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Thinking I could help out my parents and make some commission of my own, I fell into this trap of ACN where a "friend" recruited me. I drive to Orange county thinking it was going to be a formal interview and all for the job. Turned out to be one big meeting with a notepad and a video with Donald Trump. Being a business student I thought this would be a great opportunity, especially with Trump being a bit of inspiration. After the movie they ask you a question if you are skeptical or not, pretty much. But the friend reassures you that everything is great that they are planning on getting a beamer in the next 3 months. They pushed and pushed me. Asked for a one time fee of 499 dollars. Everything was just a blur. On top of the 500 bux, the rep signed me up with 2 accounts, one supposedly for a demo the other being for my personal use. Making that completely expensive, they said it would be 25 bucks a month. No. Turns out I was charged 43 for both accounts. ON top of my two accounts, I signed up for my landline in which they said would be 25 dollars per month as well. I filled out a form, and knew that the landline was in honor of my stepfather. I told them I had to go to work, that I filled out most of it but got freaked out by the signature. I didn't sign it, I told them I'll be back tomorrow and left. While they are sitting there questioning me why i have to go to work in which this will only take another 5 minutes on top of 3 hours I had already spent there. On my drive back to LA it dawned on me that I need to cancel.
As soon as I got home I immediately called ACN and asked to delete my representative account. I was able to get my 499 back. With my "friend" calling me every day to make a meeting to sign and all that jazz. Thinking everything was over. IT wasn't And to this day still isn't. (It's been 3 months). At the end of that month, I was charged for both of my accounts 43 each and of the VOIP boxes total of 80 for the voip boxes. In which they said would be 10 dollars each. My stepfather also received a bill himself, and I thought how was that possible I never signed the application and never went back. My mother calls the company to cancel the landline account saying that none of us ever authorized it. But they said they had a "voice recording" of me when I was cancelling my account on the phone. They threatened to take me into court for forgery. We asked for them to fax the application and it was signed. I think out of all people I would know how to forge my own parents names (especially for those old high school absent notes) but this signature was not anything close to what his signature really looks like proved that someone forged his signature and processed it. I threatened the company back that I told them not to process the app and that I never signed, but since all the print was in my writing they said I had no proof and was still forgery.
The company called my cell phone saying that I must call them so that they could further with the lawsuit. I heard the message and thought F**K them I don't have to call back or listen to them. They never called me back after the message. (thank goodness)
Thinking that my mother successfully cancelled the landline, I receive the ACN bill that my stepfather handed to me for 93 dollars for a course of 3 months, yesterday. I'm not sure if he paid the first bill. Anyways, I just now paid for the bill, and I'm really skeptical in calling the company for cancelling the account after they threatened me for a lawsuit. But my parents insist that I take care of everything. It's just so horrible. But for revenge, I suppose not really must justice was received, ACN demanded for their VOIP boxes back from me and offered a refund. I just sold them on EBAY, i got half of what i paid but ACN won't get their products back from me. ACN will fool you and take you down with them. Please don't get involved.
Alright, I would like to say that to the Anonymous person telling me that I will never make it in life. Don't ever say that to a person. I am pretty sure that I am way younger than you. In fact I'm 21 years old and a branch manager at a consulting firm. Apparently, I never needed ACN. To those who are thinking of going on board of ACN, DON'T, you DO NOT NEED ACN. Besides, when have you ever heard about ACN's services, besides the times when some ### like Ken Powell pops out of the bushes 'selling/scamming' to you their services?
Ken Powell, you are just an ###, I'm glad to see that you are doing well with ACN but at the same time, you sound like you are really frustrated and butt-hurt about your company. All of the sales representatives who have opposed against this posting sounds recognizably incompetent. With your rudeness and taunts, don't treat people like that. People don't deserve to be treated poorly and, ultimately, they don't deserve to be ripped off.
Following up after 2 years from this posting, I would like to say I never heard back from ACN, for those of you who are curious. Thanks to those of you who listened, I wish you all the best.
Cheers!
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
ACN is a piece of crap. The phone seldom works and when it does the sound is terrible. I was told my fax machine would work on the system and surprise!...it didn’t. I have never dealt with such an irresponsible company before. Truth be told, I did this as a favor to my brother and I got burned.
Multi level marketing plans all suck and the people that come at you asking you to join suck as well, including my stupid brother because he believes he is going to get rich by selling crappy phone service and other services as well. The only ones that get rich are the people that started this terrible business.
Whatever happened to providing customers with a solid product that works? Wake up America, hard work, value added products, and customer service is what business is all about!
