Followup: April 2023
Now Victor Bastos is selling his platform and email lists - so even though I unsubscribed from everything on his worthless pl...
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Hi, I'm really sorry for the bad experience you had in the past with OnClick Academy. The first thing I can tell you is that we are not a scam, we are a team of people working really hard to provide the best learning experience to all our students. Please let me know how can we fix this, have you received a refund for this? we can also provide you a new access to the Freelancing Course Program that you mentioned which is now available at our school (onclickacademycourses.com/). Best Regards.
Our new platform now available at onclickacademy.com/
This is super disingenuous. When I asked for a refund you personally were wholeheartedly unhelpful. I had to file a dispute with Paypal to get my money back.
Chiming in to say that I signed up and it was a bunch of tutorials ripped from youtube.
Hi John, most of our tutorials/courses are from youtube through partnerships (this is clearly mentioned on our disclaimer about page). But we also have our own courses such as HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL and others that are also available on Udemy under my name with good reviews. Check here: udemy.com/user/victorbastos3/
Access to these courses are completely FREE at onclickacademy.com/. If you have any complaints about other past products please contact us at support@onclickacademy.com OR victorcruzbastos@gmail.com and I'll be glad to help you.
The absolute best advice I can give any aspiring developer is this:
Never give this man your email address. He will spam you the rest of your life. Eventually, he'll con you into buying a lifetime membership for all his courses. Two months later, there will be a new lifetime membership he'll be trying to get you to buy because "these courses are in a different category". He'll try to get you to buy into joining his freelancer network. Basically, your inbox will be his new litter box. Hitting unsubscribe won't work, it'll unsubscribe you from one list, but this shitstain didn't just put you on this one list ... you will never be free of him. Ever.
Also, because he's bringing up reviews - the quality of his content is absolute shit. If you actually want to learn something, hit App Academy Open, The Odin Project, or CS50. Or, if you really want to pay money to learn, check out zero to mastery (Andrei Neagoie is fantastic). Or, hell, buy yourself a 1 year subscription to Coursera, you can learn a ton on Coursera in a year for $400.
Don't give this man your money. More importantly, don't give him your email address.
Thanks for writing this article. I too am a victim of this scam too. All of Victors products are rip offs of You Tube videos or other creators work.
Hi, I'm really sorry for the bad experience you had in the past with OnClick Academy. The first thing I can tell you is that we are not a scam, we are a team of people working really hard to provide the best learning experience to all our students. Please let me know how can we fix this, have you received a refund for this? we can also provide you a new access to the Freelancing Course Program that you mentioned which is now available at our school (onclickacademycourses.com/). Best Regards.
Dear Erik,if you personally have any negative experience with OnClick Academy it doesn't mean that is scam! I'm user of this platform for a long time and I never seen any scam or mistake from Victor Bastos.
Please check one of the best YouTube channel "Traversy Media" and you can see there many authors and not only Brad Traversy who is the Owner.
The absolute worst part of the scam is that when you sign up for any one thing, he adds you to what must be a billion mailing lists - you unsubscribe from one, then the next week you start getting emails from another. I've been unsubscribing from his mailing lists for months now.
Hi P1xt, most of our tutorials/courses are from youtube through partnerships (this is clearly mentioned on our disclaimer about page). But we also have our own courses such as HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL and others that are also available on Udemy under my name with good reviews. Check here: udemy.com/user/victorbastos3/
Access to these courses are completely FREE at onclickacademy.com/. If you have any complaints about other past products please contact us at support@onclickacademy.com OR victorcruzbastos@gmail.com and I'll be glad to help you.
How does any of that pertain to the comment you replied to?
I still get spam email from you - a year and a half after I wrote that comment. And, now, you're spamming my replies on this site with marketing links to get more people to sign up for your shitty site.
And, none of that changes the fact that what I wrote in my original post was 100% the truth about my experience. I had to file a complaint with PayPal to keep you from just taking my money and giving me nothing.
If anyone is reading this, a year and a half after the fact, take special note that Victor is all about the canned marketing messages - he cut and paste this one at least three times today. But, he doesn't actually read and communicate. If he did, his first response to my complaint that it's impossible to get him to stop emailing me shit would not have been (paraphrased) "I am awesome, here's some links to where you can get my courses."
Well, I can say I've been a Victor Bastos follower for a long time and currently a student at onclick academy, and I can say it changed my life. The onclick community is great and I don't have complaints about Onclick Academy, actually, it's one of my favorite places to learn web development right now.
I was a free user and I recently paid for the premium plan, the Onclick new platform is simple awesome, with a few bugs, but they're just starting out as a new social platform and looks really promising to me.
Victor always replies to all my emails, even we are connected on Facebook messenger. I directly send him my queries and get an instant reply.
Agree with you totally!!!
Sorry but this article seems to be just a try to scold OnClick Academy. I use this resource as well but I never seen anything described above. Victor is doing his job as a professional and never ignored any of my messages,I trust him!
I've been trying to unsubscribe from these emails for years. I still get an average of one a day. Luckily it's only in the spam now.
I can't comment on the content of the courses, but I can confirm that unsubscribing is not an option for me (or many others, it seems)
Victor is a scammer! period.
He always send emails to promote products that never exist ( in my case freelancing course).
Then after you pay, he never replies back, delivers the prodcut or sends a refund!
I contacted him so many times, but chose to ignore my messages and keep the stolen money!
The spam emails have re-started again today from OnClick Academy, even though I have unsubscribed/muted/blocked/reported them over the last seven years!
Victor, leave me alone please!
I figure it was a scam and had to Google it. Thanks for the info. Didn't want to throw away $20 for a lifetime subscription I figure wasn't real.
Hey mate, you can't publically defame an organization like onClick Academy and it's C.E.O based on your previous experience since personal opinions are biased.
It isn't defamation to honestly review an internet business and its CEO who attempted to defraud you. If he doesn't want people calling him a scammer, he should maybe think twice before attempting to scam people.
This isn't opinion based. It is fact. He tried to scam me. Then he tried to bully me. I'm not defaming him. I'm honestly describing my interaction with him so that maybe others won't fall victim to his scams.
I have the receipts. Enough to fill at least a half a dozen more posts because he was a real jerk in his emails to me. He might want to think about that before he sends another round of followers to shitpost on this one post from years ago that no one but him and the people he sends here even looks at.
I also was not impressed. Everytime he updates his platform you have to re-sign up (At least in my case). On his newest platform I am not even registered with my email. Probably my own fault since I unsubscribed to emails because I was getting so much spam for me to buy his product that I was already subscribed to. Also, found that most of his content was often outdated. I am happy for those who are getting something out of it and Victor responds to you. It seems that he is very willing to respond if you are enjoying his platform but if you are unhappy, this is where he fails. There are many much better platforms to use and/or subscribe to.
Paid:
Traversy Media - Brad Traversy
Zero to Mastery - Andrei Neagoie
Programming with Mosh - Mosh Hamedani
Web Developer Bootcamp - Colt Steele
Free:
FreeCodeCamp
Odin Project
YouTube
All of the above have very active communities, support systems, and reliability.
I decided to not pursue OnClick Academy anymore as I feel like I don't get the best quality and value for my money. The money I gave for Lifetime Subcription is gone and now it is time to move on.
Yeah, Zero to Mastery especially is top notch. I've not seen a course there that was anything less that brilliant.