Don’t sign up to be a tutor! I signed up about a year ago and was approved but I never went on any sessions. A year later, I’m ready to start and I get online, take a few more subject area tests, and even pay for the background to make me more attractive to students and parents. After passing 10 subject tests and the background check, I get an e-mail that I’ve been rejected from the program. Thanks for letting me spend my money on the background and THEN denying me. I am currently in a teacher training program, so teaching is my passion. I’m also on the Dean’s list at my current college so I don’t think my education or intelligence is the issue. If it’s because they have a large amount of tutors and don’t need more, they should tell you this before you spend your money on the background check. This company seems very unprofessional, unethical, and I would not recommend them to anyone. .
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WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
A top Wyzant tutor, Marlene Soper agrees to take $40.00 then, WITHOUT NOTIFICATION, charges $60.00 instead!” The wyzant platform malfunctions severely for over an hour and wyzant offers compensation for the first hour only. When the tutor, marlene soper, steals the extra $20.00, for what she estimates to be an extra 30 minutes online, wyzant only offers me a website coupon instead and refuses to help with the tutor situation. Proof conversations copied below: 1. From skype, when technical issues were so sever that wyzant suggested we try another platform: Me: “I think we need to stop here and wait for wyzant to get back to me. Sooo sorry.” Marlene: “yeah. I agree. I’m so sorry about this.” Me: “plz accept the 40 usd they credit to my account on their website? Or which ever u prefer” Marlene: “oik. It’s up to you. They gave you the credit, you might as well use it. Right.” Me: “ok, thank you. One minute, let me log on and check. Ok, it’s there” 2. From our text messages when the theft took place: Me: “hi marlene. I just received notification that wyzant charged me for $24 in addition to the 40 dollar credit. Have you received any notification of this??” Marlene: “nada, when we met a week ago and had difficulty, we were talking for over an hour. When we met friday we were dealing with all of this for 1.5 hours. I asked for 1.5 hours of compensation and have not and will not ask for anything for the weekend before.” Me: “I see. I thought we agreed over skype that it was only gling to be $40? I would have preferred a heads-up, marlene.in any case, wyzant should be responsible for the extra payment, not me. I will contact them. Thanks”. Me (Later on): “hello. Wyzant has placed a credit of $25 usd in my account. Please accept that credit for the extra half hour and refund me the original 24.02 usd. Wyzant cannot transfer the funds to me directly, only through the tutor. Thanks.” No reply. 3. Email excerpts with wyzant since the incident: “thank you for reaching out to us… Please know that tutors are able to charge for the amount of time spent with their student during a lesson. Wyzant had provided you with a credit of $40 as a courtesy due to the technical issues that you had experienced with our online lesson platform in hopes that this amount… May cover the cost of time spent attempting to troubleshoot the issues… If you do not believe the length of the lesson has been incorrectly reported by marlene, we would encourage you to speak with her directly regarding this…. I want to reiterate that we are so sorry for the technical issues… With that being said, please note that there is no way for us to refund the additional $24.20 that you were charged by marlene without explicit permission from the tutor to reduce the length of the lesson… While the $30 coupon cannot be refunded to your payment method, it will remain on your account and can be used towards any future tutoring you receive through wyzant… Ince wyzant acts as the payment processor for tutors listed on our site, we are unable to adjust the charge of a lesson and provide a refund without the consent of the tutor that has submitted the charge. As such, we will not be able to provide any further refunds for your lesson with marlene s… It is important to note this decision was made in accordance with our terms of use of our site, which all users agree to when creating a wyzant account. Wyzant considers this decision to be final and a representative will not be made available to discuss this matter further. The story: The lesson involved in this situation is empty, for over an hour I suffered severe technical issues which wyzant could not explain. I could not even log into the classroom! In the end, they suggested I try an alternative platform until they checked their own for errors. That’s when they deposited credit to compensate the first hour. Marlene only taught a total of 15 minutes in that entire time, simply reviewing the previous lesson in preparation for start something new. Yet, I offered to compensate her for the time she spent online waiting by giving her the $40.00 credit deposited in my account. She accepted it as an even compensation, after all we were both affected by this. Then charged me an extra $20.00 behind my back! From my own money, not from wyzant. So what was I left with as a student? Over an hour of time wasted, no new content, severe technical issues where wyzant could not help, and a payment of $20.00, un-anticipated and undeserved, with no real compensation from the company behind all this! It’s funny that a top reviewed math tutor would behave this way over 20.00 dollars! I am a graduate student, so 20 usd mean something to me, especially when they’re taken by force. But for someone who charges $40.00 / hr and has over 400 positive reviews?? I guess they do too. Over ten emails were sent back and forth between me and wyzant, their answer was always the same: we’re sorry for your loss, but we can’t help with the tutor or the money she took. And we can’t pay you directly, only site credit. Good luck! Since I cannot upload photos onto this review, I have copy-pasted the exact text messages that were exchanged between me and marlene about money, plus excerpts from my emails with wyzant. Please read them above and judge for yourselves! A final note: what marlene did was immoral, it’s called stealing, I would be careful about dealing with her. Even successful tutors get greedy. Also, wyzant is not built to protect the students, it doesn’t care if they’re being extorted by the tutors, even if their platform is to blame! I would never recommend this site to anyone, their policy is unfair (There’s no timer in the classroom, the tutor names the duration of the lesson as she sees fit and wyzant has no proof how long the lesson actually lasted), the platform is always crashing and their customer assistance is useless. Again, please do not save your card or paypal information on their site.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
