Product Name: Easy Money Machines
Product Owner: Michael Fox
Price: $49 (discounted to $9).
Upsells: $197, $295, $175
Rating: 15/100
What is it?
Software and a little training for developing template-based squeeze pages and thank you pages for making money online.
Short Review
Easy Money Machines is promoted as an easy way of making money online, but this isn’t really the case. The software develops specific types of webpages, specifically thank you pages and squeeze pages. While the pages do look good, there is a considerable amount of work required to get these pages to the point where they could effectively sell products.
At best, Easy Money Machines is a product that might help to support some people who make money online, but most people would find it a waste of time and effort to create something that really isn’t all that unique.
Before You Buy
The major hurdle with the purchase process was an additional upsell that literally made me laugh because of its stupidity. Honestly, being told ‘you are a winner’ by someone because I purchased something, and they want me to purchase something else is just ridiculous and I personally find it a little offensive.
Seriously, the upsells on this site are painful to watch.
The page is nothing more than a $197 upsell, and it certainly doesn’t seem to be worth anything close to that much. In fact, you have to sit through a good portion of the upsell video even to get to the link to skip it (although the mute button is always an option).
Normally, watching upsell videos isn’t a necessary part of the sign up process, but this site manipulates you into thinking that it is.
Honestly, I highly doubt that exiting the page would do anything to the registration process, particularly as you end up on a second page that shows a very similar video to the first. Realistically, this is just a manipulation to make you listen to more of his sales pitch and another upsell, this time of $297.
The third upsell follows exactly the same model, including another unbearable video. As before, there is no purchase or skip link until part way through the video. At this point, I think everyone will be looking for their mute button. In case you’re wondering, the final upsell was $175, although Michael seems to think it is worth more than $19,000.
My personal recommendation is never purchase an upsell during the purchase process. Upsells are almost always available later (after all, they are a money making tool), and you shouldn’t be paying for anything extra before you know whether the product you originally paid for actually does what it claims it will. After all, a simple look at product reviews will tell you that many products sound much better than they are.
A final note is that if you are going to buy Easy Money Machines, don’t pay $49 for it. If you try to exit the page, you will be given the option to stay or leave. If you choose to stay, the product gets discounted to $29.
If you do this a few more times, you can actually get the price all the way down to $9.00. Even though it seems like it, this isn’t a limited-time offer, instead, it seems to be something that is always there.
This practice is common for online products. Always check to see whether you are getting the lowest possible price before you buy anything.
If you keep trying to cancel, you do get a ‘newbie guide’ free, but really, that part isn’t worth the effort. In fact, you end up with a video for another product altogether.
How this is relevant, I'm really not sure.
What I Liked
If you do click away from the page enough times, the product does end up being pretty cheap. Some people might find this worth the investment just to try out the software (assuming you can get it working). However, if you do this, avoid the upsells, because these are much more expensive.
Aside from the base price of the product, the only other thing that I liked about it was that the pages did end up looking pretty good.
I will add that I was impressed with the customer service, as I had to contact the company as I did not initially have access to the software. The company resolved this issue quickly, which is unusual for this type of product.
What I Didn’t Like
Manipulative
Earning money online is a legitimate career choice, and many people, like me, do this successfully. But you wouldn’t know this from products like Easy Money Machines, because they convince users that making money online is easy and effortless.
The problem is, making money online is work, and systems like Easy Money Machines won’t change this. Many people who use these products get disheartened, because products like this simply don’t work as they are advertised.
Many of the approaches of Easy Money Machines were highly manipulative, such as the persuasive videos, the push to watch them all, the way that the links to skip past them are worded and the way the product is pushed as a whole.
This really bothers me, because you get relatively little information about what to actually expect from the product, and a lot of rhetoric about the money you should be spending.
Another example of the manipulation from this site is the emails that it sends. For example, I got this email after entering my email address.
Sounds legit – right?
Sounds nice and personal doesn’t it? However, clearly it isn’t. Besides, am I really expected to believe that a ‘personal video’ was created for me in the couple of minutes that passed between when I entered my address and when I got the email.
It’s nothing more than yet another manipulative approach to get users to spend money.
