What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CT
We were enticed in June of 2007 to leave our daughter's competitive team/dance school to join one started by a mother on the dance team. We were told about simple annual tuitions and team co-op's that were going to even make it less expensive then we were used to. We agreed and joined this new school/team.
We were called one of the charter-members - those stolen from the other school.
We were told we would have co-op rates and the rec kids would carry the team.
I also personally agreed to help with the business model and develop custom software for the cash register (they run a dance clothing store) and the dance school/team.
For that our family was going to be forgiven $2200.00 - which was the tuition fee for the year. This is just a small part of a huge bill for comp dance...
We spent many, many hours - off-site and on-site - I knew we were losing our shirt on this deal.
By May of 2008 several of the charter-families decided to leave this new studio. We also decided to leave - we were all returning to the prior school...
I had the added obligation of helping them get the data from my office (hosted site) to them and then the added obligation of helping the new quickbooks team get them off my software. I told the husband of this dance-team mother that I would do that at my normal hourly rate - since we were already past this years commitment and without future tuition fee-reductions this deal was way to expensive for me.
At that point our bill to them was outstanding to an amount of around $2500.00. We worked to help in the transistion to the tune of about $1500.00. Leaving about $1,000.00 owed today.
Well - in the mail we just got a new bill for $6594.36 - without even showing any payments that we made. And it also now showed the charge of $2200.00 - the tuition that we bartered for.
The husband of this dance mother is the CEO of pepsi/frito-lay and he's been threatening me all the way here...
At any rate - what do I do next?
I thought I was going to pay $1,000 which I might still owe. Now they are completely re-inventing what we thought we were doing. I've got bills for every month for the past 12 months - so this new bill is completely outrageous.
We also have cancelled checks showing all kinds of direct-to-the-teacher payments in CASH for the first 3 months the studio was being built.
These people think they are above the law because they have so much money!!!
Help!!!!!!
btw - I'm active on a forum like this for MS software development - always nice to see another working version of this forum software! Do you get ratings for activity on your forum like we do?
We were enticed in June of 2007 to leave our daughter's competitive team/dance school to join one started by a mother on the dance team. We were told about simple annual tuitions and team co-op's that were going to even make it less expensive then we were used to. We agreed and joined this new school/team.
We were called one of the charter-members - those stolen from the other school.
We were told we would have co-op rates and the rec kids would carry the team.
I also personally agreed to help with the business model and develop custom software for the cash register (they run a dance clothing store) and the dance school/team.
For that our family was going to be forgiven $2200.00 - which was the tuition fee for the year. This is just a small part of a huge bill for comp dance...
We spent many, many hours - off-site and on-site - I knew we were losing our shirt on this deal.
By May of 2008 several of the charter-families decided to leave this new studio. We also decided to leave - we were all returning to the prior school...
I had the added obligation of helping them get the data from my office (hosted site) to them and then the added obligation of helping the new quickbooks team get them off my software. I told the husband of this dance-team mother that I would do that at my normal hourly rate - since we were already past this years commitment and without future tuition fee-reductions this deal was way to expensive for me.
At that point our bill to them was outstanding to an amount of around $2500.00. We worked to help in the transistion to the tune of about $1500.00. Leaving about $1,000.00 owed today.
Well - in the mail we just got a new bill for $6594.36 - without even showing any payments that we made. And it also now showed the charge of $2200.00 - the tuition that we bartered for.
The husband of this dance mother is the CEO of pepsi/frito-lay and he's been threatening me all the way here...
At any rate - what do I do next?
I thought I was going to pay $1,000 which I might still owe. Now they are completely re-inventing what we thought we were doing. I've got bills for every month for the past 12 months - so this new bill is completely outrageous.
We also have cancelled checks showing all kinds of direct-to-the-teacher payments in CASH for the first 3 months the studio was being built.
These people think they are above the law because they have so much money!!!
Help!!!!!!
btw - I'm active on a forum like this for MS software development - always nice to see another working version of this forum software! Do you get ratings for activity on your forum like we do?
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