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I ordered and paid for the shipment of a guitar instructional DVD. They enrolled me in a 'VIP Membership' that I never agreed upon, I've never asked for, and never plan to do it. This morning I noticed a 27 bucks charge in my card balance. Obviously I'm very upset because despite being cautious of what I order online; I feel like I was scammed by this company. I hope I can work it out somehow. Now I can see a long painful road awaits me with the bank, as I asked them to freeze the account due to the unrecognized charge.
Update:
While initially seemed like they did not want to refund the charge, at the end; and with the help of Amanda , they decided to do the right thing and act professional. I appreciate that and I hope that they improve their website in such manner there's no way a customer could be misled into purchasing something that wasn't intended to buy. At the end of the day it's a lot more business they can get by being extremely transparent.
I ordered and paid for the shipment of a guitar instructional DVD. They enrolled me in a 'VIP Membership' that I never agreed upon, I've never asked for, and never plan to do it. This morning I noticed a 27 bucks charge in my card balance. Obviously I'm very upset because despite being cautious of what I order online; I feel like I was scammed by this company. I hope I can work it out somehow. Now I can see a long painful road awaits me with the bank, as I asked them to freeze the account due to the unrecognized charge. Update:While initially seemed like they did not want to refund the charge, at the end; and with the help of Amanda , they decided to do the right thing and act professional. I appreciate that and I hope that they improve their website in such manner there's no way a customer could be misled into purchasing something that wasn't intended to buy. At the end of the day it's a lot more business they can get by being extremely transparent.
i dont remember signing up for this course, it was only when i checked my bank balance that i noticed they had been taking money out, over £200 to date.There is money coming out on consecutive days ? They are not replying to my e mails, I don't know what i'm paying for. I would appreciate some feed back from them.
I liked Eddie Haddad as a teacher. His manner and style is easy to watch... The sound and picture (video studio) quality was great! BUT watching hours of video does not help you play guitar... The courses I purchased span rock, blues, acoustic etc and they ALL go back to basics obviously!The material doesn't assume you understand the basics! Example - like how to form an E Chord! Or explain the open notes, or the tuning etc. Frustrated with the repetition was I!It would be great if the material was noted as core or fundamental, and be skipped as it was already covered in another course, thereby saving time. Practice playing guitar is the time best spent. Theory for CONTEXT is very useful too... But why not separate it out, so when commuting or something where I can listen to lengthy concept driven content? That would be great to save time! If you look directly at the included PDFs, you see the unique content... THIS is the actual real applied content! The stuff that you can play along and learn skills! THIS, it turns out, is sadly not going to deliver on the promises! There's not a lot of it and not is it particularly compelling or groundbreaking. The theory material is presented well, and it clarified many really obscure music tech. I feel like guitar mastery method is not fit for purpose! The great explanations of music theory does not a guitar player make.I am stuck with an almost encyclopedic presentation of music theory. That has ground my motivation to PLAY to a halt. I wrote about this issue and was offered a replacement course. A refund was not offered because it took me 12 months to write the complaint. No mention was made of the fact that I have only viewed 43% of 1 of 5 courses in all This was a rehash of basic information. The sound and video quality was very low.Bottom Line!I feel like I need to take my complaint to the Fair Trade regulator, as it not not fair to bill a product as to provide mastery, but fails to back up the claim with practical training materials to achieve said mastery.
