Matt GilloglyMatt Gillogly Plaid Jacket Marketing Matt Gilliogly Ripped Me Off! Charlotte North Carolina

Matt Gillogly with Plaid Jacket Marketing (now touts Christian Business Success at www.createtrueriches.com) sold me 2 very high dollar items, both of which failed to deliver. The commonality of anything Matt Gillogly offers is that it is over promised and under-delivered.

The first product, the www.megamarketingmachine.com was sold at 2995 up to 3997. I purchased it as a "special" for around $3,000. This was a set-up fee for an automated marketing direct mail system. As of early this year, the entire website is taken down. There is no way to use the system I paid for as well as hundreds of others paid many thousands of dollars to Matt Gillogly for. Now it's money flushed down the toilet.

Corespondance to other customers of his, tells me that Matt Gillogly did not pay his printer money for printing services Matt used first then refused to pay for. Since this was the same printer used to deliver the megamarketingmachine.com, this service was then shut down to everyone who paid for it. Not only did all the customers who bought this lose their money, so did the printer who delivered services to Matt Gillogly and Plaid Jacket Marketing. He mailed thousands of dollars of direct mail and did not get paid.

While trying to request a refund via certified mail (after numerous attempts via e-mail were ignored) I got a voice mail from a different fullfillment company Matt Gillogly used. Here's a transcript of part of that voice mail:

"...we however were not paid from them as well. We have not been able to get through on any phone, cell phone, fax number, or e-mail etc., so I think we're all in the same position."

In regard to another, yet higher priced program, the IREA, which stands for independent real estate advisor - Matt Gillogly and Plaid Jacket Marketing (after splitting up with a former business parter, Matt took over this program - after it was sold, then they revealed their split up - I got stuck with Matt under this program).

www.areaadvisor.net was a support website for the IREA which was sold for between 10,000 to 20,000 or perhaps more on webinars selling it. I paid $15,000 for the program.

I was supposed to get a large list of customers (there were 45 - including many duplicate e-mails).

Marketing Materials were to be delivered to help market to fill monthly meetings. Those provided were pretty poor quality. It seems the best marketing and sales materials were those used to sell the IREA itself.

For a monthly reoccuring fee of $697, content was to be delivered on DVD. The first 3 sessions I had to download from his site and were of less than professional quality. One of the videos was incomplete at the end.

Seminars were to be given by Plaid Jacket Marketing/Matt Gillogly and any one of our local customers we signed up for the seminars we would get 50% of the sales. There were to be at least 4 seminars per year. We were also to get a percentage of the sales at those seminars from any customers we sent. Only one seminar was held and I was not credited for the sales.

Another deliverable was a free package of training materials that we could offer as an incentive to get people to show up at meetings. This was a collection of CD's and Printed materials.

Many of the orders for the training materials (which also was a trial run of a monthly newsletter with a reoccuring $39/mo. fee - which I was to get 40% of) were never delivered. Some orders we faxed over as many as 3 times for the ones that complained they never got them. Some I'm sure never got them and I didn't hear back from them.
Some of my customers reported they never got the free materials but were charged the reoccuring $39 fee.
More recently, a customer told me she had been charged over the last 3 months and had not recieved the newsletter.
Part of the newsletter was a monthly CD. This was RARELY delivered.

For any customer relationships I created locally, Matt Gillogly did nothing to deliver his part per the IREA contract and severly damaged my credibility with my local customers.

Matt Gillogly was quick to adopt this strategy of "high priced area exclusive" content taught by Dan Kennedy. One important thing Dan Kennedy teaches though, is to have a quality product you can stand behind. Matt sold this as a $165,000 year income opportunity, yet it did nothing more than cost me $15,000 up front, $697 month for several months working the system with Plaid Jacket Marketing (by not delivering quality content, and failing to deliver materials) systematically tore down any local credibility, therefore making it very difficult to keep people coming to the meetings.

I scheduled a phone call to Matt Gillogly to discuss my dissatisfaction and he stated he would hold off on the $697 reoccuring fees until he could do more of what his obligations were (back end seminars and products to sell to create the income the busines model was designed to provide).

It seems this IREA product was so poorly designed that by that point, pretty much everyone else who'd purchased it had failed. I was also out of DVD content at this point, so over the next couple months, some content from some other program he'd sold for high dollars was delivered to me to use as a stand in.
Finally the content stopped. I followed up with several e-mails asking when I would receive more and after weeks I got the reply below.


