The Cult of Dan Lok - Brainwashed Student Lost $26,000 Testimonial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ย. 2019
- WARNING: Garrett's testimonial reflects his own personal experience and opinions of HTC, Inner Circle, and Closers in Black. It is up to each and every one of you to decide the truth about Dan Lok for yourself.
Garrett lost an estimated $26,000 to Dan Lok's various courses and lost opportunities. He wants to make sure it never happens to anyone again.
Dan Lok dresses the way people who have never been in sales think that sales people dress like.
Lol Ouch
Lmfao
True
Holy shit i thought you're dan lok for a split second
@@Sh1nrue you think all asians look the same huh?
Imagine paying 5000 to get told to work hard
You just made my day, So fucking funny dude 👌👌👌
Taxonomic Quantum really really?
😂😂😂😂😂
Haahhaah
Philip Mwangi preciate it man
Just like so many toxic relationships: if you're successful, the credit goes to your teacher/parent/advisor. If you fail, it's your fault.
Same as being xtian or Islamic
@@snooganslestat2030 not many Christian or Muslim practice it that way I don't think
Indeed! Its never that the business model is bullshit. Its never that the method itself is bullshit. Its never that the guru made money selling bullshit. Its always about you just not working hard enough, not positive enough, not willing enough
@@snooganslestat2030I can't speak to the former but every Muslim I've spoken to doesn't practice it that way.
@@snooganslestat2030 That's a dangerous stereotype to be throwing around.
你好，我是來自亞洲的人，你可以使用翻譯，看看我的想法. Dan Lok，他最近一直在亞洲各個國家不斷在宣傳他的影片，因為他開始往他熟悉的國家做傳播，宣傳他的“課程”，（中國、馬來西亞、新家坡、台灣）
我認為，你們應該把這個影片增加 Mandarin的語言， 讓更多人看到這個影片！ 他現在把很多的影片，增加了另一個語言（e.g. Mandarin), 讓更多人“加入”他的團隊.
雖然我沒有買他的任何課程，但是我看的出來，他的手段，他不斷敲擊受眾的“需求”, 擴大受眾的“慾望”, 甚至催化他們的“願望”.. 我常常看到他的廣告，我真的覺得很厭煩.
希望不要再有人受騙了.
你的影片，非常有意義.
很棒✌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Good luck! I don’t know if he will but I hope he does
It's sad that a lot of these scammers move onto other countries that aren't aware of their reputation to continue their scams. They really do bank on the fact that majority of people here can't read up on their crimes and they can also flaunt that they are super "successful" in America. I see this a lot with pyramid schemes and MLMs too. 我也希望更多人能看到, 不要被騙.
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Mark Twain
It boggles my mind how that works.
I've been into in Auto Insurance bpo industry and trust me. Fooling people to avail is easier than honestly convincing them 😂
That makes no fucking sense. You’re the one who’s been fooled thinking it does lol. Ironic.
@@AceDeclan "ur wrong but I wont explain why"
@@AceDeclan how doesnt it make sense? Its common sense. Its fuckin psychology😂. Its a fact not a debate.
I research so much before buying a $10 Udemy course, I don't understand how people would buy a $2000 course 😶
Ikr, I wouldn't even consider buying a game for $1 unless I've done my research and know its good.
what course did you buy?
Same
It depends... I've paid $1200 for a Neil Patel marketing course (Which didn't pay off) yet doing a udemy a $50 course on NodeJS or ReactJS or product management has paid infinitely off more for me in the end. That said, I've also paid 6k for a AI / Data Science Bootcamp. Everything has a cost / benefit to it and you just have to weigh things carefully.
Prior to the data science bootcamp I had not paid anything close to that much for anything but 1) I was already a developer and entrepreneur at that point (So I could get a job fairly easily compared to others who would've just taken the course by itself) 2) It was and is a burgeoning industry 3) It would have and did immediately increase my capacity to earn more money in the short term and finally 4) I had chosen my next startup to be AI related. And a year later here I am with a VC backed AI startup.
@@Ayasir-lo3ir I do a lot of courses on Udemy. Mostly coding related
I have a brother that is trapped inside this kind of cults. I've tried several times helping him out but most of the times i felt powerless. The most disturbing thing about this is not the money wasted buying those courses, but the mental scar that those toxic comunities leave and the psychological consequences. Now my brother has no friends, he is 24/7 in his room following those courses and he lost touch with everyone, family included, he spent lots of money chasing the "6 figures skill" . I moved to another city and he completely deleted me, in more than 3 years i have no communication with him because those cults promote isolation in order to better control and brainwash you, and if you disagree with those cults' principles you are a negative person that has to be isolated, the same happened to my brother: he isolated me because i was a negative person that was trying to block his path towards success. And the saddest thing is that is not his fault, but is how the game was meant to be. They took advantage of a good, intelligent, determined and pure person like him. Those cults are no different from Jonestown, but instead of god there is money and the lead principle is chasing cash and luxury.
Kinda sad how the government allows it to go on like that.
They are narcissists ( the cult leaders) who takes advantage og people with mental dissorders. The most common is « codependency dissorder»
I'm hoping that your brother gets out of this malignant and blatant manipulation.
@@maicadiz4321 he won’t to far in and he doesn’t seem to be the most self reflective and brightest to realize
@@UrMe666 you could just say nun mannn..
I hope his wife is doing well. Imagine your spouse quitting their job without telling you and spending damn near 30k on a scam. His folly affects her, too.
