T. Harv Eker Reviews

Harv Sux   San Francisco

Harv is a rip-off. I used to work for the company and heard Harv and others make jokes about how easy it was to rip people off. It's ALL about the money.

The MMI is actually a good seminar, if you eliminate the hard sell. But in it, he DOES put you into NLP-based light hypnotic trance and then hit you with a sales pitch, which is unethical! He whips people into an us/them mentality with the Warrior Camp "AHO!" - everyone wants to be in with the "in" crowd, and he starts building the concept of "we're in and you're not if you don't buy these seminars" from the very first moments.

And those who've not been helped are caught in a "naked emperor" moment - do they admit they've been duped out of thousands of dollars, or do they keep pretending, hoping and defending their guru? BTW, the only seminar Harv actually "wrote" (w/liberal use stolen material from genuine seminar thinkers) is the MMI.

All the rest were written by others. Blair Singer did Life Directions Intensive, which is probably the best and gentlest of the courses. But worth the price? Hardly! And within Peaks, we used to say, "You want to hear a Peak Potentials joke? Customer service!" Once they get your money, good luck getting any of it back, even if you are in the right. Nasty!

Tanja   Brisbane

Eker seems to polarize his attendees. I have done many programmes with Landmark Education and I have been a programme leader for them and so much of his seminar is straight out of the landmark Forum and the Advanced course and I mean word for word. He also incorporates NLP techniques and the basic aim of the weekend (apart from sell courses) is to shift your context around money. Anyone who is not expecting to be sold a course is naive. There are no free lunches. I went to his course because I read his book and got a lot of value out of it. I got a few new bits of information that will make a difference and I was happy to sign up for his internet bootcamp because it made sense to me to do so. The course costs $4000 and the promise is that with one hour's work a day within 3 years one should be making $100 000 a year on line. It is a big call but since the guy teaching the course makes 5 M a year it is entirely with in the realm of possibility. At the end of the day, Harv is at heart a business man and a self made man. I would rather listen to someone who has the results on the board than complain about my circumstances have the time go by and still be in the same place in 5 years time. My advice would be to go along and check it out for yourself and make up your own mind. If you do not do something different to what you have always done there is very little chance your results will alter. That is called your probable almost certain future. As always the ball is in your court.

Cass   Australia

I don't mind the selling part everyone has to sell or your just in denial.

Harv was awesome at the Seminar. It has done a lot for me personally. Can I ask if someone who has actually done the courses to actually make a comment rather than the quitters who just walked out of the room after the 2nd day.

Mary   Sydney

How interesting- Frankly he meets all the criteria for a Narcissistic Personality Disorder and really just believes his own success story. I got a few useful tips but overwhelmingly walked away thinking he could have done some serious damage to the mental health of vulnerable people - Review your Dharma Harv - messing with people's minds, depriving them of food and comfort is just power abuse in anyones language! I have no doubt your intentions were once genuine but you have missed the point- If your product is worthwhile , you don't need to manipulate people into staying and listening to nearly 2 hours of hard sell! I think you can find a better product here in Australia!

Natasha   Vancouver

Investing in yourself is one of the best things you could ever do for yourself. If you want to grow your business, improve your relationships and grow as a person then I highly recommend Peak Potentials. My business has increased by 350% within 2 years of signing up for Quantum Leap. Its certainly not for everyone, but those who are interested in having a better life for themselves and their family can benefit from Harvs teachings. As far as all the negative people out there, who are posting negative reviews and calling it a scam when they aren't even willing to sit thru a sales pitch, how's business treating you? As Harv would put it, let me guess, YOU'RE broke right?

andrewkar   poland

You guys don't understand what he is talking about. And that's why you are unhappy now. To make cash you have to do something, some kind of job or whatever. Harv Eker is teaching how to focus on goal to get what you want, that's it. If you think, you get a red button to make cash, then better wake up fast!

Do some work you bunch of complaining p....!

Kate   Albuquerque

T Harv Eker has help change my life in many ways. But if you are looking for an "Easy" way you will find flaws with the work because you want to find outside sources to why you are failing instead of looking at yourself and how YOU are the cause to your problems. I have been to dozens of his programs and learned more than I ever have before.

John Doe   Nowheresville

T. Harv Eker is not a scam, I have read his book quite a few times and there is some great advice on the psychology of rich people.

I would never go to the MMI personally because that's how he makes his money. There is nothing said there that isn't said in the book, and of course he uses tactics there to make money off of people.