Before I talk about the actual product, I want to say that all of the variations offered on the price of the product are also highly manipulative. I wonder how many people actually paid full price for Easy Money Machines, when this wasn’t needed at all.
Also, as a final note on the topic, be careful of sites with positive reviews of the product (or any product for that matter). Many, if not all of them, are affiliates of Easy Money Machines, and they make money from people who purchase the product. Because of this, their reviews are very biased. In fact, many affiliates don’t even try the products that they promote.
For example, most of the reviews didn’t even mention the fact that you can get the product for $9.90.
The Product Itself
At first glance, the membership area looks clean and easy to follow, which was a nice touch.
However, I was seriously concerned about the amount of advertisements on the site.
In reality, all three of these links went to a product called Push Button Millionaire, a product I haven’t yet reviewed, although it does not look encouraging. I don’t know if it is better or worse that the bottom two advertisements don’t go to their respective sites, because I’ve reviewed Make Money with Meghan, and it is nothing but a scam and Cash Machines 2.0 doesn’t work either.
When it came to actually using Easy Money Machines, one of the first things I noticed was that most of the sidebar of links didn’t work, claiming that I didn’t have access. I have no doubt that some of this is because I chose not to purchase the upsells, but, the fact that the Easy Money Machines (Basic) link didn’t work was a little surprising.
In fact, the only link that worked was core training, so let’s start there.
The training section for the site is pretty sparse and contains six videos ranging from 2 minutes to 18 minutes. The first thing to note is that the videos are not remotely similar to the sales videos for the site, and even have a different narrator. In fact, there are even different narrators from one video to the next.
This doesn’t really mean a whole lot, but it does suggest that there is a bigger team involved in the company than is made obvious in the sales pitch, and that Michael Fox doesn’t play as much of a role as he implies.
The videos themselves were okay and easy to follow, but they were low quality. This means that if you expand the video to full screen it gets very blurry. This is frustrating for an over-the-shoulder video, because it makes it very hard to read the text and completely see what is going on.
There was also some additional training under the Make Money section of the website, although for some strange reason, some of this was audio only. Personally, I found the audio part of the training very difficult to follow. The videos in this section were okay, but nothing to get excited about.
There is also some pdf training on the site. Honestly, these look like a cheap eBook that some private label rights companies provide. Some of the information in the training is useful, but a lot of it is just fluff.
My biggest issue?
The training that I just talked about is literally everything I can access on the site. Everything on the site and the basic training suggests that I should be able to access the software that comes with the product.
Needless to say, without any software, there isn’t much I can do with the product and it is basically worthless.
Addition: I did contact the developers of Easy Money Machines regarding the software and they did get back to me surprisingly quickly with the information I needed to actually access and use the software. However, the software was exactly as I had reviewed it, so my review on the software remains unchanged.
However, I can work out a little about the software from the training videos that are provided with it.
Basically, the software develops squeeze pages for users based on the information they input and the templates on the site, as well as thank you pages. There is also some linking in to social media, which could be useful for promoting a webpage, but this is far from an unusual feature.
This is actually a very common approach, and it is one that always frustrates me. Squeeze pages can be an effective, but manipulative, way of selling products, but they still require a considerable amount of work and effort on the part of the user.
Realistically, the software in Easy Money Machines could be used to make profit, but it is far from an easy button. Instead, the software provides a shortcut to some elements of designing the appearance of some webpages.
This might make it useful for people with a product that can be successfully promoted through a squeeze page, but the quality of writing, keyword research and the product will be ultimately much more relevant than how nice squeeze page looks.
Additionally, users would want to make sure they make sufficient changes to the template so that it looks different than what other people make using the software.
Who Is This Product For?
This product is really only suitable for people who already know the processes of making money online and want a slightly easy way of making squeeze pages (for people who actually use squeeze pages that is). While this software can help people make profits, it wouldn’t be very effective for people inexperienced in the online environment, especially as there is a lot of additional work involved.
Final Review
What Now?
Making money online is a job, it is very possible to do, but it takes work. Products like Easy Money Machines sound wonderful in theory, but in practice, they don’t work all that well. For people who have never made money online before, or who want to learn more, the best approach is to focus on learning techniques and current trends in the market.
