Weight Loss Bet by HealthyWage

The idea itself is solid and I wouldn’t call them a scam. Their fees to get a PayPal payout is egregious though. Ive used a similar app and never had to pay extra money to get my money. To say this is PayPal not them is also not completely true because again a similar app pays out through PayPal with no fee. It seems like they’re passing their cost of business on to the consumer and getting a percentage of winnings back by claiming PayPal is the one charging it. Yes you can get a check mailed for $7 which is what I did but why should I have to wait longer to get money I earned just due to corporate greed. I’d respect an upfront claim of just taking a percentage of winnings than to gaslight.

Awesome idea. I am very motivated by money, so this might work. I picked an amount I can’t afford to lose. I like the 2 different challenge types, weight loss and steps. This app would have the full package if it also included wagers for sleep scores! Make me track my sleep scores on apps and make 5% improvements. My sleep is horrible, and that could help me track and improve it. “That which is measured, is improved”.

Like the title says my experience was negative overall and it’s quite the hassle to get your reward after loosing the weight and trying to get my cash out

Healthy Wager app is the only program that has been successful for me. At 55 I am finally learning what it means to set achievable, healthy goals. Most importantly the app helps to keep moving the finish line as I get stronger… which in and of itself helps motivate me to do more, keep going, get better. I recommend it for everyone.

Great way to make sure you get your steps in. Enjoyed seeing how everyone was doing compared to me

Successfully lost weight but payout method unclear and lots of fees

I am retracting my previous review. I got kicked out of the app because I accidentally signed up with two different email addresses and it canceled my registration. I was frantic thinking that all of my hard work had go to complete waste. But I contacted health wage via email, they explained what happened told me what to do to get hooked back up and now I’m signed up for two challenges making the first one that much easier and quicker to complete. I will do an update after I have completed my challenges and let you know what the outcome is. Love it so far. Ok stepping off. Nicole Jones

Because telling a 105 lb girl to lose 40 lb as recommended by some organization ain't normal lol. I was forced to increase the weight loss to that amount by your recommendation or else i couldn’t continue to the next screen. Although the last screen thankfully said losing >10% of weight would put my BMI at risk. But you should have built in that check before the last step. Also, maybe also expand your market. Because i don't really want to lose weight, i just want to stay fit, but i guess I'm nor your target audience. Too bad, the concept looked interesting and you could have a much bigger TAM figure if you included the fitness people rather than just people trying to lose weight.

Bet on my self and one a good chunk of change.

Don’t try it. This this is a scam. Let’s say I’ve played enough to have “won” 360 dollars that’s great but by that point I’ve already put in almost 300 bucks. I mean yay for 60 bucks but that advertisement about making X amount of money is a faults claim because they are not factoring in how much money the person put in when they show you those numbers. So it’s almost like they are counting the money they give you as if they aren’t just giving you back your own money with a little extra. It’s like betting on getting my own money back. Not worth it. I seen a response on here saying they have checks for like thousands to people. What they aren’t saying is if they check was 2000 the person probably put in 1900. So maybe they made 100. And according to the better business bureau they have received a lot of complaints and are in the process of forming an investigation on them.