Suzanne   London

I went to the free MMI in London with my boyfriend. I must say that we really liked the "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" book and were looking forward to the seminar.

However, unlike many people on the course we had already done a lot of personal development work and my boyfriend works in that field (I think he was more interested in the way T Harv structures his seminars than the content!) He says he did come away with "a couple of useful nuggets of information."

But we were disappointed to find that T Harv's "amazing techniques for change" were basic, ineffective and about 20 years behind the times. For example, he played a guided meditation CD (which of course he was selling afterwards at a hugely inflated price!) to the audience - the sort of thing that was popular in the 80s. Sorry Harv, now we have Paul McKenna's CDs with simultaneous audio streams going into each ear (and a third of the price).

Harv only presented half the course: the rest was done by a British guy called Marcus de Maria. He was young, bouncy, annoying, full of himself and trying to act American - so much so that the people behind me swore he had once been a contestant on The Apprentice (I can't confirm if this is true or not though). He had gone from being "GBP 100,000 in debt" to "financially independent" in a short time (no specifics as how he did this - at least we know Harv made his fortune from a chain of fitness stores he sold to Heinz). He kept fluffing his lines: "How would you like to earn GBP 8,000 a year - good or good?" Worse, at one point he put the audience into a light hypnotic trance and proceeded to read out a list of negative statements about money. I don't really want a stream of negative suggestions implanted directly into my subconscious, thanks very much -and the last thing people attending this seminar need is to leave with more hangups about money than they had to start with. Other people noticed this this too and were concerned about it. I've raised this with the organizers but (surprise, surprise) have had no response.

So in comparison with the inept Marcus, ol' Harv seemed a lot more professional and really had the respect of the audience. He blew it on the last day though. It was one o'clock, we'd been there since 8 and we were feeling weak from hunger. But rather than let us go to lunch, he proceeded to launch into a 1 1/2 hour sales pitch. We were not allowed to go get some food to keep from passing out because that was "rude" and we would not be allowed to come back for the afternoon session. We all appreciated that it was a free seminar and the guy needs to sell courses, and were prepared to listen politely - but within reason. After a while everyone got fed up and began chatting among themselves. As he lost control of the hungry audience Harv's over-long pitch became more and more ranting and desperate. He came across as selfish, greedy and hypocritical. Just before he'd launched into the sales pitch from Hell he'd told us that the best way to get business was to organize a free talk, give the audience some great information, mention at the end what your product offering is, and then stand quietly at the front of the room and let people come to you. Obviously the incongruity between word and deed was not lost on the audience!

In the lunch break, everyone we came across was scathing about Harv and his lack of integrity. I don't know how many went back for the last session, but we certainly didn't.

I think the thing that sums up the guy for me was that he was selling (again vastly overpriced)cards with his little catchphrases on them. He calls them 'Wisdom Cards'. Sorry, Harv, but if your name is Jesus, Mohamed, Buddha or Socrates you have the right to call your words 'wisdom' - otherwise you are just an egomaniac...

Tony   Sydney

Just came back from the MMI 3 day free course in Sydney Aus. I left part way through 2nd day. Sales pitches to the max... You can learn some basic concepts from these free courses but the amount of selling pitches to 'learn more' was too much for my liking. I understand they need to make money but I'm not sure learning some basic concept over 30-45 minutes followed by another 1-1:30 hour of selling you a course added much value.

The other thing I was very disappointed about is the free course gave the impression Harv Eker would be there... Well some guy named Doug turned up (from the US) and conducted it. He wasn't too bad but there was no reference to this before hand which I thought was a bit misleading.

Also, toward the end of the first day (Fri 1st April), whilst Doug was trying to sell one of the courses you could buy, 2 people got up and started to walk out toward the exit at the back of the room. This was around 10:30 pm - we'd been there from around 9 am that morning. Doug asked where they were going and they said they were listening as they continued to walk out. He wasn't too happy and said to the remaining crowd something to the effect of "That's f'n rude. It'd be like me walking off the stage and leaving you guys here." This may be true but I thought quite unprofessional. You also need to consider when this had happened Doug had been giving another sales pitch since about 9:45pm (about 45 minutes). To be honest, I was getting a bit bored of that continued tactic.

Ultimately if you are going to make a difference in your own life you need to take action yourself... not through paying someone $2200 for a course. I have no doubt the course would make a difference but the last thing I want at the and of a 14 hour day is sales pitches for an hour or more when all the information has been given about the course beforehand.

