TED'S Woodworking- is it a scam?

Yes, it’s a scam. The plans are either readily available free online, or they are stolen plans. Plus, as you have found, it’s difficult to get your money back. They keep spamming on the website here under different names.

-- The quality of one's woodworking is directly related to the amount of flannel worn.

The only thing that makes me more upset is that I fell for it… ugh…

-- "Well, the world needs ditch-diggers too..." - Judge Smails

Tooch,
OUCH!
Sorry you got cough up in that mess.

For me, these types of ad’s have a certain look to them. But sometimes I’ll give it a few seconds to listen and then I’ll see or hear something that make me say NOPE!
Like…..
“I can only leave this video up for 24 hours” was my red flag.

I figured it was one of those ads that you had to listen to for a long time, taking up so much of your time that you felt you should do it or all the time you spent on listening was wasted.

Now, I usually steer clear of anything that resembles an ad like this. I’ve been taken a few time also, It’s hard to know what’s good and what’s not.

I hope you get your money back.

-- St Augustine FL, Experience is the sum of our mistakes!

Tony I after several calls and lots of time waiting on hold, I finally got throgh to someone from ClickBank. The gentleman on the other end of the line granted me a refund, but said it will take up to 5 days to post.

I think I’m going to file a Dispute with my credit card company anyhow, just to be safe.

-- "Well, the world needs ditch-diggers too..." - Judge Smails

By all means file with your Credit Card.
Any thing connected to Ted’s is a scam and that includes various delaying tactics.

almost all of his designs and probably “all” of them are stolen from other woodworkers.. Check out WWMM. He’s done a video all about TED and his shady practices! link here

-- "Nothing happens until you build it"

Wish you would have checked here first. Ted’s is a well known scam and all of their plans are either stolen or are available free elsewhere.

-- Bondo Gaposis

Hmmm.. that video link seems to be broken for me.. but a quick google search for “Ted’s woodworking fraud” turns up a LOT of hits, even from Matthias over at woodgears.ca ( http://woodgears.ca/ted/ ) and Steve Ramsey has a page devoted to him at WWMM ( http://www.woodworkingformeremortals.com/2012/04/teds-woodworking-fraud.html ). Someone even tried to find the address listed for them and it doesn’t exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3rAcKT7NCw

File that claim with your CC company.. sooner rather than later!

Cheers,
Brad

-- Brad in FL - In Dog I trust... everything else is questionable

Ole Ted the woodworker has been around a long time.

https://www.google.com/#q=ted%27s+woodworking+rip+off+reports

Here is the Whois records on his website:

http://whois.domaintools.com/tedswoodworking.com

Here is where his website is hosted: If’s he’s on a VPS server he’s most likely looking for some security and his site could be taking 1000’s of unique hits a day.

-- Bruce Free Plans & Calculators https://traditionalwoodworking.org

Call up your issuing credit card company that you used and tell them it was a scam and you never got the services you paid for. They will take the money back out of Toms woodworking merchent account. If they get enough of these complaints the credit card companies will drop them and they will not be allowed to accept cards any more. As an added bonus for each one of the complaints and refunds the percentage they pay per transaction goes up.

Glad to hear that your’e getting a refund Tooch! Hope it all goes smoothly!
I would still do what some of the guys have mentioned here. Call the number on the back of your credit card and they will take any charges off your bill.

-- St Augustine FL, Experience is the sum of our mistakes!

I am sorry to say I did something similar BUT as i used paypal I just lodged protest with them saying Goods where not as described and was fraudulent and asked for refund, same with ClickBank and got full refund within 5 days. As long as you state the transaction was “Not as described and was Fraudulent” you should have no problem getting a refund. I never make decisions with my friend Jim Beam after that.

Regards Tom

-- Something from TommyB43's Keyboard

Tooch, this has been a well spoken topic here on LJ’s in the past, Steve Ramsey has several videos on Ted’s woodworking, be sure to go through all of his videos, here’s one for starters.

http://lumberjocks.com/Stevinmarin/blog/29377

-- Randy - If I'm not on LJ's then I'm making Saw Dust. Please feel free to visit my store location at http://www.facebook.com/randy.blackstock.custom.wood.designs

TommyB funny you mention that, Jim was also a part of my poor decision making… Although it wasn’t the first bad decision with Jimmy at the helm of my brain, I can assure you it won’t be the last, either!

Randy times like these I wish I was a more active participant on the LJs forums… I normally stick to the projects or forum topics posted by my buddies

-- "Well, the world needs ditch-diggers too..." - Judge Smails

Tooch, I have my students research free plans for what they want to make. This gives them a good starting point. All my students have MacBooks so the research can be done in class.