Teacheron - A site that is 95% scam with 5 % bait
A tutor here with almost two years of teaching face to face. With Msc studies looming and my shift to a different district, I felt like taking online tuition job felt like the right move to make. From a wide list of suggestions, Teacheron was mentioned as a prominent platform to do so. It's a brokering site that auctions student needs. The one with money, i.e can spam apply to the listings. I wasted an amount of 100 rupees to buy 50 coins to try these out. Here lies the most beautiful lie of the site. It is very eager to collect money for the bidding part, but it does zero, I will repeat zero credibility and listing from their side. For your effort of inputting money, the work they do on their side is negligible. Zero verification, zero sense of grouping and more horrendously, it doesnt bother to ensure that the "student" sees the tutor. In short words, this would go two ways : "I can be anyone, a scammer in disguise of a biotech tutor from IISc and I can get scammed by a false employer who is a student". Scamming goes both ways. The fact that coins wont be refunded if the employer doesn't look at your messages itself raises a big red flag in the sense of being a coin-bait. It is the classic carrot and stick to make you buy coins. If anyone from Teacheron is reading this, please implement these features: a) 100% responsibility on listings. Force the student or the employer to acknowledge whether they are looking for a tutor or to remove their listing all together. b) Eligibility verification of the tutors. No negotiation on this. You dont want your children to be scammed by some old ninth grade graduate with zero proof of subject expertise. c) Remove 15% commission on paypal revenue from your tutor users. The fact that you have employed such a mechanism itself makes it suspicious to newcomers. d) Do not allow everyone to apply. Make it strict that only those with the requirements can apply. e) Fix the system of coins and the biddings. f) Only allow those with a valid mobile number and a government ID to use this platform. No excuse on this side. Your tutors interact with students who are from grades 1-12. No way anyone should take chances of having a child predator engage with their children via online medium. That's all.