REI Wholesale Guy.com. Legit? Or something to pass on?

Question

I just came across a banner ad on the site here and clicked through to it as it seemed interesting. It is called REI Wholesale Guy.com

I knew full well that it would be an overly hyped opportunity full of the usual "broke to millionaire" pitches since the banner ad boast $3,000 - $15,000 dollars in as little as 7 days, but I wanted to honestly get a look at it.

Does anyone else have experience with this program that focuses on finder's fees? If so I'd like to hear!

Joshua D. · Answer

Braden  C. -- The nice thing about BiggerPockets is that you won't see that one here ;)

Braden C. · Answer

Any of the program's that make outrageous claims automatically scream scam to me. They must spend a lot of money on AdWords though, I can't tell you how many times in the past month I've seen ads for "the cataclysmic shift that will make 95% of real estate investors impotent within the next 12 months" or "every successful real estate investor has a mentor". So, 95% of us are out of business within 12 months and apparently everyone who is successful also currently has a mentor. This is of course according to some fine gurus ;)

Rich Barrett · Answer

Thanks everyone for the insight. I have decided to not do anything with it, even before I posted this, but figured it would be a great topic to discuss since others may have questions since this is floating around the site's sidebars.

Given it hasn't been updated in about a year I would say NO to this opportunity!

Dev Horn · Answer

The lack of recent updates on that page makes it feel at least out-of-date, if not bogus.  I'm curious why anyone would put the $$ into an AdWords campaign but not put any time into their content.  My guess is the course could be out of date as well...  Proceed with CAUTION....

Joshua D. · Answer

Hey Rich Barrett - As Joel said, the ads are randomly served through Google.  We do block many ads for deceptive advertising, however I have not heard anything about this one.

It looks like a blog site, though, and unfortunately like most blogs in the REI space, it is not active.  Looks like the last post was written in early 2012.  That's all I know...

Joel Owens · Answer

Hi Rich,

The ads placed are at random so are not an endorsement by BP.

Investigate on your own. I do not know anything positive or negative about the site.