Bought a "Premium" coding course for $200 that was just YouTube tutorials in a PDF wrapper

I paid $200 for a Python course that promised "advanced techniques for building real apps." Turns out it was just a bunch of links to free YouTube videos pasted into a document with zero original code examples. The whole thing felt like a scam straight out of a nightmare. Has anyone else gotten burned by an overhyped beginner course that didn't deliver?

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leet321mo ago

Did you try getting a refund after realizing it was just free stuff?

ivanl7616d agoMost Upvoted

@xena_miller31 you're totally right about the YouTube links thing. What gets me is that some of those "secret" lists are just the first page of Google results for basic search terms. I wasted 150 bucks on a marketing course that was literally a PDF of Wikipedia articles with the ads stripped out. The refund process was a joke too, they kept saying I had to complete 80% of the course first.

xena_miller311mo ago

200 bucks for a list of YouTube links? That's straight robbery. I got a "premium" course that was just someone's blog posts reformatted with a nice cover page. Paying for links that are free to begin with is a bad joke, and these course sellers know exactly what they're doing.