ACN Opportunity review: Please don't get involved! 145

My husband and I signed up to ACN last feb and my sister and her husband and other family members signed up as well. I feel bad for them because I feel like I sucked them into the same scam I was sucked into. In 5 months ACN cost us 19 000.00! My upline insisted I fly to Vancouver and Toronto for trade shows but there was no mention about them paying for my stay! This company cost me time from my family, loss of friends and I even lost myself. Yes if you put a lot of effort and money into your investment there is a very small possibility you may become RVP but in order to do that, you have to become the most crooked person you could think of. Just don't make the same mistake we did. I gave them 13 reps and many customers in 3 months and I finally got a cheque in the mail 9 months later for 11$. So it cost us 19000 of our own money, 13 other reps at how ever much they each invested and 20 some customers and what ever else they signed up to and WE GOT AN 11$ CHEQUE BACK. LMAO.

I am a very pissed off, soon to be wife (depending how far ACN drives us apart)of an ACN rep:

For the longest time my fiances father has been driving us up the wall about joining ACN with him, My fiance believes that because his dad is doing it it must be a smart move and a great opportunity(which also happens to be all they tell you) We went to the "PBR"s with him and he brought along some of the higher level reps to explain (like an annoying infomericial) Why we should join over and over and over.. still no real mension of the products they are "selling". My future to be father in law has been working his ### off for 7 months only to receive 40 points (which hasn't made him a dime and is very hard to do) You have to make so many points to make any money, in different levels before you see any residuals they tell you about and etc..

We went to see the "queen" of ACN, Mrs Debbi Davis in Canada (one of the people who apparently got the business started) which I find very hard to believe, I also swear I have seen her somewhere around town before.. "She came from far away just to tell us her secrets, she is the best of the best..etc" then when she came out she gave us the exact same presentation that everyone else has been giving us from the start.. I am going insane and feel like I am in hell with no way back.. My fiance decided he wants to do it just because his dad offered to pay the $500 for him, even tho his dad doesn't have any money either.. They pray on the desperate and needy, they tell you the biggest way you will get recruits is if you keep "your WHY" in mind.. (Your "WHY" is the reason you need the money.. for example, our wedding. coming up.. )

I keep hearing all these complaints about not getting the service they paid for, contracts with small print and red tape all over them, someone also said they use to do gas but then got a bunch of people to switch to their gas service and then canceled it.. and now they are saying "we are starting with gas and hydro in January"again tho they still are more about the recruiting then any of the services..

..and what about the videophones, they keep saying it is the way of the future but really, how many people are there with these phones since they have been selling them? I have not seen anyone make any money off this, even with them working their ### off, they go to the conferences, never miss a training day..etc, and even tho they are really great at pitching, they receive no clients because the clients all think its a scam too..

oh and another thing Debbie Davis said to us in regard to the pyramid..she said this company is not a pyramid, regular jobs are the pyramid.. anyone you work for hires you so they can make more money and be successful in this company you will always be on top no matter how many others are above you.. (Only with a regular job at least you know what you are selling and do not have to pay to work there) Then she just went on about making sure we recruit more people and to do that we should take their situation and personalize the sale with the client, ex, if they want a boat say " Hey, I think I may have found a way to make enough money to buy that boat you always wanted" etc.. Again, just to recruit that person not to sell the product.. you end up driving your friends and family away (your warm market) by being an ACN rep! so BEWARE of all the people who do not believe in ACN if you join..

It is a load of crap.. Also I suggest to talk to your girlffriends, boyfriends, husband or wife about it first before you decide to take this plunge and join ACN.. because they will be in their own private hell if they do not agree with you and you go through with it..
I have stood by my man and been trying to help him get customers etc, I have been recruiting for him and helping him along even tho I don't believe because there is nothing I can do to about his decision and because I love him, but it is really killing me..

Also they may say that it only takes 30-45 min.. but it never does! it never ends! there are meetings every night you end up being dragged to that are a total waist of time cause they say the same thing over and over.. and another catch is you can
't market what you are selling, you can't tell anyone anything about the services in which no one in the whole business seems to know anything about the services anyway..
For all you pro ACN reps.. How are you suppose to sell something without having knowledge of or be aloud to talk about what you are selling?

I just want to thank everyone who posted. I was iffy about ACN, still kinda am, but at least know much more about it. I have a friend who signed up over 2 months ago, and she's having a difficult time finding reps. I am uspet with how they all just want to sign people up, if the deals are so good, why don't we hear more about them? Again, I don't know much about it, but this site helped me see a bit further!