Bob   Earth

T Harv is a rip-off. His sales techniques include neuro-linguistic programming and sales pitches directly following closed-eye guided visualizations. All his seminars are compilations of other people's seminars. The best of them, Life Directions Intensive, wasn't written by him but by Blaire Singer. They are overpriced, over-hyped, and sometimes you buy what you think is a whole program, only to learn on-site the final day that it's only HALF the program and now you are expected to sign up for the other half (Train the Trainer I and II). He builds a cult-like following by not allowing people to discuss the specifics of his bootcamps (Warrior and Wizard), yet displaying in-jokes and group think buy-ins (a-HO!). He is committed to sales, sales, sales... and if you think you're going to get a refund even when you have a reasonable request and it's within the time frame allotted, good luck! There are better, more ethical seminar leaders out there. And now, watch as his group think minions and employees slam and spam in the wake of this posting. Predictable... and yes, I make more than enough money to live a life of ease and comfort. I just didn't learn anything from T. Harv Gecko except that he loves his greed.

Just a comment   Cali

I don't usually comment on these things, but I've got to give Eker some marketing credit based on the comments I just read.

Look at how well he has polarized the audience here. Once the detractors start saying anything negative (even if it's true), the supporters come out with 100% ebullient support.

That in itself is not only a symptom of success, but a great marketing strategy for further generating buzz and making even more sales.

barber   Phoenix

T(he) Harv Eker has some brilliant ideas in his book, but he's a shyster.

He copies EST founder Werner H. Erhard strategy of brainwashing.

He starts at 7 am goes to 11 pm or longer. Attendees are forced to sit all but lunch on these dreadful ballroom chairs not even comfortable at weddings. He could have had his seminar in the Phoenix Symphony hall for like $2,000, but has it in a ballroom of a hotel he gets for selling rooms.

He tells you nothing. "I'm going to show you how to turn your ideas into cash. All you need do is attend my one week seminar for $25,000, but the first 10 people to sign up will get it for $5,000." Now you know his tactics at all his seminars. No substance but upsell.

Terence Ibusaya   Tarzania

Simple acid test; How Many of the people here praising Eker have actually become successful financially after attending one of his courses? I think most of the people who actually sign up for the Eker, Kiyosaki, Robbins courses are what I call "Motivation Course Junkies." They just get a high from attending these courses. I've never met a successful "regular" business-person who has attended any of these courses.

Joanne   Arizona

People lost all their money after attending T Harv Eker seminars and here is one of the lawsuits that shut down the scammers run by a black man named Henry Jones.

Just google "Tri Energy Henry Jones" or "Mildred Stultz Tri Energy" and you'll see what I mean.

Lyn   New Zealand

Have not been to his seminar but listened to his cds -at no cost. It all sounds pretty straight forward to me. Surely the proof is in the pudding - have those people putting it down some other method to do it better!! Me thinks its really jealousy that he's done it and we ain't

Max   Yuma, AZ

I have not been to his seminar yet but I listen to his audio "secrets of the millionaire mind" often and I think it is fantastic. What he taught me in that audio book has helped me a great deal. The lessons make complete sense. It is very black and white, you would be crazy to speak against that book. The people making bad reviews act like he should work for free. My guess is that they are broke as well but I'm sure they expect to be paid for the time they work. I am totally grateful for the $15 or whatever I spent on that CD and support T Harv Eker 100%! God Bless him for helping so many people that don't know how to help themselves.

bob   baltimore

Eker is a scam. They claim honesty, integrity... blah, blah, blah but, they are money hungry people that are interested in hyping you and stealing your money when you are overly excited.

Don't get me wrong... you will feel like a changed person while you are there but then will have buyers remorse after hours of hard sell tactics. He is not about changing people but, about changing his financial future. There are some tid bits of truth to his stuff but, you can get that info off the net. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME & MONEY, neither of which you will ever be able to recover.

Michael   Chicago

T Harv Eker is no ripoff and if you have ever changed the way you think about money he would be the change master. Yes he sells other programs which he should do. I think his book is great. I did attend his 3 day intensive and was able to weed through the sales speak and come away with many thiings I use to this day. The one short fall that I have is that he leaves you wanting which any good salesmen should.

His money management technique is dead on.

Advertising is after all about pain of being without.

John   California

T. Harv Eker and his book just wants to promote ol' Harv and have you all waste a lot of money on his coaching, seminars, and whatever he can sell you. His book is just an advertisement for his coaching.