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I've been approached by ANC people trying to sign me up, I went to one meeting and I don't like what I'm seeing, also they keep phoning me over and over to go to more of these meetings and this is what makes me think ANC is a scam! My gut feeling is that this is a pyramid scam, and all they wan't is my $500.00 and access to my friends, plus I think there other main focus is to make you sign a bunch of legal contracts to bind you in to paying way more money then there service is worth! Then your stuck! I've seen the Video Phone and it looks like crap! plus it had bad reception. So there is no customer service and bad equipment. I don't think Donald Trump signed up! Any way I think there equipment and service is expensive and obsolite already! Just my opinion. I'm out!
not all companies are the same. I tried ACN...worked hard, and had SOME success. Several of my family and friends who tried the service were "ok" with it...others not so much. The concept of residual income was enticing, and I could see that VoiP was going to be huge in the near future, so I gave it all that I had, but the fact that you needed 40pts to get paid residual, you needed two legs with 200 customer points and 40 personal points to get paid beyond your 7th line..all obsticles which I now believe are by design because all of the money that the reps miss out on are retained by the company. They call it forfiet..I called it unfair.
I am not ashamed to tell you that ACN opened my eyes to what could be possible, if not for the greed and deciept. I have since found an amazing company that launched into Canada in July or so of 2010. "T.F" was responsible for launching it here..he and a lot of others who I assume came from ACN. In less than 60 days I have made more money than in 21 months with ACN.
Thanks "T.F"..and Thanks ACN for the education...
I will not say the name of the other company here, but there is a blog for ON CA. going by memory, i think its www.platinumspecialists.wordpress.com
Last spring I was asked by a professional person who owned their own sucsessful business if I was interestred in making money. Of course I said "yes, who does not want to make money". I asked what type of business it was and she sidestepped the question and said it was an "exciting new technology" and you have to come and listen to this presentation. Well I was frustrated where I was in life so I deceided to take an hour of my time and at least see what she had to say. When I arrived at her house there was about 10 people there, none of whom I knew. She introduced two gentlemen who were all of about 25 years old. They went into this presentation about ACN. In the first two minutes I said to myself this is just like an Amway MLM scheme. They raved about their video phone which of course was not connected so you couldn't see it working. After about 45 minutes of pure BS they handed out applications to become an Independent Rep (IR) and it was a $499.00 fee. I politely told my sponsor that I remember a presentation like this about 30 years ago by another friend who was trying to get me involved in Amway. I told her I was very skeptical and I wanted to think about it before I made a decision. Well fast forward to last Saturday 11/20/2010. You guessed it she got me to attend a "training session". I traveled 50 miles one way to this pep rally which was in NO WAY a training session. It was all canned speaches with some VERY smooth talkers who said they were making a lot of money but never told you how much they were making. As these speakers were spewing their BS i was looking around the room and all these "Reps" were nodding their heads "yes" like a room full of bobblhead dolls. What I joke I thought. Of course they played the same video of The Donald endorsing ACN that I saw last spring. Can you say "PYRAMID"? They handed out lapel pins for those who I guess were "promoted" or something. But as they were each introducing themselvs they all said they were with ACN for a "short" time but never said HOW short. This BS pep rally went on for 2 1/2 HOURS...I was ready to throw up by then listening to smoke and mirrors. Well they NEVER train you on ANY product or services they provide...all you are there for is to "sign-up" and give your credit card number. All they care about is signing up "Reps" nothing else. After the meeting I mentioned to my sponsor I may be interesed and I will talk to some friends about the company. I thought she was going to drop. She told me NOT to mention ANYTHING about the company. They want people to come to their private business meetings and hope they "HOOK" as many idiots as they can for $499.00. So I did some research on ACN...They are a ligit company and although it is a pyramid scheme, it is legal because they do sell products and services but it's the way they try to sell. They want you to sucker in family and friends so they can do the same. Well, after hours of research I deceided not to get involved with ACN. *******before you become the next sucker do your homework********
Haha, think about it people. Watch the people, and listen to their stories. Why would Jeremy Roenick, a former NHL player who made over 100 million join ACN. Roenick is almost at a RD level making multi-thousands of dollars. I joined months back and haven't received one problem yet. If i ever do have a question, i just ask my leaders who are on top of me. I've already made my 500 dollars back from the bonuses handed out every month. You just need to make sure you join with the right types of people. And really? You think Donald Trump would jeopardize the "Trump" name. If this was a scam and Donald Trump was endorsing it, don't you think this would be all over the news? Think about it!
What a company ACN. Changed my life in less than two year, they are not perfect, tell me friends who is?
If you don`t go to work do you think your boss will give you a pay check? YOU WISH! All the negative reps who failed in ACN, probably never under stand the business.