I wishs she'd left him, tbh. Getting scammed isn't his fault, but making financial decisions without your partner shows huge disrespect and is a massive red flag. It's a behavior likely to carry into other aspects of his life with her.
@@Qrtuop it was just one bad decision, you want people to break up just because one of them made a mistake like this? Plus you're very quick to judge Garrett and I'm sure you don't know him personally to justify the harsh words.
Regardless of how Garrett is as a partner, "it's just one bad decision" is a bad justification. Domestic violence can also be just one bad decision, but you can bet ur @ss I'd be telling Garrett to run if his wife hit him 'just once', especially since I believe close to half of people who are victims of domestic violence end up dead within one year due to a murder or murder-suicide by their partner or former partner (fun fact, 72% of murder-suicides are of partners or former partners in domestic violence situations). Safety, whether it be emotional safety or physical safety, isn't something to mess around with. I agree that she should have left him, 30k behind her back is a huge deal and he broke her trust in a huge way, even if he meant well. If they're able to build back up that trust slowly then I could see them eventually getting back together, but it takes a lot and a long time to trust someone who broke your trust in such a huge way, and that's assuming she'd want to get back together with him and not just cut her losses. I'd say the same if she went behind his back and spent 30k.
@@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa
Because getting scammed is comparable to domestic violence. "It was just one mistake" isn't the same in all cases. However, I agree that spending 30K without her knowing, is a BIG mistake.
@@kosaelectronics he wasn’t equating them, he was giving an example of how just one bad mistake can be devastating and something that should cause you to leave. If my wife spent $25,000 on something like this without telling me, that would be really hard to move on from. That severely affects your whole family.
Dan Lok makes the Indian IRS call center scammers look like angels.
😂😂🤣
Amen to that, i'd rather get scammed 500 than getting my brain indoctrinated with "mindset" bollocks plus 2.5k out of my bank
Cruise Control of EVERYONE LETS GET MEMELOUS TO EXPOSE THESE FAKE GURUS
@@mobilegamers1tv638 You're a hero 👍
Indeed
Worst part about these schemes is that victims usually stay quiet because of embarrassment, but they need to speak up about their experience to warn others.
so called vicims were never cut out to be anything in the first place. if they had what it takes then they'd try something WITHOUT paying thousands of dollars to someone to hold their hands. thats what guru courses are. "victims" need someone to hold their holds even tho chances are they will never take enough action to make any changes.
@@ebayseller6040 Yes, but gurus shouldn't try to silence the truth by threatening to sue their clients for speaking up. In addition most of these victims are 18-22 year old's that might be in disparate need of financial help and it's major companies like TH-cam, Facebook... that allow these fraudulent practice to continue on their platform.
@@DallasCowboyFan95 The issue here is legality. They aren't doing anything against TH-cam's terms, nor doing anything illegal.
They are selling a service (albeit a shady one), but the key point is that (no matter how shady and scammy it is) they actually still do deliver that service.
Hence the cycle continues.
@@ebayseller6040 many arent. but if you were there around the time of what Garrett was saying you'll feel the same way. IT WAS A SHIT SHOW. and like coffezilla said, you can learn most of this shit for less than $100! DAN LOK PREYS ON THE WEAK AND DESPERATE. I ONLY HOPE HE CHANGES OTHERWISE HE WILL GO DOWN. HE ALREADY IS
AnilAslan an example that contradicts your point is these gurus are exactly like companies such such as EA and Activision
He is so good at telling the story, I felt like he must have gone thru this in his head a lot of times to be this smooth, hope you're doing better now!
agreed, he may be embellishing a few things and the dramaticness of it, but the scam and all the money lost is real. and im sure all of the incredibly desperate people getting scammed left right and center wasn't too far off.
This is why they say monkeys are smarter than humans there really not but people like this make you think gurantee there all Republicans those are always the dum ones
Admitting you've been fooled takes real courage and integrity. When you admit it you can help many, many people from making the same mistake.
People are only fooled when they are uneducated. This is not the fake guru's fault. People are desperate vs being educated which is why they jump into things and then later on cry that they were scammed.
MASSIVE respect to the person opening up about being scammed. It takes a big man to make himself vulunerable like that and in my opinion, it speaks a lot more about the kind of man he is than him getting scammed in the first place. Millions of people get scammed, but only a few could admit it to themselves and the public for the sake of helping others steer clear from this.
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@@rosi5453 what this man said!
Isn't it funny how MLMs/Scammers sell you these schemes based on the desire to not work hard then get criticized for "not working hard enough" lol
It's called "selling the dream"!!
And when you call out people for their pyramid schemes they get super mad
While I'm not defending these MLMs, fact is most of us don't have the gift of gab or know how to sell and don't want to bother their family and/or friends who mostly ridicule them anyway, and as a result, shy away from such 'opportunities' as they so gracefully refer to it as. Corporate America is itself a widespread pyramid structure.
You youtube channel is nuts , but you are too fine.
@@dirtymikentheboys5817 ha ha thank you :)
Garrett shows more strength and intelligence than 99% people. Everyone is susceptible to cults especially at moments of vulnerability. Surviving a cult and raising awareness about it, that's more admirable than never having being in one.
Actually cults try to cultivate high functioning individuals because they are usually the most effective members of the cult - the ones that get stuff done when it comes to helping the cult generate cash or whatever their currency is.
Theramin trees youtuber has a video called
Bending truth | how adults get indoctrinated
Backs you up and explains how indoctrination happens and how difficult it is to do what Garrett is doing here.
