Is Genesis Rocket A Scam? Find Out Here . . .

This blog's title is an actual tweet used to advertise the Genesis Rocket (GR) eBook on Twitter. The link attached to the tweet opens to the GR sales page. This page boldly goes where few have gone before. It states GR is "The only Twitter method that actively promotes your Twitter account through a network of over 350,000 followers."

Sounds great, doesn’t it? With the exception of the sentence highlighted in yellow, it's a stark, white sales page decorated with a single Paypal button at the very end, and filled with compelling text as follows:

"Get over 1,000 new high quality followers every week, easily generate an annual income in excess of $100,000, become an influential player in the niche of your choice and market your brand to an audience of millions. Right now people just like you are making big money online with Twitter using Genesis Rocket. This is your chance to join them.

No gimmicks, no hype, just a simple, effective and proven plan."

Wow!

In a nutshell GR offers you the opportunity to learn how to grow multiple Twitter accounts using free tools and to get these accounts in front of 350,000 readers. All that’s required is a purchase and the product owner will network your twitter account for you.

Sold, I hit the Paypal button and in less time than it takes to write this sentence was relieved of $97. Within a few hours I got a confirmation link and happily downloaded the product.

This was approximately when reality set in.

Rule #1: If It Sounds Too Good To Be True It Usually IS

My euphoria dissipated within 2 minutes of opening the 46-page double-spaced eBook. The lack of a cover page didn't bother me. It was the missing Table of Contents that got my attention. Ok, what exactly have I bought for $97?

I’ll go ahead and create a quaisi version of the absent Table of Contents for your convenience.

Prologue

Stage 1 Open and prepare a Twitter account

Stage 2 Automate hard work

    * Automate reciprocal follows
    * Automate content
    * Get listed in directories

Stage 3 (5-day plan)

The 5-day plan is the heart of this program. I’ll simply state it covers many aspects of using Twitter wisely, such as syndicates, hash tag conversations, retweeting, geographical searches, and the advantages of some conventions such as #FollowFriday.

Stage 4 Monetize your Twitter account

Here you’re invited to sell Genesis and pocket a commission and the wise utilization of Direct Messages

Stage 5 Stay safe

Here you learn how to create and maintain multiple accounts, distribute follower liability and are supplied with scripts (packaged separately) that automate your advertising efforts. In addition, the “Inner Circle push” is explained. This is the Network push that allows your account to circulate among hundreds of thousands of networked blogs, etc.

My Critique

GR has useful content which is, for the most part, well organized. The issue therefore comes down to value.  Assuming someone’s status as a complete newbie, is this worth $97? In my opinion – NO! And if you’ve been on Twitter a while my answer to you is NO, NO, NO, NO – Absolutely NOT!

Does the product have value? Yes, the inherent value is real but the sticker price is out of proportion to value.  At best, this product should sell between $29-$35, all items included.

Rule #2: NEVER Buy Electronic Ebooks/Downloads From Paypal Unless You’re Willing To Lose Your Investment

This purchase ended badly. However, as I’m unclear as to whether it was the owner’s fault or my ISP’s fault, I will not assume that my results will necessarily be yours.

After communicating successfully with the product owner when my purchase was initially made I read the plan and discovered I pretty much had already performed all the recommended steps to monetize my primary Twitter account. The next step, therefore, was to avail myself of the promised Network push.  I emailed the product owner requesting the push.

No response.

I sent a second email to the product owner requesting a network push.

No response.

I sent a third email to the product owner requesting a network push, this one accompanied by a delivery receipt request.  I got back confirmation of email delivery but no response from the product owner.

That’s when I decided it was time to engage Paypal. I initiated a Paypal dispute. The product owner replied that no emails had been received from me. I sent the delivery receipt to him via Paypal. He continued to the indicate he’d received no emails from me. I asked for a full refund. He declined. I asked for a partial refund. He declined. I escalated the matter to Paypal. Paypal promptly closed the dispute with a decidedly unapologetic note saying they only intervened in matters concerning non-delivery of shipped goods.

That ended the matter.

So, be warned. If you buy something with Paypal that is not a physical item requiring delivery you will not receive a refund unless the product owner decides to give you one. The likelihood of that happening is not great. In fact, it’s next to zero. So if you’re purchasing electronic goods and services via Paypal that are not physical items make peace with the fact that your investment is likely a permanent one. I’ve decided to limit all electronic purchases (that lack physical properties such as a cellphone, e.g.) to less than $25.  This way I can take comfort in the fact that my loss is not particularly excessive, such as the almost $100 loss associated with GR.

Learn from my mistake. Buy this product only if you’re financially flush and able to lose ~$100 painlessly if dissatisfied.  Better yet, get the information from a source that more appropriately gauges the quality of his or her offering and thinks of you, the end-user, as a fellow human being and not a sucker waiting to be fleeced.