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Threw away $150 on a "learn to code in 30 days" email course
Signed up for some email drip thing that promised daily exercises and a private Slack group, but the emails stopped after day 8 and the Slack link was dead. Anyone else get burned by those cheap video bundles from the mid-2010s?
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emeryn831mo ago
Yeah the "dead Slack link" thing happened to me. That's usually a sign they abandoned the course entirely. Check if your bank or PayPal can do a chargeback since they didn't deliver what they promised.
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thompson.christopher17d ago
My buddy Chris got burned the same way with a "sales mastery" course. Paid $300, got into the Slack on day one, then by day 5 the instructor hadn't posted in like two weeks. He tried emailing the guy and got an auto-reply about "taking a break from the inbox." His bank did a chargeback after he showed them the dead Slack and the missing content from the last half of the course. Took about two weeks but he got his money back.
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matthew_baker1mo ago
The timing thing is a bit off though - those mid-2010s video bundles were actually a totally different beast from these email drip courses, the bundles usually gave you lifetime access even if the content was dated. A chargeback is definitely the right move here since they stopped providing the service after day 8.
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