Possible Dance Studio Scam In Bundaberg, QLD, Australia

I'm leaving this up for a long time, as this is really disgusting, especially when children are lied to and parents are scammed.

I won't be naming the business, unless asked privately, although they've been reported.

Apparently there is an otherwise (or seemingly) legitimate dance studio that promotes classes for beginning dancers of several different kinds; for example, jazz dancing; collecting a nice lot of registration fees from all those interested, holding two classes of this nature, then calling (interestingly on a Saturday morning) and making the odd observation that you're "not an advanced student of the school" and that all the classes are for "advanced students" (of that school) supposedly from the very beginning (???) This is after a great deal of promotion and "yes men" making fraudulent claims of how it all works - and time spent in being informed that the classes are for BEGINNERS and NO PREVIOUS DANCING EXPERIENCE is needed - AND - the whole purpose of their shopping centre promotion WAS TO GET NEW PEOPLE who hadn't danced at their school before.

What I find especially curious, is that the same person who registered my daughter (who, interestingly enough, has won prizes in one-shot dance competitions) and who said that the classes were fine for BEGINNERS, is the SAME person who then called a couple weeks later claiming that the classes were only for ADVANCED students. Could be that she is simply senile (that happens) or quite possibly racist (also happens - to very extreme degrees - say mid 1700s).

I and others, regardless of the fact that these people supposedly know what they are doing and are pretending that they have a clue, have reported them to some minor (and major) consumer affairs groups for misrepresentation and bad business practices. (Did I mention outright lying to get your money? But then, that's certainly nothing new, is it?)

Or, it could just be that their heads aren't screwed on quite right, which is a common problem where I live.

Not trying to deliberately cause trouble, as we really didn't know. We sometimes actually believe what people say around here. Sometimes. A habit we REALLY need to break.