James Smith - National Real Estate Investors Ripoff Concerns after having just signed up Draper Utah

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Hi again, I received my money back.

I have been told by the James Smith Company that the printer messed up on the order forms by not putting the Notice of Cancellation on the back of the forms and having a typo on the cancellation phone number. So apparently it was an honest mistake.

The James Smith Company did right by me as far as the cancellation policy and refunding my money. I had quite a scare with my experience and with what I read on this website, but in the end they did right by me.

I need to clarify that Strategic Equity is a fantastic company. Any loan officer who wants to improve their game needs to go to one of their events. There were many fantastic speakers who were worth the price of admission alone. I am convinced Steven Marshall has the utmost integrity. In fact like Scott says he 100% guarantees all his speakers with a money back guarantee. He said that at his seminar, but I think I might have been on a bathroom break. Multiple people have told me that he said that though, so he did say that.

Sasha:

i too was at the Strategic Equity 2007 in Las Vegas.. and i heard Steven Marshall personal guarantee that if you were not happy with James material he (Steven Marshall) would personally refund your money.. So, call Strategic Equity and tell them what happened and remind that Steven said on stage that he would refund your $$..

Good Luck..

Sasha:

i too was at the Strategic Equity 2007 in Las Vegas.. and i heard Steven Marshall personal guarantee that if you were not happy with James material he (Steven Marshall) would personally refund your money.. So, call Strategic Equity and tell them what happened and remind that Steven said on stage that he would refund your $$..

Good Luck..

Sasha:

i too was at the Strategic Equity 2007 in Las Vegas.. and i heard Steven Marshall personal guarantee that if you were not happy with James material he (Steven Marshall) would personally refund your money.. So, call Strategic Equity and tell them what happened and remind that Steven said on stage that he would refund your $$..

Good Luck..

Sasha:

i too was at the Strategic Equity 2007 in Las Vegas.. and i heard Steven Marshall personal guarantee that if you were not happy with James material he (Steven Marshall) would personally refund your money.. So, call Strategic Equity and tell them what happened and remind that Steven said on stage that he would refund your $$..

Good Luck..

I might have been a bit pre-emptive in my comments, but my initial experience along with comments I have read on the internet freaked me out. I have been promised by multiple reps at James Smith company that I will get my $$ back. I promise to give an update on whether I get my money back or not. I will say that it cost me $59 to Fed-Ex priority overnight the package back to them. Perhaps if I was a little more relaxed about the whole thing and shipped it ground I could have spent $20 or $30 instead, but I didn't want to cut it close at all. Remember, I just wanted the DVD presentation to show my fiancee. Many of the other speakers handed out complimentary CDs, DVDs, and information to take home to make a decision.

I will give an update on what happens.

Yes you have a point. Why all the red flags and order anyway? The biggest reason is the 5 day guarantee. In fact, without the 5 day guarantee there was a 0 percent chance I would have ordered it. I Just wanted to show my fiancee the DVD presentation so we could make a decision.

When I sit in my home office and rehash the events it does seem silly to sign up for something when those red flags were there. Hindsight is 20/20. Keep in mind that you were not there, that you are reading my experience from my perspective as I rehash it on this site.

Also please try to understand the energy at these events and the way hundreds of people are clammering to get their order forms in. Many many excited people are rushing the booths, cutting in front of each other like a feeding frenzy. James is an unusually charismatic speaker and I have seen a lot of speakers in my time. James ranks in the top 2 easily. Nobody else comes close. It is easy to get caught up and not think as level headed as one does when one is not in that environment. Take this site for example. People are on this site to read other victim's experience of being scammed. So people will have much more of a state of skepticism, being rational, etc. Remember that mental state has a lot to do with decision making and outlook.

We have all been scared, excited, sad, happy, positive, negative, etc. Feeling controls mental state and mental state controls the types of decisions we make. So please keep this in mind. Believe me it is easy to look at someone else's mistakes and think you would never do them. But I bet if you honestly lay on the table some of your worst mistakes and bad decisions you have made in your life, relationships, financial, etc. that it would not be difficult for me or someone else to really pick them apart. We all can relate to feeling like we can easily solve other people's problems and see the error in their ways. It's human nature.

We're all human. I made a mistake. Thousands of people have ordered James Smith product so I am not the only one that made this very mistake.

I am going to cancel tomorrow though and should have a full 5 business days to get this done. So really it shoudn't be too much of a mistake. Hopefully the company won't put me through the hell it has put other people who have tried to get their money back.

not sure what has happened here, are you telling us you saw all these red flags but stilled signed?
if so, then why?

hope it works out for you

j