"I sent a few emails and I know that Don has reached out as well.
It appears that your account has not been charged the monthly fee of $697 since December.
When we did not hear from you, I figured you decided to stop using the program.
However, if you want to discuss moving forward we can.
Let me know.

Matt"

It is one thing to sell a lousy product and deliver it poorly, but it's entirely another thing to flat lie about what HE knew he said on the call - HE agreed to hold off the billing, I did not cancel the program.

At this point, though, no one else was working, I was the only one left that hadn't failed completely and abandomed it. Since no one else was asking for content, why deliver it, right?

Right after this he took down the members support site www.areaadvisor.net.
Of course he forgot to stop charging others - see this e-mail from another IREA buyer sent to me 3 months after all support had been terminated by Matt:
"Wow, as I may have mentioned in a previous email, I had health problems and was not working the system anyway. When did he shut it down? I'm still getting billed for everything. I had been "biting the bullet" and making the pmts, but I assumed that everything was still active and content was being deliverd via the website because I didn't hear otherwise. Please advise as to when he actualy shut it down. Thanks so much."

Here's my e-mail I sent to Matt Gillogly finally requesting a refund of the IREA before the site was shut down - (he took the site offline a few days after this e-mail and did not reply):

I'm not sure what e-mails you sent that were not a reply to mine. Don's e-mail was about whether or not the last DVD sent was received.

When we discussed things that were not being provided it was you who agreed not to charge my account. We discussed this on the phone. That's why I am still getting the newsletter, why I am still in the area advisors site. Would you like a recording of that call or any of the others.
The last e-mails were regarding you were going to give me a schedule of upcoming topics for the monthly meetings. After several follow up e-mails over nearly a month, I got a list of 2 topics. I have not received either of them. I can provide you copies of all e-mail communication. I saved everything.
Do you take notes from our calls we have done?
You were going to come out here for a day seminar. This was supposed to be in December. I never heard back from you on that.
You were getting others to contribute products to sell. Larry Goings is the only one. You said you could get some marketing materials to sell the products that were coming haven't seen that either.
I was to get content from your other program till others caught up' you mentioned I was so far ahead of everyone else that you had not planned to create new content till others did and you stated around 6 months this was back last year. Again on the phone.

This was sold to me as a fulfilled business you would provide the content and products to sell, a newsletter from you and a laundry list of other national guru's who would contribute. A list of people to associate ourselves with locally. This hasn't come to be.
There's one product outside some of your own.
There's been no seminars this was another source of income.
I have the contract and it's not being full-filled. I am guessing other pastures have become greener' for you and this seems to have been left out to dry.
I didn't get this bundled in with a Platinum' membership. I also didn't get any seminars or course content from Tim's program that was promised.

Please consider this my formal request for you to refund the initial cost of this program. I paid 15,000 initially and several months of the $697 at a monthly loss. You can keep the monthly. Send me back my fee and I'll send you back any and all materials sent to me, and we can part friends. As a good marketer I am sure having the use of my $15,000 has allowed you to multiply it by investing in your marketing. Now I ask you to return it, so I can invest it to grow a business for myself.

I sent that e-mail a few times, with no reply. I spoke with several others who Matt took large sums of money for this product - none of them (100%) had been able to follow the system as he sold it and make any money, let alone their initial investment back.

The only person to make money on this "opportunity" was Matt Gillogly and Plaid Jacket Marketing. Matt touts his Christian faith and Christian business success to help "fund the kingdom of God". I'm quite certain God would not condone Matt Gillogly's business practices.

It took several attempts at dummy addresses he has on his websites to deliver a registered mail requesting a refund. One such letter was "refused".

Below are the 2 best addresses I have to deliver mail to Matt Gillogly and Plaid Jacket Marketing:
8604 Chatsworth Lane
Waxhaw, NC 28173

15105-D John J. Delaney Drive #177
Charlotte, NC 28277
704-583-9717

Regardless of whatever company name or "faith principals" Matt Gillogly is professing, I hope anyone will realize regardless of how sincere he sounds in person or from a presentation, he is far from an ethical business person, far from running a "Christ Centered Business" and NOT someone ANYONE should ever do business with.

Mattgilloglyrippedmeoff
colorado springs, Colorado
U.S.A.