Abysmal customer service. They treat tutors very poorly and charge a starting fee that is 40% of the total fees paid on the website by students. Would not recommend to anyone.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
Communication is one-sided only – you can’t even try to include your phone number in any application where the person has no payment information already given which is basicly 99% of postings I’ve ever seen. I have been a ‘tutor’ over a year with 2+ pages of applications and not one job. Apparantly only phantom students and not real people serious about getting help in a subject lurk and post here. There should be a term like catfish for these supposed students who NEVER answer. If your serious about getting help then at least WRITE BACK to the person offering their help who really knows what they’re doing in the subject with a degree & REAL certification from college to back it up with. Most not all of my emails have been answered but the replies are basicly useless. To get “certification” in the subjects they have you take tests that you can just google the answers to pass and tutor a subject you have no clue about. They don’t let you repeat a test that you can fail the “required passing %” even if you miss just 2 questions which is ridiculous.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
Don”t sign up to be a tutor! I signed up about a year ago and was approved but I never went on any sessions. A year later, I”m ready to start and I get online, take a few more subject area tests, and even pay for the background to make me more attractive to students and parents. After passing 10 subject tests and the background check, I get an e-mail that I”ve been rejected from the program. Thanks for letting me spend my money on the background and THEN denying me. I am currently in a teacher training program, so teaching is my passion. I”m also on the Dean”s list at my current college so I don”t think my education or intelligence is the issue. If it”s because they have a large amount of tutors and don”t need more, they should tell you this before you spend your money on the background check. This company seems very unprofessional, unethical, and I would not recommend them to anyone.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
Don”t waste your time applying to WyzAnt as I just experienced their abusive clause and potentially discriminatory practices. I applied online and exceeded all the conditions and expectations listed in their job offer. I also scored 100% on WyzAnt skills tests. Nevertheless, my application was denied. I can understand that, but I required some explanation from WyzAnt. I contacted the company by phone and email. A “ticket” and “case number” was opened and I expected a reply from a representative. I copy/pasted here the reply I got, for your own appreciation: “The decision to deactivate your WyzAnt tutor account was made in accordance with our terms and conditions, which are available for review on WyzAnt.com. WyzAnt considers this decision to be final and a representative will not be made available to further discuss this matter. Sincerely, The WyzAnt Profile Review Team” I reviewed the terms and conditions WyzAnt refers to in what I consider being a bold and shameful reply, and it includes the following: “WyzAnt may provide notice to Users via email, regular mail, or posting notices or links to notices on the Site. WyzAnt reserves the right at any time to modify, suspend or terminate the services (or any part thereof), and/or use of or access to them, with or without notice. WyzAnt may also delete, or bar access to or use of, all related information and files. WyzAnt will not be liable to Users or any third-party for any modification, suspension, or termination of service, or loss of related information. WyzAnt may amend these Terms at any time by posting the amended terms on this Site.” (art. 21 of WyzAnt Terms). For your full understanding of the situation, let me also underline that I did not infringe any of WyzAnt terms, and I did not post any inappropriate content on my profile and application. Yet, it was denied. Once again, I can totally accept a NO to a job application, I just ask for an explanation when I meet all criteria, when I usually get a YES from similar job offers, when my skills have been proven through 15+ years of experience and satisfied clients/students. I took 5 minutes of my time to share with you how WyzAnt actually operates. I hope this helps you make your own judgement on this company and service.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
