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Premier Martial Arts review: Fraud and scam 7

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I entered my son into a six month trial period for a local karate class. At the end of the trial, the instructor told us we had a choice to either quit or sign a 3 year agreement. My son was doing well, but he was only six, so I didn't want to sign him for three years of course. I negotiated with the instructor to do a month to month and had him put an expiration date of one month from the date of signature on the agreement.

Two years later, after we decided to try something else, I started getting collection calls for my monthly payments that I stopped making. I faxed the collection company my agreement showing it expired two years ago, and we were on a month to month. In fact their copy of the agreement had a hand written cross out and date change that the instructor wrote on. They said the intent was for me to finish the program regardless of the expiration date and regardless of the instructor change on the agreement.

I am now being sued for the remaining $1800 left that I would have paid if my son finished the program.

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Shawn Salvetti
, US
Aug 07, 2023 6:18 pm EDT
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I was interviewed by phone for a position and was invited to sit in on a class. The guy who initially interview was not present and the two employees that where present where really to tired to initiate any conversation with me after class. They where polite but I could tell it was a long day

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DNB_67
, US
Aug 07, 2023 2:36 pm EDT
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This company is a SCAM... stay away from Premier Martial Arts... If your local franchisee goes under the company provides zero coverage. We lost all our fees because the local studio decided to close. They cannot even transfer fees to another PMA studio. Their only solution was to dispute it with the credit card company. This is not a martial arts school... it is a financial scam. I will urge all parents to keep your children away from these thiefs as they are not interested in teaching anything.

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JAHGilbert
, US
Sep 18, 2023 7:10 pm EDT
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This just happened in Gilbert, AZ. There needs to be some recourse somewhere for this. It can’t be legal to keep scamming families all over the country. We have 25-30 families that are out $3-$12k. Corporate acted like they were going to help us and now they are ghosting us.

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Aidan Basting
, US
Jan 23, 2023 7:06 pm EST

Same thing happened to me. They said it was a one year when it was a 3 year and now saying we pay or stay

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kelind
DeBary, US
Nov 23, 2011 10:06 pm EST
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Company wants you to sign up with a credit card and when you want to go month to month, trick you intio signing a one year contract. If you do not pay by the first of the month, they turn it over to collections for the full year amount.
Deceptive to say the least. Similar practice to the gyms.

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jamie valentin
winter springs, US
Apr 06, 2012 6:55 am EDT

wow! sounds like a local competitor trying to sabotage an amazing school! This place is awesome! We drive 45 minutes to get there because of how much we love it. This person sounds very negative and an attitude like that gets you no where in life!

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Shawn Salvetti
, US
Jul 10, 2023 3:22 am EDT
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Did you notice the lawsuit against the company this past year online.?