The #1 recommended product for this site is a fantastic place to start, offering training that doesn’t include hype or manipulation, as well as community support that can make learning much easier. This is a perfect place for beginners and people who are experienced.
Nathaniell
What's up ladies and dudes! Great to finally meet you, and I hope you enjoyed this post. My name is Nathaniell and I'm the owner of One More Cup of Coffee. I started my first online business in 2010 promoting computer software and now I help newbies start their own businesses. Sign up for my #1 recommended training course and learn how to start your business for FREE!
I’ve requested my money back on this…I don’t get it at all!!! All I wanted was to get some help/money/advise to get a charity for foster kids who have little hope of being adopted before they “age out” up and running. I don’t have a lot of computer training and no marketing skills…just a love for disadvantaged children, a desire to help, and a plan to help some of them!!!
I bought the $49 package and never received anything for my money ! I would open the e-mail and it would start the same way the others would and try to sell me another product ! I’ve been trying to get them to give me my money back and the phone number they list is not in service . I had to cancel my card.
Nathaniel
Thank you so much for your response to my letter on April 10, 2014.
I would like to ask you about one more company; [removed].
I would like to know what you think of their operation. I did spend
$19.95 for the first month but I didn’t really get into it. Now I am
trying to decide if I should go on with it or not.
I have already decided to get on board with you.
I will believe whatever you tell me about [removed].
Floyd D. Bell
I haven’t tried this product yet, but to be honest if you are a WA member, you don’t need any other tools. Many other companies will try to make you feel like their products will make you more money, help you rank faster, and make your life easier, but it doesn’t usually work out that way. Feel safe knowing that you never have to buy another “how to make money” product now that you are a member of WA.
Nathaniel
Thank you for your very believable comments in answering the questions given to you by your fans.I feel like I have an Allie in you already. I have had the above mentioned website for about a year. The initial
idea behind it was to promote and sell gospel music and sell products as an affiliate from other companies. I have not sold one item since the beginning so I could use some help.I have been scammed
many times in the last 5 years to the tune of about $4,000.00 but I am still optimistic about making money
on the internet.I am 70 years old, retired and on a fixed income but I would like to be debt free and enjoy some of the nice things in life before I die.
I would like to get married (ASAP), and get started on some type of extra income to supplement to
income. I would appreciate very much whatever help you can give me.
Thank you.
Floyd D. Bell
Hey Floyd, if you’ve spend $4k in the past couple years on products, you really don’t need to invest in any more of these schemes. Right now you HAVE to understand that any product telling you there’s a “secret” is lying to you. There’s no magic formula, there’s no software or app that makes it easy. You need to build a website, and create content for it.
The training center where I learned, also my #1 recommendation, is Wealthy Affiliate. This will be the last thing you ever need to invest money in to get your business going. There’s newbies, experts, and everyone in between that are happy to help you build your business.
I”m happy to hear that you are still trying. Eventually you’ll get this!
Nathaniel, I fell for it. I watched his video and bought the upsells. I couldn’t log on as a member since the video ended sort of abruptly, so I tried to email them. Yahoo said the email couldn’t be delivered. I called my credit card and received their telephone number that only has a recording and more email addresses. And I think I was doubled charged. Do you have any working numbers for them that I can get through to and demand my money back
You need to contact the people that sent you the welcome email. They should have left a billing email address. If they keep taking money out and don’t respond to emails, you might have to cancel your card. I’ve had to do that before.
Hey, you said you contacted the developers of Easy Money Machines. I’ve been trying to get the supporters of the site to let me speak to Michael Fox but I can’t get through to anyone. Can you let me know how?
Michael Fox is not a real person. The email address to contact the company should be in the welcome email they sent you. The real product creator will not answer support however, so you will just get some outsourced workers to answer your questions.
Hi, am I glad I started to investigate this guy and I found you… it sure sounded so nice but as soon as I saw that he was using “Click Sure” to process the payment I started to get concerned, because I had heard that this is also a scammer. I have lost a great amount of money with scams like this, including “Make money with Meghan”, she is a total “scammer”. I lost 200 + with her and never could get it back and I do not recommend her with nobody. Never could get a hold of her or her “support group” to get a refund. BEWARE!
