How can I get my money back from a vocational school that did not perform the training that I was told I would have?
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How can I get my money back from a vocational school that did not perform the training that I was told I would have?
I paid for vocational training to become a pet groomer,but the school only allowed me to mostly bathe pets. They assigned grooming tasks to other students and refused to provide more than 14 grooming tasks for me within 42 days. They claimed each student would get to groom up to 350 pets in 80 days, and told me I would at least have hundreds of assignments. That did not happen because “business was slow”. The owner broke his promises to provide more assignments for me. Can I get my money back?
Asked on April 8, 2014 under Business Law, Virginia
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 10 years ago | Contributor
You should be able to recover your money, and possibly other compensation, too, under one or both of the following theories:
1) Breach of contract: if you signed any agreement(s) which stated what you would receive in terms of training and they did not provide what the agreement promised, they breached or violated their contract.
2) Fraud: if they misrepresented, or lied about, what they could or would provide, and did so knowingly (i.e. knew, or had reason to know, at the time they made those statements that they were lies) in order to get you to sign up, and you relied on those false statements, and it was reasonable for you to have relied on them, that may be fraud.
You should speak with an attorney to discuss the strength and value of your potential claims in detail.
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