ACN has cost me nearly $2, 000. The person who had signed me up originally turned into a "jerk" to say the least, threatening, condescending phone calls, telling me what I could & could not put on Facebook etc. I signed up & then I bought a video phone. The video phone took 2 months to arrive. I wasn't home at the time so UPS put it in my backyard. I found it a month later. UPS said to deal with ACN. ACN said to deal with UPS. Now 2 years later I have completed my contract. ACN was paid every month for a service that I didn't use. I am now out nearly $2, 000. and would not recommend ACN to my worst enemy. My contract is over, however I ended up paying a few months extra. They have agreed to credit me $36.
The fact that I went to a sales pitch meeting and they kept mentioning 8% and I could make hundreds of dollars with 40 people in your chain of salesmans, didnt make sense. 8% of what, the money I pay for my monthly services, so like a kickback for maintaining service, so I make upwards of 16 dollars a month on the services I have, but then far less on any subsequent people, With the upfront cost associated, you wouldnt make your money back for years. Then I was informed that ATT just backed out of allowing ACN to sign up anymore customers, what happens when Sprint and other companies follow suit is what I asked, the reply I got was that "Its really about the new technology, The phone". I asked why would people want to buy a home base model that requires an internet connection when my EVO can do the same thing right now and be mobile, and if it has to be tied to the internet at home, why not just use a free service with a web cam, to accomplish the same thing..He could not answer, He politely replied that I would be missing out on the opportunity of a lifetime...thanks but no thanks, you havent reinvented the wheel with this phone, merely devised a cleaver plan to rip off the unknowing is what I see.
What Company does not have glitches or sometimes make errors.. at the end of the day it's not the company it's the END USER! meaning "PEOPLE" there is no human in this world that is perfect if so, please tell me what Kool aid they've been drinking because I want to be perfect too. Reading these reviews is common as it would be for any other business out there. Perfect example: We buy sports tickets to see our favorite team win the game coorect! However, are we most certain that our team is going to win that day.. So not every game does our team get it right at winning.. Same thing for ACN they are a LEGIT AND GREAT Company to be part of but they aren't the perfect company as neither is sports teams, or Cisco systems and oracle, and all those great busines names out there. Yet people will still buy their products, work for them, and still shop at these places such as retail stores. Bottomline is SO it didn't WORK for YOU but don't bring the rest of the world down so that they can be in agony let America decide for themselves whether this be the right business for them.. Because I work side by side with individuals who only been in this busines for 2 to 3 years and are making 6 figures a month and ACN has been open for business since 1993 so you tell me is it really a PYRAMID OR NOT.. I think not! it's just a different way of doing business. than again HOLD ON! everyone in corporate AMERICA is in a PYRAMID BUSINESS.. Example you have the CEO, CFO, VP OF OPS. VP HR, Directors, Managers Supervisors and than the rest of YOU people as CORP America would put it! So why are you in a Pyramid business? ACN tells me I can make as much money as I.. I..I.. I. I. Want too.. What company in Corp. America tells you, that you can make as much money as you want too? IF there is one by all means please let me know and e-mail me at acnrepsj@yahoo.com.. Because I may consider working for them as well! not trying to aruge with anyone here but we live in a society with too many NEGATIVE messages. If there is a problem be a SOLUTION not a much worse problem.. Thanks
I did not attend any meetings but I have been hounded to make a meeting happen in my community. My problem is this when I explained the boardroom selection available in my community, the rep rather hold the meeting at a house in our small town community of well to do's. Now since when do I have a perfect male stranger(s) from the city, under the age of 25, and his pals no doubt, with no crime check evident, into any home of a friend much less my own. My skeptic says he wants to case homes for future bonus material. Crime prevention people, crime prevention. If a company wants to hold a meeting let them rent the boardroom, if it isn't a boardroom, and they want your house skip the date entirely ! Thank goodness I have a head on my shoulders !
So I am approached by a colleague of mine at work regarding an exciting new business opportunity. As I was unable to attend the pitch held in said colleague's house, I agreed to attend a training seminar at a local hotel conference room. 2 mins into this and I knew what BS it was. After about 2 hours of rah-rah-let's -all-get-rich banter, I decided to have a little fun...here's what happened:
ACN Grande Duchess VP muckity-muck (formerly some pro soccer player chick)-"So, are you ready to live your dream ? "
Me (nodding head enthusiastically)-" oh YES ! But I have a few questions as a would-be independent business owner."
ACN Babe( she WAS pretty)- "sure ! shoot..."
Me- " So you are THE number ONE telecommunications direct market company ? "
ACN babe-" oh yes, nobody else even comes CLOSE !"
Me- " wow ! Impressive... So then, who would be your competition ? Like, 2-5 ?"
ACN babe- (blank stare) ..."uhm..."
