The Energy Gold Rush? Ambit Energy Is A Scam and Fraud, But Not In The Way You Think It Is
(this site is NOT affilliated with Ambit Energy, it is a private opinion site)
So you are looking to join Ambit Energy as a consultant? Are you wondering if your $400 investment (or whatever they charge now) is going to be worth it?
Well, statistics say that you are better off investing that money in a simple savings account because you will fail.
That’s right, the scam that is Ambit Energy is the fact that whomever is talking to you about it is getting you all hyped up on all the money you can make. They are selling you a dream. But that dream comes true for very few people. In fact, the person who is trying to sell you on Ambit Energy is probably making nothing either!!!!!!
Let’s see anyway, I bet you’ve heard things like this:
–natural gas and electricity are the perfect products because they are habitually used
–this is a ground floor opportunity
–natural gas and electricity are the new gold rush
–everyone uses electricity and natural gas so everyone needs what you are offering
Am I pretty close?
Well, guess what dear friend: 95% of you who read this will fail. Wanna know why? The reason you will fail is because you actually value your family and friendships.
That may have thrown you for a loop so read it again: The reason you will fail at Ambit Energy is because you truly value your friendships and family. In other words, you are not willing to take advantage of family or friends in order to advance you so-called “Ambit Business.”
Using Guilt On Family And Friends To Advance Your Ambit Business
You see, once you sign over your money and become an Ambit consultant, they will tell you to go get your first couple of customers. Those should be your close friends and family and if they should refuse to sign up as your electric or gas customer, then you tell them “well, our relationship is gonna change then since you won’t trust me on this.” ( I personaly heard this statement being made by a Texas consultant, a pastor, on a couple of occasions)
Therein folks, is the Ambit Energy Scam! The scam is in the Ambit leaders ability to shame you into taking advantage of friendships to advance yourself in the business. Have you ever heard the term “never mix business with pleasure?” …yeah, that is a true statement. It’s a bad idea. So the sense of the word “scam” is a different interpretation then what you are used to!
Convince A Stranger To Sign Up For the Ambit Energy Dream: Fat Chance!
But there is still more to the Ambit Thing… how about after you have sifted through all your friends and family and made them feel guilty or uncomfortable? Then what? Are you gonna go out and knock on doors in your neighborhood? I doubt it!
You see, after you have scorched all your friendships, the next thing is to talk with strangers, and that is a very very tough sell, especially when you really can’t offer them anything. In fact, you have to get them to fork over $400 too and try to live a pipe dream.
Folks, this is the trouble with ALL multi-level marketing schemes. They prey on your hope of something better. The problem is that less than 5% of people who ever sign up for some bull shit MLM thing every make their money back to break even. And you see, the rish assholes at the top count on the fact that there more and more suckers out there who will kick in the $400 and get a couple customers before becoming discouraged and quitting.
Only Already Established MLM Leaders Make Any Money With Ambit Energy
This is my opinion…
The final part to the Ambit is the fact that most of the top earners already were involved in some previous MLM pyramid before coming to Ambit. You can check it out. All of them were in some other thing that “just wasn’t working out” and decided to come over to Ambit. What does this tell you?
It tells me that in order to be successful in Ambit Energy, you need to be able to bring an army of seasoned MLM workers with you. It is nearly impossible to build an Ambit business with no MLM experience or previous contacts.
With all that being said, I do believe that Ambit delivers on what they promise their customers and they do pay their consultants their earnings in a timely fashion. The Ambit business is sound (for now) and financially viable.
The issue is the fact that YOU will not succeed in it. You just won’t, so save your money. Trust me!
UPDATE Feb 2009: oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention there is some ass-wipe in Texas who is an executive consultant that will try to sell you an “energy gold rush” website for a monthly fee as well. The big honcho above him, the founding consultant, sends out regular emails to the rank-and-file members encouraging them to invest in an Energy Gold Rush site. Kinda funny that you’d need to buy this third party website in order to be successful. Of course, I can’t seem to find any of his client sites (subdomains) ranking anywhere in the SERPS. In fact, the root domain only has 4 backlinks in yahoo site explorer and one is his now-dead personal blog! ha! another scam! (SERPs = Search Engine Results Pages) On another similar note, if this executive consultant is making so much money, why doesn’t he just give away the ENERGY GOLD RUSH sites for free?
