Paid $5500 (out of 26k usd) for a coaching/dfy service. My full experience
Reposting as it got taken down - website included
Sharing my personal experience only. Not meant to attack.
Purchased content autopilot on Whop, sold by @theguy on Instagram.
He has these claims of helping people go viral, content is easy, growing accounts by thousands of followers.
Thought he was a beast at this so invested my money to learn.
My intent was to learn from him so I can apply to my own clients as well as outsource some of my own personal branding to an “expert” as I truly believe in posting more.
Btw he has retaliated making a piece of video “exposing me” and saying that I only did 4 days before backing out. That’s definitely not true.
I was in his program for at least 2-3 weeks.
First week was ok - had an onboarding call, started digesting the info from recordings (I can’t attend the live ones as it’s 4am here - brought this up during sales call and person told me that’s ok).
I got introduced to the team.
They asked for my story and what I wanted to achieve. I told them what I shared above + ads strategy + how to fix systems and teams.
When i received my first content to shoot, i was shocked. It looked like ChatGPT stuff.
An example of a content they asked me to shoot (talking head):
"You are going to hit your content goal this month. I am not asking you. I am telling you.
And this is exactly what you are going to do."
"Step one. Pick 3 topics you can talk about for hours. Not 10. Not 20. Three. That is your content universe for the entire month."
"Step two. Batch film one day a week. Pick a day, block out 2 hours, and film 5 to 7 videos in one sitting. That gives you content for the whole week without thinking about it every single day."
"Step three. Every single video starts with a hook that triggers a pain point. Not a greeting.
Not hey guys. A problem your audience is dealing with right now. That is the first sentence of every video."
"Step four. Post once a day, 5 days a week. Monday through Friday. No weekends. No burnout. Just consistent, strategic content that actually connects with real people."
"That is it. 3 topics, 1 batch day, pain point hooks, and 5 posts a week. Do this for 30 days and your account will not look the same. Stop planning. Start filming."
But I trusted the process and went with it, thinking they would layer it with b roll or that maybe I was overcomplicating things.
What came out was just the same video I shot with TikTok autocaptions.
No b roll (I provided a whole folder of it), no links to my story (what’s the point of onboarding), not even a text hook sometimes.
I still decided to post it to see whether maybe he’s right.
Ended up with few hundred views per post (typically less than 500) and just less than 10 followers from the first batch.
I honestly understand the need for content to “take time” but there should be a minimal standard in editing (eg text hooks which his own content has) or at least b rolls. At least for a $5500 service.
I confronted him about it and he had a call with me to do damage control.
I raised a refund request at that time through Whop.
He acknowledged during the call that the editor wasn’t the best and offered to change it up, fix things and square things up with his team. He also explained that he will be providing me things that would help me (resources and guides for the specific challenges I faced in my business).
I said ok and when he confronted me on the refund from whop, I told him that i raised it before the convo and I will remove it (based on the condition that he would fix things).
He didn’t fix things.
I got the same quality of ideas, scripts and edits.
I removed my card from Whop straightaway, afraid that he would charge me for the second month. At that point in time, I wanted to cut loss and not be charged again.
While I understood that content may take time to grow, it’s also obvious when a team or service provider is putting in effort. And to me, I didn’t want to risk paying more to get the same down the line, with only the HOPE they would get me the results they offered.
So I didn’t remove the refund request - ultimately I won and whop said they would refund me the money.
I thought that was the end.
Then 1hr later, I got a charge for the same amount (5500usd again). No OTP, no authorisation.
I was shocked. So I contacted Whop. They told me that the merchant (content autopilot) had manually charged me.
I asked them if this made sense in which they acknowledged that it did not. They said this is concerning behaviour and may constitute customer abuse. They told me if the merchant continued this behaviour, his business would be shut down.
I thought they would settle it but they asked me to raise a request for refund on the second charge so they can investigate.
He won.
To me that’s crazy. I won the first refund request which means they acknowledged that the product/service wasn’t good and a refund was appropriate. And yet they seemed to be ok that I was charged for the exact same thing and now, a refund is not appropriate?
Anyhow, I realised that my money would be lost forever so I told the person why not we just do a type of content that I was more willing to do b-roll with text overlay (this is actually simpler for him and has gotten me more results).
He then proceeds to somewhat mock my content and says I only have one viral video (ironic because all 10 of his videos given to me flopped so bad).
At the end, he just told me that he wouldn’t continue giving me the deliverables (only 5/30) have been delivered and it seems there’s nothing I can do anymore.
5/30 btw is because he had told me during the call, “we will start anew” so the first 5 was not counted. And yet…. The next 5 was not rectified.
Btw he’s shitting on me now on IG. He’s claiming I only did 4 days of work but that’s crazy thing to say (maybe he’s referring to how much work his team did).
I think if I didn’t cut him off earlier and allowed him to charge me again, I’d be in deep trouble. These guys seem to just drag u on with the promise that things will get better and then blame u for not thinking long term.
They seem to withhold information till the last minute so they can drag on the service and how much u pay them.
Other things to take note of:
- his website says 10k followers or u don’t pay (that’s only for a year commitment (extrapolating that’s 70+k usd)
- many things were not delivered - some in the offer, others verbal (ads references, resources for systems and teams, etc)
- some of the reviews on trust pilot are literally from his own team members
So don’t know if this is a scam but this is my experience.
Of course, I could not type out every single thing that happened but ask me a question and I’ll answer.
Posted Apr 5, 2026, 10:23 AM UTC · locked