Me- " you are number 1 and you cannot say who number 2 is ?"
ACN babe- we have excellent market research, thing is, you don't HAVE to worry about that ! ACN does it all for you !
Me- oh Lindsey (that was her name) I DO need to worry about that if I am to be an "independent business owner" and not some "employee drone"
ACN Babe- ( stares blankly)
ME- so, what percentage of ACN reps ever recoup their initial $500 investment ? Over what period of time ?
ACN babe ( nice legs on this one, btw)- 100% of those that work the system !
Me- Lindsey, now that's not what I asked you ! what percent of all ACN reps ever recoup their initial investment ? How much time did it take on average ?
ACN babe (nice rack as well, now that I recall)- (stares blankly)
Me- what is the median yearly income of an ACN rep at each level ?
ACN babe-(stares blankly, steam beginning to exit ears) you know, perhaps ACN isn't for you...
ME- not for me ? But, what about my "WHY?"...my dream !
ACN babe- truthfully, we only want POSITIVE people in ACN...
ME- oh Lindsey, I'm positive allright... In fact, I have downright metaphysical certitude that this company is full of ### ! But you are right about one thing, ACN isn't for me.
Ask the questions first. Am i responsible for the unpaid balances of the accounts of the people I sign up? Call ACN headquarters first, call the public service commmision first, call directtv first, call Alltel first. AND, can I really "save" money. Is this an opportunity to plain and simple buy smart, if so, how much time is involved in changing over accounts and setting up new accounts. A 90 year old mother, can she do it? Nothing excites her more than saving money.
Renewold
What a total joke this company is. I just love all the bs pro ACN comments in here. They are all probably from the same person higher up in the company who is making a crap load of money off of all the other suckers. I joined ACN a year ago and quit within the first 60 days. I switched all my services over including my sister and parents to begin with. They are the worst customer services and products I have ever encountered in my life.
1) Once my sister changed her telephone and internet the service the service man did shortcuts on the hook up and did it all wrong even after my sister told him how she wanted it done. She called acn to have them come back because he screwed it up. Guess what? They said it will cost her $150. for the technician to come back to change it. Also her video phone sucked. Absolutely poor audio and video reception. Ohh! and at the meeting they kept saying the quality was CRYSTAL clear. What a joke.
2) When I changed my internet and bought the video phone they made an appointment for a technician to come to my place. Guess what? he never showed up after I waited all day and they never called to tell me. I called them and guess what? they said I do not require a technician and would not send one out unless I PAID $150. Okay! so i set it up myself and GUESS WHAT? The the modem cable was 1 foot long. What a ****in joke. It cost me $30.00 to buy a cable that would fit properly in my apartment. Oh! and the video phone sucks and the internet modem is practically made out of paper. The lowest end of any cable modem you can buy. Ohh! and they said I would have medium high speed internet. GUESS WHAT? it was the lowest internet speed you can buy. They LIED TO ME.
3) My father changed his phone over and internet. He had so many problems with connection the first month. We called the customer service over and over and over. After numerous phone calls we finally had it fixed but the connection problems continued after anyways. Ohh! and everytime we called their customer service it would have a message saying "DUE TO HIGH CALL VOLUME YOU WAIT WILL BE MORE THAN 30 MINUTES. PLEASE CALL BACK AFTER 4PM" This happened every single time I called.
4) I have many more complaints but I think you got the message by now.
Our entire family decided to cancel all the services paying out all the cancellation fees which cost us a total of about $1000.00 including the cost of that stupid video phone which is totally non-refundable and cannot be used by anyone else except the individual buyer of the phone. They make it so you cannot resell it to another user.
DO NOT LISTEN TO ANY OF THE PRO acn COMMENTS IN HERE. THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY HIRED BY ACN TO COUNTER THE COMMENTS ABOUT ACN. THEY ARE A PRETTY MUCH A LEGIT SCAM RIDING A FINE LINE OF BEING CLOSED DOWN.
SO IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN GOOD STANDING AND NOT BE LOOKED DOWN UPON BY THEM ONCE THEY REALIZE THIS IS THE CRAPPIEST PRODUCT OUT THERE THEN STAY FAR FAR AWAY FROM ACN.
I TRULY HOPE THERE A GOD BECAUSE THE OWNERS OF THIS COMPANY ARE GOING TO PAY IN THE END.
