Very low level of professionalism. Lacking good faith in dealing. Situations arise requiring you to pay more than the agreed upon amount in order to complete contracted work.
Signed my daughter up for driving classes online, and the 30 hours in car driving. Online classes were not a big deal...my daughter signed on, read the assignment for the day, took a quick quiz sometimes, then logged off...no interaction with a teacher or an other employee at all. Not a good sign, but not really a big deal.
The in car driving experience was another matter. We were told to log on to they're website on Thursday for available driving times during the next week. The first Thursday, we logged on at the exact time when drives were supposed to be posted. THREE, I repeat, THREE driving times were available for the next week. Three for the entire week...not three per day, Three for the entire week. This must have been a fluke, so let it pass and proceeded to the next week. Again, THREE total driving times were available for the next week. This happened for an entire month. They had only THREE driving times available every week. The driving schedule was like this:
Monday - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
Tuesday - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
Thursday - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
I was unable to get out of work before 5:00, so I had specifically asked when I signed my daughter up for the class if they would have in car drives after 5:00 or on the weekends. I was told a definite yes...both evening drive times and weekend drive times would be available...no hesitation or thought put into in...simply yes.
As shown above, this turned out not to be true.
I went into the office to see what was going on...maybe someone was sick? Maybe someone was on vacation? Maybe I could work something out in person. Sure enough, I was able to work out something in person. I was told that I could be penciled in for an extra $15.00 dollars for each driving time. This would have bumped my $300.00 fee for a class and driving time package up to $405.00.
I'm never a big fan of a lack of good faith in the people that I am dealing with. So I asked to withdraw my daughter at the point she was at without doing any driving time. I could sign her up with another school. I didn't ask for my money back because the money is really not an issue for me. I was not offered my money back when I said I wanted to transfer her. Instead, I was told that in order for them to release her paperwork to me, I would need to pay them another $50.00.
At that point, I dropped all dealings with Cazares Defensive Driving School, and will never deal with them in any other way. read more