@@uncomplicatedi gon have to check that out cheers
i like how dumb people are like 'hell yeah we are actually the best and most smart people in the world, cant admit that we are dumb and didnt grow up and get educated, lets just say we are smarter than everyone'
what you guys on about?
This reminds me of the MLM marketing scam where i lost $2500 when i was making only $15/hour. I was so broke and desperate to change my life. Those people were evil.
What was it called ?
This sounds like a cult like BNI
MLM is not a scam, its sales and you must not have been good at it. MLM's are 100% legal, the problem is, people are terrible at selling things to others.
@@CompetitionSportsNetwork multi level marketing is a scam. It's structure is fundamentally impossible after a certain point. Yes they sell real products but that's not where the profit is coming from, it's from the desperate people who sign up expecting to at least make some extra income only to get hundreds maybe thousands down the drain.
The only people who make money in MLMs are the ones at the top. Basically a physical rug pull.
They're scams, please stop telling people they aren't.
@@ayyitsdaphne3760 sounds like all those tech certificates people are chasing lol
There is NO shortcuts, no hidden secrets, just do the grind and focus on the things that you're good at for a long period of time and you'll get there. just keep this in mind, nobody will ever sell their golden goose.
There is Excellent Info out there, but I get your rule of thumb
its just to good to be true lol
Facts. You can be successful in any business. The problem is, the average person's looking for "easy success". This is why scams are so common.
Derek Mosley Tv #CarPorn ttue
Yes, 2 kinds of people in this world. One who works hard with his/her hands sweat and blood and another is the greedy ones who steal others money without any effort.. what a shitty world we live in
I found a gem. Hey TH-cam algo. This needs a boost.
It got one, i never watch these things but still got to it :) good story!
TH-cam makes money from people like Dan Lok. Lol Irony?
What gem? This shit is stupid
For real. Im subbed now
Yeah
I didn't recognise Coffeezilla at first. I was "who is this young guy on the right?".
He looks like a different person without the beard
Bro looked so young and energetic 4 years ago. Now bro looks so mature. All in just 4 years. How time flies.
The greatest scam on earth,
getting rich by telling other people you're rich and that you'll tell them they could be rich too, giving you their money, making you richer.
I WILL REIGN 100% on point
But sadly its been like 40 years ppl do this and still ppl bought it
Dan Peña does that. That Peña dude is really bad about that, he even claims to be a billionaire when he’s actually just a millionaire
@@erichkaufmann5284 of you were dumb enough to believe an old man is a billboard from owning no company and selling speeches then you ain't too bright...
@@erichkaufmann5284 it's frustrating because I like Dan Pena but he doesn't teach shit
The cheapest "high income skill" course would probably be a few 10$ coding courses on Udemy honestly
Richard you don’t make sense but go pay for a higher tier in the cult
@@richardlie7871 bro chill
@@richardlie7871 then why the fuck u came here 😂
I just want to say that I have a Math Bachelor's and used free Udacity courses to build projects that got me into a good grad CS program.
I have friends making 80k+ with no degree thanks to MOOCs. You still have to be smart, but fuck all these get rich quick schemes. Build a skill instead.
@@richardlie7871 An ironic statement...
I just want to add to the cacophony of people saying I'm glad Garrett chose to do this interview. You've got a lot of courage man, I wish you well
Gawd I can feel this guys heart ache, bud. Feel positive that you recognized this and got out before getting deeper. Uphill from here man. Good luck to you
It's sad how many people didn't recognize it and have a real uphill battle when/if they get out of it 😞
Whenever you see a timer on a page, always refresh the page and the counter will get reset haha.. beware of fake scarcity...
I used to see a timer on a website too. I let it run out. It was my online exam. I dropped out of university. How do i sign up for Dan Lok's course?
@@Nanopot678😂😂I'm laughing like a madman at 2am
Getting fake virus ads from watching a lot of porn during the days of aol taught me that.
@@IncognitoSprax the price of a new laptop was worth it, to learn what a scam looks like.
I know a late aged British woman, who now gets phone calls from people demanding she put in her 200,000 British pounds into their crypto scams.
She says she doesn’t know what to do and almost gave one 5k before I told her not to (she trusted my knowledge of a finance background)
It’s crazy how many scans are out there.
Fake gurus are just the high end ones. But there are thousands out there. They do follow “cult” behaviour. High pressure sales tactics. Misinformation,
They revert to bullying at the end of the day. Because they aren’t interested in a good business relationship. They want the money. So if you show any weakness. And uncertainty. And they get a foot in the door. Eg like her, your phone number.
They will exploit that and try to push you to giving them money.
Worst comes to worst. Some people just give in to get rid of them.
One thing I was thinking. Was no offence to this guy. But how silly and or desperate must he have been?
Dude, I was just a step behind joining Dan's program. I'm glad I saw this in my recommendations.
Finesse you’ve dodged a bullet!
@@paulsz6194 yas indeed.
Just pirate that stuff LMAO
Mehn!!
Nana Boamah can you expand on that comment? Don’t really understand it.
I know the guy is laughing. But there is obviously an undercurrent of sadness. I really hope this guy finds the success he wants. Much love 🧡
The problem with our society is I heard a teacher call himself unskilled. That's just not right, teachers are building blocks of our society.
No, the problem is too many believe teachers actually know. Those who know, do. Those who dont know, teach.
He probably meant in sales
those who can't do, teach
@@redrustyhill2 Anyone who teaches/provides information to you is by definition a teacher. You weren't born in a vacuum with all the knowledge already there in your brain.