I subscribed for the basic 47$ Guitar Mastery Method 101 course in 2022 following a video I saw on youtube that quite convincingly promised to teach how to play guitar.I followed the "method" described in the video lessons for months and months, practicing with their practice routine, until I reached the pentatonic boxes part of the course and finally hurt my left hand trying to do all the scales/spiders/hybrid picking "solo/shred only" exercises.And during all this time I kept asking myself "when does the rythm part start? Is this all there is about learning to play guitar?"The "method" is all centered around becoming faster and faster in soloing techniques , scales , pentatonic boxes , alternate/hybrid/sweep picking etcetera, not an hint on how to do basic chords or how to properly strum.All the while I kept receiving *very frequent* ( and I mean many each and every day!) emails that tried to push me into purchasing other courses and VIP clubs of sorts , with seemingly incredible discounts.One of the most detestable emails ( that borders the scam IMHO) was and still is the recurring offer of "free DVDs" with wonderful courses that promise to "master the fretboard" or "solo in any key" or "GPR system" or other similar things.The DVD might be free, but beware, you have to pay the shipping and handling, and, in my case ( I'm from Italy ) the S&H costs 60$ (!!!!).I learned this the first time I tried to accept the "free DVD offer", since I was still fresh and hopeful it could help me learn guitar.But when I saw the S&H charge I stopped the procedure.It was at that time that they started bombarding me with emails asking "please complete your 'free DVD' order procedure" "what's the issue? please complete the procedure" "it's a free DVD, why don't you finish the procedure?" "only some copies remaining, please hurry!" etc etc ( you get the picture... )I contacted the support, which , in all honesty, responded quite quickly, but could not help and restated that the S&H was 60$ so I had to pay that ( absurdly high ) amount to cover the shipping costs.I kindly replied asking if there was an option to view the DVD online , even paying a small amount for the service, but that is not possible, they say.So I declined the "offer".You would think this was the end, right?In the last 3 years I received hundreds if not thousands of similar "pressure push" emails and many, too many "free DVD offers" which , at a certain point, I started skipping altogether since I already knew the high S&H fee was the real cost to pay for the "free" DVD.Of all the "pressure methods" they adopt in their many emails I have always found this to be the most annoying and deceptive.I also tried to follow some of their free live video lessons that some times they offer with their teachers, but they were not very helpful to make me improve, only some tidbits of information and very little of a "method" to follow to really start improving.Also beware , because the lessons are in a time zone different from mine and I had to stay up all sunday night to follow.In all honesty I have to say that the lessons hosted by Mike Baelde actually gave some interesting insights into chords, but, alas, with no real structure or insight on how to learn their meaning into the bigger picture.All the other live lessons still centered around soloing, riffs and "being the guitar hero you can be" ( which is all an empty slogan ) and nothing else.I have to tell you, guitar playing *IS NOT ONLY SOLOING!*There is so much more (fun) to it!I have since found another *real Method* (of course not from GMM) that has allowed me to really improve my guitar playing and comprehension starting from what should be the basis , that is how to hold your guitar, how to make basic chords, how to strum , how to learn by playing very very simple songs, and then it progresses very gradually and organically to make you improve all around and actually enjoy the process , all without hurting your hand trying to shred and solo as the first step in this wonderful universe that guitar playing is.This was my experience with GMM and , unless your only goal is to do "solos in any key", I strongly reccomend you to look elsewhere.P.S: only today I have already received 4 emails from GMM trying to push me into subscribing their wonderful lifetime pass to "Unlock the fretboard" and save 600$+ dollars.Every day they say "it will be the last day, hurry"And they go on for weeks...Enough is enough!Cheers!
I will not sign up for anything that uses classic high-pressure sales tactics like GMM does. I've been around too long to know better than dealing with such people. It should be a big red flag to everyone when you see long videos promising unrealistic and fast outcomes. You will NOT quickly be playing like the masters. Another rip-off is when someone places arbitrary values on products and then says you can get them at a steep discount but only if you act before a clock runs out. These and other high-pressure sales tactics are classic signs of a scam. There's no way I will ever deal with anyone who uses such tactics like GMM. That's too bad. I might have signed up if their sales tactics were less tacky.
Signed up to get a pdf to look through while I consider getting lessons in the future. Sat through a long boring ad which I guess was fair enough but when the email for the pdf arrived it was blocked through browser. Now they have my email but have left a very bad impression am probably going to block their emails and look elsewhere for lessons. It's a shame because the YouTube content was so good but I just get scammy vibes from these guys
I joined on the 9th May. I paid the “offer” of $47 dollars, one off payment as advised on the video. No introductory email came to me. It’s also now been set up as a recurring payment which I did not want, I’ve contacted to get a refund and cancel my membership and still no one’s come back to me. Feels like a scam to me . I want my money back!
Bitterly regret signing up for this. The high pressure sales is horrific. Unrelenting, I’m going to have to block them. There’s better courses out there. I’ve just joined Justin guitar, what a difference in his approach. Fresh of breath air.
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