Is Wake Up Now Club a scam?

[lorraineb]

... when people are making 5k-8k a month, you don't talk...you just listen.

This is where you are vitally wrong. They are making that much because they are the founders. If you "just listen" then you aren't doing yourself any favors -- you should never just listen. Always look at the numbers, and their own numbers say that nearly everyone loses money (except for them).

[Baby_nurse]

Wow, I was geting ready to post about WakeUpNow when I saw someone asking about the company.

I personally communicate with leaders within the company on a weekly basis that are making over 30k, 8k, and 5k a month in this business. But that doesn't matter. WakeUpNow is changing lives, even tho i'm only making $600 a month right now from the company ($2500 by August), on top of saving $100-$200 extra from regular spending, it has truly made a way for me to save a ton every month, while making money by sharing with others.

I work 2 jobs which I hate, my brother wants to go to private school for 9th grade, but my mom doesn't have the money. My car is broke down and on its last leg, but when something comes up, for you to change your life financially, when people are making 5k-8k a month, you don't talk...you just listen.

$600 is enough for me to help my brother get in private school. Call it what you want, pyramid, MLM, whatever. I work a 9-5, which is a pyramid. CEO, Manager, all the way down to the employee who works so hard just to get paid $7.50.

Call it what you want, but i'm on my way to financial freedom. You can have that 9-5 life.

Not sure if its okay to share the opportunity on here, but if $600 a month can change your situation right now, i'd like to know.

Of course you are.

[sake]

Isn't it important to try something before being negative about it?

[Baby_nurse]

Isn't it important to try something before being negative about it?

No. Some of us are blessed with common sense and logic. We don't need to fall for a scheme before recognizing it for what it is.

[RSinsights]

Ugh

It's always interesting that no matter what panel you ask there are always the same people expressing the same opinions. Baby Nurse to play the "common sense" and "logic" card is really just an implication on yourself. For those promoting and pushing the recruitment agenda it would be smart to speak rationally and with actual data and not just the numbers that you count late at night while thinking of all the neat things you're going to do with the money that you're going to earn from everyone else's work.

I hesitate to do this because I don't even enjoy commenting on ridiculous go nowhere pissing contest threads but if anyone cares here's what I know....

I hate MLM's. Their methodology and procedures border on ridiculous and illegal. The very suggestion that I will get rich off of recruiting someone else to recruit is offensive and short sighted. I also hate "opportunity" meetings... Geez. Pictures of people leaning on sports cars wearing ice cream suits being all attractive makes me sick to my stomach.

Now, the interesting part. A very good friend introduced me to WakeUpNow as a product because he knew I would tear him apart if he tried to recruit me for some damn opportunity to ride the backs of other like minded folks to financial freedom.

The product is $24.95 a month which was a very little risk to me so I agreed to check it out.

As it turns out the product that I was given was worth the $24.95 a month. The finance software I use regularly still. It is a slick tool that integrates with my bank accounts and kicks out reports and expenses that I can watch and use to manage my families finances better and it really didn't require any additional work. It is much like Mint but having used both I still prefer the WakeUpNow one. The next product was what they call the TaxBot. The program is $20 retail monthly on it's own but I found it for $10 on some other websites. I was genuinely surprised that this product was as useful as it turned out to be. It was easy to use and for a guy who hates to track receipts and expenses it was a blessing to not have to sweat at tax time on whether I should take deductions that I couldn't document. The grocery coupons, online discounts, free crap, magazines... actually I didn't think I'd appreciate the magazines but they were ok too... anyway all the rest of it was kind of a trash bag of crap as far as I could tell and I really had zero interest in it.

The meat of the deal it turned out was the "premium" deals area which I used a bunch of restaurant coupons and the only Disneyland discounts I could find anywhere! The Disney discount which I spent hours looking for outside their program to no avail saved me $180.00. The other real regular value was the cell phone discount. My bill is over $300 a month but I already had a 15% discount but since theirs was 22% I switched it and that cut my bill about $19 a month.

I haven't tried the vacation junk although it's there.. There are some prices that interest me but I just haven't been looking that hard for a discount vacation I guess.

I'd say all in all though for $24.95 a month I probably saved $50-$60 a month after I broke it all down. That's not a huge savings but it's not a kick in the crotch either.

As far as recruiting and all that foolishness I still have zero interest in it... They do offer me $10 a month residual for everyone who I sign up for $24.95 though so that's kinda cool. I have a couple friends who I told about it so I guess I'm up another $30 a month and for a guy who wouldn't join an MLM if his mother started it I'd say it's not a bad little operation.

Oh yeah I forgot to tabulate the savings from the tax and finance software... That is well worth the money and honestly better products than the free stuff that's out there but it only has value if you use it and if you care about that stuff. Being a finance guy in career and aptitude it was interesting to me so I have saved significantly using it and I think my accountant was pretty happy that I could prove everything too.

Anyway... I don't know if this helps anyone or frankly if anyone here cares but that's the truth from a true blue hard core skeptic.

[miliarymonster1027]

Not A Scam PPL

I can personally vouch for Wake Up Now as I have my own business with them. There are no "secrets". I will share anything you would like to know. I can answer any questions you all have. I am making money. Already got my investment back and I am making money now. All of you are just misguided or lacking knowledge of the company.

[lorraineb]

All you need to know to stay away from this company is their own literature about how much people are earning who do this



80% of the people who join make $0.00, so they actually lose money since they have to pay to be part of it.

