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4 Reviews by Nins

  • Takelessons

11/19/22

Too much competitions! The Tutoring company is being operated as a Fraternity/Sorority. The selected Tutors with the best rating and neglect others. They don't care about Tutors who are suffering financially. The Company only cares about making money from Tutors lessons. I have been with them for few months. I was told that it will take two months to get a student. Up till now, I don't have a single student because they don't bother to offer my prices. They choose and select which Tutor they want to offer prices that is not based on the teaching/tutoring experience. It is dominated by Fraternity and Sorority members who are they to make that anybody who is not like them, doesn't get a fair chance in getting students to tutor. All I do work hard to prepare upload 10 minutes lessons and stay up allllllllll night upload them only to be paid less than 25 cents. I have a Graduate TEFL Certificate, Masters degree, and I am not a young person. It takes less time for me to upload a 15 to 30 minutes lesson on Vimeo and transfer it to YouTube than a 10 minute lesson on Takelessons's website. It's time very consuming to upload lessons on Takelessons and I don't even receive enough in return. I feel like I am being scammed and taken advantage of.

The CEO left and I was blocked on facebook by one of their Administrative Staff for no reason.

  • Givelify

10/4/22

I had received information about Givelify.com my Church in Maryland to send my Tithes. I did some research about the website and discovered that the Founders are from Nigeria, which makes me an easy target because of my last name. I am actually an American born citizen. In addition to this, I received instructions while I was attending Church services online, to go to the Givelify link that my Church had on their Facebook Account. I went to the Facebook Account and clicked on the Givelify link. After I clicked on the link, it went straight to my Pinterest Account that was linked to my Tutor's Account with Takelessons.com and my Pinterest Account popped out and a question came up on the screen asking whether I would like to use this Account to donate money? I was like "What?" I was petrified. I didn't feel comfortable in using my Bank card on that website. I saw how they advertised the names of people who had just used their website to give money to their churches and how much they gave and what time the donation was made. I was like "NO Way". I also charged fees for people use their website to donate to their churches. I decided to buy a Money order and send it to my Church by mail. I know that a lot of churches trust that website and use their service. That wasn't cool for them to be going straight to my Pinterest Account simply because it was linked to a Gig account. I don't feel safe in having any of my information that website. They can easily take my name to their country.

Tip for consumers:
Take precautions!

Products used:
Buying a Money order and mail it off

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  • Albert

10/3/22

Please don't invest your money and/or open any Bank account with Albert.com or Albert App. They take out money for People's account without their authorization and charge for EDI Tip payments. When customers contact them to inquire about money that has been taken their Accounts. They take forever to respond, and, in most cases, they don't even respond at all. They waste people's time by asking them to take screen shots and send to them and still don't do anything. They are operating their financial institution like a Scam business and don't care about how they are hurting people financially by draining people's account.

Tip for consumers:
Do research to get more information about Albert's operation and try to find reviews and read through them before making any decision on whether to invest your money or not with them.

Products used:
Using another account

  • Western Union

3/13/22

I called Western Union on February 7,2022. To ask a question on about to make sure that I filled out the form correctly before taking it to the Notary Office. The Latino male just said, "Just notarized both front and back". I was like wait a minute. He didn't understand what I asked. I repeated the same question slowly hoping that he will understand. He repeated the same answer, "Just notarized both front and back". I asked, you mean I should notarize both back and front of the form. There's nothing that says, notarized the front. It says, fill out and sign. He repeated the same statement "Just notarized both front and back". I just said, thank you and he hung up the phone.

They hired Employees, they can't speak English very well and don't know how to answer questions that Customers ask over the phone. They hung up on Customers because they are frustrated, don't understand the questions that are being asked, and at the same time, given the Western Union a bad reputation because the Company has failed to make arrangements for these Employees to English classes, so that can learn how to speak properly, and answer questions at a professional level.

Solution: Find an ESL Program for these Employees and pay the Fees for them to English Classes twice to improve their General and Business English skills. There's no excuse for them to messing up over the phone. Telling these Employees what to say over the phone, like that Latino man who "just notarized both front and both" is just rehearsing a statement to use over the phone for the day. That's not speaking English, because at the end of day. That employee didn't really help customers over the phone. Western Union is paying Employees to repeat statements that they don't know it means and they are not learning the language.

Tip for consumers:
If you call Western Union Customer and an Employee picks up and can't answer the question correctly, ask if you could speak to a supervisor.

I didn't have time to ask to speak to a supervisor that morning, because I had other things to do that day.

Products used:
I took the Forms to a Notary Office and got everything clarified on I should fill out and sign before notarizing the Western Union forms to get my Money. I still haven't received it yet. It's not the job of the Notary Office to clarifying information that an Employee from Western Union couldn't. The Woman at the Notary Office was like, what? "Just notarized both front and back!" Are you kidding?

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