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Expert Aupair

Posted: 2009-10-30 by   expertaupairsucks
The most horrible experience.
Complaint Rating:  0 % with 1 votes
Company information:
Expert Aupair
Connecticut
United States
expertaupair.com

Myself and my family want to caution any other family thinking about using an Au Pair agency, to just skip consideration of Expert Aupair. We made the mistake of using them to bring in an au pair to help take care of our infant son. About four weeks after the au pair arrived (Brooke Burgess of New Zealand), we discovered that she was working another job in her off hours. She was moonlighting in the adult entertainment business, as a "dancer". We had an acquantance that ran into her on a party boat, and was able to take a picture of her with his camera phone. We did not want this type of person watching our newborn son. We also discovered, that she also did side work with the last company she was with. After presenting this evidence to Mark and Kathy at Expert Aupair, they simply said nothing. Then the au pair, angry as you could imagine, made false accusations against us. Expert Aupair, then removed her from our home, and has refused to communicate with us. They will not provide a refund, and will not place another au pair with this. Their only concern is for money and keeping the $7, 000 they charged us. We can only imagine the horrible experience the next family that gets placed with this au pair will have to endure. What we thought would be a positive experience by welcoming an au pair into our home, has become a nightmare. Hopefully the US Department of State will launch an investigation, and shut down this sham of an agency.
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 12 days ago by   expertaupair 0 Votes
This is an inaccurate and misleading complaint that merits a response, if only to protect the au pair's reputation.

We have never received proof that the au pair did anything inappropriate or worked improperly, and it is extremely disappointing that the family chose to name the au pair in this forum.

The first accusation that the au pair had been moonlighting was sent by the host father on October 6, two days _after_ the au pair was removed from the host family. As the only evidence that the au pair was up to no good, he attached a photograph of the au pair in a bikini. If we sent home every au pair we'd ever seen pictures of, wearing a bikini, we would lose quite a number of our au pairs!

We had removed the au pair from the family's home on October 4. The au pair met her local representative that day, and made various accusations about the host family, including drug use and that they hosted sex parties. These allegations may or may not be true. Fortunately, we didn't need to investigate these allegations as the host mother asked me personally on October 4 if we would remove the au pair immediately, because she spoke about the host family to us.

It is untrue to say that we have not communicated with the family. We have an excellent reputation for customer service -- indeed, aupairclearinghouse.com recently rated us the second best au pair agency in the United States. My last email to the host father was on October 24, and since then, he has not communicated with me or with anyone else in the company.

We issued the family the contractual refund in the appropriate timeframe and we wish the host family and the au pair well in the future.

Mark Gaulter, CEO
Expert AuPair
 11 days ago by   expertaupairsucks2 0 Votes
This comment is in response to Mark Gaulter of Expert Aupairs comments above, which are misleading and a poor effort to hide the facts.

First of all, the picture we sent was just not of the au pair wearing a bikini. She was lined up next to 3 other girls, inside a strip club type environment, all wearing the same bikini. Please see the attached picture. We won't identify which stripper is the au pair, but do you really think this is just a picture of a girl in a bikini?

We explained where the picture was taken, and what the circumstances were. We also said how there was video footage of her dancing, putting things down her panties, etc. Expert AuPair simply did not care, and was more interested in placing her with another family. All the details were available for them to investigate, but they chose to ignore us.

We have recently obtained the video footage of the au pair at her other job and presented it to Mark at Expert Aupair. His response was that it is no concern to us. From that comment, it appears that au pairs can work whatever job's they want in their off hours. But we don't want this type of person helping us take care of our newborn.

Secondly, the au pair made insane charges against my family. Namely that we were drug addicts and had sex parties. She called the DCF, and made a complaint and tried to have our infant child taken from us. Can anyone imagine the drama this caused? After a full investigation, the DCF found the charges "unsubstantiated". Anyone that knows my family understands that we are outstanding members of our community. These are false charges by an angry au pair, that knew that she was "caught", and about to be sent home. It is a shame that Mark from Expert AuPair felt the need to parrot these false charges.

This au pair also did babysitting on the side, the last time she was in the United States. Because she had a similar bad situation with her last host family, she couldn't use them as a reference. Instead she used the families she did babysitting for, as her reference. This is not allowed by the US State Department. Au pairs can only work for their host family, and can't take other employment. But again, Expert Aupair, just ignored that, even though this outside work is documented on their own stationary!

After this posting, Expert AuPair sent us a refund of $1, 000. Not the full refund they promised to us twice via email. Mark stated that they were sending the reduced refund because we asked to have the au pair removed from our home. That is untrue, and completely false. Expert Aupair removed the aupair from our home, and would not even tell us the reason why.

We have documented evidence for everything that we have stated.

Again, we caution any family that is considering using an au pair agency, to stay away from Expert Aupair. They are simply "experts" in separating family's from their happiness, money and reputation.
 10 days ago by   expertaupair 0 Votes
Even the casual reader, without evidence, will recognize that it is very unlikely that everything asserted by the host parent is true. First complaint: "We did not want this type of person watching our newborn son." Second complaint: "Mark stated... we asked to have the au pair removed from our home. That is untrue, and completely false." In those areas in which the commenter’s story is consistent, it is almost entirely inaccurate.

I commend the au pair for moving on with her life, and wish the host family all the best as they raise their young child.

Mark Gaulter, CEO
Expert AuPair

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