Hey Rationalskeptyc, that was hilarious comment. Summed it up pretty good :)
Hey Everyone,
I am an ACN rep and have been for about 2 years now. Honestly these horror stories I am hearing are almost as unbelievable as the success stories fanatics will tell you. The people who introduced em to the company, are people who are willing to put the time in and they are doing well. I myself am using the bonus to pay for school, and even if I don't quite believe the miracle the more excitable reps try to portray, I have had very little experience to assume a scam or a crooked company. I admit that I had trouble getting my family's service hooked up, and I had to muscle through the customer service department, which is outsourced (in Canada) to Quebec. I got their service up and running within the week and we have had no problems since. Anyone trying to join ANY MLM hoping for instant success with little work, let me know which one works for you, because I would like to work less hours!
In my honest opinion, I have worse times with more professional companies, even working in retail, then I ever had with ACN. Large companies will have plenty of administrative issues. If it's not for you then find out what is, and stop flooding the net with hateful garbage. The internet could use much less ranting.
i signed for Acn as other who got fooled by their friends or close ppl.its a total fraud company making fool with no service after buying and i know ppl who claims getting big check all r just lieing and trying to get more ppl as they hav invested that much that they hav just one option to bring more n more ppl in this fraud so that they can get somthing back . my contract time is almost over (next month as they said that cancelation charges r $200 and thanx God no one can blame me as i didnt get involved in this chain and bear all lose myself only. a friendly suggestion not to get in the inflence of any any dam one as either ur friends even dont know the bottom or just trying to get their money back in ur shape. its better to hav one in hand then two in the bush .once positive thing is there too as they r just selling services so services r ok but customer care is a bunch of threaters . once u signed u r gone. u can get even cheap rates then Acn just need to search a bit and negotiate to any good company. rogers is very good, primus has supereb customer service reps really really care for u . chatr is cheap without data wind is good but has some prob with coverage. bottom line . dont kill urself by joining ACN totally fraud and selfish ppl who will try to get a sale only by getting u in only rest no one care 4 u
Stop coming onto this site you dumb ### ACN reps and trying to defend this bs fraud of a company. YOU ARE IDIOTS. And why is it you even know about these complaint sites when you think ACN is such a great company. It is obvious that the people defending this crap company are probably hired to surf the endless complaint sites about ACN on the internet. OMFG PEOPLE have you ever encountered a company that has so many hate sites? ITS so F***ing obvious. OHH! and what company on earth has its own website that defends itself that it is not a pyramid. And just you wait ACN reps when years down the road when you actually start making money which will work out to pennies and hour for your work that the company will terminate your account for not for not staying within the ### guidelines that you can not advertise or sell outside your family and friends. The company will take all your accounts away and and you will be left in the dirt and way in the hole for the amount of time and money you wasted. Not to mention all the people who hate you now. Also, what company on this planet who thinks their so great does not want you to advertise their product to bring in more business. ANSWER THAT f***ing QUESTION ACN REPS.
Good review and sorry to hear about your lost(time away from family and moneys)
After completing the cancellation and returning the products and paying the last bill and all the documents of proof of canceling the service, constantly the invoices are being submitted and sent to the collections agency.
Antausan, please give us a call us at [protected] so that we can help you take care of this issue. When you call, please reference case number 8280762. Thank you for your patience.
ACN Canada
I signed for up for ACN and compounded the problem by paying for a friend to sign up also. Well you know where this leads, I just doubled my losses. They are your best friend until you start to tell them you don't want to just sign up more people and just want to sell services. The whole compensation plan is designed to only work if you sign up a bunch of people. The only way to make any money is to sign up a bunch of people and have them each get a few points but not focus on the services but on the signing up all their friends. Once you tell them you refuse to alienate all your friends by stealing money from them for something they are not going to do then no one wants to talk to you anymore. I also signed up for the business assistant at an additional 30 per month as they tell you that you have to do that and now can not figure out how to cancel. There are no service numbers or emails for service. Everything is easy when paying them but almost impossible when you have a problem to get any service. This doesn't even address the nightmares I have put friends through trying to sign up Verizon renewals and them getting phones that don't work then getting a second phone that Verizon wouldn't activate because they said it was stolen. Took 3 weeks to reverse it all and allow them to go to the Verizon store directly and upgrade in 30 minutes for less money. Would advise anyone thinking about it to think long and hard about it before signing up. The only way it will work is if you are willing to screw 99 percent of the people you come in contact with in the hope that just one of them will succeed. My up line has over 10, 000 people under him. Think about that he has generated over 5 million in fees (499 X 10, 000) signing down line people up under him and has generated himself 100K per year for 2 years and expects to triple that this year. How good would you feel generating 5 million in sign up fees for a company knowing most of the people never made a dime just so you could make 100K. Heck you could just directly screw 200 per year and make the same amount of money and hurt way less people. Have to be a pretty self centered person to think that makes any sense at all. ACN prays on people who are down and out and desperate for a living by creating a bunch of pep rallies with celebrities or those who have made a bunch of money. The people who are easily influenced want to be part of the in crowd who are rich, famous or just plain beautiful.
