PPC Classroom 2.0 First Impressions
As I promised yesterday, I bought PPC Classroom 2.0 today and here are my first impressions. Obviously I haven’t had time to do a proper full review yet, but since there’s a lot of hype surrounding this and so many people are promoting it I thought it best to get something objective out for my readership in short order.
What’s In PPC Classroom 2.0
PPC Classroom 2.0 is free as long as you pay shipping and handling of $6.97 for US residents or $9.97 for international deliveries. That will get you a DVD shipped to your door, online access to the materials, and a bunch of bonuses.
If it’s free, how do they make their money? In the upsells, of course.
The first upsell is for the “Niche Detective Club”, which is free for 30 days and $19.95/month after. You get a chance to sign up for it when you enter your shipping and credit card details for PPC Classroom.
The second upsell is actually a negative billing option. When you pay the $6.97/$9.97 for shipping and handling, you also agree to pay $97/month starting 30 days from the order date for access to the “PPC Inner Circle”, a membership site. In other words, the first month’s access to the PPC Inner Circle is free, at which point you either need to cancel the membership or pay $97/month to continue. Either way, you only pay the initial small fee for lifetime access to PPC Classroom — if you cancel the PPC Inner Circle membership it doesn’t affect that.
I’m not a big fan of negative billing, although I understand the point of all this is to make money so of course there needs to be some kind of upsell. They are promising to make it really easy to cancel the PPC Inner Circle membership…. here’s the cancellation policy:
Cancellation Policy:
By purchasing this DVD you are agreeing to join the PPC Inner Circle which will start after 1 month of your purchase.
You will not be billed for the PPC Inner Circle at the current moment, you have a full 1 month to try PPC Classroom and decide if you would like to remain a member.
If you decide to stay, you will automatically be charged a nominal $97/month. You may cancel at any time. If you cancel before the first month is over, you will never receive any billings.
There is no commitment or obligation. There is no cancellation fee of any sort.
We are here to help you and if you do not feel that we are providing value, we do not feel we have earned your money!
How To Cancel:
Canceling is very easy and hassle-free. You will never get harassed to stay a member by any of our staff members.
You can cancel right on the system with the click of a link. Our goal is to make this the best resource for you, we’re not here to trick anyone.
You can try our PPC Inner Circle with no concerns, doubts or risks.
OK, I wouldn’t really characterize $97/month as “nominal” (especially if you add on the $20/month for the niche detective upsell), but I guess that’s marketing for you. From what I know about the people behind PPC Classroom, I’m sure they’ll respect this policy.
Note that you have to pay with a credit card, PayPal is not an option.
Ooops, Can’t Join!
I’ve been writing this post live as I go through the registration process. Unfortunately, I’m stuck… the registration form doesn’t like the billing address for my credit card. Must be something about the Canadian address that it doesn’t like, although it doesn’t give me any details. I’ve sent mail to the support address but who knows when they’ll get back to me given all the excitement.
This kind of puts a crimp in my review plans! I’ll have to continue this later, if the thing doesn’t sell out before I get this issue resolved. Stay tuned… the joys of “live” blogging…
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10 Responses to “PPC Classroom 2.0 First Impressions”
Hey I wanna help you get your order through…let me know how we can help!
Try this first – clear your cookies and then do it, it’ll work most likely…
Otherwise, grab my email from the admin of your blog and email me directly!
Anik
I couldn’t pay either. I have a US address and the system didn’t think I was entering it right. I submitted a ticket and will hopefully hear from them soon. Seems like a really good deal.
It’s working now… try it, I got in finally.
PPC Classroom 2.0
Eric
The billing form is not working for me either.
Have been trying a number of times.
Please tell us what you think since you’re already inside.
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who couldn’t get in. And I’m just viewing it as their loss.
I’m laughing because I thought I was the ONLY one who was having trouble getting through the ‘payment’ process yesterday. I ended up trying maybe 8 separate times, with three different credit cards – and wouldn’t you know it…
Once I ticked the box to accept the $19.95 upsell, my order WAS accepted. Maybe that was coincidentally the exact same time when they fixed the payment process glitch.
The course inside the members’ area looks quite extensive. There’s a LOT of information in there. I’ve set aside the entire upcoming weekend to start going through it.
I’ll be interested in reading your review, Eric.
Deb: I checked the upsell checkbox before I tried paying for the membership, so I’m pretty sure it’s unrelated. It sounds like they had lots of problems with their payment processor, probably because of all the international orders. Just guessing, though.
The full review is up now, although since you already have access I’m not sure what good it’ll be to you!
Eric
I tried 3 times with different credit cards, deleted cookies after an email from David Radeloff who said only 1% of people were having the same problem. It went wrong probably because my delivery address is in the UK and my card address is in France. I think I will give this one a miss.
Patrick
I thought i was the only person having this problem. I tried several times and couldn’t join. I’m living in us and i know there’s nothing wrong with my card. Can anybody tell me how you made it? I clicked the niche detective upsell but it did’t work, so i don’t think that’s the problem.
Amazing that Anik response to you blog but not to his own forum.