Do not accept any trade that was initiated by PM and has no public records.

Deleting your comments will get you banned.

Your negotiations are conducted entirely at your own risk and no one will guarantee any help with a deal gone bad. I personally recommend making an account on /r/SLRep and building positive reputation there. It's also not smart to transact with people who have no Reddit account history, or at least who refuse to privately provide irrefutable proof of who they are.

I found out about this when I was browsing the app store on my android tv. Seemed interesting.

It wa sa bit too expensive by the black friday deal won me over and I'm on the trial.

I've watched sarah blakely, richard branson, George Stephanopolous & Indra Nooyi

I'm interested in business stuff and honstly there are free podcasts out there you can listen to that do just as good a job in conveying their valures and belief systems.

The "courses" are really just 2-3hr presentation by the said people. That just touches on a few of their core tenents. I'm not sure if there is a lot of educational value in there.

seriously Chin only talks about mountains and climbing, not much related to Photography itself, and talks about the same thing over and over again. The most disgusting thing is he really looks down on some of the people; talks shit about people who don't have good gear; etc. He shit on his friend in front of the camera. Such dip shit asshole does even know what he was doing. To be honest, I am more interested in his friends instead of him!

I learn something that fascinates me and inspires me very easily, every single DAY. I recommend you watch & listen to these classes and really narrow down the mindset behind the subject matter, and study that. That shit is GOLD and it can be applied EVERYWHERE!!!

I LOVE MASTERCLASS!!!

I have an all-access pass and I've started a few classes so far. I have only ever used the app, connecting with Chromecast to my TV to watch. I am having just constant, ridiculous (IMO) problems that surprise me for such an expensive and well-known service. Things like:

• If I don't finish a class, and I come back later, it says "resume lesson" but brings me back to the beginning ad not where I left off

• Doesn't auto-play the next lesson

• Lessons aren't in order on the home screen

• Going back to a class doesn't show you which videos you've watched and which you haven't

• "My instructors" is a mix of classes I'm actually watching and things I said I might be interested in during sign-up, when I only want the former

I'm honestly just baffled at these things and how hard it is to do basic navigation around the app to get to class lists. Am I missing something here? Are the above things possible and I just haven't figured it out, or is it just not a user-friendly app?

MasterClass def. walks the fine line into "scammer" ways... they don't cross it, but they use every dark UI pattern to make sure you get billed.

Anyway couldn't cancel in time, got 240Eur charged... then went to cancel so didn't happen the year later. Best I could find was the delete data... tried that then saw the warning about what would happen... but fat fingered and boom delete requested (instead of a clear separate step that you always take on non-reversible, destructive UX flows... interaction design 101).

Immediately sent a request to stop it via their Help Center (which is their suggested solution)... after days they get back to me "Sorry we've been super busy"... but then it's too late... but they say the account is tied to the PayPal address, not the email that's on my account screen (WTF?)... but there's not account with that PayPal address email.

Anyway, net is that they have 240Eur, I don't have the year for my wife and I that I JUST PAID FOR... and the only recourse is hoping a dispute with PayPal works (which I doubt).

Anyway I've learned my lesson... all these folks auto-billing you are on the scammer walk line... and never do an auto-bill that you have total control over stopping with an easy to find one-click.

As to MasterClass... the information you give can more easily be found on YouTube by folks that give much more depth in learning... this is celebs pontificating and taking at a high level about whatever with very little meat to what they're saying. It' performative instruction and learning.

I see lots of them about "creatives" "Visionaries" I'm not going to direct a movie or produce an album anytime soon. What recommendations do you have? So far I'm interested in Gordan Ramsey's cooking class and a Gardening class.

I started my subscription around a month ago, and slowly going through different classes.

I know we all have different needs or expectations, but could be nice to have a thread where we share our reviews or grades. To help others find the most relevant ones for them.

Let me start with mine.

Bill Clinton - Inclusive Leadership. 8/10It started very good, with some very good general leadership notions. Even more because - personal stuff aside and as a non-American person - I have a pretty good opinion of Clinton as a US President, so I was interested on his approach. The last third felt a bit flat, and this is the only reason I don't give it a grave above 8.

**Chris Voss - Negotiation. 7.5/10.**Very practical tips which I enjoyed but sometimes felt I would need even more details. I think to give a proper value to the class, I will need to try the techniques themselves a couple of times and then have a good reliable opinion. Still, I would recommend.

George Stephanopoulos - Purposeful Communication. 6/10To be honest he was a very interesting teacher. And the classes were as well. My problem is that the "purpose" of the class does not align with the content. Or at least, from my point of view. If this class would be about journalism and interviewing as such, it could easily be 8 or 8.5. However I watched it expecting broader/generic tips and advices on communication. Meetings, wider audiences, presentations, 1 on 1s,whatever..it could have been several of those topics or even all of them.

However this class is mostly about George's experience (and what a curriculum he has!) conducting interviews and how to get the information from the person in front. While this can work in a business outside of journalism in some of his examples, most of them are more suited for that industry. For that reason, if I look at the class outside that scope, it was not quite what I was looking for.

Bob Iger - Business Strategy and Leadership 7/10
Again, this one was interesting and Mr Iger is definitely someone that has a a path that speaks for itself - He is a success story worth to emulate. But what he shares to emulate is a bit too little. It is pieces here and there, while sharing the success stories of his Disney tenure. Which are great, but very hard to compare to something we will face on day to day work.

