Do not ever sign up with ABCO technology. They have broken many consumer protection laws and bppve (Bureau of Private Post-Secondary Vocational Education) regulations. I'm not going to list them all because there are 3 pages of violations when I was preparing for my lawsuit at small claims. First of all, they will never refund your money when requested in writing. Contracts are not honored and bppve will not have any recourse to enforce the rules and regulations; They only take complaints! Bppve can not enforce their regulations.
You must file in small claims to try and get your money back. After winning your case, you must prove that you tried to do something to get your money back. You can either try to get your money back through the court system or send documents to bppve and wait over 4 years to get your refund. Yes, that is the current time table for refunds. Go to small claims as soon as possible and do not let the statue of limitations run out on you to file against them.
Employees of ABCO are a bunch of liars and all of them working there are dishonest. They lied in court and falsified documents. They cut and paste the log books and made it look like I attended many classes when I didn't. Hence, the log book does not protect the student.
They cancelled the first class and the student have not way to document it. This was used against me in court when calculating a refund
When signing the contracts, I made an immediate request for a copy with my signature on it. They gave me a copy without my signature and is different from the original. They filled in the document differently from the copy they gave me, it was not xeroxed from the original. They will not ever give you a copy of your original contract and bppve have failed to provide me with a copy for over 1 year now!
They lied in court like crazy. The first thing they said before the hearing was that I was sueing the wrong party and that it was another company. The judge saw through their lies but they continue to protest and insist that they are not the right party being sued until the judge got furious! So take this to heart and document like crazy with certified mail with signature request return. It is the only proof you have against those liars.
E-mails are not great as they argued that anyone could falsify them. It depends on the circumstance if the judge will believe you. I had a pro temp on the appeal and he did not seem too convinced as credible evidence.
Also, now I know why you should never trust the ratings on BBB.org. They are changed on the fly for their clients! ABCO Technology had an "F" rating and was not a member of BBB at a certain time.
Once ABCO joined BBB, they got a triple B rating immediately. The dates were modified and not consistant with older reports. My complaint was dismissed like many others. ABCO reply was that the student attend all classes and unfairly asked for a refund. I can see that's it's their usual reply for students who request a refund! I've only attended one class and the course runs for several months!
Like other people have told me, BBB will not help you, you're wasting your time with them. I also noticed that when you file a complaint, the complaint statistics doesn't change and you can't read the details of the complaint.
Also, their place smells very nasty like their instructors. They don't take a bath daily. I'm not making this up.
There are better more honest schools out there, ABCO is not one of them. They will promise the world to get you in and once you get suckered in they change all of their promises on you! So I cancelled and it was fine with them because they kept my money and didn't have to earn it.
There are a whole bunch of violations made that I do not have the time to write about. I've only wrote a small fraction of them! I don't think anyone would want me to copy and paste all of my documents here. It's pretty long.
I hope this helps the people who have been hurt by them or are considering to join ABCO. It might sound like I'm making this all up, that no one could be this bad. Go sign up and request a refund after all their broken promises. Come back here and file your complaint against them too.
Oh, it's been over six months since I won the lawsuit. They still not paying.
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