I am a little more skeptical now and check reviews and such before buying anything.. although I am hoping to find a true and “easy” way for me to make money on the internet, but I am no where near a tech savvy. I even have problems at work, so I would need somebody with a lot of patience that can really teach a total newbie. So, please if you know of someone like that let me know.. Thanks for all the great advice.
Hey Gloria, my advice is to stop messing with “programs” and “systems”. This is already twice that you have had problems with guys like this. 995 of them are all the same.
I can definitely help you. Take a look at Wealthy Affiliate, it’s where I got started, and very newbie friendly. I give all my referrals 1-on-1 support, so if you sign up through my links, you can message me with any questions.
Just remember, NOTHING is easy. If there was an easy way to make money, everyone would be doing it. Even if you are not tech savvy, you need to have the patience to sit down at the computer and figure stuff out (follow the training). That being said, WA is made for newbies, so it should be easier than other places.
Thank you so much!! I always say, if the seller keeps you in the dark (preventing you from knowing HOW you will actually make the money they talk about), then it’s a scam, or not for the general good of making the world a better place. Those who educate and inform you, have your better interests at heart, and that’s how you can tell a scam or not. Thank you so much for posting this page! I’m now a little upset I wasted an hour on his first video, and will be unsubscribing from the affiliate who referred him!
Ugh. I’ve wasted countless hours on these stupid videos. They are horrible. If you want to see exactly what you are buying before you buy it, I suggest you check out Wealthy Affiliate. You get free access for 7 days, and even get to build 2 websites for free (before you pay)
I bought a system called Auto Wealth Maker back in 2010 and this was horrible. I got sucked into the whole Idea that it was easy. He said like this guy did that you do very little the machine does all the work for you. So that is what I thought and paid 49.00 for it and it was terrible. It was all marketing and then stealing from other peoples pages. Just changing a few words to try to say it was not down right plagiarism. I am so glad I decided I his had to be the same kind of people.am a christian and I felt very bad because I felt like I was stealing. When you mentioned Zen desk I knew that . I so glad I decided to look first before buying this scam deal. How can they get away with this?
Yeah, these types of scams are old, but the names are new. They can get away with it because there’s no law against delivering a crappy product. People might be able to sue for misleading advertising, but no one is going to do that for $50, when a lawyer will cost $50,000. You can get a refund, but many people don’t, and cut their losses. So these guys profit off of apathy and ignorance.
I paid $9 but somehow have access to everything. I still don’t understand how I can make money.
Do I first need to find products to sell?- sign up as an affiliate to whatever?
Then I need to pay for an autoresponder, pay for hosting and pay massive amounts to advertise on google etc- is all that correct?
Basically, eem just gives me pages to advertise that I have to write the copy for anyway.
How can this be advertised like you just have to click a few buttons to set it up?
I don’t get it 🙁
This happens a lot – they tell you the discounted price is for X amount of product to motivate you to pay the whole price. But these are trashy products, so they don’t even bother to lock the member’s site or “extra training’. The main goal is just to get you inside clicking on stuff so that you buy MORE products.
I JUST GOT DONE LOOKING AT ,MICHAEL FOX EASY MONEY MACHINE ALSO. I THOUGHT THAT I WOULD SEE IF IT A SCAM,CHECKED YOUR REVIEWS. BOY IT WAS A SCAM!!! THEIR ARE MANEY MORE LIKE IT AROUND,ASK FOR EXTRA MONEY AFTER YOU GOE ON THE OTHER OF VIDEO.. I AM ON A FIXED INCOME CAN;T AFFORD THAT .I DID APPRECIATE.YOUR WEBSITE. CAN YOU GIVE ME FOR A GOOD LEGIT PROGRAM I CAN START MAKING MONEY TO OF SET MY RETIEMENT, THANKS TIM
Hi Tim! You can try out my recommended training center for free. The cost after that is $47 per month, but there are no extra things to buy. Plus, you get 1 on 1 support from me for free. Click here to get started.
