I have been unemployed since April of 2010 and my husband is disable. I saw an ad for The Auction Employee Training and paid for their service, which I was able to access but with no help. I signed up for the coaching and was contacted by Fortune Learning Systems and paid them 5k for eight (8) coaching sessions. Both of these companies are scams...they took my money and ran. I received one phone call from my coach which was an orientation call in which I explained my situation - do you think they cared????? They never called for my 1st training session, the website is down and they do not answer the phones. In fact, some of the contact telephone numbers have been disconnected. I sure would like to get my hands on these guys and by the time I finished with them - everyone would have their money back and they would be in jail where they belong... I don't understand how some people can take away from people that really need a job.

Fortune Learned System promised that I would be making money in 2 weeks, charged 8, 000. Did not deliver product, one advisor called and said, here here is Click Bank and her is Ebay, do your research and go to work. TOTAL RIP OFF put charge back against them their answer was a 3 day money back guarantee. I didn't sing anything, then their siter company charged me again to set me up a LLC in Nevada, send paperwork for Wyoming. I tried to call over and over at no advil, was suspossed to set up LLC in Nevada, and told me all I have to do is show up in fake office 1 hour a year. to satisfy the IRS. Bad business, has attorney general complaints against them and should be out of business and business principals placed in jail Google them and see 3 pages of complaints

I also bought Jennifer Johnson's data-entry work from home scam. Then I was contacted by Fortune Learning Systems. I had just lost my job and needed an income with having 3 teens and a mortgage. I paid $8.620.00 on 2 different credit cards to them in return for a functioning website as a drop shipper. I was told no more money would ever be asked of me and that they would provide all the training, software, coaching, and marketing. I was then contacted by their Business Development Division and paid $5, 000.00 to set up "correctly" and LLC. I ended up doing most of the work myself on my states website. Later I found out I could have done the same thing for way less! My business contact Faye Ferguson, tried to get me to apply for corporate credit, when I couldn't even pay the minimums on my credit cards and didn't have a website making any money. I tried to dispute the charges with my credit card companies but was denied. They have been charging me $39.95/month for a site that has brought in no money for over a year now. I also was contacted by a liaison, Heather, who for another $100.00 had a "programmer" "fix" my site. Now the site is not connected to my web builder and I cannot edit it or use it. The coaching was not consistent, e-mails and phone calls were not returned. I was refused a refund, even though they did not provide the services they said they would. And then to top it all off, Heather wanted me to pay an additional $2, 500.00 for marketing! This was suppose to be included! Now I have no marketing and they didn't even put meta tags in for my website that the programmer supposedly fixed. Shouldn't a programmer know to copy and paste from my original site these things that are so important for SEO? This company has really taken a lot of people for a ride, and I feel for every one of us! If anyone has any suggestions in regards to what recourse we have please let me know. Can't we file a class-action lawsuit? I have wrote the BBB in Utah and filed a complaint with the FTC. Please contact me at [email protected] if you have any suggestions as to what to do next.

In November I signed up with Fortune Learning Systems who promised to train me and provide web hosting to begin an online ecommerce business. For $5015 they promised coaching sessions that would find my niche, find suppliers at wholesale, set up an LLC in California for my business and teach me to market my website.
Its now March and I am out the money, which I want to get back plus additional costs that are coming due to having to consult with a personal tax consultant whom is now working on dissolving the LLC which NEVER should have been started unless the business was successful since CA requires a minimum tax of $800 regardless if you actually make any sales.
I had a coach whom I thought was going to work well, but realistically all he did was spend 30-45 minutes on the phone with me 3 times, all other scheduled sessions he failed to call in and is not responding to emails or calls.
Now according to research online it appears the company is OUT OF BUSINESS.. not sure how to verify this since they do not have their website up -- says they are working hard to restore and tells you to contact Wholesale Match for assistance. Their phones apparently have been turned off or something, it does not even ring.
I am working with my credit card company on protesting the charges and am seeking additional assistance from the BBB but so far they are not able to provide information on the company but do show many complaints filed against Fortune Learning Systems.
I certainly hope that my credit card company has more success in contacting the appropriate people to resolve the money I am out so far and I am closing the account that Fortune has the number for since I am sure as crooked as they are they will try to hit that card again.

I, like many, have fallen foul of Fortune Learning Systems and their slick sales talk. I'm in Scotland where I've been trying to make a success of Internet Marketing and a call "out of the Blue" from them was just what the doctor ordered... more the fool me! After parting with £5600 ( approx. $8300) and paid by VISA, I was given a quick "run down" of what would follow in the next few days as regards documentation and gurantees, and given the name of my Guidance Coach. I had better point-out that they had some really good testimonials at the time otherwise I wouldn't have parted with a penny.

My Guidance Coach contacted me to make his introduction and set dates and times to do our coaching sessions (30-45 minutes each and by telephone). Excellent I thought, these people are really on the ball... HA!!! My first session was how to make money properly on eBay. In a nutshell I knew more than my coach and I'm not an expert.

Long story short... I've since discovered that my £5600 only covers me for 10 sessions. That means that with each phone call they are earning £560 each!!! I was given the impression that my course would last for at least 6 months not 10 weeks, and if you think about it they would be gaining £5600 for only 5 hours work... not happy!!!

And whilst this has been going on, I've been sending them eMails to ask for the receipts for the course so that I can apply to the UK Tax Office for a refund of the Tax paid on this course. Not a single eMail has been answered.

The most recent thing has been that their websites have been switched off with a message reading " Site Under Repair"... yeah right. I've also stumbled across an on-line forum that has over 200 complaints about these people. Oh and my Guidance Coach all of a sudden has stopped calling me.

Being outside the United States I'm not sure how I stand when it comes to refunds, hopefully the fact that I paid by VISA may help.

These people have to be stopped.
Rick.