@@bilsid Sure, keep repeating that to yourself gramp, you're doing great.
This dudes a great story teller. He’s probably a great teacher!
I was thinking the exact same thing
I was thanking the same thing.
I was thunking the same exact thing
I cannot think the same thing
that students treat like shit
Dan Lok really out here selling closing skills while closing you, dat boy wildn'
Sauce!
Im a fan of uu
Thats the real lesson lol
They weren’t washin the signs 🙃
a very expensive lesson
To learn to sell and close, get a non-commission retail job, especially in apparel. Then act as if it is a commission sales job. I worked at an apparel store while in college and did just that. I was getting paid to train myself in sales and closing. I did not go in to sales, but the “training” and experience has served me well in life and business ever since.
Yeah retail sucks ass but it does teach you a lot of skills if you actually try to close deals.
why not just get a sales job, they will ahem ACTUALLY train you
Because then your income relies on your skill, and you have very little of that when you start.
I was so broke in college that I couldn't be scammed. I'm now 23 and managed to avoid those crypto scams and really wanting to be independant.
find something to sell other than your time
Don't let your guard down, stay safe.
Always be on guard
Amazing perspective. Some people, who are so broke, would bite to any bait
I am to lazy and broke to be scammed. All the ones involving selling things seem like a lot of work. The crypto coins make no sense to me because anyone can create a Cryptocurrency and they have nothing of value that actually backs the coin. People say that the US dollar is not backed by gold anymore which is true but it os backed by the federal government of the united states who happens to own trillions of dollars worth of property. They also happen to own and operate the largest and most technologically advanced military the world has ever seen.
What backs the "baby fat head neon sacks" crypto coin? Nobody and nothing nothing...
Dude with 2500$ you can pay 2 entire years of college fee in Switzerland + Books. Dan is a master of perceived value but real value is not in his vocabulary.
with 2500$, that's a semester worth of books in the US
@@jimquila US college is a scam.
Glad that there are still other countries which still provide affordable tertiary education.
Dan Lok is a salesman. Nothing more.
Bruh WGU offers self paced courses for 3k every 6 months do your research
Coffee! What about those few closers who actually made money?
What I hate more than HTC are some of the closers are being jerks those who are struggling and feeling so upset because of their "weak" mindsets! Some closers piss me off! I thought this was a "family!" Closers should care about each other not hammer them or shaming people with "weak" mindsets. I hate how some closers act like tough guys and alpha males in the group. I feel like an outsider to them.
I'm from Hong Kong. It seems Dan knew he's being exposed and he started to shift the Target audiences to Chinese speaking population. I see a bunch of his ads in Chinese language on FB.
No wonder I started seeing subbed ads on facebook now.
You gotta be the hero and subtitle this into Cantonese and mandarin
@@solrac4 Yeaaaah definitely! Help those poor people!
Imagine Later Dan start speaking Hindi,Spanish and russian haha, he sound so fake since I saw his video first time and I feel sorry to people who lost their money
Hongkonger may not speak fluent English, but I can guarantee they can listen pretty well. So, just by adding a Chinese title of this YT will definitely help. (Something like 揭露Dan Lok真面目）
Btw, speaking of English, I rmb watching one of Dan' s video saying he's from HK and couldn't speak a word of English when he came to Canada at the age of 14. WTF?? That is some blutant lies!!! Come on, we started learning English in pre-school!
Beardless coffeezilla feels illegal
It’s sounds like Dan Lok is using his “high ticket closing” on his students
Of course he is, wtf is wrong with that. He is selling a course, so he is using sales to sell... Wtf is your problem with it? :D
@@Pellaeon159 I was thinking the same. There's the lesson you need to learn and apply with clients, lol
@@diegoscalanti It really is crazy though right? McKinzies comment sounds like he discovered some profound SCAM or something, he got 19 likes for that... while actually, he just pointed out, that the GUY SELLING A COURSE... IS SELLING... :D This is what people consider a scam... incredible.
@@Pellaeon159 yeah, i know. It actually works if you use it on your business. Just go ahead haha
Wow, Dan Lok is really good!
I always wondered how far down the rabbit hole those things go
probably till you can't afford it anymore
Well, you should only buy the next course after you've taken and paid for one and used that information and made money, then take the next course.
Why keep on advancing in the courses if you haven't put the first one into action and tested it out.
Dumb ass people
Right??? I just used to think "who buys into this?".
Can be very deep.
That "guy" that worked with Dan was doing something called push pull. He talks him down to feel out how you guys are feeling. Then report back to Dan, telling him exactly how To reel you in with the information you willingly gave him. Emotional & confused your mind isnt expecting to be probed, & they used psychology to upsell you again.
A friend sent me a vid from Dan Lok a couple of years ago saying "how good this guy was".
I had recently read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" from Robert Kaizaki and literally the whole of the Dan Lok vid was just ripped off from this book. I am amazed that he doesnt get sued over ripping off other people's work.... maybe he does??? He didnt even sell the ideas he ripped off particularly well.
One scammer stealing out of another. Who is gonna compaliny anyways
"BUY MY BOOK... how i made millions selling books"
Lol, exactly!
@john_carter I'm going to write a book and i will call it that. it will inspire people to do the same.
