Complaints on Ewen Chia's 'Autopilot Profit' Work-at-Home Site
We recently received the following e-mail from a reader:
Last September I purchased 3 work at home internet plans. One being Ewen Chia's Autopilot. Each program had a 90 day satisfaction back guarantee. After reviewing the programs I determined that this was not what I wanted to pursue. The guarantees stated that for whatever reason if not satisfied I would be refunded. Ewen Chia's Autopilot program has not refunded my money. They state that a downline affiliate marketer of his product is responsible for refunding the money. I have tried to contact this website marketer but the website is down and not operating. I tried contacting the Autopilot website to inform them of the problem but continually am told that I need to contact yoursupportonline.com which is the marketer of their product. I was unaware that I did not purchase this product directly from their company. I tried to inform them numerous times that this marketer's website is not operating but they just ignore me and claim no responsibility.
They are obviously pyramid marketing their product with no concern about what their downline marketers are doing with the business. I feel since this is originally their product that is being sold downline that they need to be more responsible for their overall product distribution. As of now they refuse to help me obtain my refund from their downline marketer. This appears to be a unfair business practice that does not safeguard the consumer.
Jeff
While there’s nothing we can do to help Jeff get his money back, we did some checking on Ewen Chia and his site, Autopilot Profits (“Printing 24/7 profits for you. . . Automatically!”) and didn’t like what we found.
First off, the site fails WebWatch’s guidelines for Web credibility by failing to disclose any contact information beyond an e-mail address. Although according to one of his numerous sites, Chia is based in Singapore (although his site is registered in Brunei), you’d never know from his site.
Secondly, Autopilot Profits is all too reminiscent of the countless other questionable work-at-home sites we’ve seen, replete with cheesy graphics, gargantuan headlines, breathless promises, and lots and lots of yellow highlighter.
Chia uses this site to hawk his “Autopilots Profit System," which he describes as a “a plug-and-play turnkey machine which works like mad to deposit instant profits into your bank account 24/7! All you've to do is set it up and it runs automatically to suck in mega wads of cash for you. This is going to be a very profitable partnership between me and you, where you get the lion's share of the profits!"
He also offers “proof” in the form of a check for $549,784.82, which Chia claims represents two weeks worth of Autopilot profits from just one of his many accounts. And what does it take to tap into this effortless goldmine? As he puts it, "just a measly $27 for everything!" Enough said.
Thirdly, we looked at Ripoff Report, and found some illuminating comments from others:
"I purchased Ewen Chia's Auto Pilot cash system to discover that it was only a one time down load of lists, keywords and numerous sales pitches that range from $47.00 to $197.00 after you get in the door. He tells you that you can get all you need for $27.00 but doesn't tell you that part of what he thinks you need will cost you another two or three hundred dollars. Once you leave the site, that's it...you can't get back in.
It just so happens that my Internet service bumped me off during my initial session and then I discovered that there was no way to get back to it without paying again. You don't get a log in or registration so that you can go back to the site and get back in.
Money back guarantee? How? There's literally no way to get in touch with the guy. Ewen Chia is really just a business coach with all kinds of information products generated by graphics software with lots of feel good information in them telling you what you already know. It takes hard work to make money even on the internet. He doesn't tell you that though until after he's taken your money."
And:
"Ewen Chia make his fortune selling dreams to newbies on how to make money online. His product are rehashed fluff sold mainly on Clickbank, and people who buy them are just too stupid to realise they are scammed. People who say Ewen Chia is the real deal, or guru, straight away is BS alert."
And:
"Ewen Chia's web site promises that a business can be run on Autopilot, once its set up. All you get is a PDF giving you instructions for finding a niche market and how to set up a business (nothing detailed, though).
They charge $27 for the PDF, and then they offer to drop $10 if you try to escape their web site.
This material isn't worth 17 cents, much less 17 dollars. You can find it free on Google.
This is really a lead to get you subscribed to their website, at $39 a month. I don't like being lied to."
There are more, but you get the picture. We also found a list of more Chia sites, which we’d like to pass along: www.superaffiliates.com, www.newbiecashmachine.com, www.secretaffiliateweapon.com, www.trafficsignupssales.com, www.miniebook.com and www.resalerightssecrets.com.
Finally, if you want to see and hear him in action, visit his homepage, where he touts himself as the “World’s #1 Super Affiliate,” whatever that means, and tells us he was unanimously voted the best speaker at the “World Internet Summit" -- quite a list to avoid, if you ask us.