The One Thing I learned from Tony Robbins This Week
He has “the power within” to rip you off.
The big guy with the big teeth and bigger voice has released his “power within” and is refusing to refund Australians who have purchased tickets to his events down under.
According to Nine News, the events which were to be held in 2020 were canceled due to the pandemic, and many attendees, who had paid between $2000 to $11,000 AUD each, are yet to receive refunds from the Australian promoter, Success Resources.
There are many Australians who have been directly impacted including over 271 members of a Facebook group dedicated to obtaining refunds. To date, there has been no response from Success Resources to media inquiries in Australia, and Robbins has stated that the situation is “news to us” and that he will seek “swift action” on the refunds.
However, a Sunshine Coast man who had purchased two tickets to the canceled event to be held in Sydney in 2020 at a cost of $4000 AUD took Success Resources to court in September 2021, after the company refused to refund his money, but instead offered him two tickets to an online event, valued at $500 AUD each. The court found in the company’s favour and no refund was provided due to a “covid clause” in their Terms and Conditions of purchase.
The Power Within
For self-help gurus like Robbins, this type of play is nothing new, as their whole game is based on fleecing money from the weak and the vulnerable. These salesmen care about you and your problems right up until you put your credit card down and enter the great pyramid scheme that is centred on only one thing — making them more money — after they’ve hooked you (and your credit card) in, “the power within” belongs to them.
Robbins himself is no stranger to controversy having been accused of multiple cases of sexual assault and harassment of women, and of using unproven pseudo-scientific claims to sell his products. However, these things do not seem to bother the members of his cult, in the same way that the Hillsong Church leader Brian Houston continues to deny child abuse allegations against the churches co-founder, his father Frank, as the weak and the vulnerable keep turning up on Sundays and putting money in the collection plate.
It appears that in these two cases the bigger you are the harder you fall doesn’t always apply, and the continued abuses of power from men like Robbins and Houston will continue to go unpunished, as long as the weak and the vulnerable keep giving up their power (and money).
For their customer on the Sunshine Coast, it probably took all of ten seconds for that $4000 AUD payment to move from his credit card and land in Robbin’s account — it shouldn’t take 2 years to hand that money back.
Unless of course, Robbins doesn’t have “the power within” to do the right thing.
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