I posted a complaint about ACN and didn't get much response.

I attended an ACN meeting at the urging of a family friend who kept telling me that the company was great and said he was making a ton of money and was planning to buy a new car in the next couple of months. They put the pressure on and asked for a one time fee of $499.  On top of the $499, they signed me up with 2 accounts, one supposedly for a demo, the other for my personal use. They said it would be $25 a month.  Actually, I was charged $43 a month for both accounts. On top of my two accounts, I started to sign up for a landline, which they said would be $25 per month as well. But before completing the form, I told them I had to go to work. I never signed the form for the landline. I told them I'd be back tomorrow and left. On my drive to work, I decided to cancel the whole thing.

I immediately called ACN and asked to cancel my representative account. I was able to get my $499 back. I thought everything was over. It wasn't and to this day still isn't. At the end of that month, I was charged $43 for both of my accounts and $80 for the voip boxes, which they had said would be 10 dollars each. I called ACN again to complain and demanded that they cancel the landline, saying that I had never authorized it. They threatened to take me to court. I asked them to fax me a copy of the application and it was signed, but it was definitely not my signature. So basically, someone forged my signature on the form and now I'm stuck with a bill for a service I never authorized!!

Does anyone else have a similar complaint about ACN? Did you ever manage to straighten it out?

I've heard quite a few bad things about ACN, not just from Internet sources, complaints and review sites either but from a friend of mine who tried the system out when he got back from Colorado and needed to establish a financial base. He actually studied the company and its comp plan for awhile and figured it would be a good idea, and I told him I had come across countless complaints, and to choose another. I explained to him that its relatively normal for all MLM companies to be accused of unlawful practices to some extent because there is always a bitter person who couldn't make it, but that there was definitely grounds for the term "ACN scam". He swore up and down that he was all set and there was no ACN scam, not knowing he'd be left with a $1188 bill! I told him from the beginning you're better off with many other choices, especially with his knowledge of nutrition and athletic appearance, but he was really stuck on this.

He went on and on about how ACN is going to be the premiere American communications network, and that its not a scam (I was weirded out by the way he put it, almost seemed like someone had convinced him and he wouldn't admit it), and that they offered "quality communications" that if demonstrated properly to prospective customers; can make you rich. By this time I pretty much figured out he had already signed up and had been brainwashed by someone at ACN, but was fairly disappointed because I never knew him as a guy who didn't read between the lines, or be easily swindled, I'm still a bit perplexed about it to this day.

ACN is a scam, plain and simple. Just type "ACN Scam" on your search engine and read all the experiences that pop up. The easiest way to gauge a company that pulls crap like this is to single out the ones that make you pay to join them, that's pretty much a no brainer for me. They socked my buddy for the remainder of his bank account while he had no home, no apartment, no base of operations because he assumed he would have no problem recruiting. Well exactly how do you do that when you don't know anyone in the area you moved to? I'm the first to admit that my buddy is almost solely to blame as far as making bad choices go, but when he went to pull the plug, ACN took over and made sure he wasn't getting his money back, and not by hiding behind small print either, this is actually blatant.

He paid a full $500 to join up with the company, and like the poster above, also added a "Demo" account as well, which they said would be no charge whatsoever, of course that was never stated on paper, and I got on him about that at the time. He got charged $543 as his first bill, and of course even though he was staying in a mutual friend's apartment, he also agreed to consider starting a land line which cost $25 a month. Instead of 80, he was charged $120 for voip boxes and then a week later gets a new invoice saying he owed $500, as if he somehow opened two active accounts! By this time he was furious and canceled, unfortunately for him, he did sign a contract with ACN, but he read very carefully and swears to me that he knew what he was signing. Like the poster above, he insisted his apps be faxed over, and sure enough, the forms were completely different yet his signature was added to documents he didn't sign.

So simple a scam, and yet very effective when used against people with no money for a lawyer....

Avoid

My friend hasn't received a dime, and he already paid.

No offense man, but your friend sounds like a real champion. I can't imagine how anyone in this world would join one of these companies even when there aren't 5 trillion reports from people saying to stay the hell away, what's wrong with you people? Was this even that long ago dude? The industry has been talking about ACN and how horrible it is for at least two years, there are literally countless other ways to waste your money in the MLM world than this invisible pet rock. How the hell is it your friend would sign anything like that without asking for copies up front, and what kind of person would attempt to start something like this when you don't even have a financial starting point or a place to freakin live, cmon!

Anyway, I'm not trying to be rude but this story lands somewhere between anger-inspiring and humorous lol. ACN has been before the cross hairs of alot of angry people in the last two years and they have definitely left a long, long path of upset people. I remember reading about there blatant forgeries last year and feeling as though there was no way I'd have been talked into that at all, but I find that alot of the people that have been "had" never originally had much exposure to the concept of Pyramid/ponzi schemes, so that's the only slack I'll cut them, otherwise, it doesn't take much common sense to know that in the world of business and money, if it sounds too good to be true, it is!

Their web site is still up, and I'm surprised it hasn't been blocked yet. You need to sit down with your friend and have a heart to heart in regard to his decision making skills and ask him, in my dear old friend, James Rolfe's words; "What the =*$@ were you thinking?" Seriously, its that bad. He reminds me of a woman that stays with a guy that beats her, or maybe the average Jersey Shore fan. Don't get me wrong, I do feel sorry for your pal, I'm not COMPLETELY heartless, but all too often these companies survive simply because people are dense enough to be fed upon, and after awhile, you have to figure out who is to blame once a company has long since been established as a scam.....

ACN is a bit easier to forgive as far as those that have been tricked, at least in a better light than say, TVI Express or something, but still, there are a handful of what I might call "Black listed" companies that most people know is questionable, and this, in my opinion; is one of them.

Peace

Ha ha ha ha............. Jersey shore fan......... PRICELESS!!!

Thank you rick. I genuinely mean that.

I have a friend from high school who just popped up as an ACN rep on facebook, posting crap to everyones pages and going all prospect vomit on everyone.....LOL

All I have to say about ACN is their main selling point........... you know the video teleconference phone thing........ Come on man? Who even has a landline or what ever............

Why pay for that when you can skype or EVEN better go check out VIVU.TV for about 10 bucks a month.........Hmmmmmm?

That's all I have to say about that.

Ahhahah you guys are funny i would never fall for acn. your friend doenst sount too smart.

Lol, anytime, I admit that I walk the line of ignorance probably more often than not, but I'm just trying to express how I feel. Its interesting what Facebook can reveal about the paths people take isn't it? So he's just plastering ACN all over his friends' wall huh? Nice lol...awesome way to make all your friends look at you and say: wow, you really made it......and you stated perfectly what I've been thinking...who the *&^% wants to sit there on a video phone and discuss business?

Lets weigh the options shall we?

I can sit here on a telephone and sound completely professional and have a great meeting without having to put pants on, I can freely pick my nose, talk with my face planted on the table, tie my shirt around my face so I look like a ninja and you will hang up with as much respect for me as you started with. Now add a video phone, I have to not look rediculous, behave myself visually, look like an asshole as I work on the video quality and worry about lighting. LIGHTING! That sounds about as fun as any real business meeting on a day off. Video phones are NOT improvements in technology, they would probably be more beneficial to people who want to have phone sex, Jetson's style.