ACN Are ###! they take your money suck you in and run! they clearly say its your fault when their products are faulty and refuse to help you, and on top on that they don't have 24hr toll free help you have to call them during business hours and get put on hold then sent to "tech support" which are clearly based in India. Their customer service is rubbish-unsatisfied "customer"
I have ordered products through ACN and am completely satisfied. I have a flash phone, a VOIP phone, we ordered Direct TV, and ADT. The services work fine.The customer service has been fine. Everything showed up on time and was installed on time. I think it's interesting that people can even bring up the word scam. I mean the services work or they don't. I am being charged what I said I was going to be charged. You can google AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Vivant, ADT, Centurylink, etc and complaint and get all kinds of negativity. The fact of the matter is that you need licenses with the Federal government, the FCC, with all these different service providers to be in business. Period.
there are people hate-blogging about walmart, home depot, the government and every other employer out there. multi-level marketing companies can encounter people of low moral character, just like car sales, insurance sales and even lawyers. does that make ALL car sales rep, ALL lawyers and ALL insurance sales reps crooked? If one furnace repair guy rips someone off, do furnace repair guys ALL rip everyone off? think about the last thing you failed at, or quit. did you guy around telling everyone how great it was, but you failed?
Does this post mean mean that everyone in Canada is [censor]?
wow, LOL_LOL is bent. who shat in your conflakes? i'm looking at ACN, I am NOT a rep, sorry, IBO. I've seen MANY MLM businesses over the years, many of them illegal pyramids. Is it inappropriate for an MLM company to defend itself from ignorance (lack of knowledge, not stupidity. you can't fix stupid). Amway, don't start, Mary Kay, Avon, Pampered Chef, Tupperware and more, IF they advertise, it's only been in the past year. The idea is that MLM doesn't want to pay Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan or some other athlete, or musician, a million dollars to do a commercial advertising the product. Where did that million dollars come from? it's in the price of the product.
Hey, screwed by ACN, my day job is selling cars. I sold $30, 000, 000 worth of cars, yup, thirty MILLION dollars, my commission? $50, 000. how much income did some of the 10, 000 below your upline earn...I mean besides you, you obviously didn't earn anything. I'm sure he didn't develop 10, 000 downline by himself. someone else MUST have done something, I mean, besides you.
These strings of texts are text book of Ignorance feeding ignorance, misery loves company and misery gets ticked when they lose company. Anyone who is doing their research by googling ACN, first of all, Google is the broke mans way to research, because anyone can write about any one at any time and the next broke person will believe it.
Pay attention to where you do your research, Do you honestly believe Donald Trump, 25 governments, all the major Companies in Telecom would actually do business with ACN, if any of the above comments held fact?
Just use common sense people, If you buy into anyone's opinions, you buy into their life styles.
3rd Party Validations are the way to research, such as Success From Home Magazine, Wall Street Journal...read the ACN reviews from those incredible Business Journals, not from Google. Then at that time, base your decisions of whether or not ACN is a creditable company, make your own decision. It truly is a shame that so many negative people love to do their very best to steal dreams and hope from everyone the moment they choose to quit on their own...then they spread poison, yes their opinions are valid, their experiences may be valid as well, however, what were the actual facts behind them. ACN would not have an A+ rating with the BBB if half of these claims were true...the due diligence of the disgruntled customers was not properly followed.
Take the appropriate due diligence people, research ACN through 3rd party Validations...not from my opinions or anyone else's...feed off the research done by millionaires, not from Google Bloggers.
Sheep
Lets call it what it is, A pyramid scheme walking the fine line of legality.
Donald Trump endorses it? Think about who Donald trump is as a person.
Who is he? What are his interests? What does he find entertaining? Why is he so interested in this company?
Answers...
Donald trump is a rich man who values talent, drive, and perseverance. (like most rich business people. An eye for talent is key to success)
He is interested in games and money, the game of finance, the game of life, he even started TV shows that are a mere headhunting talent agency and profitable promotional tool. Hint Hint.
He finds it highly entertaining to pit different individuals against one another. And enjoys seeing the lengths people will go for money/success.
So this leads me to the question, why is Donald Trump so interested in ACN?
If its not obvious now, then I'm sure your already working for ACN, and your making money so your happy and cant understand why everyone gives ACN bad reviews.
ACN is a headhunter, talent scouting, money making, global machine. ACN is actually providing a wealth building tool for people if they understand how to play the game. However, you can put the same effort into many things and save your dignity.
Donald Trump wants to buy ACN because its one big gladiator pit full of fierce contenders.