The truth can be funny haha
Haha
John_ Carter Bestselling Author! (On Amazon ... a book that I presold the digital version to myself for nothing/ “gave away” for the cost of shipping which I charge $19.99 and spend $9.99 on. 😭☠️
I think most young people are quite vulnerable in their first year of working after university. The transition from university to the often disappointingly paid, unpleasant working environment is brutal and leads to feelings of hopelessness and desperation
Totally agree!!! 💯
I agree also. :)
@Portrait of Asha: Especially in these dark and desperate times! Hang in there, people! But stay away from these con artists! If it sounds too good to be true, IT IS!!!
Wow this comment spoke to me. This is exactly where I am in life!
@@minismalls3096 lol me too
After hearing all the crypto NFT manchildren blow all their family's cash and then blame everyone else, it's refreshing to see an interview with someone capable of a bit of self reflection.
These classes are predatory and manipulative. No one should feel ashamed about coming forward and telling others what really happens. There is no shame in recognizing when something wrong happens to you and then how you choose to realize and then get out of it. That shows strength, intelligence and maturity.
from hearing him speak, this dude seems very self aware and intelligent. If he can be duped, I guess It can happen to anyone.
You’d be surprised, the smartest people are sometimes the easiest to dupe.
Intelligence can sometimes just mean you come up with more complex lies to tell yourself lol
A lower points in life alot of people will try anything. that's what people like Dan prey on
I really do think anyone can be tricked if they’re caught at the right time
Well, he purposely became a teacher, so he's definitely very gullible.
This guy. This guy is very brave. I wouldn't have the balls to admit being manipulated out of thousands of dollars on some useless cultrse. If you are reading this, bless you dude, hope it all goes well for you from now!
Read it and appreciate it. : )
And honestly, that's why you don't hear much from other mentees, they're ashamed like me and don't want to admit what happened. That's why their social medias have all gone silent.
Thanks again for listening to my story and take care : )
I must say that's admiration for talking about a loss.
@@bleedinant BRUH
It’s not hard to say something is a scam to people.... 🤷♂️
Just a brutal feeling being scammed. I was sold some fake hifi when I was young and I had a blood-rage for weeks
I hope he's doing well now 💜
it's really brave to come out like this, so many people don't talk about how they've been scammed or taken advantage of and it's so important to do it
“Sifu” means “teacher.”
Teachers are part of a noble profession.
These con artists are an abomination.
Thank you so much. I was understanding SeaFood the whole time :D
It means “master” in chinese
Nice rhyme man
Also there are two kinds of Sifu, someone who is not your teacher but is an expert in their field you call 師傅，but when you become their actual student/disciple/etc. then they're your 師父 which is father who teaches
Not so much a rank or title, but a familial relation, so you can say that not only is Dan bastardizing a noble profession, but also a precious relationship you could argue is sacred
"Teacher" and "Master" are actually derived from the same word in Chinese script:
老师傅 (lao shi fu, or lou si fu in Cantonese)
老师 = teacher
师傅 = master
I was feeling like shit for not having money to pay a course like this til I find this video. Thanks a lot.
Theres so much free content online
Lol Yeah
wnat free content without bullshit? gary vee. just watch his videos, he doesn't have a course by the way and he hates those courses actually
That I can DEFINITELY empathize with. The only reason I never got caught up in this was because I learned about the negative effects of the shiny toy syndrome
Nicole Tara yep! Dan has more than 1.400 vids for free with great content.
I would love to see the two year review from this guy. You should get this guy back on to talk about this. I would like to hear what he thinks about it a few years later. Pat yourself on the back man you are one of the few people in the world that was able to escape a cult and lived.
Dude. It takes incredible strength to come out with your story like this. That is... Wow
Can y'all contact Netflix for a documentary???? PLEASE. This is absolutely worthy of a limited series. They already did one for Herbalife.
I agree. I think Dan Lok's following is large enough that it should be considered.
What’s the one on herballife 😱 I didn’t know. So herballife is bad?
@@lahaciendabakery betting on zero
I would love to see Herbalife Pls send a link sifu
I wouldn’t be surprised to see it on Netflix in the future. A lot of people are gullible/naive enough to fall for this nonsense - people need educated.
Time to make a paid course on how not to be scammed, lol
If you think about it, this guy right here is already earning money from exposing those scams through youtube ads. and he is monetizing you and me.
@@russelblacker2562 I would say it's more like watching a movie only I jist pay for internet/electricity bill.
He gives entertainment and knawlege
..
Considering watching his vids is free, it's a huge net positive lol
@@russelblacker2562 Well, what's wrong with that?
Garret is debt free by now, just bought a house and has a son. He seems happy and i am glad he bounced back :)
Must be the HTC courses
@@shengloongtan229😂😂
This guest is cured! So many more need help. Thank you so much.
Tens of millions need it
Never trust the words coming out from the people who live by selling their words.
This is lowkey deep
Thats deep man
@@gauravbhayana4626 it's just logical.. each and every brand of bbq sauce will say theirs is the best. Even the worst of them.
@@MichaelHarto but then also well said bro
@@gauravbhayana4626 thank you
Thought this dude called himself “Seafood”
cause he's full of carp.
@@SpaceMissile nice
what was it, legit thought that's like nickname they give him :/
@@Rinne_is_real Chinese word "sifu" means "teacher"
@@SpaceMissile much appreciated mate! Have a good day
At some point you said “shame on me”. But there’s no shame in getting scammed: it’s the only thing these guys are actually expert at. It’s kinda like feeling shame that your accountant did your taxes correctly or something. You don’t need to feel shame because someone else is really good at their job. It’s just unfortunate that his job was scamming you. No shame, only lessons. You won’t make this mistake again and you’ve steered a lot of people away from the same one. I think pride is more appropriate than shame here.