Of the 20% that do make money, half only make $40 in commissions for the entire year. That means that 90% of the people who join this scheme lose money.

[GeminiDogg46]

There are countless companies out there like this. Stay away. Odds are you will lose a lot more money than you ever make.

OP, if you are looking for additional income then go get yourself a part time job. Someplace that you can physically go to, do actual tangible work, and get a real paycheck every week. No strange monthly fees, no signing up other members, no arbitrary online presence.

Really? if that's the case then why are many fortune 500 companies like Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart do business with Wake Up Now, and why are many people in WUN are making 5 figures a month with just a 100 dollar investment? You said its a scam, prove it! I don't think you can.

[SeanH]

Another scam brought to you by Appeal to Authority and A Million Testimonials Can't be Wrong!

I appreciate that this forum attempts to go easy on moderation, but please, lock these things. The Ignite scam thread was terrible enough. What's next - a thread devoted to buying over-priced, crappy, whole life insurance? Rescuing Nigerian princes?

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

[jeffrey]

I appreciate that this forum attempts to go easy on moderation, but please, lock these things. The Ignite scam thread was terrible enough. What's next - a thread devoted to buying over-priced, crappy, whole life insurance? Rescuing Nigerian princes?

While I appreciate your frustration with threads like this as a regular member, this thread (and others like it) are not for you (unlike the vast majority of others threads in the forum). I keep these open for the person who hears about offers like this and is looking for non biased information on it. I would much rather have someone who has heard about Wake Up Now land here and make an informed decision from all the comments than end up on their propaganda filled pages that don't highlight the problems with it.

Again, I appreciate your frustration as a regular member where this is obviously not a good thing to do, but there are a lot of people not as financially savvy looking for information. If we can keep even one person from making this mistake, then I consider leaving this open a success. Consider these threads as taking one for the team.

[bjl584]

Really? if that's the case then why are many fortune 500 companies like Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart do business with Wake Up Now, and why are many people in WUN are making 5 figures a month with just a 100 dollar investment? You said its a scam, prove it! I don't think you can.

Feel free to prove to me that it's not a scam. You should post up a copy of your W2 showing everyone just how much money you supposedly made doing this.

[Nika]

I have a very competitively priced bridge for sale.

An opportunity of a lifetime! Don't miss it, or you will regret it when your neighbor buys in and starts rolling in the dough from all those tolls.

[RSinsights]

Typical

Excellent thought from the moderator.. Let people discuss it. The problem is that nobody does any discussing. It seems that no matter what comment board you go to on the internet it is not about people "discussing" anything it is solely a shouting match of differing contrarian opinions via text. Nobody here cares to hear what the others are saying... Typical and not even remotely useful so moderator... until you have actual non biased comments all of your threads will be equally useless to anyone who is seeking honest thoughtful opinions and thoughts. Another lesson I will mark up to tilting at windmills.

[lorraineb]

Excellent thought from the moderator.. Let people discuss it. The problem is that nobody does any discussing. It seems that no matter what comment board you go to on the internet it is not about people "discussing" anything it is solely a shouting match of differing contrarian opinions via text. Nobody here cares to hear what the others are saying... Typical and not even remotely useful so moderator... until you have actual non biased comments all of your threads will be equally useless to anyone who is seeking honest thoughtful opinions and thoughts. Another lesson I will mark up to tilting at windmills.

OK, let's discuss this. Their own information shows that 90%+ people that join lose money on it. Does that seem to be a good way to earn money?

[RSinsights]

Response

Lorraine if you are discussing the value of "working" their recruitment program and recruiting others to do the work you don't want to do and eventually become rich you are absolutely correct. It's a fools errand without question and that very point is what most MLM'ers fail to see. If they are hoping to make million dollars recruiting in MLM they won't do it and the two percent who will would never spend anytime on a message board promoting a seriously flawed business model. In most cases MLM's don't have an authentic retail experience. The retail side is manipulated enough to pass the SEC's definition of acceptable so they aren't categorized as a pyramid. It's an offensive practice and I am not one to back down from a fight with any of them whether it's financial services, magic fruit water, or herbal remedies.. but in this case there is a subtle difference. The only reason I agreed to test drive the retail side was as I explained earlier I knew I wouldn't lose money because I was getting the extra 7% off a month on my cell bill. That covered most of the cost at $24.95 so it seemed like a no risk venture. I explained my other savings that actually were larger than I thought they would be. It's been a good experience for me as a retail customer of their product. Now all that being said I have not spent a minute of time trying to recruit people nor will I ever but on the retail program they do offer to pay people to sell the same service I am happy to pay for so if someone wanted to make money doing it I would say maybe they could supplement their income to some degree successfully by only selling a retail product without the word "recruiting" ever passing their lips. That was my only point. I save about $50 a month on discounts not including the crap I could get anywhere then as I mentioned over the 16mos I've been paying for it I've talked to a couple friends who wanted to save on their stuff too.. I didn't suggest they recruit just use the program like I do and I think I get like $30-$40 a month from the group because they are using it. It's important to investigate the data and see what's really going and plead with people not to be lemmings and to allow those professional networkers to prey on them but in this case I think maybe people could make a couple extra bucks; still not likely to get rich but in all sincerity if someone was struggling to cover expenses which is one of the primary reasons I assume people would come to this forum well maybe signing up 20 retail customers and earning an extra couple hundred a month would be worth it.