HealthyWage

I'm just disgusted that Heathywage couldn't find some kind of way to help out when so many people are struggling to support their families. Their email to me basically said that I don't have a choice but to pay. MANY companies opted to waive fees, cancel memberships, or even contribute to those in need. Healthywage is not one of them. I did what I had to do to stop the automatic payments. Bad debt vs food for my family. Which would you choose?

So I joined to this joke of healthy wage. First of all, if you made the mistake to join, you better be prepare to loose the weight or the money cause there is not cancellation to it. Second, if you also made the mistake to joint to the challenge you would not make much. This challenges are base on a pot, which means you share the price among the winners, not without the HealthyWage company taking their share first. Said that, I entered into a pot where the entry money was $100. I won and I ended making 12 dollar approximately. Then there was another pot challenge where a made 8 dollars and you gotta take PayPal fees a as well so less that 8 dollars. Seriously?. Such as scam, and shame of Jillian Michaels on supporting this scammers. Of course you will loose the weight because you won't like to loose the money. But is this really a healthy formation of habits? I don't think so.

Their rules about reimbursement need to be more clear. Rules indicate a participant will have 6 months after the challenge end to lose 10% to get their entry fee reimbursed if they don't do it during the challenge. It nowhere states that even if you lose the 10% you still have to wait to weigh in 6 months later. They do this in hopes people will forget and they can keep the money. Shady business model!

I signed up for HealthyWage and participated in at least a dozen challenges along the way. I was forced to videotape myself in front of a full-length mirror, go into the next room where I had a hard surface and could videotape myself on the scale and then proceed back into the room with the mirror since all of the rooms in my house with a full length mirror include carpeting and I live alone. This proved to be no issue for every single challenge that I've participated in, however, when it came time for the final way in (with the largest payback), they refused to accept my video because of the method in which I had to record myself. I'm out almost $1,600 because they decided that the method I had followed all along was suddenly "suspicious". If you ask me, their behavior is what is suspicious. I would absolutely not recommend this company to anyone.

You do all they ask but you still lose all your money. It is not worth the stress and the waste of money. They find anything wrong with your finally weigh in and it just not there. Basically they rip off the ones that have small wagers to pay out the big ones to make themselves look good.
The stress form the final weigh in causer to develop an ulcer. Better off keeping your money.

Healthy Wage sent out an email inviting users to sign up for a healthy wager bet-the large individual bet, even if you had gained weight back from your last bet. They typically call this the yo-yo rule. They allowed users to sign up for the bet, collected our payments- and then cancelled anyone who had already succeeded. This is breaking their contract as well as an extremely poor business practice. Instead of responding, they have blocked everyone from their social media and sent emails that they appealed our decisions for us and there is nothing that can be done. They sat on thousand of dollars before refunding & were able to collect a lot of money in interest. This seems highly unethical- if not completely illegal.

Its a nice idea but, once you set it up and pay up, you get zero support / prompts / advice from them. No reminders, no emails. I missed my goal - partly because COVID gave me an excuse to lose momentum and partly because the "goal" was just too distant and abstract to influence my day-to-day decisions without any other support. Thats on me of course. But my rating reflects that it didn't work for me, and if it was really about weight loss (and not just money) there'd be better communications.

I noticed they are also now closed to any new UK registrations - no idea why.

This company is a complete scam. They had no problem taking 100 dollars from my account every month for 6 months. I hit my goal. When it came time for them to pay me my winnings, they wanted me to jump through all these extra hoops before paying me out. It became clear they never planned on paying me! I did the weigh out that was required. I then had to take off for Japan for a business trip. They sent me an email requiring an additional weigh in and 10 extra steps that was everything short of the hokie pokie. I told them I could not, as I was on business in a different country. I attempted multiple times to come to a fair agreement, they said if I did not weigh in with in 3 days I would forfeit everything. Although I already lost the weight and completed their weigh out procedure! I then said, I don't even want the winnings at this point, at the very least I want my money back, to which they refused. This company ripped me off for $600! I am looking into legal action now. Do NOT use this company unless you want your money stolen!

They don't have anyone you can talk to on the phone with an issue. They do everything they can to keep you from winning the money and adjust if you've won in the past (although the conveniently don't check beforehand, only after you paid your money in). Avoid them and use another company!

This company is just one step above being a scam in my opinion. They fill people with false hope that money can motivate them to lose weight. In few cases, it can. They advertise paying out $10 million to people who have won their bets. Thats great, but at the end of the day WAYYY more are losing. This company is making a KILLING betting on peoples failure and 90 percent of the time, they win. Don't take those odds. Don't pay these people for no reason. Also, YOU CAN NOT CANCEL. Let me say it again, YOU CAN NOT CANCEL REGARDLESS OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR INJURY. If you get injured they will only pause your account and it may not even get approved to be paused. There is NO cancelling. Healthy wage "the company that cares so much about people" will threaten to send your account to collections if you remove your card from the service. Do yourself a favor. Lose weight on your own terms on your own time and don't throw away your money! I have lost more weight than ever and am way happier than when I tossed away hundreds to these crooks.

