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BEWARE SCAM ONLINE POLE DANCE LESSONS
Hi everyone. I recently started pole dancing and due to my busy schedule, I wanted to find a way of practicing at home. I came across a website (Similar to this) that was providing online lessons also available for download and on DVD. I paid for the lessons and ladies (maybe gents too) let me tell you… IT WAS A HOT MESS!! Her course that she claimed to have put together was just a collection of YouTube videos!!! She just got a bunch of videos off of YouTube that are totally unrelated to her and makes people pay for them!! This woman claims to be a renound pole dancer/instructor but she's just a scam artist. Believe me when I say, if you are looking for an at home pole dancing course you are better off sticking to Veena, the price is worth it and she is legit. (I wasn't paid a dime to say this, I'm trying to save someone from the betrayal I experienced). I'm not sure if I am allowed to mention names on here, apologies if I am violating any rules but the lady went by the name of Amber Starr and her website is http://www.poledancingcourses.com/
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In looking around her site I recognized a bunch of the video as the ones that you can get for free on youtube (she even has a flirty girl image on there). Second thing that stands out is she says she is a "master pole instructor" but does not say where she got that title. Lastly, that site oozes of cheap "build your own website".
Oooo…I did not even see her "click per site" pay set up under affiliates. I can pretty much guarantee you that all of her "testimonials" are her click per site "affiliates".
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I also cannot seem to find any information on who this Amber Starr is.
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All i could find on her was a google+ profile that was set up in Feb 2012. Sorry that this happened to you Aporbee.
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Feb 2013 sorry
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OMG Just had a look! What a RIP OFF!
Thats soooo wrong !! thanks for letting us know x
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D:<
there aughta be a law against this!
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Did you get your money back with the "Ironclad 100% Satisfaction "Love It or Shove It" Guarantee" ?
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Whoever created this site went so far as to block themselves from searching who created the website.
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This drives me nuts that people have these rip-off websites when there are others out there like Veena who put so much thought & effort into what they do!
I wonder if the owners of the youtube video clips realise what they're being used for!
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How disappointing. I can't imagine how the people of those youtube videos feel knowing that their personal vids were being used to make this woman money. I'd be furious. I haven't checked into other at home pole lessons but now I will look out for the scammies. Hell NO am I paying good money for crap!
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Has anyone informed video owners? Asking money for videos you do not have copyright over is pretty illegal.
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That is a real shame, I have seen those videos already on you tube you are right…you can watch them for free…how rude..
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Just by looking through the pictures on here, I'm immediately seeing videos from Youtube, specifically if you search "How to Pole dance for Beginners." There's ones from Studio soiree, as well as another studio (whose name I can't currently remember), as well as quite a few pictures from the Pole dance encyclopedia thing (I'm so bad with names! They had a whole list of moves, with videos to go with them).
The "Star Site Secure" badges at the very bottom of the page actually take you to the Order section of the website, and thus are likely not secured by anyone at all.
I'd also like to say that their use of Flirty Girl Fitness pictures is straight up plagarism, and their use of Youtube videos in this way (as in, to make a profit) is quite illegal. I don't know for sure about the others, but I'm sure it's also quite shady.
It's very unfortunate that someone would do this, and I very much hope you get your money back!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some e-mails to send…
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I was JUST reading a thread on Facebook from a link to is site that Philip Deal posted (warning a out the same thing). Someone seems to have tracked down the name of the person who started it – Jen Butson. Contact via twitter @jen_butson
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How did they trace it back to her? Out of curiosity? I would hate to have a bunch of people mad at her if it's not 100% definitely her.
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Just saw more posts to the Facebook thread with similar concerns. Looks like the person who provided the name just did a google search with an image off the scam site. So not too reliable.
Maybe a better route would be via the site host: http://www.hostgator.com -
Just saw more posts to the Facebook thread with similar concerns. Looks like the person who provided the name just did a google search with an image off the scam site. So not too reliable.
Maybe a better route would be via the site host: http://www.hostgator.com -
Philip picked up my post from earlier seeking information about this person. I will have to go back and look to see what has been sleuthed. I tried doing a whois on this site and it came back blocked. I think someone went so far as to try to purchase through paypal and get an email address that way.
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Actually Jen Butson is the name of a person who probably had their photo stolen along with everything else on this site. LizzyLiz did an image search and found this website: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9359989.htm
I am sure this woman has no idea her picture is being used.
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Maybe if everyone complains to the web host it might have an effect. I could swear I read that was a method used in a seperate situation where content was being stolen and placed on a site. However I'm not sure if it has to be the content owners themselves who need to complain or if people being scammed would be enough. Either way it never hurts to try the host might take numerous complaints into consideration since it is a definite scam. They might not want their business associated with whoever is defrauding people.
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I believe that many of the people who have images/videos stolen have been contacted and will be contacting the host site.
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The nerve of some people! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_evil.gif
I hope he/she gets his/her just desserts.
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I think its funny how the 3 pictures of “her” look nothing alike and are clearly 3 different girls! And clearly no one has ever seen her perform or teach, so I doubt InStyle is giving her awards lol. InStyle should give studioveena an award 🙂
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I guess this person whoever she is couldn't have expected this "business" to last for long, considering the fact that the example lessons are vids that almost any of us have already seen on YT…. not to smart.
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would it be wise to suggest making your youtube videos “not embeddable”?? would that keep innocent polers videos from being stolen? when i had a youtube, my videos were not able to be embedded. but maybe there a way to still steal them? idk
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