Review of MOBE : My Online Business Education founded by Matt Lloyd

Have you come across MOBE - My Online Business Education and Matt Lloyd? Are you wondering if MOBE is a scam? Read about my experience before you do business with them.

As a blogger, I have a real interest in developing online marketing skills and networking with peers who are also in digital business. My goal is to make a consistent living from what I love doing, which is blogging. To do so, I need skills in online marketing. I came across MOBE in the pursuit of the above.

They posted their IM Freedom event on Meetup.com as a educational event for people to learn about online marketing.

The Meetup event was free. So, I suspected that I would be likely be sold some product for ongoing training. But I reasoned that I would learn something. The marketing emails sent leading up to this first free event supported that belief.

Here are some of the lines from an email I got from 'Matt Lloyd' a few days before the meetup event:

“First of all, let me say that this session is not a pitch. It’s 2-hours of practical steps and ideas you can use NOW (or as soon as the session is over) to start making a living online”

Well, that turned out to be a lie.

The 2 hour session that I attended on November 8th at the Sydney Boulevard Hotel in Sydney was totally a pitch. There was absolutely no practical information or training. It was lead by Chris Rowell who poked at people’s wounds about being tied to a job in an environment where the next financial crash was imminent. He mandated the audience to get out of the rat race and go for their dreams of real financial freedom. He posited that he was going to teach us how to do it. He described a course that would educate you on Facebook advertising, online marketing and the unlock the mystery of making money from the internet. He promised to show us the right affiliate programs to use and how to market them.

The lure and psychological manipulation worked. That was my yearning. He got me and pretty much everyone in the room. I was hungry to learn the online marketing skills that would enable me to make a livelihood from what I loved doing, blogging. I had been searching for a way to do this and I was excited that I might have come across what I was looking for.

I was hesitant and fearful. But I still went to the back to the room and paid $650 for the MOBE online marketing course - a three day live business training event scheduled to take place November 17th, 18th and 19th 2017.

I asked one of their “success coaches” to confirm that this was in fact a real course. That I was actually going to learn practical online marketing skills. She asked me about what I did and I told her about my blog and my need to learn how to market it. Her name was Nicholla and with a British accent, she assured me that I would learn valuable skills and that I would not regret it. Hmm... I should have known better than to ask a salesperson. I did look online for reviews about MOBE but they were mixed and far too many for me to troll through in the moment that I was making the decision on the purchase.

I was nervous.

This was not my first rodeo. I had been burned before - buying courses to just then be sold to another more expensive program. The worst one, I ever experienced was Andy Harrington and his so-called "Public Speaker University". Back in 2013, I paid $4000 (the last of my savings at the time) for a 3-day training on how to be and make a living as a Public Speaker. I ended up spending 3 days being sold a thirty thousand dollar program.

But I’ve also had good experiences. For example, I paid $2,000 for a 2 day sales training with Jeffrey Slayter and there I got more than what I paid for.

You never know with these things and the reviews online are always mixed.

As a free-spirit, I try to not let my past regrets stop me from taking risks in the present. It is a delicate balance between giving things a go and learning from my mistakes.

I figured that $650 was not a high investment, so I decided to take the risk.

MOBE turned out to be a complete sham!

The three day event did happen but there was very little actual training in the "Home Business Summit" as it was called.

The trainer Chris Rowell, spent the majority of the time selling the MOBE silver, gold, titanium, platinum and diamond programs. There were hours of video testimonials, hours of him talking about the programs and then more testimonials. We even had to do an exercise where we had to work out how much commission we would make based on a series of sign-ups.

And the programs were ridiculously priced.

The MOBE silver / gold program costs US$2,497.

The MOBE Titanium costs around US$9000.

The MOBE Platinum costs around US$30,000 and... hold on to hour seats, the MOBE Diamond program costs a whopping US$61,000.

Oh and that’s just the program, to have the privilege of reselling it to earn the commission, you have to pay an additional US$19 per month.

In the most affordable program there was no value - just a promise for the same online marketing training course that I had thought I had paid $650 for.

The other programs promised mastermind retreats in exotic getaways and high commissions for on-selling the programs.

Listen, I don’t mind being sold to and I am open to a good business opportunity. I will gladly hand over my money, if you give me something of value. But there has to be an exchange of value.

This did not happen at the MOBE Home Business Summit.

They spent the 78 % of the time selling their overpriced ‘programs’, 10% of the time on general ‘envision the life you want’ personal development, 10% of the time scaring you about the future of the economy and 2% of the time actually teaching online marketing.

Of the two days I was there, there was probably about an hour and a half of actually training. And it was done so quickly that most of the people in the room could not grasp it.

Several times during the event I went up to staff and said, “I’m not learning anything. I paid for a $650 on a course to learn practical online marketing skills. When am I actually going to something?”

This was their response to me.

“It’s only been the first half of the day - just wait. It's coming.”

“It’s only been day one - just wait.”

“It’s only been the first day and a half - just wait.”

“It’s only been the first two days. Wait until tomorrow.”

Finally, I annoyed them so much that they offered me a refund in each exchange for not coming back to day three.

I took it.

I spent day three at the beach instead of being sold to by the MOBE team.

That day (Sunday), I felt relieved. I was so glad to be out of that bubble. I felt disappointed that my hopes were dashed and that I had been taken advantage of.

But that disappointment turned to raging anger when I got an email from the MOBE support team in Malaysia, saying that my refund request was declined.

I got in my car and drove straight back to the event to demand that I get my money back as promised.

When I walked back into the event, the MOBE consultants were busy taking people’s money signing them for these audacious 'programs'. The “trainer” Chris Rowell was at the front telling the people who had not signed up to leave.

Eventually, I managed to speak to someone who overrode the declination of the refund and I got evidence that it would be put through.

I was curious though, if any training did in fact happen on this, the third day of the MOBE Home Business Summit. So I stopped and chatted with some people I had become acquainted with in the days prior.

They confirmed my suspicions. “Day three was just spent selling the programs,” they said. There was some instruction on Facebook ads but it was short and run through too quickly for anyone to grasp.

They were upset and disappointed.

They felt like they had been bamboozled!

I was super lucky to have gotten a refund.

So, Is MOBE a scam?

If you define a scam as taking people’s money and not delivering anything of value in exhange? It certainly is.

I cannot attest to what people receive when they purchase the higher priced programs.

But the free IMFreedom event and the $650 Home Business Summit are solely sales pitches. MOBE blatantly lies in their marketing, telling that you that you are going to get something, but they don't deliver.

Matt Lloyd, the founder of MOBE, is from Perth, Australia.

To be honest, the fact that he is Australian had made me feel more trusting about the whole thing. But Matt Lloyd's business is unconscionable and unethical.

MOBE uses psychological manipulation to use people’s needs, hopes and dreams like bait on a hook. The take your money and do not deliver what they said they would.

Stay far away from MOBE - My Online Business Education.

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