Sylvia Browne Group
Reviews and Complaints

I recently had a reading with Sylvia Brown for $485.00 for approx. 20 minutes! -- You get the "law laid down to you" in instructions and directions via her website and on the telephone when setting the appt. - as to precisely what you are 'allowed' to say and do.

They say they give you up to 30 min. ... but as one other reviewer that I read on this site stated... they are top notch at giving you the "bumbs' rush" -- on the phone. Which sets you up for feeling rushed and nervous before the call even starts! I have had psychic readings off and on all of my life. I do know and believe Sylvia to be psychic. But this was the most Expensive and Worthless reading I have ever gotten!

Even though I have read all her books and bought her CD's and stuck up for her in the past... However... now I agree with others... she is currently just 'scamming' and living off of her past Laurels...
Montel Williams is the best thing that ever happened to Sylvia Browne or she would be just another of the millions of psychics out there... he made her famous! Without him she would not be pulling down her outrageous charges for her readings and getting away with cheating people as she is Now!

I asked Sylvia questions and received 'One Word' responses! I could hardly understand her... her voice is so old/crackly/sounding and at times not understandable. One Word responses ... is Not acceptable in any psychic reading ... much less one that is costing you the better part of 500.00!

For just a few minutes! The only thing she offered on her own was at the beginning of the call and she said what is wrong with your stomach... I have do digestive problems... BUT not in the stomach in the colon and intestines... However... I recently had a heart-Attack and she did not pick up on that at all! --

I said I do not have trouble with my stomach it is my colon/intestines... dead silence from her! No response at all... and you are told that you have to keep it moving - keep asking questions or they will hang up on you and the reading is ended! So I began to ask questions.

As with the others she said things that I know for a FACT I will never do and will never happen not only going against what many other Proven Excellent Psychics in my past have said but also against Astrologists and my Natal Chart. As anyone knows who is intimately familiar with the psychic realm... astrology is far more reliable than psychic readings... as psychic readings pick up current vibrations and are totally affected by people's free will! Where as astrology is a map of your life! In the remarks she made that I am talking about here ... they also went against the proven astrologists I have had in my life too!

I basically got nothing but a good dose of Frustration out of this Reading [if you can call it that] a rip-off session is more like it! I too have read all of her books and have her CD's --- and have followed her... and was so very excited about finally being able to get the money together to actually have a reading with her! Which turned out to be the biggest DUD of my lifetime! And worst money spent!

The worst of all that happened to me... was my reading did not last the full 30-min. I paid for 30 min... I felt rushed and uneasy through the entire reading. I called back right away to get one important question answered that I had missed. I talked to a man who said he would find out for me get the question answered by Sylvia and call me back... that to date has never happened.

I called back a couple of days later and got a woman... who answered the phone... arrogant and rude and terse! She snapped at me and said it may take a week or even months to get your question answered! They do not talk directly to Sylvia she said! Her demeanor and tone was talking down to me and just plain NASTY and very RUDE!

Now... even more time has gone by ... still no call back regarding the question I had asked...
I call again and was so hoping that I would not get this nasty woman as in all my other calls to them I always got a man and had the strong feeling I was actually talking to Chris ...

Unfortunately, the "battle-axe" [appropriate description not name-calling] - answered the phone again... Because my reading with Sylvia did not last the 30 min. - I did not get all of my questions asked. [I had felt that perhaps part of the problem w/the reading from Sylvia was her age and perhaps some senile dementia creeping in.]

So I had decided to go ahead and book a reading with Chris at $150.00 for 30 min - and thought if his reading is as Bad as his Mother's was ... I will never be back... and chalk it off to experience... as I had always wondered what a reading with them would be like.
I said I would like to book a reading with Chris... we went through the setting up of the appt. and then I dared to ask her again about... the question that still had not been answered but that I had paid $485.00 for... she again, as before JUMPED down my throat [rude, nasty tone of voice] and said the same thing she said a week ago.

She then raised her voice almost to a scream level and verbally attacked me asking me what I thought I was doing trying to set an apt with Chris when I had recently had a reading with Sylvia! I said I did not get all of my questions answered and would like to finish my questions. She attacked me again... about like that was an impossibility! And continuing in the Loud-Obnoxious-Rude Mean/Nasty voice ... telling me how dare I and who do I think I am!

That I am only allowed to have ONE reading from either one of them just once every six months! [I had No Idea about their little Rule!] The way she was coming across you would think I was a very bad and evil person for trying to pay for and book an appt. with Chris after having my totally worthless reading with Sylvia!

Needless to say I was Shocked... taken aback... could not believe this! Obviously... this gal felt totally secure in being able to behave so barbarically against one of Sylvia's paying clients! So what does that say about Sylvia and Chris?
She screamed at me that she was cancelling my apt with Chris and that I was not to call back again... I said I still want the answer to my $485.00 question and I want my tape. I said do you know if the tape has been mailed to me... she said I will connect you with someone who can tell you.
She connected me with a man named Mat and Mat told me the tape had been mailed... well by this time I had been Mega-Overloaded with Stress from this woman who just attacked me and by the way she never states her name as phone representatives should ... and now we know why... albeit, you can tell it is a small operation and she is probably the only female answering the phones.

With her horrendously bad behavior I would not be surprised if she is a relative of theirs!
Mat also began to start in on me about booking an apt with Chris... and I cut him off and said... she already cancelled it. And I hung up on him... it was obvious he thought he was going to "chew on me too". I had ... had more than ENOUGH!

Must be nice to make soooo much MONEY that you and your... hired help... feel they can... ABUSE... their paying clientele... of which I am no longer one ... and will be sure to tell everyone I know and meet about this Brutal behavior/Abuse I received and the totally Worthless Reading for almost $500 for almost 20 minutes!

If Sylvia and her Gang of Thugs ... Cheats & Scam Artists... think they are making it to Heaven ... acting like this... they are in for a Surprise... they are NOT Immortal! And they will have to face GOD for all of their Abuses... Even Queen Sylvia! As she states in one of her CD's ... just throw her over the backyard fence... well... Now I know... that is exactly where she belongs!

During legitimate caring readings from psychics they go into issues themselves and expound on them... my reading with Sylvia at her horrendously huge and absurd price...

Had a reading with him costing me $450 in 15 minutes. Told me I was crazy, going to meed someone-never happened. He was extremely rude and never had the chance to tell him off. I was afraid of talking to him. Then after that I cried. I started to doubt myself. I was afraid of getting my money back, because it would be a difficult process. I was also thinking that he might not want to give it back to me, since he made me cry and scared.