I can tell all of you from a great deal of experience that ACN is a good compnay and like many other companies there are people who dont get it and will raise hell just to hear themselves speak.
Before ACN I was in FHTM, was qualified as an Exective according to home office but never got paid my $40, 000 in pay and then they retracted it and will not meet with my attorney and witnesses) it truly is a company that needs to be looked at as far as bad business practices. They resell for companies and over charge hugh amounts to the comsumer as a way of saying they are legal. I dont know how they get away with selling people a Travelosity website for $49.95 a month when Travelosity will give it to you for FREE! This goes on and on.
If any of you need to know more about the differences between ACN and FHTM I will be more than happy to answer any questions. Just be ready for the truth about why you should be turning FHTM over to the authorities.
dayandcompany@yahoo.com

Oh, ya. One more thing. While you are counting how many cents you saved this months, someone is counting their millions, billions Doesn't matter if it's telcos, cablecos, bell...cos or acn...cos or whatever...cos.
At least ACN gives you opportunity to make money too. Not everybody will, for sure. But not everybody is the owner of a billion dollar corporation either.
Nobody's fool, ACN has own agenda: build strong clientel base and make money. Wow how cruel! Bad bad ACN.

When I am reading all this BS I feel sorry for you, people. You are bunch of complainers who sits on their ### and think only bad things about anything you come across in your life. Before you put ### over this company do more research. If everyone who got screwed by Bell, Rogers and all other similar companies (I am talking about Canada) decided to put complains on this site, the server would crush in a second. As example, it took me 8 months to get my money back from Bell, because they signed me up for a contract without my consent. I don't know anyone who didn't have a horror story about Bell or Rogers. Check Better Business Bureau. They have a lowest rate possible. And they are leading companies in Canada. The whole Europe, Asia, Astrualia are booming with this business. And all you do is complain becuase you were screwed by your friends, or pushed by some aggressive salesrep. I signed up, I am using 4 services, I have a best customer service ever since I dumped Bell and Yak.
ACN has a great technology, they use direct marketing model to sale their products and services, one of the oldest business models in a world. The question for you is can you make money using this model or not?
I GUESS NOT!
When my 79 y.o. old mom, who lives thousand of miles away in Siberia can call me anytime and see me anytime she wants using video phone, I say : Thank you ACN! Thank you for your vision!
And you stay home, be miserable, hate your friends, hate your job. Have a nice life!
Larissa from Russia with love!

I am a skeptic of ACN and the pyramid and think you should be too.

If this product, the video phone was so great, then it should sell it self, and telco's would be lining up to sell it, similar to the blackberry or the I phone. But it's not, and I suspect that while a video phone and digital phone services are good for some, most people would prefer not to be seen on a phone call for many reasons. I therefor think the video phone is a decoy or patsy.

I live, and was pitched acn in Ontario Canada. In the past Bell Canada had a monopoly, recently there was a deregulation that permits other companies to sell landline services. Same goes for cable, where Rogers or Shaw cable previously controlled all. Now there is a cross pollination of telephone companies selling internet and cable, and cable companies selling home phone and long distance. Furthermore to end monopoly status a company such as bell with a vast ground infrastructure is require to allow other companies, (such as ACN) to use there existing ground lines. Instead of being forced to share what was already Ma Bells holdings, The Reps for ACN claim that they have instead partnered with Bell, and Telus for cellular service use and so on. And the big catch is that it will be cheaper. I say great where can I start to save... This is where skepticism arrives. (you have already read above about how terrible the ACN service is, and the newly deregulated competition created between telcos and cablecos is already saving me money comparable to ACN's claims.

Because of the way the pyramid reward for employees of ACN is structured, making a sale to you is not worth while, it is only worth 1/4 of a percent per service. And taking there number of an estimated $38 canadian dollars per month for a service (say cellular) this adds up to .09 cents a month. peanuts. However as you move down the line the percentiles increase, and by the time a salesperson at the seventh step below you makes the identical sale and earning the same 1/4 percent, your commission on the very same sale will be as high as 10 percent or $3.80. It is easy then to see why an emphasis is placed on recruiting other salesmen instead of actually making a sale. I kept asking myself, why did the salesman not ask me to bring in my telco bills to share, and then show me how much I could save in real dollars and cents, that is what I would want to do. I would say to potential customer A, your bill per month is x and I can sell you service for x minus 2, look how great that is.

During the ACN pitch the salesperson mentions that typical telco's and cableco's spend an estimated 1-2 million dollars a day on advertising, and also estimate it cost up to $400 to attract any single new customer. They then claim that they can instead save on advertising and pass on the savings to you. Does this sound familiar? Then why is the 499 entrance fee charged, that also costs, I am told 150 each additional year. Perhaps this is the motivation for people to keep trying to sell, as they are in the hole right off the start and feel self obligated to earn back their 499 loss to save face?

Ask yourself, is the only money to be made actually the 499 entrance fee earned by elders in the pyramid. Also if the product and service is so good why does it not sell it self via traditional sales methods that seem to have made telco and cablecos so rich.

