
Tom Hess Music Corporation
Tom Hess Music Corporation Overview
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Tom Hess Music Corporation has 1.1 star rating based on 4 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
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Pros: People on the forum are nice.
Cons: Expensive, Empty promises, Low quality videos.Most users ask Tom Hess Music Corporation for the refund as a solution to their issues.
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Tom Hess Music Corporation has 1.1 star rating based on 4 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: People on the forum are nice.
Cons: Expensive, Empty promises, Low quality videos.Most users ask Tom Hess Music Corporation for the refund as a solution to their issues.
Consumers are not pleased with Billing Practices and Diversity of Products or Services. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
Terrible music lessons
Tom Hess is a scam artist. He has only his own interest in mind.
The correspondence program is a sham.
He claim that the lessons are tailored to the specific needs of the player but in reality are cookie cutter *** you can freely find on youtube.
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Verified ReviewerHorrible experience
I knew this was a mistake two weeks after signing up. So I go through the very long and drawn out subscription cancellation process.
Once you get through the questions and press "submit" one would think you were done cancelling, but no. After getting billed two more months I reached out to them. Apparently, after you submit your cancellation request it takes you to another page that asks you to cancel again - and if you don't go through after submitting the first request - guess what? They keep charging you!!!!!!!
Huge SCAM!!! I would copy a snippet of the email I received regarding the situation but they have a little "PRIVACY STATEMENT" at the bottom of all of their emails letting you know they'll sue you if you share any info from inside emails. On top of that, Tom thinks he's the only thing on this earth that's good enough to teach guitar. He slams other players that may not "shred" the way he does.
He's *** and arrogant. It's very annoying to me. Some of my favorite blues players are "jokes" in Tom's very vocal opinions. A teacher should never slam other guitar players.
I don't care how good you think you are. It's just trashy. Anyways, I do not recommend Tom Hess for lessons. The forum is confusing and unless you spend countless hours scrolling through peoples daily guitar ritual posts to find good material it's a huge waste of time.
The videos he sends are so low quality. Imagine the home recordings that your grandma made of you running around in diapers from the 80's.
If you are a heavy metal shredder you are the only type I could see getting anything out of Tom. 10/10 will never waste $70 a month on this.
- People on the forum are nice
- Expensive
- Scam
- Low quality videos
Preferred solution: Full refund
THMC is basically a cult.
Narcissistic Guru? Check.
Revolving door of inner circle members? Check. Love bombing? Check.
Promises life changing information? Check. Steals others' ideas and presents them as his own? Check.
Verbally abuses you and sends flying monkeys if you dare pursue anything he views as competitive (the entire Internet)? Check. Demands "loyalty" from paying clients with the threat of ostracism? Check.
Preys upon people who are desperate? Check. Grooms students to be his unquestioningly obedient underlings.? Check.
Revealing piecemeal information like degrees of initiation, under the pretense that you're not ready (ie, haven't steadily paid him for long enough)? Check. Claims to exclusively hold THE keys to success? Check.
Accuses former clients of "stealing" his information after paying regularly for years for that very information? Check.
Primarily obsessed with power and control. Avoid this little, mean-spirited, vindictive man at all costs.
Terrible experience
Over two years I paid for, and worked hard to do the limitless assignments this program requires. Problem is, the assignments are ineffective and completely distract from the real goal and focus of developing a sustainable music career.
NO good information about online resources and how to monetize your music. I would have preferred to just read the (old and outdated) books he stole his info from. SO, over 2k later - on a limited budget - the least I can do is encourage you to look elsewhere for real help. This is a complete scam.
Embarrassed at myself for sticking with it despite seeing weird signs right off the bat (no student of this program is actually becoming successful - except for Hess & maybe his employees - who are useless when it comes to trying to get help - rudest emails ever.) May I learn from this one. If you want to be completely discouraged in your music career, sign up for this fraudulent ***.
This is especially sad to me cuz musicians tend to be broke and a bit naive already, so you really feel taken advantage of. Yuck.
- Empty promises
- Expensive
Preferred solution: Full refund
DO NOT ENROLL IN ANY OF TOM HESS'S PROGRAMS! COMPLETE GARBAGE!
I was in Tom's EGTIC program for about a year and while there was some decent material there was also some horrible advice that looked more like filler then anything else.
First off he has two levels. One for $147 which is basically useless. All you get is a couple monthly recordings and you don't even have access to the forum which by the way is not some secret formula or whatever he claims it to be. It's been a little while so I forget the exact claim. This is not in any stretch of the imagination worth $147 a month. Don't waste your money!!!
