HealthyWage

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.

For anyone out there that is skeptical, I was in your shoes about 9 months ago. I spent almost 3 months playing around with the idea of betting on myself, figuring out if HealthyWage was a legitimate company or if it was a scam, and playing around with the calculator to see what worked best for me. I finally decided I'd give it a try after seeing a video of HealthyWage on Good Morning America- I mean what was the worst that could happen? In January, I took that leap of faith. I bet $330 ($55/month) that I would lose 45 lbs in 6 months. In 6 months, I hit my personal goal and lost 46 lbs and I won $911. If there is any confusion, the $911 also included the $330 I put into it myself. The way I see it is I didn't lose $330 as that was technically my money and I profited $581. I was ecstatic to receive a check from HealthyWage within 10 days after completing my final official weigh out and submitting my Official Winner Confirmation Form! HealthyWage helped me get in the right mindset and as a working mom of 2, it feels great! HealthyWage helped kick start and motivate my weight loss journey and I am so grateful. The Customer Service was incredible and the rules/policies are very clear-cut! When you start, know you are taking a gamble. I'm so glad I bet on myself and did something that was for me for the first time in a long time!

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!

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.

Before downloading this app I did some research into it. I looked up to see if it was legitimate and read the BBB complaints. I've decided that I might give it a shot, since doubling or even tripling my money is one heck of a motivator. I just have to decide what dollar amount I want to wager.
Look, if you sign up and find out you can't/won't lose weight FOR ANY REASON you will NOT get a refund. Using a medical excuse will not work. However, it seems this company WILL WORK WITH YOU. As I read some of the complaints as well as the responses from the company, I couldn't help getting a little aggravated by the way some customers treated customer service.
Advice to company. Put the no refund policy on the very first line in hugh black, bold lettering. Maybe even a hugh neon sing that flashes no refund.

REMEMBER, ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT.
Dosen't anyone read contracts before they sign them anymore?

WARNING! PEOPLE... WHATEVER YOU DO DO N. O. T. EVER EXTEND YOUR CHALLENGES. THAT IS MONEY THAT YOU WILL N. O. T. GET BACK! I EXTENDED TWICE, AND IT IS N. O. T. STATED THAT YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE EXTENDED MONIES BACK BEFORE YOU CLICK CONFIRM. MEANING... YOU WILL BE THROWING AWAY YOUR HARD EARNED MONIES PERIOD!. DOOOOOOOOOOO NOT EVER EXTEND YOUR TIME OR YOU WILL LOSE YOUR EXTENDED MONIES. THIS WAS NOT MADE CLEAR ON THIS WEBSITE! I AM GOING TO SEEK HELP ABOUT THIS. I DO NOT HAVE THOUSANDS TO THROW AWAY JUST BECAUSE I EXTENDED MY TIME. IF I HAD OF KNOWN THAT, I WOULD HAVE DONE A CLEANSE TO LOSE THE FINAL 6 POUNDS IN THE FIRST ROUND!

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.

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.

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

Let me start by saying that I had allowed myself to incredibly overweight. I was unhealthy, miserable and hiding from my life. I'd done Healthy Wage for years but I just wasn't ready to put the effort in and only had mild success. Last December, I finally decided that enough was enough and that I was sick of sitting on the sidelines of my own life. I placed a bet on myself that would allow me to win over $2500 if I was successful. I'm now healthier than I've ever been, and I will never, ever go back.

One of the best features of Healthy Wage is the weight tracker. I loved being able to go back and see my weights from several years ago and compare them to each step of my journey this time around. I also liked the visual of seeing how I was progressing (there's basically a circle that gets filled in and it's green if you're on track, yellow if you're borderline and red if you're not on track to meet your goal).

I also have to give a shout out to the staff! As I said, I've done Healthy Wage off and on for probably 12 or 13 years, and in that time, I've needed customer service on several occasion (I ask a lot of questions LOL). Each time, I received prompt, super friendly responses. Not to sound cheesy, but the people I talked to all seemed to genuinely want me to succeed. When I finally *did* succeed, I was given heartfelt congrats from the customer service team (I had to reach out with a couple of questions about my account and about how to get considered as a featured success story). No joke, the "congrats" and "atta girls" were really genuine.

I received my check with no problem. It was sent out very quickly and I had zero issues getting paid. Since virtual security is something we're all concerned about in this day and age, I also want to emphasize that in over a decade, I never had a single issue with my payments not being securely processed, so please don't let something like that deter you from trying them out.

To sum it up, could I have lost the weight without Healthy Wage? Of course. Did Healthy Wage give me that extra motivation that kept me from quitting when things were challenging? I answer with a resounding "YES!". Please give it a shot if you're truly ready to get your health under control and be the best version of yourself...with an extra bit of cash in your pocket!