I was asked to look over the company's brochure and leaflet by an acquaintance. From the moment he started speaking about the company I knew it was a pyramid scheme of sorts.

I have spent one half hour researching this endeavor and have already read 100 or more negative comments about this company, and 3 positive (all by present employees and not customers). From product through to service. If nothing else matters about a business, it's their ability to provide a quality product and back it up with at least average support and service.

From what I have read, this company is seriously lacking in all the necessary components of successful business. If they can scam people in to thinking they will make a killing by providing a company with tons of sales, then all the power to them. But. That would only prove that they are capable of scheming and swindling people out of their money. In return trading shady product and shifty customer service practices.

Representatives that are aware of shifty business practices and remain an employee proudly, should consider themselves just as shady. Best of luck, because what comes around, goes around.

YES YOU ARE RIGHT! More people should think like YOU!

I recently received an email from an old classmate of mine through Facebook. She asked me about this "new business opportunity" that she would like me to look at. When I asked her, "What is the opportunity and what is it doing", she side-stepped the question, "oh you will love it, but don't have time to tell you anything about it, I will send you out the information." No company name, no information as to what products/services is being sold.

Well, I talked with my wife about this when she got home from work. By the way, my wife was a Mary K. Consultant. She is now a Party Lite Consultant. I got involved with the dangerous aspect of Amyway (some of the products are good but did not like the pyrmiad module of the MLM).

Anyway, as we began to talk about this, I jokingly said "If it is Amway, I am gonna be miffed".

Well today, after a couple weeks, I got the information in the mail. I am looking at this. I am looking at the website. I am looking at the independents rep website. no real information about the cost of investment.

Why wouldn't the company put out the cost of investment for the business?

Now, I mention this in the context of how other home based businesses are accomplished. Take for instance Party lite (yes, going to plug my wife's party lite website in here) www.partylite.biz/daringtodream

Now, what is the investment in becoming a Partylite consultant? Well you host a party lite show and get $350.00 in sales that is your investment. Essentially, my wife will go in and do a show to "sell the product" which is candles, home decor, and other such necessities and if the Host/Hostess wants to become a consultant him and herself, they will be able to by the sales that the show makes. This is stated in their presentation. On top of this, a host/hostess actually earns "Specials" for that month. Either a discount on a popular product(s). What if you don't get $350.00 and you still want to become a consultant? There is the offset factor to my understanding or the ability to host other shows until you reach that.

Another aspect of this, there was a huge Party Lite conference, My wife could not go but had already paid for it. Someone else went into her place. She still received $500.00 of product for free, well if you want to count the fact that she paid for that for the conference, she paid for the new fall products that have come out.

All of this is upfront in home based business like Party lite.

Myself, I love to cook. I have been looking to become a Pampered Chef Consultant. Guess what, the cost of investment is stated right on the back of the pampered chef catalog and that investment is only $155.00 and you get all that you need to do a show... I have hosted a pampered chef show, my wife has hosted and done Mary K (and still does), she has friends who do Tupperware, Tastefully Simple, Pampered Chef. There are much better home based business that are not like these MLM...

Granted, yes, my wife signs people up under her, but these business are more about selling product than getting people signed up. Yes, the goal is to get someone to become a consultant, but it is a by product of being able to sell candles, kitchenware, spices, storage containers, and other such things.

So, after reviewing the material that was sent to me? Knowing what we use already for wireless, broadband internet, cable, and VOIP through our wireless carrier (which is the cheapest on the market because we have the TMobile At Home Service. Granted it has been a pain when we initially set it up, but we have had those issues resolved and it works just fine now).

And, on a final note, when I discussed this with my old classmate, I asked a very simple question (which was the very first red flag for me). If I take a look at what you have to offer, will you be willing to host a show for my wife? Her response? "I am too busy to do anything else but this business opportunity and you will understand why when you receive the paperwork).

Honestly, if an individual is trained not to be upfront and honest with you about everything, including the investment or even what it is about, then why invest your money?

And if anyone disagrees with me on this, it shows that they lack the necessary Critical Thinking Skills to make an informed decision that will affect their pocket book and life. Yeah, I want to work from home. Yes, I know what it takes. And, yes, I understand.

But go into any McDonalds Restaruant and ask how you can find out about starting up your own franchise. The investment is right up front.

Why can't ACN say this? Why do they have to be deceptive about it? Because if they were open and honest, they would not be able to accomplish that which they have brainwashed many people into thinking. And, furthermore, to supress any critical analyst of their company is further evidence that they are not a reputable company to begin with.

