The likes of Hans, Kaye Kyosaki, Lomas etc are not what makes someone successful or non successful! It is ones own goals, plans and action that will altermately determine that.
If you pay $5000 for a course and it has stimulated a thought process down to an action plan was it worth it? Of course it was
Anything can be a rip off if you do nothing about it.
I don't like Han's style of marketing nor his glorification of simple ideas, but is that any different to anyone else.
How about paying a jenman agent 5% of the purchase price of your house (which includes your equity and they didn't take the risk to borrow the money!) just to find a buyer when all the real work and title transfers are done by a conveyancer who gets paid $500! How unethical is that! And has it improved your mind in the meantime?
If you buy groceries at a supermarket, do they charge you 5% of what you bought? Why do agen't s do that? Why is it accepted?
If you try to look past the venom and negative anchoring Jenman's books and phylosophies are great, the ethics themselves are fantastic but do they come cheap? Absolutely not, he charges franchise fees to all agents who want to be labelled as "ethical"
But is self promotion at other's expense an ethical thing to do? (Ie putting others down constanty so that you can look good in the face of the public).
Who is being the real rip off here Hans or Jenman?