Is tedplansdiy.com legit or a scam?
Ted's Woodworking scam site falsely claims 16,000 woodworking plans; independent reviews confirm fewer than 2,500 low-quality, pirated plans delivered with no legitimate refund process.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Critical risk detected
Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Page appears to be a ClickBank affiliate VSL landing page for 'Ted's Woodworking', a well-known digital product sold via ClickBank; the self-asserted trust badge and VSL format are standard (if manipulative) practices for this type of affiliate marketing page rather than indicators of outright fraud.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsHeader banner displays 'CLICKBANK® | TRUSTED 🔒 SECURE' as a self-asserted trust badge with no third-party verification visible
Video overlay text 'Video is Playing... Click for Sound' is a common dark-pattern tactic used on ClickBank affiliate sales pages to simulate autoplay engagement
Page follows a classic ClickBank VSL (video sales letter) funnel layout, a format frequently associated with high-pressure digital product sales
MT Intelligence
The domain tedplansdiy.com is part of a well-documented affiliate-marketing funnel promoting the Ted's Woodworking product, which has drawn consistent criticism since at least 2012. Multiple independent sources—including woodworking forums, YouTube exposés, and consumer-review sites—report that the product delivers far fewer plans than advertised (under 2,500 instead of 16,000), with many plans scraped or pirated from established retailers like Lowe's and Black & Decker. The operator uses a fake identity ('Ted McGrath' via stock photo), a non-existent business address in Slater, Iowa, and a misleading 60-day guarantee that does not resolve complaints. The site follows a classic ClickBank video-sales-letter funnel with high-pressure tactics and self-asserted trust badges. Unresolved complaints are documented on the Better Business Bureau and other consumer-complaint platforms. The domain's 3-year age and continued operation of the same funnel indicate this is an established, persistent scam rather than a new or experimental site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for tedplansdiy.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- tedplansdiy.com promotes 'TedsWoodworking' with claims of 16,000+ high-quality, built-and-tested woodworking plans, matching the exact marketing used by the long-criticized Ted's Woodworking product.
- Multiple independent sources (woodgears.ca, prettyhandygirl.com, Reddit threads, YouTube exposés) report that buyers receive far fewer plans (<2500), which are disorganized, scraped/pirated from free online or magazine sources, and often lo
- The operation relies heavily on affiliate marketing (reported 75% commissions via ClickBank), with numerous promotional sites, social media posts, and ads driving traffic to variants like tedplansdiy.com.
- Fake business details repeatedly cited: non-existent 'Ted McGrath' (stock photo model), invalid physical address in Slater, IA, and misleading 60-day guarantee that does not resolve complaints.
- Unresolved customer complaints documented on BBB (Iowa profile for Teds Woodworking); Trustpilot page for tedswoodworking.com exists with limited reviews; Steve Ramsey and others label it a scam in videos.
- Domain is 1063 days old (~3 years) and continues the same product funnel that has drawn criticism since at least 2012–2015 across forums and review sites.
- Promotional content on the site and related pages uses hype language, 'as featured on' claims, and lifetime access offers typical of the criticized bundle.
- woodgears.caopen
"I have personally reviewed the '16,000 plans' package, and it's a disorganised mess of random plans scraped off the internet. ... The actual number of plans in the package is less than 2500, nowhere near the claimed 16,000."
- prettyhandygirl.comopen
"You can read these complaints that were never resolved in the Iowa Better Business Bureau site. ... Umm, yeah, that’s fake too. [referring to 60 day warranty]"
- Reddit (r/woodworking)open
"Ted's Woodworking Plans: A cautionary tail ... am SEVERELY DISAPPOINTED."
- YouTube (Steve Ramsey)open
"Please do not support Ted's Woodworking and warn people to this scam."
- hobby-machinist.comopen
"I immediately started to feel that I had been scammed. ... they were all pirated as well from sources such as Lowe's, Black and Decker, Woodcraft, and Rockler."
Listed address (219 Tama Street, Slater, IA) confirmed fake by multiple investigators; no verifiable legitimate registration; associated with unresolved BBB complaints in Iowa
Our research identified five independent scam reports from credible sources. Woodgears.ca reports the plan package is 'a disorganised mess of random plans scraped off the internet' with fewer than 2,500 plans, not the claimed 16,000. Prettyhandygirl.com documents unresolved complaints on the Iowa Better Business Bureau and notes the 60-day warranty is fake. Reddit's r/woodworking community and YouTube creator Steve Ramsey both label the product a scam. Hobby-machinist.com reports plans are pirated from Lowe's, Black & Decker, Woodcraft, and Rockler. The operator ('Ted McGrath') is a stock-photo identity, and the listed business address in Slater, Iowa has been confirmed fake by multiple investigators. No positive reviews were found on any platform.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://tedplansdiy.com/
- 2200https://tedplansdiy.com/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with tedplansdiy.com
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- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
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Reputation Sources
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags tedplansdiy.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — tedplansdiy.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. tedplansdiy.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 31 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- tedplansdiy.com is 2.9 years old, registered on 7/17/2023 through NameCheap, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report tedplansdiy.com as clean.
- No. tedplansdiy.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- tedplansdiy.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around tedplansdiy.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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