So for $197 you get the forum included.It's simply a forum just like anywhere else but it's full of other teachers. As with any forum it's good to be able to bounce things off of other like minded people but it's not anything special by any means.
You also get a few additional recording a month. It's basically Tom talking about some kind of subject. Again some material is good, useful info and some is just useless filler.
Now where the program really lacks is any kind of real mentoring. The only personal help you get from Tom is a thread on the forum where you can post your questions. If you are lucky he will answer your questions. Many times though they never get answered. Then he does a monthly call where he takes a student and reviews their business with them. This sounds great but you won't get your turn for months down the line and then no follow up except for waiting many months again for your turn to finally come up again.
I've been in three other different guitar teacher training programs and are still in two of them but all three had teacher mentors that were there personally mentoring you through every step. As many of these mentors would attest to I was contacting them almost every single day with questions and they all responded each and every time within 24 hrs. Two of these programs were a fraction of the cost of Tom's but leaps and bounds much better programs.
Also some of Tom's sleasy tactics turned me off. He would get the teachers to put bad reviews on the competitions products, bombard other sites with promoting his products and just simply unethical business tactics. Aside from coming to the conclusion that I was paying a good chunk of money for no results, Tom's way of doing business and using his teachers to do the dirty work convinced me to get out of there. I can't believe I actually stuck around for a whole year.
Now while I was in EGTIC I also joined the correspondence lesons course. What correspondence? There was none! Where I got at least a little value, maybe $20 a month worth as opposed to $200 that he charged, out of EGTIC the correspondence lessons were a complete joke. I would get a bunch of random lesson sheets on say scales for instance with absolutely no instruction at all. Great I have scales but how do I study them? I'm paying for lessons not a resource of scales and chords. I also got a few videos like ones you would see on youtube, actually they were youtube videos and then a couple testimonial videos. Why would he send me testimonial videos if I'm already a student? Didn't make any sense at all. Basically it looked like him or one of his workers spent about 5 minutes just picking some random stuff to send out. Nothing was even close to being tailored for me. It was a bunch of general ***! Worst waste of money I've ever spent. I would have been far better off just using Youtube to teach myself. Total garbage!
While a couple of his products are ok I ordered these books called The Beginning Guitarist Books level one and two which I was going to use with my students. Again complete garbage! They were just songs that you would get from any note reading book like Aura Lee, Irish Song, Happy Birthday etc... but what was worse it there was no notes, it was all in tab and there was no recordings at all. So while he accuses everyone else of stealing from him it looks as though he just picked up a Mel bay or Hal Leonard reading book, tabbed out the parts and called it his own. At least add in some recordings or something to play along with. What garbage! This just reinforces his whole way of doing business.
The most hilarious part of all this is some of the other teachers were ranting and raving about these books. The only conclusion I could come up with is that they were so brainwashed by Tom that they were actually convinced that the books were great. Anybody that has played for even 6 months could see these books were garbage!
So overall Tom's approach it to do the least amount of work, go overboard with hype and way under deliver when he had your money. You want Tom's best stuff? Stick with the free stuff. He uses this to bring you in although his articles are usually riddled with links and offers. If you have been thinking of trying out any of his programs I highly suggest to stay far away or you'll be very disappointed and a bit more broke at the same time. Don't waste your money! Shop around and find a real program with a real mentor that actually cares about your success! The only thing Tom cares about is his wallet!!!
Bait-and-switch is just as bad with people claiming to be "mentored" by Tom Hess
There seems to be so much bait-and-switch with these self-appointed guitar gurus. It's really sad because I was really spoiled by having a GREAT guitar teacher in FL but had to move. I keep thinking I might find someone like that but now just seems impossible.
What I think is funny about this Tom Hess *** is that I know teachers who claim he has "mentored" and they are completely full of ***. What's even funnier is that they all CLAIM to do exactly what my teacher was doing but couldn't deliver if you put a gun to their heads.
There is a big difference between saying the right things and doing them and Tom Hess and his "followers" are all talk.
- Fraud
Tom Hess is a thief
Tom Hess is THIEF. Here is my story.!!!