I went to a meeting last night [protected] and it sounded very good and who doesn't have a cell phone and why mot make money just doing what we all do. We all have cell phones and i am told they are cheaper and all customer service is with the service provider like Verizon so how can we lose on this great deal. I had a problem with the $500.00 cost and after reading different sites they also charge 30.00 a month web site fee and $150.00 a year and you get charged if people stop paying there bill. I liked Amway it was a low cost and you buy things you use without this high cost. If you stop doing ACN looks like you can lose money. If the money earned is because of the sign up bonus and not the products being sold every month you can have a hard time keeping friends and having family being happy with you. I will past at this time with ACN. Show me how to make money from selling a product and not from sign people up at $500.00 a pop. Thanks Bill T in San Diego

acn has been a nightmare for me. my husband has been brain washed with this company. First he has been going to the meetings every saturday, now started going during the week on top of going to meet with suckers to sign them up. I refuse to believe in a company that charges their new representative $499 is worth while considering if the business was worth while the business would speak for themselves. But as they know that probably about out of 100 people that sign up only 1 or 2 will continue. But by then, they would have earned $50, 000 in entry commission and then all those representatives would have signed up at least 10 people each approx giving ACN 1000 new customers(suckers). Then they have these wonderful meetings interstate which my husband has also been suckered into, spending another $400 or so, who pays for that, we do from our money. On top of that he has been stupid calling everyone on his phone list to try and get them to sign up too, which has now gone over $600 in less than 2 months. On top of that he has signed up for a video phone $299 + postage and handling and turns out we will be in a contract. Seriously, and for what, i havent seen a dime back from all the money he keeps spending. We have never had serious problems like ACN have caused me. I wish my husband had seen the light like Renata and just cut his losses but maybe he is in too deep and when he realised that he is doomed to fail it will be too late and ACN a lot more better off for his stupidity.

ACN MEETINGS ARE KIND OF DECEPTIVE BECAUSE THE SPEAKERS TELL THE SAME STORY OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THEY MIGHT AS WELL PLAY A RECORDING OR A VIDEO THROUGH THE VIDEO PHONE..WAIT A SECOND, AT ACN MEETINGS NEVER SHOW A WORKING VIDEO PHONE, OR EVEN TEST SUCH DEVICE, ONCE I CHALLENGE ONE OF THE MULTI TRILLIONERS OF ACN TO CONNECT AND MAKE A VIDEO CALL TO ANOTHER ACN VIDEO PHONE, ANSWER, SURE WHY NOT, LATER, NEVER HAPPENED.
THE VIDEO PHONE TECHNOLOGY JUST DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY, IF YOU WANT GOOD VIDEO AND AUDIO STREAMING YOU NEED TI OR FIBER OPTIC LINE PLUS YOU NEED TO GET A GOOD ROUTER PLUS NEED TOO CHANGE THE PORTS OF THE ROUTER AND PROBABLY REPLACE THE CORDLESS PHONES SO YOU CAN USE THE ONES ACN SELLS SPECIALLY FOR YOUR VIDEO PHONE. I THINK ACN IS NOT QUITE AS HONEST AS THEY CLAIM TO BE, SHOW THE DAMM VIDEO PHONE IN YOUR MEETINGS AND PLACE VIDEO CALLS TO EUROPE, AUSTRALIA, ACROSS NORTH AMERICA AND SEE FOR YOURSELF THE VIDEO QUALITY, IT REALLY SUCKS, THEN CALL THE CANADIAN CUSTOMER SUPPORT THAT DOES NOT WORK 7/24. JUST IN CASE YOU PHONE GOES DOWN ON THE WEEKEND... YOU ARE DOOMED, AND PERHAPS YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THE ACN CUSTOMER SERVICE REP...CALL THEM AND HEAR FOR YOURSELF...

Albert the system... your a jack ###. ACN sucks man. I am a leading network market manager with a very large company and I never saw customer service as bad as with this company.

Looks like we have a lot of ACN reps with a lot of free time on their hands to allow them to write these rebuttals. If not for the tragic fact that they are ripping off their friends, one would laugh at these comments. I attended one of these sale pitch but left in the middle. Right away, I recognized their technology was not useful at all and that they had no product or service to sell. The numbers they quoted were just unrealistic. They are just a pyramid scam. You can achieve same with Yahoo/Skype and a web cam without the monthly service charges. Imagine trying to push streaming video through the Internet, it will be choppy. Most people are going mobile and losing their land lines. How about trying video conferencing with your mobile card, it is not going to work. Stay clear of this company.

ACN is a Great company. Ask yourself complainers. Did I follow the ACN system? Do I know anyone who did? I Just came from a ACN International event with almost 30, 000 people from 20 diffrent countries. You CAN"T SCAM leading wireless companies and satellite companies and securities companies that ACN is part of. REALLY GET A CLUE and stop being so hateful.

