Greg Pinneo

[Patrick Britton]

Hi,

A long time ago I was a stock broker in Vancouver Canada.  my sales manager was really big with life coaches and motivational speakers like Tony Robbins as well as finance "gurus" like T Harv Egger and Robert Kiyosaki.  I quickly got a very nasty taste in my mouth as I came to the belief that those who can't do, teach.  I also came across a whole slew of "life coaches" whom I knew to be broke, unsuccessful or sometimes even just downright pathetic...and they were telling me what to do!  hah!  

anyway, since the early 2000s i have dismissed every single motivational speaker, guru, etc., i have come across.  i think they make tons of money...telling people what to do, selling cds, books, courses, etc.  

however...last night i went to a local networking event and listened to Greg Pinneo, an apparent self estate investor from WA but with dealings all around the country.  While he wont get into many of the financing details he employs until Saturday's event, which i am attending, i was honestly impressed by him.  he asked some pretty good questions and pointed out some rather basic, albeit extremely useful thought paradigms.

has anyone any experience with him or his events?  at this event there were a lot of the top producing realtors and they all said they've attended his events and done his courses etc., and all said he's wonderful...so maybe there's something to it.  

thoughts?  

[Aaron Mazzrillo]

This past weekend I attended his Power Players event in Las Vegas. After the first day I went home. It was lots of motivational rah-rah, outlandish public displays of emotion, but really not much content. A bunch of speakers were preaching the "your time is now" mantra and one guy spent an hour doing a commercial for his fishing lodge (that he didn't build, he was born into it) at about $1,000/night. I sent an email requesting a refund (free to ask) and stated that I felt I wasted my time. Below is his extremely obnoxious and totally uncalled for response which I'm so glad he sent to me in an email and now I can share it with all of you so you can see who the real Greg Pinneo is:

"Aaron, 

I have attended hundreds of conferences in this country. The over two hundred e-mails I have received in the last two days exclaiming that this event is better in every way than anything anyone has ever seen is enough ratification for my own impressions. How you can sit through the likes of Chandless who has bought hundreds of properties, Roger Wilson who has done the same, and Mike Cantu who has purchased 1300 , followed by Tim Shaw who owns several multi- million dollar businesses, Johanna Gardner and her expertise, and then Simon Kelly who has run a 25 year multi-million dollar lodge and conclude that you were “wasting your time and money” is beyond me and every other individual in attendance. I was tempted to put your e-mail up on the screen, word for word, and let 250 people blast your arrogance and ignorance but I do not want you to have the benefit of gathering their contact information. You do not deserve it. Even your own “partner” has not heard a word from you. I think you are full of **** and just hoping to dine and dash as it were, or perhaps you are just an arrogant idiot. Either way, not only are you not getting a refund, you will be removed from our data base. You simply do not get it. We are all better off without you in our midst.

If you want to discuss this face to face, my information is below.

Greg Pinneo"

Didn't look like over two hundred people were in attendance to me, but I'm not one for exaggeration. He claims in the email that 250 were there and 80% of them sent him private emails praising the event. I don't buy it. Just more pathetic showmanship. I love how he is accusing me of "hoping to dine and dash." I'm not exactly sure on what as he wasn't offering anything other than free iced tap water and tears by the over emotional speakers. At the end of the day, this "no selling" event was nothing more than an opportunity for him to pitch his $15,000 one day coaching program and $5,000 seminars which were advertised on a flyer he handed out. This guy is just another huckster like any other guru on the information selling circuit. He sent me that nasty email full of immature name calling over a lousy $400. What a joke. I sent him an email telling him to keep it. He obviously needs it more than me. The email above is worth more to me than the $400 anyway because of the traction it will generate in showing the public the type of person he truly is deep down inside - just another greedy, cheap, arrogant, ******* with a bad face lift and dyed hair.

My suggestion: Avoid.