I was a student of tom Hess. I was signed up to his mentor program,everything he offered I signed up for.I registered for his up and coming hess fest and other seminar in August 2016.My brother died in an unfortunate boating accident.He drowned.This obviously is a very difficult time in my life and because of my brothers death my circumstances have changed.i asked for a refund from tom hess , 4000.00 dollars to be exact, and he refused .Remember, I was a student of his up to this point,and participating in his mentor program!!! MENTOR??? Are you *** kidding me?
A mentor who refuses a refund to his loyal student, even in the face of such a tragedy as my brothers death. I repeat.MENTOR?? More like an unsympathetic greedy ***!!!scam,after scam,after scam!!!
do more research on this piece of *** before he robs you too!! he has me cut off from all avenues except this one,and i don't know how much longer this will be able to be done.*** you tom hess ,i want my stolen money back.now i will be in touch with bbb,as well as the irs and have this *** checked out.He is akin to Kevin Trudeau ,who is now in jail for similar scams. For further information email me at randycarville@***.com
Tom Hess is an *** Avoid at all costs
I had similar experience with Tom Hess. Once i saw the lesson he provided, I realized this wasn't for me. I reached out immediately, told him why this didn't meet my expectations or needs, and got a barrage of "others love this. Why don't you?"
He wrote two emails that were pages in length about why I just didn't get the value of his product, that others loved his stuff and there must be something wrong with me. This is exactly what narcissists do when you approach them with a problem or issue.
When I asked Tom point blank if he was going to refund my purchase, he launched into another littany of personal attacks.
Preferred solution: Full refund
Lessons not as advertised, aggressively refused refund, had to file for fraud
At first, the online articles on the website made it seem like this was THE PLACE to go for lessons/guitar private lessons. I've taken lessons at some great places, purchased from the staples online (justinguitar, truefire, etc) so I'm no stranger to the online format and enjoy it.
Tom Hess' system is BEYOND complex and it's a joke to think you're actually going to follow this confusing system. Additionally, it is NOT customized, it's automated *** and half of it is full of marketing material that's a repeat from the same propaganda you get emailed. The actual musical/lesson content is very weak. The practice generator is basically a *** excel spreadsheet and you have to input all the work.
SO, Tom Hess basically makes you jump through hoops, 99.9% of which is not related to music. The only individualized attention I got was when I asked for a refund and I got an aggressive diatribe back.
He's definitely a bully and this was the worst customer service I've received. I'm going back to the other online services that focus on actual music and guitar playing versus constant self-promotion.
Point blank refused refund.
I have known about Tom Hess for a couple of years. Nearly 2 week ago I decided to see if his claims were legitimate and contacted an ex student of his based in the UK.
He assured me he was genuine, and went from 14 to just under 60 student's in a year. I thought ok, let's see what this is all about. (A bit about me) I have 34 a week at the moment, studied at a renowned Music school, have been teaching for 9 years and have a degree. so I purchased the eBook you get plus you get 45 days free in the Elite Teachers Inner Circle, where he mentors you on how to maximise, get and retain x amount of students.
Soon after reading the eBook, I realised there was nothing within it that I didn't already know or wasn't already implementing. I cancelled my membership within a matter of hours. One more thing, it became apparent quite quickly that the forum access you get with the 45 days plays a key role in accumulating more student's. You also get to download mp3's of him talking and guiding you.
I submitted my form and gave the reason as quitting as I felt scammed, (which I did and do). He sent me a personal reply saying I was arrogant, and had no clue about business and should implement what is in the book and use the forum. I replied with a polite email, pointing out I already do the things he mentions, how long I have been teaching etc etc. He fires back saying I don't know what I am talking about, and is completely ignoring my calls for a refund.
Emails bounce back and forth with him still trying to get me to say. (After the 45 days you can sign up to the ETIC thing but have to pay $197 per month) I reply back and he ignores me. I leave it over the weekend, then email him on Monday 10th December, again telling him I don't think the program is for me, I am already doing the things he states in the book, and if he don't refund me within 48 hours, I shall be reporting him and the company, plus give the eBook away for free and write about my experiences online. He fires back with "whatever dude" I deal with thousands of transactions a year.
There will be no refund as you have not implemented what is within the book! If I find that eBook anywhere online I will sue you and com after you with everything I have got. I fire one back, telling him if he refunds me, I will not talk about what has happend. He ignores me, so I start telling people on forums, he THEN messages me saying it has been bought to his attention that I have been bad mouthing him on the net, and I will regret me actions.
This guy is a total *** He is completely arrogant and is to be avoided.
I have only just started with this guy. I hope he visits the UK sometime.
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