HealthyWage is a service where you bid money for a weight loss challenge. You put in some money, and when you lose the weight, you get that money back plus a small sum above that. If you don't hit your goal, you lose everything. I joined Healthy Wage in October-November 2020 with the idea that the company was here to help encourage me to lose weight. I thought it was a great idea and a great motivator. And I was happy that this company was trying to do something good in the world. So I invested $2,000 into the program - a hefty sum under any circumstance. A few weeks into my challenge I broke my foot and had to have surgery. The surgeon said that the surgery was pretty straightforward and he would have be back to exercising in 4-6 weeks. With 5 months left in the challenge, I thought I could recover and still lose my target weight within the remaining time. However there were complications, my foot started to have massive pain. Despite that, I began working out again and attempting to continue the challenge. When the pain got too unbearable, I went back to my surgeon who determined that I require another surgery to fix the pain. At this point in time, I contacted a guy who called himself "Joe Smith" (definitely not this guys name) and asked him if I can cancel my program and they can return the money or can I extend it so that I would be able to recover and have a chance of getting my money back. I even supplied them with a doctor's note which explained the situation I am in. In both cases, I got a horrible response. They were willing to cancel my program but refused to even offer a partial reimbursement. And yes they were able to extend the challenge, but for only 3 weeks. There would be no way for me to lose 6 months with of weight in 3 weeks which means I would lose my money in this scenario well. This is insane. For a company who is supposedly designed to help people, all they are doing is hurting people and stealing their money. This is a SCAM and should be investigated by the Better Business Bureau. Shame on these guys for preying on people who need help.

HealthyWage appears at first glance to be a good thing. But, take my warning...if you have a problem, you are going to be taken to the cleaners without getting your laundry done.

£600 and 6 months of consistent and steady weight loss to achieve my final goal after, I saw NO MONEY BACK from this company. Do not trust with your hard earned money. My weight goal was achieved, all necessary proof of that was sent to them and they still refused to send me my money back for my win. Utterly fraudulent and unethical business practice. Although it may sound like a great way to lose weight, if you happen to get your money back, it's probably more because of luck than actual results, so be aware of that before signing up for this fraudulent company. I am frankly disgusted by the way they run this business. After I tried to make the other members of their community aware of my experience, they blocked my account and deleted my post. WITHOUT returning my money back of course. Very transparent business practice as you can see. DO NOT TRUST. The money you see in the picture has never been returned to me, even after achieving my weight goal.

With healthwage, I lost 46 lbs, I haven't been this small in ages. I'm also healthier. Thank you for changing my life!

My partner had started a healthy wage challenge and sent me a link worth an extra prize amount totaling $140 if I signed up for a new challenge as well. So I signed up. I never would have signed up if not for the bonus "boost" money because the prize amount was initially to low to be worth it in my opinion. Then once I paid my challenge fees I noticed they did not apply either of our prize boosts. We both emailed Healthywage and complained but they claimed we were ineligible because we have done a challenge before. No where on the details page of the bonus link did it mention that... and now they refuse to refund and cancel my transaction. SCAM!

Update 02/18/21
After reading my review here on Sitejabber the Healthywage team finally decided to acknowledge my request for a refund. They refused to even respond to my refund inquiries the first two times I asked but apparently if you publicly call them out on this website they become more receptive and a lot less hostile. I settled for a partial boost.

In response to the comment made by Healthywage: your terms are extremely unclear, a person has to dig through the site and the fine print to find it. Have better customer service and business ethics and post that information on the main page of the boost where it will actually be seen by people. And stop sending people emails for boosts that they are not eligible for. I received an email for this same boost a day after posting on this site about you not giving me the boost. Shady as F.

This company is a rip off. They fool you into thinking They will charge you 15.00 a month without permission even after you cancel. I and my family have been sick from Corona Virus and have been impacted heavily by the virus. I live in New York and prices have sky rocketed and we need that money. Anyway, because of sickness and forgetting I have been charged $15.00 every month since January 2021 till now and the person from Healthy Wage had no supervisor that I could talk to. Anyway, I lost my money and I am told that they are going charge me 5 more times. I wish I hadn't agreed to it. So please don't do it. I lost all my weight from alternate fasting. It works for me so you might want to make a contract with yourself and put $15.00 in your savings account for 18 months than give it to this heartless company who even in these unprecedented times of Corona and simply don't care about anyone or anything except their bottom line profits. Just don't do it. Healthywager is a cruel heartless company.

Even if you meet the 6% weight loss goal you will lose your money. I am terribly disappointed. If the team did not win, I should at least have gotten my money back while my non-performing team mates (who I have never met) lost theirs.

Recently, due to the global pandemic which includes gym closures, loss of wages, etc, I have been trying to cancel my $100/month bet, with 5 months left to go. In these uncertain times, I'm not even sure what 5 months would look like from now, and it leaves me frustrated and with bad taste.

I was going to cancel and then come back when the pandemic blows over (because it was a really great idea that motivated me to lose!) but with the disappointing way Healthywage has handled this, I don't think I would ever come back.

