That bog body preservation course I dropped $400 on

Last spring I saw an online workshop promising to teach you how to identify and preserve bog bodies from excavation sites. Sounded legit, they had a professor listed and everything. I paid $400 and spent 3 weekends watching videos that were basically just slideshows of museum exhibits you can see for free. The instructor never answered a single question I posted, just kept saying "read the textbook" which was another $80 I wasted. Turns out the whole thing was just a generic archaeology 101 class with "bog body" slapped on the title. Has anyone else gotten scammed by one of these flashy niche archaeology courses? I should have just gone to a real university event or fieldwork program instead.

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willow_morgan1mo ago

Got a similar deal with a "Viking rune translation" course that turned out to be someone reading Wikipedia articles out loud with background music. Dropped $300 on that garbage and the only thing I learned was how to copy-paste from Wikipedia faster than the instructor. They refunded nobody when I pointed out the whole thing was just public domain stuff with a fancy website.

victorb171mo ago

Man that's BRUTAL. I hate how they dress up basic internet research as some kind of expert course and charge an arm and a leg for it. You're totally right to be mad, that's not even a real product, that's just somebody being lazy and greedy.