The individuals who reach out and grasp the spotlight, captivate the crowd, and show integrity are rewarded.
As they say, you get what you put into ACN. If you become a public speaker, trainer, or event coordinator you will be treated well.
If you just sell terrible service to your family and friends, you will have an angry family and no more friends. You will have nice check for your efforts though. Unless of course you can get them them to sign up with ACN, Then the money will make them happy too.
I'm sure this is a wonderful tool to get a boost in life.
You do need to see it for what it is.
If I were to summarize ACN into a few words. They would be: poverty, stimulus, talent scouting, gauntlet.
If you really need the money, it can be a nice passive income to supplement a side business or project, or in this day and age, mandatory health insurance, debt, food.
Considering it would be passive income you can use as a stepping stone to a better life, I will admit it's tempting.
Though, its a question about morals. Sell your soul for money or keep your dignity and work for an ###.
Damn. back to square one... lol
My home phone line was disconnected on December 23 without notice. I constantly contacted them only to hear that my line would be reconnected shortly. After waiting for 25 days I contacted ACN again. They told me that they do not have any record of my request to reconnect the phone line. They also told me that I had lost my home phone number. Since they had terminated my services I contacted another service provider who was able to get me my old number back. I recently received a bill from ACN for $171.99 for early cancellation. I feel as though I should not have to pay this fee because the termination was done on behalf of ACN and not at my request.
this is my bad storey with ACN CANADA.
I was fortunate enough to have been brought into the company by the right people and have definitely joined the right team "Team Momentum" the fastest growing team in the company. My team is out of Montreal, Canada and I am in Orlando, Florida, USA, my sponsor is a friend who lives in Canada. They told me to go to an opportunity meeting after I joined just to see a little more of the business and I was totally turned off. It was exactly as many have said, alot of BS and hype and a bunch of sheep just agreeing with everything the speaker was saying, who by the way is a high level rep in the company. I completely did not like the way that it seemed they were just trying to get people to put up the $499 and let them figure out what to do next (Just my opinion of how I saw it). Quite to the contrary, My team members or I, would never tell someone to put up any money, until they knew exactly what they needed to expect and exactly what they needed to do to make it work (Just like the vast majority of IBO’s do). That is exactly why I started my blog. I wanted to do all of the research I could and have a place where my prospects could go and see everything before they made a decision. (Don’t blame the company for the actions of a few misleading reps).
Unfortunately, there are unreputable people in the business, but there are unreputable people in every business you just have to be able to make decisions for yourself based on your own knowledge and beliefs. If a used car salesman rips you off for an overpriced lemon, do you blame the car manufacturer, NO. Just find another dealership with more honest people.
If you are even considering joining ACN, please visit my blog, it will let you know all of the facts. If you have been approached by another IBO, I am not trying to steal you. Please if you do join, sign through them, just know what you are to expect before you do.
http://acnibo.blogspot.com, thanks again for the article and commetary.
If you are even considering joining ACN, PLEASE first visit my blog, it will let you know all of the FACTS. No hype, no pitch just an honest view of the opportunity, just know what you are to expect before you join, if you want to succeed.
R. Michael Gonzalez
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R.Michael@ACNRep.com
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This is the worst company every created, a complete scam. I suggest everyone to not even look at this provider or even come in contact with them. They promise you all of these packages and just use Donald Trump as a marketing technique in reality, Donald Trump is not affiliated with this corporation in any way. Their service is completely garbage, stops running every 2 days and their technicians are just foreign refugee's in which cannot assist you in any way. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY. F*CK ACN, COMPLETE B*LL[censored]!
ACN Co-founder must take a look at the complains because it about 80% of complains in these posts are true, especially ACN's products of Digital Phone and High Speed Internet Services. Do you know how much people out there angry with your service? I believe people are happy to help their friends to run the business and willing to change their service to support their friends but it turns up side down, when they singed up with ACN, like the technician did not show up, the internet crew up most of the time; slow, signal low, the telephone not clear and it stop working every time in the month. If you are not going to correct the way you are doing or your people are doing right now, you are going to get worst. You always force your people to training and training but you are not really take care of your technician and products. It is not the place to teach people to get enlightenment it is business but at least you do something to make customers happy with your services.
I know the way you teaching people and integrity some how not that bad but you must take care of your service. I think something going on in your company, technician is the worst and your service not that cheap too. Home Unlimited World Plan with High Speed 6 $72.98 /Month Plus tax is about $88...
Science at home! Come up with your VERY own theory concerning the IQ of those taken in by Donald Trump with a videophone!
Try the following: when reading comments below, compare the average grammar/spelling of "ACN Reps" to people complaining about ACN. You will notice a trend.