From the start of COVID-19, I expected to receive an email from them, like literally every single company (Jimmy Johns, anyone?) stating a clause that would help users during the financial hardships. 22 MILLION Americans have since been unemployed from the virus, which is not at all an insignificant amount of the US population. HealthyWage's narrow mindset and unwillingness to help out its userbase will only alienate its prospective participants.

I am so very disappointed in HealthyWage, a program that I was VERY excited to be a part of. They have shown that their bottom line is... well, their bottom line, with no humanity, especially during these trying times.

I was super skeptical when starting with HealthyWage but I won $2,500 and lost 50lbs my first time around. I still had weight to lose so I entered a second (technically 3rd) bet, which just came to a close. I was notified I won and was eagerly awaiting payment. With COVID and lack of work I was really relying on that pay out to make it through this holiday season. Not to mention I busted my $#*! to better myself and win that money. I earned it fair and square.

They notified me in a very vague email that my bet had been cancelled. I emailed back and forth a couple of times and it turns out that because of the "yoyo rule" they would not be paying me out but would "do me a favor" and refund my initial investment. 2 problems with this: First, I had over a year and a failed bet in between this bet so in theory, there was no yoyo-ing. But for arguments sake, I was unaware of this rule and it was the responsibility of whomever verified my weight in at the beginning of the bet to catch this, not me. According to their rules you can still compete but your starting weight should be altered to your ending weight from the last bet. No one did this so I was not given the opportunity to possibly still win my bet. I had no idea there was an issue until the bet was over. I should not be held responsible or penalized for one of their employees messing up.

Not only was I not paid out but only 3 of my 9 payments were refunded to me and now they have stopped responding to my emails so not only have they scammed me but have essentially stolen money from me. And based on the reviews I've read they always seem to find a loophole to not allow you to win twice.

This company is unbelievable.
Who ever heard of having to Keep Paying for something you Never Even Used nor plan on using nor want to use? There is no service- you dont sign a contract- you just sign up for what is basically a subscription you Can Never cancel! I made my first payment- never even weighed in and even emailed 2x to cancel and not to charge my card again in the future and they did. So it looks like I'm just gonna keep paying these people for the next 12 months, whether I do anything or not. The way see I it, it's a killer scam for the most part. These guys must be making money hand over fist. It just amazes me the way some company's take and take and take. Its stupid- my weight is perfectly fine for my height and age- I signed up on a whim on a day i was feeling fat and now I'm not to worried about it. But I guess I better get on the ball and start losing unnecessary weight so I dont feel so stupid they're gonna keep taking my money. Hope I dont get sick or whatever.

What a scam. You don't win crap other than your own money back. You can win up to $10,000!... as long as you bet $9,800 on yourself. In other words, if you want to sign up for a forced savings plan where the likelihood of losing all your money is high, and if you do happen to win, you get taxed to the point that the actual portion that you do win is completely nullified, then go ahead and go for it! You can do it! The last 20 years of not being able to lose weight is completely going to change, if they pay you $200 to do it! Ha!

Totally false advertising when the total prize money that they quote includes returning your own monthly contribution. If they presented it honestly it would only show the amount that you actually win, over your personal monthly contributions, but then no one would buy into the scam.

When I found out I have a medical issue and then I had a gym closure, I tried to reason with this company. I asked for them to simply cancel my challenge. I told them I was upset that I had to ask for this especially in light of all that is occurring in the world but I hoped that because of my issue, they would help me out. I stated to them that I would sign up for a new challenge once life is back in the swing. First, they responded without even reading my first email. My second email went unanswered. My third email when I was now upset and said I no longer wanted to work with a company such as this that claim they are a "healthy" wage site but their CSRs know nothing about the science behind medical conditions and weight loss and fluff you off like you are not to be considered. They again said they would push my challenge back. I reported to the BBB. All I get is that they CLAIM they have worked extensively with me (no) and that they have an offer on the table (not one that I accept, obviously, because I am now moving toward mediation) and that's all they say to the BBB. And, had they at least RESPONDED to my personal concern about my personal situation, I would consider and offer but even after reporting to BBB NEVER ONCE A SORRY for misunderstanding, or taking my situation lightly. NOTHING. Just that they are great and they have worked extensively with me to help me. Lies.

The company has done nothing to pro-actively address how the global pandemic is impacting customers. If you reach out they offer you can pay money to extend ($100 for every month) but they will not add to the prize amount, or you can pause for three months but if you lose any weight at all during that three months you lose the whole thing. They let me know that exercise is not necessary for significant weight loss. Their VP of finance also took the time to let me know that she considered the 25lbs I lost had lost to date was "not very much". I had felt rather proud of that weight loss, I guess I was wrong.

It's disheartening to see a company that alleges to want to support people in reaching their goals show themselves to be only concerned with themselves, even at a time of global crisis, even for those people living in the epicenter of the crisis.

I will be reporting them to the NYAG office, I encourage others with similar experiences to do the same. The NYAG office has taken several actions against companies who are refusing to accommodate during the pandemic, including ordering them to make massive refunds.

Update: After several weeks of escalating my complaints to the leadership of the company, they finally offered a three month extension at no cost. Please note, it took several weeks of making complaints and then posting this negative review and threatening to file a complaint with the NY State AG for them to accommodate me.