 3kUSD (around there ). ALL this in the name of starting up an IT business.
Friends, we need to gang up and form a team of us who have lost any amount (or more or less) and stop these ppl from ever coming to ripoff newbies.
There were 20+ of us involved in the Sept 26-28 ‘08 class. If this ever happened to you, write into this blog with your name, contact attached so that we can start something this year ASAP. Sincerely, MikeK

Wayne
#31. May 15th, 2009, at 1:46 PM.

I attended an Adam Ginsberg live training event in January of 2008. Since then I have sold more than 7200 items on eBay and have just reached 3000 feedback. I was brand new when I attended Adam’s training seminar.

It seems like some people want to blame Adam for their lack or success. Adam teaches an amazing program - be he doesn’t do the world for you.

With regards to MikeK - I also purchased the ISB program in December of 2008 when I re-attended Adam’s event. I’ve made almost $1,000 in my first 4 months using it. Yes, you have to buy domain names - that’s true. But if you’re setting up websites wouldn’t it make sense you would have to buy domain names? I mean, ISB is a great opportunity - one that I hope to be making 50k-100k/year. Wouldn’t anyone spend $1000/year on domain names to make $50k in profit?