Really Burns My Cookies

The little ticker to the right says I've won 100 dollars. Not true. I have 350 dollars of my own money in this and haven't profited a DIME.

It really bothers me that the powers that be here include the actual bet in winnings as they are advertising. When I was looking at the testimonials, I thought those people actually won all that money. You can't win your own money! Overall I applaud this business model. I still believe that they are not actually doing enough to help us on our way. Since I have complained about the lack of support, more individuals have been chatting about the daily struggles. I think maybe the organizer has posted a couple extra times. But all in all, it seems like since they are hiring new people and making such large amounts of money from each bet, then they are doing well enough to be TRUTHFUL.... But if a person loses say 80 pounds in the course of about 10 months and only actually profit 50 to 100 bucks on top of their bets.... That just might not attract enough people. So the LIE.... I guess I get it. But maybe if they offered more in the way of actual coaching, and was TRUTHFUL about money won, they would still do okay.

I'm not at all interested in winning weekly prizes. Cold hard cash would do. That's what was advertised.

Melissa H.

02/10/2016 6:26PM

Honest question as I am new to Dietbet- what do you think they should be doing to help you lose weight? I understand the concern with how they calculate your initial contribution versus your winnings, but they also provide an extensive online hosted site, monitor and verify weigh-ins, and facilitate this comments and support from the community. What else do you think could help? Meal plans? Exercise plans? I'm curious.

Suzi

I think they should post diet tips, exercise tips, motivational quotes, and recipe ideas all the time, every day, even multiple times per day. I think they should ask thought provoking questions to draw out the silent types. A lot of people would not put themselves out there to talk to strangers or meet new people, but they would follow a conversation and contribute when the leaders draw them out. I have so many ideas because I've spent years on these sites. Some things helped, some didn't. But if they are taking in as much as 20,000 dollars at a time in some challenges, then they need to up their game. My first challenge had a huge pot of 70,000+ dollars. I read that 22% of the people did not win. So that's a HUGE amount of bucks to not share with the contestants. They should not get to have their cake and eat it too. If they aren't really sharing the profits as they claim to be, then they need to increase the COACHING.

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