Ashy Bines Asks for Personal Information on Public Page

Original post can be found here.

Throughout the end of last week, Ashy Bines public Facebook page for her Bikini Body challenge franchise has been asking for personal information for her followers to sign up on a new 12 week Ashy Bines Fitspo Challenge. 

One of the posts (A pinned one to say the least!) asks for followers to post their own personal phone numbers in the comments below OR message the page (For privacy reasons, we will not post a screenshot of the comments in that post as it contains vulnerable women who have commented with their phone numbers).

This is a huge security risk. The internet is accessible for all sorts of people from around the world. We don’t know who is behind the screen and what their intentions are. To encourage your own followers to post their personal contact numbers publicly is highly unprofessional.

Ironically, Ashy Bines posted on her verified Facebook page in regards to Ashley Madison’s case of being hacked. 

The vulnerable women who have posted their personal contact numbers on ABBBC’s page are prone to being “hacked” or stalked or many other worst case scenarios. A lot of online platforms use your phone number nowadays for methods to recover your account (Facebook, Email, Twitter, Instagram, etc.).

Ashley Madison Case on The Guardian

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The Fitspo Challenge

Ashy Bines and her team have always been known for their shady business practices. A $1 “sign up fee” which many women do not realize that you will be charged at the end of a time period for the full price of that product. 

This clearly shows that ABBBC is only in it for the money, but unfortunately, many of Ashy’s followers let things slide and allow her to continue these business practices, defending her without a rational reason.

The countdown timer on Ashy’s Fitspo page, we can assure you that it isn’t legit. Last year, during desperate measures of saving her Clean Eating Diet Plan product (Facebook page banned, posts getting removed, bad publicity, etc.), Ashy Bines released a promotional offer link that spread around her Facebook pages and Instagram. It wasn’t real at all. Proven by the internet way back machine, it has been at 30 for weeks and Ashy Bines continues to advertise on her Instagram pages that there are only a few left, spots are running out.

Please note that the Instagram page @LoseWeightHere has been removed as it violated Instagram’s terms of “spamming/scamming”.

A similar pattern is being noticed here on Ashy’s new 12-week program. The timer increases on its own and you get different spots left when visiting from a different browser. 

One of them didn’t even work properly. 

No one really knows how many spots have run out. If you refresh the page, it goes all the way back to the same number the first time you visited the page.

Edge (The New Internet Explorer for Windows 10) ~ Countdown timer was dodgy.

Opera

Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome

Another similar pattern is noticed with Ashy’s previous promotional offer that came with a tremendous amount of payment. That issue will be followed up in a different article, stay tuned!

This page strongly advises that you should be careful about spending money on a product labeled with Ashy Bines or ABBBC.

Refunds, disputes & more:

• How to Dispute a Credit Card Transaction
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• ACCC Scam Watch
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We Don’t See Any Ashy Bines Types Here, That’s For Sure

Original post can be found here.



In reply to the GCB article: http://goldcoastbulletin.com.au/lifestyle/gold-coast-diet-queens-battle-it-out/story-fnj94iqm-1227299283532

Ashy Bines quotes “and battling it out? i think the MORE people in the industry for the right reasons helping our society the BETTER. Im not competing against anyone, im here to help whoever wants my help”




Yes Ashy is right, the more fitness professionals in the industry who help the public with their health and wellbeing the better. However there is one thing Ashy is missing, and that is being completely honest in her business, including doing the right things and taking responsibility .

Ashy: “Im not competing against anyone, im here to help whoever wants my help”.

Ashy admitted (only late last month) that she is ‘a very competitive person’ on her Facebook business page. See attached Images.

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Regarding Emily Skye and Ashy….

If anyone really looks up the differences between Ashy Bines and Emily Skye, you will find that they are different in the types of business they run, and what they provide to their paying customers.

It should be cleared up that Emily Skye does not and has never worked for or with Ashy Bines, this also includes never being involved with or working apart of ABBBC. One of the businesses that Emily runs is a 28 Day shred program with Ashy’s husband Steven Evans. As we have seen in recent newspapers Emily is currently suing Mr Evans for failing to efficiently market her program, and funnelling money into his other business. You will find these articles online regarding Miss Skye suing Steven.

Ashy Bines Admits To Plagiarism – Media Coverage

One thing Ashy Bines should remember through CERT III in fitness is that you are told over and over again to be over cautious in the content you release, ensuring it is not copied from other sources. 

You are educated to understand that if you like another persons work and you wish to you use it, you are to gain consent or you alter it to your clients suitability. When Ashy plagiarised she failed to do this, that is not naive that is out right stealing.

For those who ‘do not care’ that Ashy has plagiarised that is ok, but what is not ok is the abusive responses they come back with to those that are upset and let down. $69.95 may be pocket money to the people who don’t care, but it may be a tank of fuel, bread and milk to another person. Also, the people who feel let down would have rather given their well earned money to an original fitness guru, who is honest and ethical. If you wrote a book and/or came up with your own work and someone blatantly stole it (word for word) you would not be so happy, especially when permission was not given. We understand that there are many professionals in all range of fields who have similarities, but the difference is that they changed it to their client base and to their liking, unlike Ashy.

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“In a series of text messages to the Gold Coast Bulletin yesterday, Ms Bines said she did not want to speak about the plagiarism beyond what was in her video as it would “bring the haters out”.”

Yes, there are haters no one denies that. However, what Ashy is misunderstanding is the haters (who post terrible statements) VS unsatisfied and upset (paying) customers.

This pages does not condone any form of bullying. It’s ok to vent but there is a line, and if our followers cross that line the posts will be removed from the page. Bullying is not tolerated.

The abusive content quoted from the news agent are from Ashy Bines Instagram page, they are not from this page.

Furthermore the blog the news outlet discloses is from a website that further exposes the truth of Ashy Bines.

The people who run this page and majority of the followers are not haters, as stated we are people who want justice, and who are disgruntled at feeling cheated. It is not fair in what Ashy has done, charging people for stolen content, the way she speaks to her followers to blaming others for her wrong doing.

Regarding the actual haters against Ashy personally, whilst it is not at all ok and in no way do we accept what they say, please be reminded that Ashy herself is a bully to her followers and/or people who make comments on her instagram page. We have articles called ‘Ashy Bines Talks To Her Followers’, which shows how she speaks to people. Ashy is very defensive and responds before she thinks about what she is going to post. It is also known that Ashy’s friends come on her instagram page and further bullies people who are not ‘pro-ashy’ and/or question her. It has also been sighted that someone can ask Ashy a simple question, however an Ashy fan pipes up with a not so nice comment, to which Ashy congratulates them for their nasty reply. Do not be fooled, you can easily scroll through Ashy’s instagram posts to see her unprofessional, nasty and unhelpful comments. Why does Ashy not do what every other well known professional does when they receive nasty comments, be the better person and do not respond. Yes, no one should tolerate abuse or bullying, however if you can not respond with maturity and professionalism do not respond at all, and focus on those that support you. In saying this, when someone questions Ashy about her programs, her lifestyle, appearance and it is NOT bulling (just a question) she can respond nicely, not how she does majority of the time which is school yard bullying.

We appreciate all our followers and those who help spread the awareness of this disgraced business. We accept responses in regards to Ashy’s business ethics and the business itself, however any personal attacks to Ashy will be removed.

Media Coverage

Gold Coast Bulletin

KIIS Fm/Kyle and Jackie O

Courier Mail

News.Com.AU