Tags: ambit energy complaints, ambit energy fraud, ambit energy scam, energy gold rush
“but you, DG, said you were not concerned with getting other people in as consultants. You were just gonna get customers.
And it ain’t that easy to get more than about 4 or 5 customers.
in fact, gimme your website addy and I will monitor it and see how long before you stop paying and they shut it down. I give it less than 6 months. up for it big mouth scammer?”
Spell Check baby, Spell Check baby!! BTW Scammy, as of tonight, I already made half my investment back with 10 customers. Can you do that scammy? I don’t think so. HA!
DG–you’re right, 10 customers is easy for you and you just made your money back. only 100 or so friends and family to scam now in order to retire.
what’s your web addy? scared to give that out “son?”
Wow! so where is the scam exactly? I really don’t see it. I refer friends and family to discounts every day. I refer them to a cheaper, better movie theater…refer them to cheaper gas stations, cheaper and better restaurants, and I could go on forever and ever. We all do this all the time. Now, I just refer them to cheaper gas and electric with NO contracts, just savings and incentives. Sounds to me that you are a rogue ambit consultant that FAILED yourself and got too hot headed when your friends and family told you no and you did not handle it like you were taught to or like common sense would tell you. Would you get mad if a friend or family member didn’t take your advice on that restaurant, movie theater or cheaper gas station? The answer is no, probably not, because they are only hurting themselves. In a time of recession, you’d think people would like to save money, even when we’re not in recession, but unfortunately, people are so skeptical that they cannot see opportunity when it hits them right between the eyes. The way I look at it, it’s their loss! I guess you find out who your friends really are when you ask for a favor that will only benefit them and they say no, especially after all the stuff you’ve done for them through the years….so were they really a friend to begin with? Not to me! And family, hopefully most are like mine and will help me with no questions asked, but you know the saying, you can’t choose your family…that says it all! This business is truly the best opportunity I’ve ever had in my life and it is NOT hard when you stick to what millionaires and billionaires teach you! They want you to succeed and are giving us tools to do so. It’s all about psychology. If I get a person to look at the opportunity and they are not interested, then I TRULY do not want them on my team because they will do nothing and they really do not want to better their financial future….so I leave them in the dust and move on until someone sees what I saw when I saw the opportunity. When you truly have a dream or goal in life, the only people that will succeed are the ones that have drive and motivation like myself and those who NEVER GIVE UP! If every person in the world quit after they got a little rejection, then there would never be ANY successful people in life. We’d all be quitters, just like YOU, DG! Do you quit after an unsuccessful job interview or do you keep trying to find a job? Maybe you sit on the couch and collect off the government because you’re afraid of rejection, afraid of pushing through the rough times. Ambit comes through on absolutely EVERYTHING they promise. I have made over $1200 in the last month with very little effort, not to mention, it’s a blast; I love it! It’s not for everyone, it’s not for people who don’t have financial goals they really want to achieve. But it is for people who are persistent and consistent in their efforts and who truly want to make a change in their life. You said, only the people at the top get wealthy; that’s NOT true at all. I have already surpassed my sponsor in income and promotions. More than 3 of the people on my team that have only been doing this for a year are making over $20,000 per month…not bad, huh? They couldn’t stop it if they tried…it’s only gonna grow…it’s energy, folks, a no-brainer! It’s a piece of a $500 billion dollar pie that Ambit is letting us get a piece of. Talk about giving back to the communities. Last thought, I promise: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WINNING AND LOSING IS QUITTING!
scammed is a lost cause. He obviously only sees his view on this and there’s no reason to continue to try to engage him in a meaningful discussion. Many people have posted on here logical, concise and rational counterpoints to argue from the other side of the spectrum and scammed just comes back with the same, tiresome, “leverage family and friends” statement. If that is all you are basing this entire blog on then you need to just give it a rest and move on.
If you put half the time into Ambit that you put into writing this blog and responding to peoples’ comments, then you probably would have succeeded in Ambit and would feel completely different.
