As parents, we are willing to invest in the solution that will give our child the best opportunity to go to a good college. The hope is to give them the tools to find a career that will allow some financial stability and opportunity in a world that is challenged every day with unemployment and corporate collapse.
What a perfect target for companies looking to sell a product, lay claim and then take no responsibility if it does not work. A so called non-profit organization called Student Achievement Center http://www.studentachievementcenter.org/ is an company that does just this.
Student Achievement Center hires telemarketers who work both out of their homes and in a corporate office and their goal is to try to offer you a fee 30 day trial DVD/CD SAT/ACT learning aid product with a guarantee of increasing your teens ACT/SAT scores. There are no guarantees in education. Individuals have different learning styles. According to Ricki Linksman, founder-director of National Reading Diagnostics Institute and Keys Learning, there a many styles of learning and she has tested and proven that you can't guarantee your child will increase their score unless you understand what they need to be a better learner. So at $349 a pop, parents are banking on a prayer and hope that their teen will do the work and maybe get a better score.
It is not just the product that is disturbing about this company but the process they use in which to "sell" you their product. The approach is more of a verbal abuse approach then strategic selling. I am on a do not call list, and have been contacted by them 4 times, twice by a person named Jacob whose verbal approach was combative and narcissistic. The last person was kind enough to share with me that they may not really get their list from an event my teen attended and that no one really spoke with him. I am sure he did not say he was interested in their program (I know my teen and this is not something he would voluntarily want to agree to). If you ask questions, seem like you are on the path of no interest, they hang up on you.
Student Achievement Center should not be in business, is not helping students, and if they have called me three times more then what they legally should have, chances are, they are doing that to other parents as well which is against the law.
Buyer beware........will you ever get your $349.00 back, think about it? A non profit wanting to give you your money back, really? I think they would rather keep Jacob employed so that he can continue to learn bad communication and sales skill which will not help him when he needs to find a new job.
PLEASE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER, STOP CALLING ME!
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