I am new to making money on the internet. I don’t expect to make millions without work. I am willing to do the work. Can you point me in the right direction of where to begin?
The training centre where I got started is the same one I recommend today. Click here to get started. It’s free to begin. There is a monthly fee for upgraded membership, but no hidden costs. Also, I give free 1 on 1 Support. Try it out and let me know what you think. Stop by my profile and you can ask me anything you want!
Hi Nat
Your write up was a life saver indeed. I was nearly registering with Michael Fox when at the 11th hour i decided to google (which led me to your site) only to realize it’s all crap.
I am indeed interested in going full time in making money via the internet. I would be glad if you could contact me so that I could ask you certain relevant & pressing questions so as to kick start my dream.
Looking up to hearing from you.
Awesome Benny – that’s why I write these reviews. I’ll shoot you an email right now!
I have bought so many products that tell you how to make easy money online just follow the steps. I saw this Michael video and saw the shopping cart ClickSure….BEWARE FOLKS. Click sure does a lot of companies from China that use Americans to sell for them and it is a HUGE BUSINESS. There is a ratio of people who do not ask for their money back and that is where they make a lot of their money. Many people forget about it or it is too much trouble to bother for such a small investment. If it sounds too good to be true… it usually is. I am a internet marketer and have worked very hard. Nothing has come easy for me and after many years of “busting my posterior” I’m just now figuring it all out where I can find my fit in the internet world. Good luck to anyone who really wants to make a living on the internet. It can be done. Don’t give up and one day you will make it too. Too bad Karma isn’t immediate. Scammers would be no more!
That sounds about right. Honestly, I don’t know
Why they even return the money. Why not just go full blast scam? I lived in China for quite a few years, so it doesn’t surprise me that this kind of junk is mass produced as just a set of numbers than really thinking about the people buying these products.
I just got pulled into this scam 30 min. 03/20/2014 @ 7-8 pst ,ago & then read this blog. Will be contacting company as well as Credit card bank to cancel transaction of my $49.
Sorry to hear that, but let us know how it goes!
I was just scammed by Michael Fox and the easy money machine video! I am seeking away to have them investigated! I welcome any help and comments.
You’ll need to contact their support team. There should have been an address in the welcome email.
thank you for this information, I made the mistake of spending $49.00 and now will try & get a refund, if I don;t all I have lost is the $49. Again thank you.
Usually refunds are pretty easy to get if you deal with an outsourced team. If you deal with the owner personally they can get defensive. It depends on the product. I’ve asked for many refunds in my day! lol
Help LOL i brought easymoneymachine and paid $200+ for a site but theres no training video and it bring me to trafficfortune?
Hi Mushi, I can’t really do much from my end – I have nothing to do with the product. I would contact their support. But in case you wanted to know, Traffic Fortune is just another scam.
Product owner should read: Tim Atkinson – the same guy behind Make Money with Meghan. Michael Fox is just a character Tim created as with all of his products.
Michael Fox plays more than just the fool in the video trying to convince people that his software could end world hunger. He’s Tim’s fall guy, the way I see it. Everyone points their finger at a non-existent guy and Tim puts up another one just like this in a few months time.
The guy needs to be exposed.
Oh, is this Tim Atkinson’s product? I didn’t know. Is he also the one that did Push Button Millionaire and Cash Machines 2.0? I saw they were advertised in the members area along with Make Money with Meghan. I saw your site (link via his name if anyone else wants to see), and I think it’s great you are working to expose more details about the man behind this scam. Thanks Jay.
Yeah Tim is behind this. I think he’s just trying to squeeze some affiliate commissions from Push Button Millionaire and Cash Machines because those aren’t his.
Whatever commissions he makes from those, he’ll just get his photoshop guy to shift the decimal point a few notches and use those earnings screenshots on his next launch. Of course though, he’ll tell you that one of his students made that money using his latest software.
Disgusting. I don’t know why companies like clicksure and clickbank allow crap like this to be sold. I just hope people get smarter and do their research before purchasing products like this.
