Complaint Review: Abco Technology

Abco Technology and the courses they offer are an absolute scam. I signed up for their advertised Flash class which was scheduled to begin on November 11, 2006 but didn't conclude until February 11, 2007.

The instructors are all unqualified to teach their respective courses and the facility is not equipped with state of the art computer lab nor do they even have an overhead to teach. How is it possible to teach a Flash animation course without the use of an overhead and laptop for demonstration purposes? We were handed the wrong textbooks for an earlier version of the Flash program and experienced difficulties studying the program and completing the exercises until the last week of class.

My instructor Fathima Sethi was never in class. She will instruct for the first 10 minutes and go on periodic breaks leaving the building or giving tours to other students and can never be found. In a 4 hour class I would find myself and the other students left alone without any assistance for over 98% of the time. It is very unprofessional for any instructors to answer personal phonecalls during class and give random tours while disrupting the class. All the objections, goals, and class project that were discussed in the first day of class never came to fruition as the instructor failed to provide instrucation and we were often left clueless with no guidance and didn't learn anything valuable. It was a complete waste of my time and money. Nothing but empty promises and lies were made and told to us.

Fathima never seems to have a lesson plan ready or knew what she was doing. Instead of teaching we were basically handed a book and told to complete the exercises ourself. She has never once come prepared with a lesson plan. Overall, there class has been cancelled more than 8 times and there was a 2 week gap in between because Abco was under rennovation. Other excuses include the instructor failing to fly back after the Thanksgiving holiday break to the electricity went out and they couldn't find a electrician to get the power up. A 5 week course has been dragged on for more than 3 months! No one, including the people that work at Abco or its instructors would return phonecalls or call you back to inform you when the next class would be held once there's a cancellation.

Look up "Abco Technology" on Google and you will also find plenty of other complaints against this scam operation including former instructors suing the school due to late and nonpayment of their salaries. Do not sign up for any classes with Abco Technology. I plan on filing a complaint with the BBB and filing a claim with my credit card company. The school and its unscrupulous, unqualified and lying instructors deserve to be reprimanded by the law and return us our hard earn money. I would never recommend this school to anybody and I will make sure to inform everyone I know to not attend Abco.

LL
MONTEBELLO, California
U.S.A.