As for producing real results, I can’t personally speak/claim that I have or will make good/great money through this opportunity. Whether or not I will hit a roadblock and give up is on me. However, my fiance’s uncle, a regular joe with a successful auto body repair business, is doing wonderful in Ambit purely for supplemental income. He started a little over a year ago and is almost on the verge of becomming an Executive Consultant. He is making over $3k a month residually. I have personally seen his PowerZone webpage and have viewed both his annual earned commissions and his expected monthly commissions, and they are both legit.
This was not someone who was any different than me or you. This was not one of the few that got in at the ground floor. This was someone who was brought in the same way I was and worked the business for a year and now is experiencing the fruits of his labor.
Regardless of how you feel about the entire business/company/etc., the reason, $$$$, is why anyone gets into business and there is $$$$ to be made in this business, I have seen it first hand and know that if he can do it, so can I.
Good luck to all those that are trying.
“And it ain’t that easy to get more than about 4 or 5 customers.”
My father has 37 customers under him, 18 are his, the rest the others that he sponsered signed them up as customers. He has been in only 3 weeks and 6 days today. So sorry scammed if you didn’t have success, but my father and brother have proven to me that what you said isn’t true. They are having great success and my father will be moving up a level really soon. To move up from “MC” (Marketing consultant – level 1) to a “RC” (regional consultant – level 2) you need to sign up 6 MC’s and each of them has to have atleast 5 customers, I believe. I am not in Ambit, but watching my father and brother succeed, makes me think about joining myself. They have never told me that if I don’t sign up it will change our relationship. Just because one person said that doesn’t mean that all consultants use that line!! We can’t control what everyone says, but we can control our actions and what we say. If you don’t like what one person is saying but you like the opportunity, which I believe is a good one, then sign up with someone else.
Watch what I can say on the internet:
Ambit Energy charged me 1,000,000.00 on my first bill. I hate them.
See my point: anyone, anywhere, even if they are competition…..can lie
on this site….and mislead anyone.
Ambit truly is a Great Company……and thats not a LIE
Forget all the scam comments. Can any of you Ambit consultants speak about the customer service aspect? I am considering the opportunity, but bottom line – I can’t sell a product or service that I wouldn’t truly enjoy myself. And I hate poor customer service: long hold times on the phone, lack of knowledge by the cs reps, poor service in the first place prompting cs calls. You know what I mean. Please share your real-time experiences. If customer service gets thumbs, I may try it (if the consultants ever reply to my emails!) Much respect.
your wrong homie… the person who got me in, i’ve been knowing since i was 13yrs old and i’m now 32… Debby Roy Atckinson… she’s making plenty and helps me out daily… i’ve been making some and it’s constantly growing… but i am sorry for you… if you wanna make some money, just holla at me…
So I signed up to be a consultant just the other day. I asked a close friend to be a customer and he said “sure after I read all the fine print”. He then read the agreement between NYSEG and Ambit. He found a bunch of things in there that make it scary and they raise a bunch of good questions. Now I am very nervous that I am going to “screw over” my friends and family. I dont know what to do. I have only signed up 1 friend so far and put all of the rest on hold. There is a conference scheduled here for Thursday hopefully I can find someone there that can answer all of my friends questions/concerns since he will be joining me. I see tons of complaints on the internet about this company. Any advice?
I signed up to be an ambit consultant about a week ago. I have only signed up myself as a customer. I am waiting to see if everything about their product is a great as they promise it will be. I figure if it is, then half the work has been done for me. I can just take my bill and my experience and share it will my friends and family. That way I am not risking anything based on another person’s opinion. I saw complaints on the internet as well. But do me a favor jess…..look up the complaints on TXU and other larger more established companies. The numbers are astounding and took me completely by surprise. I wasn’t going to sign up, but my sponsor told me something that I am definately going to use in the future. When I told her my concerns and that I wanted to look stuff up on the internet and do more research..she said to me ( when you moved into the house you are in and you signed up for Electric, did you research every single one, or did you simply call and find out who was currently the cheapest?) duh? I signed up for TXU because it was easy and cheap. That made me go ahead and give ambit a try. So if you are hesitant to sign any one up like I am, my advise is to have something solid to show them. The downside is that you have to wait to make your money back but i would rather have 20 customers in a month that are confident that I sold them a quality product because it will save them money and help them out than 20 customers who signed up to help me out and let me make money off them. I am excited about the ambit opportunity and cant wait to see where it takes me. Let me know how your experience continues to go jess
Jess…..I feel your pain man. I joined Ambit last year…and when I first read those complaints, I was really nervous. I had already signed up my family members and friends. And…….everything is just fine. Your friend can have his questions answered at a meeting. Senior Consultants and above are always there. Jess, the one thing Ive realized is that the internet is the worst….and greatest place to find information. Anyone…at anytime can slander Ambit….even if Ambit has never done anything wrong. Our competition is doing this because Ambit is getting all of the customers….they make up lies and post totally made up stuff.