We agree with all those complaints. I want to let you know that we got suckered into it with being pushed. We should have waited because we went to a meeting a day after a tragedy occurred. But, when we decided to get out of it within time frame, we had nothing but TROUBLE. In the beginning, the VOIP didn't work where people couldn't hear us. My husband called ACN and they said they settled it and the problem is STILL there after calls and calls to ACN. Recently, we filed a complaint through BBB (which is great for those of you who have difficulty with ACN, should do), our phone was shut off! My husband and I were ANNOYED with all these ridiculous problems. They said, to get a faster internet (which is faster than the people who sponsored us) and that MAY work. Why put out MORE money to get it to work, IF it works! We are still having difficulty with this ACN and the phone and we can't hear people on the VOIP nor our land line. It took forever to get the phone service. We are sick and tired of not and having the phone working here and there. People are not calling us and we have another business is a GREAT business where people are making money, the fee is so low and sometimes free that you can't lose and the products are excellent and coming from someone who is always skeptical (that is me) then it's got to be a great company! ACN SUCKS! Please do NOT get into it...ESPECIALLY if you decide to get out of it or your life will be a living HELL. My husband says that there is not enough people in the world to work under you. You HAVETO get 2 people under you to make money. Then those two people haveto get two people under each one of them for them to make money and goes down and down. He says that it's impossible to get people in the world under you. You won't be able to make money unless you have people under you and you get people to be coustomers under you then you may make money. I can't wait until we are officially done with ACN for good!

Okay. I went to a pitch yesterday for ACN. I was not impressed. I found the video phone to be an expensive alternative to webcams.
I pay for my interntet access and that's it. I talk to my family over the webcam just fine with no extra costs..I also can talk to other people in other countries at no extra cost.

To be fair, I wouldn't call ACN a scam. It is a pyramid selling method. The truth is you could make money if you pushed the product as in any product. It depends on the amount of time and effort you put into sales. But to me, my morals are much more important.

I wasn't happy with the presentation. The rep misrepresented many facts trying to sweeten the deal. She said you get 10%, well you do after you reach a certain level. She also misrepresented a few other facts that peole who have no experince with computers or the internet.

The products and the company are overrated and overpriced. But they did give me an idea to volunteer my time to help people set up there pcs and webcams to help keep in touch with family members.

I have numerous ACN services - Video Phone, DirecTV, an AT&T cell phone, local and long distance phone, and ADT Security. They are all flawless, and I couldn't be happier. Great service in my opinion!

Well how about this. It happen between June and Nov of 2008. I was a Ind Rep. I received a defective unit, call customer service, got instructions to return and everything. I received my new unit. then 2 months later I received a not paid bill note from ACN. That's strange I use my credit card for that purpose it only 38 dollars a month. When I investigated they were charging 223.00 for a unit that was defective. they told me it was because they have not received the defective unit. I told them "I'm sorry but has nothing to do with me, I did exactly as I was told". With my help they learned the unit was in a warehouse in PR. So they went on still charging me with that amount plus the months of service which I was not receiving, because they could not charge me (credit card limit was 200 mo.) they wanted me to pay for their mistake, "oh, it will be credited" . Are you insane? I prefer MY money in my pocket, so to speak. Went to BBB web page file a complaint, they stopped charges and also unilaterally terminated my service. So naturally I lost my position in the company because of lost points. So mamen, chupen y traguen de mi popeta chorros de pendejos...

The only man that had all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe

A colleague of mine would like me to get involved with this concept, and the video phones don't EVER work. It is tough to keep a straight face during demonstrations...

It is true, most companies outsource customer service, but you really can't contact this company as I have tried. Do you really want to get involved with such headaches?

It would seem this is a legitimate company, just one that sells a really crappy product, and offers no support because they know it's useless to try and fix it.

The reality is, at least with the video phone anyway, is that it's too soon to adopt such technology on a mass scale. We need the technology surrouding it - the Internet - to catch up to the whole thing.

I own my own consulting firm. Starting your own business is not only tough, but A LOT OF FUN AND STRESS! To get this much stress with someone else's product just seems silly to me...

My name is John Torsch, I am 24 and own a successful security company. Recently I sustained an injury and can't work for 3 months. I was introduced to ACN back in July and thought the same thing as most people, it was a scam...Now that my income is suffering I decided to talk to my friend who introduced me to it months ago and see how he liked it. ACN was working for him, with very minimal work he was making money and had the checks to prove it. This was a man who I greatly respected and trusted so I knew there had to be something to it.

After I attended a Saturday training I was in 100%. The people there were not losers, degenerates or people looking to get rich quick. They were business owners like myself, accountants, Realtors, lawyers and many other professionals from the business world, all of them making real money with ACN. The bottom line is you are buying a franchise when you buy into ACN. It is like any other business, you get out of it what you put into it. I have lots of contacts and love to talk, so ACN works for me. I have absolutely no MLM experience. I believe in every service that ACN offers and have not had one complaint about them. Besides the video phone or digital phone service, any problem you have with any other service would be with the company providing the service.I.E. Verizon, Dish Network, etc...