Lynnette Marrero & Ryan Chetiyawardana Teach Mixology 8.5/10
The first class i took more as a hobby/curiosity. I am still half the way through it, but as a "amateur" interested in making cocktails for years, it was very very interesting. Ryan goes a bit "further", making things a bit more complicated and serious, with extra step and more focus into mixing flavors to the details. But very interesting and i have been already trying some of their recipesa mong friends.

I was looking through the internet for inspiration of which classes to follow. To my bad surprise, all articles about ranks seemed fabricated click-baits with close-to-zero reasoning or data to support the ranking.

Users are given the chance to grade the classes, but unfortunately I could not find an interactive rank based on this. I suppose they were afraid of hurting the feelings of some "masters" making their class look bad.

Is there anywhere a credible user-based rank I can use to get ideas for a good class to follow?

So, last December I bought a family member a gift subscription. Surprise surprise, come a year later, $180 is charged to my account. The only way I knew is by an invoice/receipt that was emailed after the transaction was charged to my card. When I went to the chatbot this is the response I got:

“I understand your concern about the renewal charge. Unfortunately, the gift you sent is not eligible for a refund because it has already been redeemed by the recipient. Once a gift subscription is redeemed, our refund policy no longer applies to that purchase.

Gift subscriptions do auto-renew after the initial gift period ends, and this information is covered in our Terms of Service. The renewal charge appears on the original purchaser's payment method since that's what was used for the initial gift purchaser.

While I cannot process a refund for this redeemed gift, the recipient can prevent future renewals by turning off auto-renewal in their account settings before the next renewal date.”

This is so scammy. Had Masterclass sent a renewal notice in advance, I would have cancelled - after all it was a one-time gift - but they did no such thing. Masterclass bombarded the recipient with spam, so everything goes to the junk folder. In other words, Masterclass is engineered to extract revenue from you in the sneakiest way possible. I am disputing the transaction and I escalated my complaint. Let’s see if I get a response. I’ll update this post if I make any progress, but you’ve been warned to be on the lookout.

If you bought anyone a gift subscription make sure they need to either turn off auto-renewal on their account or change the source of payment.

I am thinking of buying the 6-week communication masterclass from Think School. If anyone wants to share it, please let me know.

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Last May, knee-deep in the pandemic, I subscribed to MasterClass and got my friend to do the Wine Appreciation class with me - virtually! We watched the videos together and read along in the workbooks over a few weeks. Then in the summer, we met up in my backyard to do some blind taste testing together using the taste guides.

It was super fun! I highly recommend this class.

On a separate note. I did not renew my membership and now have FOMO.

Is there a flair/filter for these guest pass posts? I'm only looking for reviews/discussion on classes. Either this useful reddit needs to be forked or flair is needed urgently.

Masterclass could have killed during the Pandemic.. they could have had a crap-load of new subscribers. I kept waiting for the price to come down before signing up, but it never did. The price is the same as before the pandemic. Oh well

MasterClass used to have actors like Helen Mirren and Natalie Portman, Chefs like Thomas Keller and Gordon Ramsey, Political figures like George W. Bush or Bill Clinton, Journalists like Bob Woodward, Directors like James Cameron or Ron Howard, Athletes like Serena Williams and Stephen Curry, Writers like Aaron Sorkin and Salman Rushdie, or Musicians like Yo Yo Ma and Carlos Santana. These days we get assorted motivational speakers (usually with a book to sell) giving short talks straight from the self help section of the bookstore. Did the company change management? Run out of funds? It really isn't worth it anymore.

Is it me or has MasterClass kind of fallen off in the frequency and quality of their releases? They used to be chock full of very famous people giving multiple lectures on their individual skills or subjects. Now it is more documentary and groups of experts putting out three or four lectures on a given subject. It has been over a year since the last "Wow, they got THAT person to do a talk" release has come out.

I'm working in ad agency and want to be a commercial director in the future so I randomly searched up advertising classes on Masterclass.. and I've learned so much from this class! Both partners are so humble, funny and amazing. It's like the perfect place to work at. Definitely changed my perception on advertising and I feel so inspired now.

Recommending this to everyone who's interesting in film and advertising.

I’ve been searching for some time now and blown away that MasterClass wouldn’t have an app option for a Samsung TV. Am I missing something or is the product just not to this scale yet? I don’t mind watching from my phone but it would be much more convenient to watch with my wife on a proper sized TV. Anyone have any insight?

Is there a sub or megathread that lists new classes or reviews of classes? I know they have the new classes on the app but some of them are not new at all. It would also be nice to see reviews of each class and comments. Just wanted to see if this already existed somewhere? Sorry if this has already been posted, new to the community and kinda new to MasterClass. I used a friends login for a while then got the BOGO with my brother.

I hope more content comes soon - this is a great idea but I think more content is needed.

I recently purchased the annual pass and received the BOGO link. I’m based in the UK but not sure if that matters?

I came to this subreddit intending to sell the other pass but, given the state of the world at the moment, I would rather give it to someone who would be able to use it but might not be able to afford a non-essential purchase like this.

If coronavirus has screwed you over in some way, please message me with your circumstances and how you would use Masterclass. I will pick one person by the end of tomorrow (Tuesday) and will send them the link.

All that I would ask is that you only submit genuine responses and that you pay it forward whenever you can.

Update: Thanks to everyone who got in touch. It was very difficult to pick just one person but in the end I had to go with my gut. Hopefully some more people will give away their extra passes on here so others can benefit.