No. He's a sucker who jumped in headfirst without doing any research and kept forking over money time and time again.
if you dont have shame in your life then youll end up like this guy, thinking that 2500$ can make your lazy ass a millionaire.
I genuinely believe every fucking dime Garrett spent was completely worth it. if he wasn't in those rooms, we wouldn't hear about this insanity. I appreciate the sacrifice you have made.
Life is a series of seminars... some are more expensive than others.
yes i'm so glad i dont need 25,000 nor do i need someone gullible like Garret to tell me how to spend my money properly but i am sad that you do lmao
Anyone can get scammed, those victims shouldn't be ashamed of themselves. The only shameful is if you refused to admit that you are scammed, and won't move on to try repairing any damage.
So victim shame🤔
No, the one who should be ashame are the scammers, fk them man
@@bobmanbob341 no, fk them once and two😤
@@TrapGoku Victim shame how?
@@dxshawn532 yeah, I didn't read that as victim shaming. I think the person is just saying the first step is to admit to yourself and then others that you have been a victim. Then the 'shaming' aspect disepates
This video is the best thing I got out of this Black Friday
Amen.
Ikr
Yoo it’s the one and only Tren Black! Thank you for those videos on Tech Lead. I had to stop watching him. I knew something was up.
Same here
haha tren I like your channel
Mad Props to Garrett! This is the sort of stuff real hero's are made of. Humility to face the truth once you see it, and the Humility to share your understanding with others in an attempt to help them avoid the mistakes you made :)
Definitely this, it reminds me to keep working and working on myself consistently. No magic skill or course is gonna come by and make a random person a millionaire in a month
The biggest slap in the face unexpectedly comes from TH-cam giving me a self help guru ads with a balding guy in sportswear telling me how I can make 5000 dollars an hour sitting on my couch.
Yeah, I always get those ads around these videos too! It's the algorithm's lack of self-awareness that both amuses and terrifies me.
What no one expected: this whole scam process is the real sales class!
Literally learning by experience!
Thats the way I learn from Gurus - I look at how they persuade people. Thats MORE than enough!!!
well they did promise to teach you sales. never said it was through the classes
the moral lesson is not to be afraid to be called a racist.
sad but true
He broke the first rule: If it has to be now, it has to be no.
great quote; mind if I use it?
@@godfatherofcinema Off course you can! :)
First rule of what? I want to know more.
@@madam-mim sales, you imply a time constraint, but you should never make it explicit. People hate it if they feel they have to do it now and activates their fight or flight response, and most of the time itll be flight with a terrible review
I'm an Ex JW (raised in it) and something that Garrett said about calling strangers that took the same course as him "Brothers and sisters" just resonated to how much of a cult the JW "religion" is. Fuck-king-hell. I always felt like it's a cult but it just feels even more and more after looking into more cult-like organizations and the tactics they use.
+1
@@bobz1736 +2
@@syndakitpanda1777 cccccccccccccc
Idk that’s like the least cult thing about it? Calling someone your brother who’s gone thru and has the same ideals as you is pretty normal and is super common
@@balmorrablue3130 yeah I mean I don’t typically say “brothers and sisters” when referring to other servicemembers and vets, but lots of people do. It’s common to feel close with people who have gone through similar trials.
The obvious question would be "if this guy is making tens of millions, why would he be working so hard to scam me out of a few grand? Wouldn't he just use that time to make even more millions?" These scumbags prey on financially unsophisticated people and they are such sociopaths that they think people deserve to get scammed because they're naive.
Volume. In his example, 600 people each paying 2,500 a month is $1.5m.
You nailed it
This was pointed out about Trump. If he really was a billionaire why would he be hawking ties and vodka?
"Oh we are just calling it live seminar, but is prerecorded"
- Dan Lock
Riste Kostadinov 🤭😅
Riste Kostadinov haha yeah. This guy should NOT be teaching our children.
I was about to pay $2000 for a copywriting course of Dan. I just asked one question to the sales man on call 'How will this program help me land a job as a copywriter? And the guy on call said 'Oh! It's not about job, it's about gaining financial confidence!' and I was like thank you for your time, bye. Thank god I didn't pay $2000 of my hard earned money to this shit fu!
His course and literally every other one is free online too
Stop the cap you are clearly too intelligent to have ever considered it.
Financial confidence? Yeah right people just need to act like it and money comes to them, right
What does that even mean " financial confidence" LOL.
@@jeng8401 to have the financial confidence to give Dan all of your money 💰 🤑 💸 😀
i thought i was in a wrong channel lol coffee looks so different without the beard
What’s great is this guy could do sales! His story telling is fantastic
I feel like the sunk-cost fallacy is also a big part of these people falling down these rabbitholes. Basically we are much less likely to pull out of something if we’ve already invested a certain amount. Seems like so many people are hopeful the “next one” will get them everything back and more. Kind if like gamblers.
When I was crazy into online poker someone told me not to throw good money after bad money, best advice I ever had.
It's like gambling in the mind... When you're losing its hard to leave
@@generalwasteman
I lost about $25k to online poker around 15 years ago. Ugh. Even if you’re good at poker, that shit is rigged. It sickens me to think about. It wouldn’t have happened if I wasn’t in the most terrible point in my life ever and super vulnerable. I had just become disabled. I still can’t and never will be able to replenish that savings because I can’t work anymore. I don’t recall what the wake up call was, but I finally just stopped myself and never went back to it. I still at around $20k left in savings when I stopped, but unfortunately that’s all gone now due to healthcare costs that resulted from my disability.