I grew up in Baltimore City and I'm a blue collar hard working man. I can spot ### or a scam from a mile away. This not a get rich quick scam, it is a turn key business that takes work like any other business. I am here to tell you that every hour of work I have ever put into ACN has been more enjoyable than any hour I spent pulling cable or hanging cameras.

ACN works in Maryland and we have an unbelievable team. We all help each other to make money. When I make money my friends make money and my upline makes money so why wouldn't they want to help me. I can't say enough about ACN's training and support, WOW! If you have good contacts, a strong work ethic and are motivated by money you can succeed in ACN. I have a 10th grade GED and I make more than both my parents combined. Take want you want from my experience and remember that the internet is like a bathroom wall, any ### with a pen(computer) can write whatever they want about anyone. Make your own decision, it could change your life.

HA, HA, HA! I got the last laugh on this blog: I joined ACME...oops, I mean ACN and made 15, 000, 000 in the first week! I was so successful, Donald Frump came over to my place and kissed my *&%$#!

BE SMART! Before you invest in any business, do your homework and check the company's history. Don't believe the hype on whether it works or not - check it out yourself. I've HAD friends who still sell AMWAY and will swear to you they bring in 10's of thousands in profits weekly and/or monthly. Yet, they have no life selling their crappy products, attending pyramid conventions and are still living in the same modest 2 bdrm apartment for the past 17 years. Pyramid schemes only work if you're on top or sell to your whole family(including a few lineages back), ex-friends or half of the population of whatever state you live in.

ACN is a load of horse crap... I am from Ireland. Signed up to ACN as an agent and ordered 2 video phones. Waited for over a week for the phones to arrive.
When they arrived they didnt work right. Delay of voice on the line could talk to people properly with them. Phoned ACN about this. Waited 2 days then they called back to do tests on the line. Waited another day and they called back more tests and changing settings. I tried the phones in a different location same thing...

Had on choice but tosend them back. Couldnt sell a service like this to my customers. Got refund on my 2 phones but not on my agent fee cost me 484.79 euro... They said it is because I didnt cancel with in 14 days... What a scam... They delayed things so they could do this... They told me to read the small print on the form. (point no.17) NO REFUND for me. TOTAL SCAM... BEWARE... BEWARE...

First of all, no company allows their employees to talk directly to the media--they hire media and public relations people whose jobs it is to work with the media. In most large companies, for the regualr rank and file to speak to the media could cost you your job If you think paying $500 to become a member of a group is a scam, then what do you call colleges and universities, where you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for an education, but you're not guaranteed not even a job upon graduation? In fact, unless you are well connected (i.e. on someone's A-list) you'll settle for waht ever job you can find. As for "roping in relatives" and not getting good service--have you ever tried to contact your local cable provider? What about customer service for the credit card you're paying 25% interest for per month? Chances are you are not speaking to someone in America, especially after 5 pm you local time.

I'm tring ACN, because I've been in the corporate world and I know that they are not perfect either, just ask someone who's recently been let go from AIG or Bear Stearns. They were nothing more than salesmen, too. Stockbrokers and bond traders. They'd give anything to only lose $500.

All the complaints about ACN are true. I am very sucessful business woman that decided to give it a try. The customer service is horrendous, you wait on hold for hours. Myself and reps under me did not get our phones for 6 months. Bonuses were not paid as promised.When we finally got the phones there was nothing but problems. They do not work in other countries as promised by the speakers. Fax machines no longer work, house alarms, ect... Ken Powells comment of those that fail because they are not able to cut it in the real world is so false. I had 3 attorneys join under me all of who left the business when the problems started. None of us wanted to associate our name with this scam company. Sure there are alot of people making alot of money at this but at what expense? At whose expense? To some of us $500 was not alot to loose but what about that poor person that used their last $500 for this dream? I have seen this many times, I know personally in my own downline there were a couple of people unemployed. I have seen my reps loose friends over this. No one wants to help you when the problems start and there are many. Reps are told to "edify" the speaker.PLEASE! It is all a great scam. I'm glad not to be involved. Trust me, the people making money are working their ### off to do it. Do you really want to get 100's of complaint calls a day? Do you want to waste every weekend listening at brainwashing repetative meetings? At whose expense is this worth it? I DO NOT know 1 person who has got a single residual check from this. Maybe it is about time the media exposed this company. Maybe a class action suit is in order for all the false information given.

Wow and you are a represenitive of your company? You got to be joking. Coming on here with your back to the wall and your claws out. Real professional. I am just dying to deal with you and your company. Pyramid schemes, illegal or not, make me absolutely sick.