Also count the number of ACN Reps who do not mention "Donald Trump" or "changing your life", or do not end with a "quick way to get in touch with them". (not too many)
It is clear what this company profits from: Hope. That tends to sell well post-recession. Also they kinda sell the same thing as my post: Hey, want your OWN company jsut like REAL busniessMANS? Just pay 499 a month and we'll SEND you your VERY OWN! :D
Of course ACN is a scam. If it really was a good business opportunity the ACN reps would not have to use deception and dishonesty to get their friends and family to go to the brainwashing meetings. I have made a few youtube videos to combat this horrible ACN scam but of course it can be difficult to compete against the brainwashed ACN sheep and the fast talking ACN sales people. It's amazing how people get caught up in the hype and they don't really sit down and crunch the numbers. These are my youtube videos trying to help people not get caught up in the ACN scam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUcp4055NbU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PunwijGHZCY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26JoNEJ41Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL9baI2m2IA
I too was a victim of the hype. There is little or no way to make money and the costs for services are higher than the most competitive rates from the leading providers. It takes time to figure that out and that is how ACN gets its new members. By the time you figure it all out you have spent money sighing up and started switching services only to discover if you just negotiated with your current provider you can improve your savings. Don't be the next victim.
Well I have to say that ACN does not have a good reputation if at all with its customers. I was definitely not impressed with ACN. Unfortunately I had gotten suckered into giving my $500.00. I admit at the time I was just a dumb 18 year old when they got me signed up. But now I have learnt my lesson and will not fall for any of these horrible pyramid scams ever again. Since learning my lesson, I have dodged many of these pyramid or MLM systems since then. I know ACN is bad when every single business professional I mention ACN to cringes. I know a few very successful businessmen, one being a Vice President/ branch manager of an investment firm, the other is a CEO of an investment bank and both of them told me that ACN was bad news. Most of the representatives of ACN were very young at the location I went to and most telling me they were school drop outs which told me that this company mainly takes advantage of gullible teens and young adults which was myself at the time. Thankfully I got out of it and was not brainwashed for very long since for some reason before giving my money, I did not look them up as I should have.
They also pressured me to sell it to family and friends. Now, with the small amount of friends I do have, I was not willing to lose the ones I have just for the sake of getting them a phone that I wasn't sure even worked. I certainly love my family and did not want to alienate myself from them. The place the presentation was in was also in a shady part of town in this almost hidden exotic car auto repair building. The Aston Martin parked in it was impressive as well as the few Porches that were in there. That's about it though. These reps expected me to come to these meetings that was practically every Tuesday and sometimes on the weekend...but I had a full-time job so I could not attend most of them and it was a major hassle for me to even get there since most times it was -20C and I took transit. I do appreciate everyone who has spoken out against ACN.
I also notice that the ACN representatives that do comment on here are quite harsh and/or trying to again, sell ACN products and services. And for such a pyramid company, the only way that they can get such a spokes person such as Donald Trump is if they pay him and I promise anybody that he most likely does get paid to endorse it.
Ps. I recommend everyone who has complained on here to copy and paste it and put a complaint in with the BBB as I have.
Acn is a scam!I have to laugh at the acn shrills who come on these websites and defend this despicable company.They claim it takes "hard work" and how you cant give up and blah blah blah.What the hell do they consider hard work.Is it calling and harassing your family and friends into switching their service to acn and cancelling all their contracts.Maybe they think tricking people into coming to pyramid meetings hard work.I dont they have a clue what "hard work' really is.Stay away from these dishonest A-HOLES!
Well I have to say if it is too good to be true it probably is. I am however smart enough to look up a corporation or anything before I sign up especially when it involves others. The real kicker about this is that I am in the process of developing a franchise that will generate over 40, 000, 000 with in the next 8 years. When I told the representative boy did his eyes light up because honestly I could easily 100 businesses to sign up. My business will actually save a lot of businesses, I am not looking to rob them. I swear after I make it with my new business I will develop a company to take down scams.
I have made some Youtube videos to get the word out there that ACN is a scam and a very scary money hungry cult. Please support my videos and let's all get the word out there. Together we can try to save naive people as we can from getting brainwashed by this vicious cult.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUcp4055NbU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PunwijGHZCY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL9baI2m2IA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26JoNEJ41Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWURgMR-Uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJzJivd2vQ
http://reps.acneuro.com/acninaction/2014/01_14/video_Integrity_EN.html
Donald Trump is broke, the 2 best salesmen in ACN were busted for selling drugs, and most of its IBOs either drop out or dont make any income. These are literally all documented facts.
They also prey on uneducated immigrants. Their target audience are people that arent buisness savvy.
Hey ACN, you should get fog machines and DUBSTEP Djs for your seminars.