Very aggressive sales
Very aggressive sales I was offered 70 some classes for $1500. This has to be paid in advance. We did a trial class, the teacher was making a great effort but more routinely rehearsed lines than making real conversations during teaching. The prewritten material is very very babyish and even some English part had grammar errors. it’s not customized to my kid. My kid is 10 and only learned like one new word in an hour class. It’s like a online Babysitting chatting service than serious Chinese language learning. She treated my kid like a toddler basically. I don’t think realistically why would anyone want to sign up and prepay for that many classes in advance to an oversea company. What if they go out of business or decide to quit, I am sure it’d be very hard to get any refund. The sales person is very aggressive and very annoying. He keeps texting and calling on WeChat and then on the regular phone. As soon as we finished the trial class he calls me on WeChat not even a minute for people to think through. The teacher is pushy too. She requested to speak to the parent and pushes for 2 classes a week minimum. Also they took a snapshot image of the class with my kid and me on it and sent in WeChat!!! Shouldn’t they ask for permission before taking people’s pictures and send on social media? They don’t respect people’s privacy and I don’t think they know or want to know what that really means. In addition I see other parents keep posting this company’s ads on WeChat to get so called discounts or free bonus classes. If they don’t post their ads on wechat they will probably lose their discounts or whatever. All these behaviors really turned me away from signing up.