{"id":80983,"date":"2018-02-26T14:49:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/driving-schools-cut-price-lessons-leave-learners-on-the-road-to-nowhere\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T15:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T08:02:54","slug":"driving-schools-cut-price-lessons-leave-learners-on-the-road-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/driving-schools-cut-price-lessons-leave-learners-on-the-road-to-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving school's cut-price lessons leave learners on the road to nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAfter paying upfront for a \u00a399 package, many have received no tuition and no refundIt was an irresistible offer \u2013 10 beginner driving lessons for \u00a399 from a company that called itself \u201cthe most-liked driving school on Facebook\u201d. Most of those who signed up to the national franchise, Drive Dynamics, were young people on tight budgets \u2013 students, single mothers and newly arrived immigrants. Now many have found they have paid out for nothing. The promised instructors never materialised, or vanished after a single lesson and requests for refunds fell on deaf years.Drive Dynamics has now gone into voluntary liquidation and, since it was taking new bookings up to its last days of trading, many more are left out of pocket. One Observer reader had paid \u00a3812 for a training course. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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After paying upfront for a \u00a399 package, many have received no tuition and no refundIt...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-l4b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48760,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-learners-who-are-out-of-pocket-as-drive-dynamics-stalls-over-lessons\/","url_meta":{"origin":80983,"position":0},"title":"The learners who are out of pocket as Drive Dynamics stalls over lessons","date":"March 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Our postbag is full of tales from readers about bookings that failed to materialise \u2013\u00a0as did the promised refundsWhen Nicole Dunn paid for 10 lessons with driving school franchise Drive Dynamics the company took \u00a3111.50 and told her she would be contacted by an instructor. 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