Wealthy Affiliate, WA, SiteRubix, Jaaxy, StreetArticles Theft of My Intellectual Property Internet

I am currently with Wealthy Affiliate. Based on my experience I don't see them as an outright scam or anything like that. But there are both extremely good things and very bad things to say about them. Here is my general take:

1. They have excellent training programs that are extremely difficult to find elsewhere.

2. Their plugin (Jaaxy) for finding good keywords is one of the best around and it's not all that expensive.

3. Their servers are way too slow. You take the risk of losing customers because of their heavily overworked servers that cause webpages to take too long to load.

4. Their webhosting costs substantially more than a typical webhost.

              SPECTACULAR TRAINING, HORRIBLE SERVERS, HEAVILY OVERPRICED WEBHOSTING

If you view Wealthy Affiliate as a very expensive webhost that has extremely good training programs but very poor servers I think you have the right general picture of them. Within a very short period of time after signing up for the first month of premium membership I knew I would be leaving the company within 1 or 2 months. I need the training they are offering. It's really, really good. What I don't however is the very poor grades I'm getting on Google Pagespeed Insights and G T Metrix because of their heavily overworked servers. Neither do I need the heavily overpriced webhosting. I haven't told the owners of the company my plans. I will probably make copies of my webpages and store them in my computer so I can re-create them on another website if need be. I plan to milk their training for all its worth and move my website to another webhost where pageload speed and heavily overpriced webhosting are not issues.

The original report I'm responding to is helping me to navigate my current situation with the best possible final outcome.

 I was told that I would have 30 days....yes, but that simply was NOT the case. When that time came, I was then actually told that I only have 3 days to get it done. So, I did. I moved over to a new host. The problem, as I've already explained, is that WA denied me any and all access to my content! Even the new host attempted to help me retrieve it, but WA completely shut me out and ceased all communication to this very day! I hate WA. They're con artists!

When you leave Wealthy Affiliate, you have 30 days to transfer your site to your own domain before it is deactivated.   You may wish to read this post on the WA site for a more complete explanation.

Regards,

-Kae

 Unfortunately, nothing was ever done for me. It's been 5 months now and to this day I am unable to make any contact with anyone from WA. I've sent multiple emails to both of the owners with no response. In fact, their provided email addresses must be fakes because it always returns an invalid email error when I try to email them. I'm sorry, but I must still strongly advise against any dealings with this company. My direct email is robby_duncan@yahoo.com if you would like to correspond further about it. Thanks!

   I'm just curious as to what, If anything has happened since you filed this report?  I have been contemplating joining but I'm not so sure now. You aren't the first person I've seen with pretty much this same complaint.  I'd like to know if they have done anything to fix this problem.  I kind of wonder why noone is defending WA here.  There are people affiliated with them that do read these reports and I am curious as to why none of them have made a rebuttal on WA's behalf.