Google: BBB Ambit Energy : this is a legitimate site for real analysis of the mistakes that have been made and rectified! I love this company Jess…they are great…and people hate that. Thats why they slander Ambit. Take Care
CAN EVERYONE SEE HOW THIS GUY SCAMMED IS SCAMMING EVERYONE! THIS GUY SITS ON HIS COMPUTER…..EVERYDAY SENDING INFORMATION TO STRANGERS……DAILY……SCAMMED IS A LOSER.
SCAMMED GET A JOB…AND A GIRLFRIEND YOU BUM.
Just Energy currently has a wholesale price flexible plan plus 1 penny which comes with the option as a non-green plan. Green plans are always more expensive. This is a great plan and is not a scam as you state. Unfortunately not all independent agents explain the program properly to their customers. All agents must wear id badges when out in the field as fully identifying themselves as Just Energy Agents. All contracts signed in the field are verified from the customers phone and getting their agreement to the contract over the phone with the agent present. There is also a 10 day cooling off period, which gives the customer time to review the contract before reaffirming registration. The customer also has 30 days to cancel their contract with Just Energy after they receive their first bill if they are not satisfied. And on the non-green plans, there is only an exit fee of $100, not what has been stated in previous blogs. There is a higher exit fee for green plans, which is fully explained in the contract. It’s apparent from this blog comments that people don’t read their contracts and don’t read them within the time frame of cancellation.
Wow are you for real scammed? I have been a consultant for Ambit for three months and every thing that Ambit tells you will happen happens with effort and consistency. I have 30 loyal customers and I am just getting started. Where else can you get paid over and over for work you do one time. Sounds like you need to get out of your moms basement and get a life.
JJ and Jess…….why in the world would you even consider going into any business without checking the risks, complaints or, compliments on getting into a venture such as this. I see you are waiting?? For what? For a pot of money to fall on your lap? Get real. Get off your butt and go do it!!
And what is this fabricated “gold rush energy”? Fabricated bull crap. Evidently Ambit competitors are paying idiots to post negative, untrue, perhaps slander against the best ESCO out there. This a great business and I love it!!!
Risk???? There are “Risk” in every step in our lives. If you are not a motivated person; then just work as others doing from 9 To 5. This is one of the best opportunity I have ever found. Of course; it’s not as easy as 1-2-3. You have to earn your position by dedicating your smart part time or even less than part time of your valuable time. I have been in business for the last 8 years and I agree Ambit Energy is one of the best opportunities available. It is not a scam, whoever consider as scam means their personal failure…..
I do not sell Ambit but never will. I am here writing as a customer.
Ambit is unethical and underhanded. They dont tell you up front if you ever get a disconnection notice you will be charged a Disconnection fee ($15) and Reconnection fee ($50) even though your service was NOT disconnected!!! I have never had to pay this with any other elec. co.
All you people who work for the company and defending it, how can you sleep at night knowing you are ripping off your family members and customers? I was out of work for 1 1.2 years due to the economy and managed to pay my bill on time. The one time that I did not I was stuck with these charges.
Now for the next 6 months I will have to pay a higher rate.
A message to you REPS of Ambit Energy, BE HONEST AND TELL YOUR POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS this may happen. Its better to lose one at the beginning than deal with the problem later. At least they will have a chance to make sure if anything can be done not to ever get a disconnection notice.
I will be looking for another service.