I took HTC for free, torrent baby. Even at that price it was freaking waste of time.
How did you take it for free ?
@@SangNguyen-uz4pb Go to any popular Torrents site and search High Ticket Closer. It's a 7GB waste of disk space.
Glad you are willing to share the truth. Hope someone listens to you.
@@56585656587 Hope for the best.
Sohail Jaffry did you put in the work though
This Garrett guy is a great speaker, he would make a wonderful podcast host
I was thinking the exact same thing, I wish he had a TH-cam channel.
GARRETT! PLEASE host a podcast,
Yoo I was thinking the same shit. Also he sounded so familiar to me like I may have known him from high school or something lol. But super sad story very enlightening
I wholeheartedly agree with you guys, we should encourage him have a TH-cam channel of his own on his spare time. He can start small such as vlogs.
He should start a youtube channel. He can atleast make some adsense money of that.
Coffee, three years ago i saw this video from you after having fled from a pyramid scheme myself, didn't get scammed luckily.
I am so happy that you have grown so much in these three years
I’m a fresh 18 year old lacking clarity. It would be amazing if you can offer some advice to a fellow man
I follow a lot of people online in the "make money online" space. Dropshipping, affiliate marketing, copywriting, and many more. In the back of my mind, I feel like these people are ONLY making that type of money by teaching methods they don't even use. It's so easy to fake earnings in a recorded video; then make viewers believe they can achieve the same.. I've dug myself into a hole so deep with no sight of return... I hope all the snake oil gurus get their karma sooner than later.
I show checks from my real estate deals to my students, I show direct deposits into my bank account too. Its not hard to show your work to students. The problem is, too many fake people out there trying to build and image they never earned to begin with.
who are they, so great, to think that they could ever escape The Lord's judgement? rest easy my man. theyre just artists painting a real good picture of themselves holding money instead of a brush
This guy’s really great at telling stories. I was literally on the edge of my seat almost the entire time
snow white’s sister Aw thank you : )
I would've liked it more if it weren't for Steven spazzing out and cutting off Garret with tangent questions
Seriously, I hope they make a movie about this shit. This story was EPIC. This is some sort of blackmirror shit.
You hope 'they' would make a movie?
How about we take the opportunity and make a good film?
Let's get rich for real ;)
I guess sifu Dan taught him well 😂
Dan Loc is the type of dude that closes the refrigerator with his hips.
What does that mean 😂
Lol wtf is wrong with that? When I'm double fisting bud lights how else am I supposed to shut the fridge?
lol i don't know what this means but it made me laugh
I shook my head like "yeah" and then thought "what does that even mean." 😆
Steven thanks for this laugh 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂 laughed so hard I cried!
Less of a 26k “mistake” and more like a 26k theft.
Keep being awesome.
"He was selling access to himself..."
Dude is the most expensive escort, and you don't even get a happy ending.
To quote the Simpsons "This is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No sir, our model is the trapezoid."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
😂😂👏👏
No it isn't a pyramid. It's a triangle scheme.
@@incognitonotsure909 a three sided shape, my friend. Join now!
no it's a hexagon
Steps to become a Guru:
1. Scrap together multiple catchy motivational phrases about working hard and avoiding procrastination (similar to what your father used to tell you as a kid and you ignored). -> 2. Add some basic tips on whatever it is you are promoting (and which you can probably find on the internet or a book for free). -> 3. Add a 2k price tag to it. -> 4. Get 100 people to quit their jobs and commit fully to it -> 5. 95 fail, 5 succeed (a rate anyone could have without being a guru). -> 6. Convince the 95 that failed that it was their fault and the 5 that succeeded that it was your doing (Actually done before the success/failure step) -> 7. Get the testimonials of the 5 that succeeded so that you can convince another 100 to get in the game -> 8. Repeat steps 5-8.
This shit is typical MLM stuff...Copy pasted the speeches and gatherings of companies like herbalife into their own context..
98 fail. 2 succeed
Man when he said the part about quitting this job reminded me of this girl I knew who did the same thing before ever making a sale or even knowing what they were selling... Fast forward a few weeks and they trying to sell you CBD pills and stuff on Facebook or Snapchat. It was genuinely embarrassing and she actually ended up on OnlyFans trying to do that later, which also didn't work, having to move back in with her parents after losing her apartment and car and then having to get a regular job after. She wasn't the brightest bulb, but I never thought she'd do THAT.
God this is heartbreaking I’m so happy this guy is getting back on his feet. I really hope he’s doing good heading into 2023
If these Gurus are so rich.
They wouldn't be bothered doing seminars for Plebbs.
Exactly, does Jeff bozo try to sell you a course? Nope
@@damienwest2519 I'm going to tell Jeff you called him a bozo 😠
@@DocOrtmeyer lol
They’ll teach their kids, but not ordinary people. These people in the first place aren’t on TH-cam because for them, they can calculate how much money they make in hours, minutes.
That’s what I’m always thinking…..
I was one of those people who got scammed by Dan Lok. After the seven weeks course, I signed up for inner circle and when I saw the community and how sheepishly people acting. I requested a refund. And said goodbye! I still feel ashamed of myself in believing that some like Dan would help me improve my life. But well you learn when you try sometimes
I'm surprised you actually got a refund!
You got a refund??
