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Advent Computer Training At home - Wishing to cancel course.

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  • aj2703
    aj2703 Posts: 876 Forumite
    edited 21 August 2009 at 7:57PM
    dmg24 wrote: »
    I would have sympathy if you were not so downright rude in your responses.

    I think you will find if you looked back without your blinkers on, that his posts wern't rude. Infact the first really rude comment was written by you saying his literacy was lacking. How you can say that, when your reply was written wrong is beyond me...LMAO..:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    dmg24 wrote: »
    Could I politely suggest that you also take a literacy course? An IT professional would be expect to demonstrate a far higher standard of English than you have.

    would be expect to...? Hmmm me thinks you need the course more then him.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Have a nice day..!!
  • AdZc1987 wrote: »
    Maybe it was the way the inmypocket typed his reply and how i read it I did not feel it was helpful, and a bit patronising.

    I can not be held responsible for the way that you read a post. Likewise Advent Training can not be held responsible for your change in circumstances or for the fact that your partner will apparently leave you if you have to continue to make payments that you have agreed to.

    Unless you had a gun held at your head (unlikely) at the time of signing, you should have made your own investigations and conducted your own research. Preferably prior to signing up. There is a saying about 'decide in haste and repent at leisure'.

    From your postings it seems that if anyone dare suggest that the responsibility for your situation is yours and no one elses, then you flame them.

    Let this be a lesson in life and the way things work.
    Don't lie, thieve, cheat or steal. The Government do not like the competition.
    The Lord Giveth and the Government Taketh Away.
    I'm sorry, I don't apologise. That's just the way I am. Homer (Simpson)
  • I believe that 'Which' magazine offers advice about terminating contracts, but this is mainly for people who have been 'scammed' in some way.

    I guess that all you can do is learn from experience and warn other people. These contracts exist just to stop people from agreeing to do something then changing their minds and dropping out, for whatever reason.
    Who having known the diamond will concern himself with glass?

    Rudyard Kipling


  • AdZc1987
    AdZc1987 Posts: 27 Forumite
    I was doing the course as I have a keen interest in IT, i never went in thinking at any point this would be easy.

    To be fair they do send someone to interview you and make sure you are at least confident you know about IT.

    OFC they might just make sure you can turn on a PC and thats it.
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,641 Forumite
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    AdZc1987 wrote: »
    I was doing the course as I have a keen interest in IT, i never went in thinking at any point this would be easy.

    To be fair they do send someone to interview you and make sure you are at least confident you know about IT.

    OFC they might just make sure you can turn on a PC and thats it.

    did you carry on with the course
  • nikki2804
    nikki2804 Posts: 2,670 Forumite
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    edited 28 January 2010 at 10:37PM
    Litesp33d wrote: »
    This company has now gone into liquidation.

    Apparently some 6000 students have paid and now will not get trained.

    If they have parted with about £5k each for that then there is about £30 million on the table.

    I don't wish to sound snobby about this but if you look at the site they are offering IT courses to people who were in hairdressing, security, taxi driving and shelf stacking. Traditionally low paid, low skilled jobs taken by people at the lower end of the IQ bell curve. Yes I know not everybody who stacks shelves fits this profile, but most do. Not people who thought the work they were currently doing was not challenging enough nor personally fulfilling. But people who did not want to work outside M-F 9-5. Or thought the work they were doing was too hard. Boo Hoo!

    These are people who have no idea what working in IT involves. And just saw it a some nebulous concept where you get high pay, sociable hours and a company car. However to enter the magical land of IT, where you get a massive wedge for doing; to an external observer; what seems to be very little you need to pay a not insignificant sum.

    I may be wrong but, given they have now gone into liquidation, in what appear to be somewhat mysterious circumstance, I doubt that I am.

    You have already been told on the other threads that you are a scumbag who is kicking people when they are down. When will you get the hint that no one actually cares what you have to say? Been stung yourself have you? Or the stupid !!!! that runs advent and this is your way of gloating.

    Oh and for the 'grammar.illiteracy brigade' no one cares. Its an internet forum which is open to people from all walks of life. Many people use slang, different dialect, text talk, god some may not have a good grasp on English or may even have a learning disorder. Learn to get over yourselves and leave them alone.

    And no, I don't care that I have probably mistyped, incorrectly spelled, used incorrect grammer in my post or started my sentence with 'and'. I have better things to be getting on with!
  • nikki2804
    nikki2804 Posts: 2,670 Forumite
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    I believe that 'Which' magazine offers advice about terminating contracts, but this is mainly for people who have been 'scammed' in some way.

    I guess that all you can do is learn from experience and warn other people. These contracts exist just to stop people from agreeing to do something then changing their minds and dropping out, for whatever reason.


    Well I think that they well be inundated now.
  • DCFC79 wrote: »
    did you carry on with the course


    Yes they offered a reduced payment plan, paid thios but when they wanted to put the price up I stated i could not afford it so they were due to get back to me, then they have gone bust, not really sure where i will stand now.
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