I am a mathematics tutor and have experienced quite a few problems with this company. It seems they will do nothing to resolve problems. My first problem came when a clients payments were being rejected by Wyzant. The client had me talk to her bank as she felt bad about my not being paid. It turns out the bank submitted the payment on 3 separate occasions and these were rejected 3 times . The bank finally gave up on fixing the problem as this company refuses to admit they have a problem. Now recently they claim my email address is invalid. My email provider assures me they do not do what Wyzant claims they are doing which is to delete my emails before they go into spam. From my research the only reason my email provider would delete or reject an email is if their servers do not meet the current industry standards for security. They will not open a dialog with my email provider to resolve the issue. I can not bill for tutoring sessions that have been done, I can not respond and apply to meet new students, and for the most part I am very fed up with them. Considering they take 45% of my pay for this service I would think they would be willing to look into these matters but they blow people off.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
I am very disappointed with www.wyzant.com. First tutor was terrible and I really did not like him. Every time he ended the session after 20 min and said that was all he wanted to tell. Then I decided to find another one. But that person was very dishonest and did not know anything! All my second tutor did was telling me things that I already knew. When I asked him more difficult questions he suggested me to google the answers! What kind of tutor is that? Terrible! This place is just a waste of money.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
I found a tutor on www.wyzant.com website and she had rather low prices for her lessons comparing to other teachers. So I contacted her and she seemed nice. She suggested a day and time for our first lesson. I did not like the lesson, it was not informative, not interesting and it was something different from what I have expected. So I decided to find another tutor. When I was about to pay for my class she said that I have to pay $100 even though on the WyzAnt website it was said $50!! I did not want to fight her so I gave her $100. The same day when I came back home I went to WyzAnt website and saw that instead of $50 there was already $100! Ridiculous!
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
I have had six federal background checks and three State of Ohio background checks done in the past nine years and passed every one of them. None of these were good enough for Wyzant who demanded that I pay for a background check through First Advantage (who I believe Wyzant receives a kickback from. The background check was demanded after I complained about not being paid, being paid late, and overall slow/poor customer service. One time they even cut off communication between my student and myself because the student”s credit card number had been entered wrong. Wyzant uses the background check scam on every tutor that complains about not getting paid. Their pay is slow (eight days from their bank to mine) and is often late. Wyzant is a penny ante company that floods the area with tutors and provides no students. The worst tutoring company out there doing business.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
I looked into Wyzant as a potential way to attract a few more students. I have been teaching privately and in classrooms for nearly 20 years. I already have a good client base, but it’s always nice to have a few additional students. Immediately, upon beginning the “application” process, I started to have second thoughts. Wyzant takes a significant portion of the earnings, so in order to actually earn my current standard rate, I’d have to charge more than most people would be willing to pay, but I figured I’d lower my rate a bit and do online teaching only. Part of your application process also includes writing a few descriptive paragraphs for your profile. There is minimal guidance for this part, aside from what they consider a “great” example. If your paragraphs don’t live up to their vague standards, you will get a form letter asking you to review. Obviously, as it is a form letter, there is no feedback, no guidance, no suggestions. You will have no idea of what they want revised, unless you wrote the most vague one sentence answer. You will, however, get another link to that “great” example. To be available to teach, your subjects have to be “verified”; some subjects can be verified through a test on the site. The test I took was so easy, it was a joke. It in no way properly assesses one’s skill level or ability to teach. The test is multiple choice, and even though there is a time limit for each question, it wouldn’t be hard to find the answers online ad manage a passing score. I didn’t feel comfortable associating myself further with Wyzant, as I have a business reputation to maintain.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
I signed up as a tutor with WyzAnt. They are a horrible company and I urge any who wish to tutor not to bother with these scam artists and have nothing to do with them. I am a certified teacher having a teachers license in mathematics. I thought I would tutor students in Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and other math subjects. This service is pathetic. It is a scam and should be shut down by the consumer protection agency. No matter what student I contacted assuming they are real and exist, I got zero responses after about 40 tries. Every message is the same. The student would get back to me via their email. We are not allowed to use our own emails. No one emailed my account, not one so called student called. Mind you I am not some [censored] off the street. I AM A CERTIFIED MATHEMATICS TEACHER FULLY LICENSED BY THE STATE. I got zero responses. This service is corrupt and is about as big as a rip off scam service as their is. I urge anyone who wants to tutor especially those who wish to tutor in math to not waste their time with this site. To my fellow mathematics teachers, this is your warning. Avoid this site and use your time for more productive pursuits.
WyzAnt Reviews & Complaints
I signed up for this website hoping to make some extra money. I am a full time college student, studying to become a certified teacher. I have 2 associates degrees and am a member of the international honor society Kappa Delta Pi. As soon as I paid for the background check and passed it, I got an email from wyzant saying that I was not qualified.