"Wah Wah Wah! if you had any guts what so ever to start your own company, and you knew what it took to do so, and the cost associated with it? My god, you all sound like a bunch of pansies.

The independent representatives of ACN are hard working and highly motivated sales people that use Direct Marketing instead of traditional marketing to build sales teams. Those who fail, either have had bad guidance or are lazy and ineffective sales people. Remind me to round up all the negative comments on this blog, and make sure to share it with all of the employers out there loooking for good quality people to hire. Trust me you better go ahead and except that job at Wendy's becasue you could never cut it in the real world.

If anyone out there would like to see how a real sales organization is run, please contact your local ACN Independent Representative, we know what we are looking for.

Ken Powell
ACN Independent Representative"

I hope that for all you that get involved with ACN that you see the big picture and that is you are making more money on recruitment than "residual income".

If this seems right to you then good luck. Wasn't my thing 14 years ago when I was recruited in my home state of Michigan where the company was founded. Tell Mike and Tony Cupisz I said hi and ask them how their friendship is with their childhood friend Dave Rutz.

Dave was friends with them for many years and even saved one of the brother's lives from drowning. He left the company because of unethical practices. He started his own FREE, network marketing company. Go figure. Tell me how great this company is now.

Nice testaments of people being there 3 months, 4 months, 7 months. Has anyone been doing it for more than that? This company preys on ignorant people who have dreams of becoming rich through network marketing but unfortunately most don't have the salesmanship to do so, let alone to do it ethically.

Find out what the retention rate is on reps. Yes there are people making money in that organization and like one person stated, they are people with sales experience. I don't doubt you can make $1000's on recruitment. Where's your "residual check"? How much is that big one for?

i was invited to a meeting to enter ACN. it looked like they wanted me to join jehovas witness thing. lool all seating down not talking anything untill everybody showed up. they started talking about getting us in with the 499 entrance fee, why not 500 why 499, whatever. no body talked about the features of the products they sell all they wanted to do just get mi signed on. I told them this looks like a great product. (video phone) they had it set up where its just showing the person whos in front of it, and the picture quality was great like high def. i cut them out during the meeting and told them iam a great salesman and i can sell thousands of this in a month, but nooooooo they said, why do you want to do that, no no no no this is where youre wrong, go bring more people in and let them sell the product. loooll i started laughinf and told them to call someone and demonstrate this phone, they called someone and all of a sudden the picture quality went horrible, i asked them and they said becuase the guy in the other end is using a air card for internet, are you that stupid, you have all many reps and clients and you couldnt call a land line to see the quality is better or not? i laughed at them and told them if you show up in my neighborhood and try to rip off my friends i will shop off your feet.

All I have to say is that maybe ACN works in regards to sale, but how can I promote a company where the Video Phone does not work to it's full potential. I had two video phones and they kept seizing up, I had to shut them off and re boot them to make them work again. I had so many calls in to Technical Support they had me plug my Video phone directly into the modem and the modem directly into the wall, they had me phone Linksy's to have ports opened. After doing all of this I was told I would not have another problem with my video phone, wrong, two calls later, my phone seized up again.
I returned the phones to a warehouse in Newmarket, Ontario and the building was huge. Down one wall was skids of video phones that had been returned because they did not work properly.
I am in the process of trying to recover my investment which at first I beleievd to be a great idea. It has now turned into a nightmare.

This is supposed to be a Communication Company, please tell me what telephone number they have besides Technical Support and the Main telephone line. Try to speak to someone with authority, try to be put through to someone with an extension.

I was advised that no-one has an email address, except internally. I cannot believe that Donal Trump is promotong this product.
If rep's are selling this to their family and friends, then a lot of people are going to find they will be losing some friends and family are not going to speak to you.

If my money is not refunded I will be going further with this matter. All I want is my money refunded and I will let sleeping dogs lay.

haha, i feel sorry for all ur acn noobs~ look at all of them! ""CONTACT ME IF YOU WANNA BE IN MY TEAM or WORK WIT ME!" "ACN IS SUCESSFUL" hahaha. geeez guys... ur giving it away too easy... u greedy and dumb noobs. $500 bucks for that crap? hahahaha u guys sure are smart... yup uh huh...
sooo does that mean... MARKETING > FAMILY ?
i dont know about ACN ppl... i got a heart unlike people like you.
hope u get all ur money sucked away and be broke for life!
haha dumb noobs

My wife and I just started ACN 25 days ago. So far so good.
MLM is no Joke. Just work the business and let go of your upline. Learn from them and take it from there. Pass them up. Become the up-line. You are the BOSS. Are you the small fish or the Big fish. Look who are on stage. Not you. Not YET! Better do what they do or you will never be and you will quit very soon...right now you are there customer. How much have your spent so far? $1000.00
Got a video phone? bet you do...
We will be on top. Will you? go for it...:) This is Marketing in the true sence.