Nathaniell, I was about to purchase this product, despite the bad actors in it. The promises of making some money on line almost sold me….he even mentioned after 6 months if you hadn’t made any money he would build your websites for you and make $10,000 per month.
Do you have any info on the Instantpay day network…..It’s a work from home system that is totally free. You have to enroll in some initial purchases like credit card stuff (experion free trial etc) which you can cancel prior to the initial 30 day trial.
It sounds legit, but maybe it’s all about selling other people there software. let me know if you have tried this. I’m thinking of signing up for your monthly plan.
David
Yes David, I have written a review of Instant Payday Network. It’s a controversial product because people say they are making money from it, but they don’t mention that it’s near-impossible to make money USING the product. They make money by SELLING the product. As the title of the review says, it’s just a lot of smoke and mirrors. Details in the review.
I paid $9 to get the Easy Money Machine program to see what it was about. Now, 3 days later, all I have are some templates for squeeze pages and thank you pages with no instruction as to how to use them. You said you were able to contact the developers of Easy Money Machines regarding the software and they did get back to you with the information needed to actually access and use the software. Could you share with me how you were able to get this. I doubt I will benefit from anything they have but I would like to make sure before I ask for my $9 back.
I was able to contact them via the email address in their welcome email. They were surprisingly fast on the response – they use Zendesk to outsource their customer support. Zendesk is better than ClickSure support in my experience. Good luck on getting your money back!
Hey Nathaniel,
I have just read your review and hopefully I have stopped as I was going to register there. I am still looking for a legit system which really works, which isn’y scam. Can you help? or Anyone? I really need to make money online.
Hi Shahriaz, I think if you enroll in my 5 day email course you can learn a lot about how legit money is made online (one way, the way I do it), and how you can get started with something that’s not a scam. You can also ask questions along the way (on the course) and I’ll be there to help you out.
yea I should of known that it was a big scam, I just seen the video of Michal fox and I went to pay the money on visa pay pal card and put the money on it then they came up with o we need more money, I gave them all I had!! EVERY UPSET
Hi Bervely,
I think I received an email from you the other day, and you might be confused about who is who! The email you received was from ME, not from Michael Fox. I think you might have thought that it was a scam email, but it’s my email course that you signed up for.
Either way, this Easy Money Machine BS should be avoided at all costs!
Ive seen several videos just like the easy money machines. The guy driving the sports car going to his mansion, going inside his house and talking while walking thru every room of his mansion. I unfortunately got scamed by one the offered profits by working from my mobile phone and his video was just like Michael fox”s except with a different narrator, mansion and sports car. Ive joined several other online businesses and have never made even a penny online. Thankyou for your reviews, It keeps poor people like me from getting ripped off by some scam artist. Is there a true legitimate way to make real money online without having any out of pocket expense? sincerely, Scott Malone
Hey Scott, you are right that there are several products like this. In fact, I’ve done quite a few reviews on products similar to this one. Hopefully I can help a few people save money and heartache, but not everyone does the research beforehand. Plus, many products make you feel like if you don’t buy NOW, they will take the offer away (which is almost never true).
To answer your question, unfortunately, no. You simply are not going to find any kind of training/support out there that’s free. People spend time and money to develop products, or pay staff to run things like support, tech, etc. There are free trials, and inexpensive training programs, but all of them will require some kind of money investment.
My recommended training center is $47 per month, and it’s the same training I used to start my own online business. I now work full time for myself. I know that sounds like sales pitch there, but it’s true. I suggest you at least try their free membership to see what it’s all about, then decide if you want to pay the monthly membership fee.
The biggest sign of a scam is everything that this video sales page has to offer.
No product information. Fancy (likely rented cars). Fake clickbank accounts. And people that are faking success, left, right and center.
It is unfortunately that people fall for stuff like the easy money machines program, but it does play on people’s weaknesses.
If a product is trying to sell you on a secret system, then you should signal the red flags right away. If a product cannot give you insight into that product, then chances are there is something wrong with the product itself.
I mean if you product was so great, why can’t you talk about it within your actual sales page?
That’s a red flag I always tell people to look out for. If you have to pay for a product before you can understand what it is, then it’s probably not worth your money. In fact, it’s probably a scam.