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That $200 'business coach' I hired just read me a script from a YouTube video
I paid a guy $200 for a one hour coaching call about scaling my reselling side gig. He spent 20 minutes asking me basic questions I already answered in his intake form. Then he pulled up a YouTube video on his second monitor and read the bullet points back to me. I could tell because he kept glancing off screen and pausing weirdly. When I asked about specifics for my niche he just gave generic advice like 'find your audience.' Total waste of cash. Anyone else run into these copy paste coaches?
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murphy.linda7d ago
So you've checked the refund policy yourself or just giving general advice? Curious if this guy even has one or if he just ghosts people.
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felix_lane996d ago
Lost my cool with a "web designer" last month who charged me $300 and literally used a Wix template I could have picked myself in ten minutes. Ended up just asking for a refund and moving on, not worth the headache.
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Has anyone noticed how this same thing happens everywhere now, not just with coaches? I went to a tax guy last year who literally googled stuff right in front of me while charging $150 an hour. And my cousin's kid paid $50 for a resume service that just ran their info through a free online template. It's like people realized they can charge for things that take five minutes of copy-paste work, and the worst part is most of them get away with it because we're too polite to call them out in the moment. Your story is really just the latest example of this whole gig economy where information is free but people still pay for it.
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