Be careful with new Festinger's website (grootmade.com)

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So, Mr. Festinger was banned from this forum after several complaints, people didn't receive their money back, the service was discontinued, some of his protectors even mention that ''his lifetime subscription only exists until the service ends, so it's fair, because the service is not viable anymore, you guys used it until the last day it was still feasible''. Well, this lie died early than we expect.

His idea is basically ''let's offer some so-called - lifetime membership subscription or unlimited plans- and after a while, close the website, the service was discontinued, sorry guys, it's not feasible anymore, lawsuits and govs are chasing me, we can't continue''. But then, he creates a new website with the same service and starts everything again, an endless looping of new websites, it's a complete new service, so if you previously bought the lifetime service, it doesn't matter, buy it again if you want the service. Just bullshit and exit scams.

The new website is grootmade.com, be very careful with it, even without the lifetime subscription, his last website was famous due to random charges, people being charged even after they cancelled the subscription and other related issues. At this point, if he has your credit card info, he will be charging the hell out of it when the exit scam is arriving.

Also, they are possibly using this forum to drive traffic to their website, some posts on Members Downloads (or something like that, i don't remember the name of section of this forum) offers plugins and themes coming from this new website. When you install it, you discovers that:

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So, they might be using BHW as a sales funnel, a smart soft promotion attracting people to their service even with Festinger main profile being banned.

The bad reviews on Trustpilot are already multiplying: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/grootmade.com

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Well, be careful with it, just a heads up, investing in this website is like investing in a ponzi scheme, maybe it's working today, but it will eventually charge more money than it should, refuse refunds, disappear or something like that, which will result in a lot of annoyances and headache.
 
Honestly, at this point anyone who knows how the whole issue went down shouldn’t need much advice to know to stay away from anything FV anymore regardless

This is very good awareness for people who are unaware of it (at least know Festinger is also Grootmade) and my advice for them is also to stay away

What they are doing is very silly and they are doing it straight to people’s faces even with that April 1 attempt of sending invoices and trying to charge people’s cards again

Aside from all the ones I saw here on April 1, my pal actually sent his own without even knowing it had happened to quite a few others as well.

Luckily for him, the card wasn’t active : )

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Just swipe left on that whole situation and keep your cash safe
 
He's just showing his true colors now. I always knew he's going to do a rug pull sooner or later.
 
I think it was a case of business going out of control

But charging renewals was off it
That was pure scam
 
For anyone still having trouble with them, see this line from their email sent March 14 2026. (Full email screenshot attached.)

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Tried to charge me 4 times, I mean sent me 4 invoices of $19 each on April 1st.
I bought one time from him in 2020!!!!!!!!!! INSANE
 
I got invoice too, i report it to stripe. If we all do it, somehow he will stop.
Yep. People like this guy are relying on others not reporting or even noticing a recurring payment, and that's why he'll keep pushing these payments through.
 
i didnt even know festy was banned - im not a heavy lounge user
but i do remember he would troll me around bhw and mods
would have to break us up as i wouldnt tollerate his sht.

almost all the people who harrassed me around bhw has been
banned for scamming down the road. theres only 1/2 of my
trolls left . still - good to see mods kicking them to the curb .
 
where can i manually stop and report these payments to Stripe? i see no connection to stripe
 
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