Lucky you !
Did they give you the refund?
Did you get the refund?
You did not get refund... No way we can trust random Internet anonymous claims liek that!
You all remember that episode of Doug where Doug gets wrapped up in a Ponzi scheme and loses all his money? I am so glad I took that message to heart when I was a kid.
It stays inside my head permanently.
If anyones confused about the weird live money stuff. Dan stole that from the idea in Chinese culture about having money around bringing luck. Dan just took that idea multiplied it by 1000 and ran off a cliff with it.
The irony of seeing these guys ads before watching them get exposed 🙈
That's why I pay for premium. I won't be seeing any of those bullshit.
Hahaha , was searching for this comment
"Mindvalley" 🤔
They actually lose a bit of money when those ads are shown to you, because you won't buy their shit.
Bro every time I watch a coffeezilla video, Caleb Maddix pops up before and during each one. 😂😂😂
I’m too broke to buy any of these courses. Good thing I found your channel
Ill give u courses for free
Being broke is definitely an advantage! Forces you to be creative!
I’m not recommending them but you can find them free if you search hard enough 👀
freetutorials(dot)se
I was the most driven and successful when I was broke and on foodstamps, 6 years later I have a 6 figure salary. Wanna know how? I went to a 2 year school tech school and worked hard. That's the easiest way to make money...get education in a high cost field and work your ass off.
You can tell coffezillas interviews has improved coz he went from interupting every two minutes to shutting up n asking the right hard hitting questions
It’s actually so depressing that Dan Lok is clearly preying on people who are desperate and feel like they have no other option. It’s so sad.
Those 1.2k dislikes are probably just new students “sifu” told they needed to dislike this if they wanted to get a job
LOL so true
Sifu 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂
*"xifu"
@@lolife1981 what?
..
Never pay for course lol. So much free stuff on the internet already.
there is literally thousands of courses, tutorials and other stuff online for free. take coding for example, you get sooooooo much knowledge from stackoverflow alone, its never worth buying from some dude.
whenever i see a dude selling courses, i know its a scam. if he had real, valuable knowledge, he wouldn't need or bother making these courses. courses have one goal in mind, enriching the one that made them, so ofc. he needs puppets to buy them, humanity needs to stop being so naive....
It would take you hundreds of years to only consume all HIGH QUALITY free content
like Dan Lok's videos OmegaLuL
Worst case scenario. There are those websites where they give online courses for like 10 bucks a month.
Its like youtube but focused on actual lessons.
Not free but definitely better than a few thousands.
Probably 100 bucks for a whole year, give or take.
Anime watch the question is, will you take it serious?
"The only legit means of receiving income that demands you pay money before you start making it is a Casino. Anything else is likely a scam and has worse odds."
I work in direct sales in the automotive industry now, before that I sold hearing aids. It took me 5 years to get from 30 to 60k a year and another 3-4 years to get over 6 figures in the profession. Because honing these skills takes time and you have to build a customer base of repeat and referral business.
Eyup, though some individuals may have more luck or skill than others in the end it's the grind, the build, and that trust. Congrats on making that six!
Put your skills to better use in digital marketing or consulting. Your growth potential is so much higher
“He’s taking a bunch of unskilled people such as myself...”
Damn, dude, quit selling yourself short. You’re a teacher. Granted, in the States it’s a rather maligned career, but still easily respectable by most thinking human beings. You won’t make millions, but you’ll be shaping future generations. Lok can’t say that; he actually is easily replaceable.
hes unskilled in business and sales, and thats the kicker. Unless you are learned in a topic, you have to trust people who are learned in the topic. But because they are unskilled they dont know who to trust. thats the paradox of being uneducated.
@ShenaniTimes teaching isn't s maligned career, who says that
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
-MLK junior
@@InventorDBA it's underpaid and viewed rather poorly here in the US. It's a shame, and it harms both the teachers and the students.
A good teacher is awesome.. But it has to be in you. You can't go to school to teach, that's just to get piece of paper that says you can and allows you too
This video needs to go viral. I'm an ex student of HTC as well and can absolutely vouch for what this man is saying.
What season are you?
Sorry to hear that. I really wish it worked out for us.
Like I said to another individual, do what you gotta do to keep your head up, just because this didn't work out doesn't mean you can't find success. We're just a little more wiser to scams now thanks to this experience. : )
I was in season 5 as well, July 2018. I was so excited to make this work at the time and I really believed in it. All my group members who I was in touch with back then were just as enthusiastic, but unfortunately they are in the same situation right now. And ofcourse no one really talks about it because they are ashamed to admit it.
I remember in one of the lessons of HTC Dan mentioned something along the lines of "If someone pays a ton of money for a high ticket product, they have a lot of emotions attached to it and they themselves will try to defend or justify it regardless of the value that the product brings in." Which is why there are so many people out there who are not making money after joining HTC, but still try to justify it by saying that it changed their mindset and what not when they know good and well that they indeed did get scammed.
Thank you so much for doing this interview and being so open about it. And thank you Coffeezilla!
Huge respect to this guy, he seems like a super good person with critical thinking skills, that was able to fall into a scam. In the end everyone is vulnerable to a scam, there's always something that WILL eventually get you, the best thing is to be open and share it, everyone loses money sometimes.
I'm new to coffee's content so at the start of the video I was like "Who TF is this little kid and why is he hosting this interview?"
It hurt me when the interviewee called himself “skilless”. Like bro if u graduated college ALREADY you’re really fucking skilled.