I THINK ACN IS THE BEST I AM MAKING MONEY THAT EVEN IF I WORKED 24HRS 7 DAYS WEEK ALL YEAR FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS WILL NOT LIKE WHAT I MAKE WITH ACN. JOIN NOW INVEST ON YOUR FEATURE NOW TRUST ME THE CHECKS DO COME. HAVE FUN WITH WHAT WHAT YOU DO AND YOU WILL SEE THE REWARDS!

These must be all true storys, Because I sent you some positive feelings and it never made print. I tell all my new prospects for new reps for ACN to write in positive things, I tell them if it doesn't make print, then you know this web sight is bogus. Thanks for helping me recruit. Hope to make TC by the end of year. 25, 000 plus .

I just had my services moved to ACN over a month ago and I'm enjoying every bit of it.In my opinion people always tend to make negative comments about anything without giving it a try.I had struggles also before I finally got those services (internet, homephone)but those are normal for me because most of us are used to have everything in rush waiting for an immediate result that could only lead us to stress and the worst thing is finding something against it to justify ourselves and become comfortable.But if you would only try to understand how these people on the top when they started it then, that somehow will give you an idea how things work.Just like when you just started your new job and as time progresses as you are becoming familiar to it you'll realize how good it is.With your $500 is not that much versus those that you have in your closet or anything that you paid for and sitting there that you don't use.Life is a gamble and whatever plans you have and wanting to do if you don't do it right you'll end up wondering and losing all the precious moments of your life.

Being an ACN rep is all well and good. My daughter and her husband were involved with them for a length of time. However don't think that any billing dispute with them regarding their services is going to be handled smoothly. 1) You can't speak to the billing dept. 2) the customer service person you speak to on the phone can do nothing to solve your problem. 3) the supervisor you talk to after speaking to a customer service rep will only spout the party line about 3-5 days to solve a billing problem. In other words no one you talk to on the phone has any authority to do anything. Stay with AT&T. That's who I am going back to.

David

To the ACN Rep who magically earned $14, 688 in a month, who can't write to save his life, why are you wasting your time insulting disgruntled customers when there's money to be made? Wouldn't your time be better spent learning the English language to go along with your charms to boast sells?

ACN Rep: Anonymouse, ur cryin becorse ur a hater who will never mak it in life but you wate and see wen this intelligeant human bean (ME) who never got hooked on fonics drives bi you in a Mersades Bens and we see who lafs lol i beet you and keep makeing money to THOS WHO TRY!

Ken Powell: ACN Rep, becasue of your inspiring defense of our company, how about a job at our main branch under customer support. I've been loooking for someone who spells worse than me with no sense of grammar.

I am an honest trusting acn rep (besides being an honest trusting person) I dont believe in ripping people off from their hard earned money. If anyone wants to work with me by becoming an acn rep/be on my team or be a customer please email me at acnbizrep@yahoo.com or please check out my website www.mwinchester.acnrep.com. Thank you.

lol acn is amazing people that are having problums are people who have no sales experience. These are the ones who are always writeing blogs about something saying (its bad )(dont do it) (it will never work). In all reality ive been with the company for just over a month ive herd all the people crying and wasting away there useless lives putting blogs online and its so sad. the real sales people like my self are the ones you watch the video to see and let me tell you its real my first mont check was 14.688. I work with my group all the time and weve had no problums what so ever you people keep crying about this company all you want just wate until you friends rant and rave about there success. Just do everyone a favor and stop wasting your time writeing this ### and make someone else there money! use your cell phone and internet just keep useing it thats how i make my money because iam successful and some what smart i cant spell worth a ### but i sure can explain this company and how its changeing my life and how i will never ever have to work a 9 to 5 dead end job crying about it online with this blog crap lol well to top it all off have a great day smoke ur week wite trash people who cant better there lives and keep useing ur cell phone/internet thank you and good luck to THOS WHO TRY!

Wah Wah Wah! if you had any guts what so ever to start your own company, and you knew what it took to do so, and the cost associated with it? My god, you all sound like a bunch of pansies.

The independent representatives of ACN are hard working and highly motivated sales people that use Direct Marketing instead of traditional marketing to build sales teams. Those who fail, either have had bad guidance or are lazy and ineffective sales people. Remind me to round up all the negative comments on this blog, and make sure to share it with all of the employers out there loooking for good quality people to hire. Trust me you better go ahead and except that job at Wendy's becasue you could never cut it in the real world.

If anyone out there would like to see how a real sales organization is run, please contact your local ACN Independent Representative, we know what we are looking for.

Ken Powell
ACN Independent Representative