Marcelo C.

I signed up to this site in 2008 to offer my services as an English teacher.

The way they work is the following:

- The tutee gets in touch with the tutor via the website - DETAILS SUCH AS TELEPHONE NUMBERS, ADDRESSES OR ANY OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION MUST NOT BE EXCHANGED OR BOTH ACCOUNTS ARE CLOSED.
- The tutor accepts the tutee's request based on personal availability and overall identification to deliver the lessons.
- The tutee then pays a fee (around £10) and the tutor pays another fee per student (around £6)

My page was very attractive and some people started to enquire about lessons, but I was not available at the time of the first requests.

One day this girl contacted me and we finally confirmed the mutual interest to start the classes. She payed her fee and I paid mine. We exchanged phone numbers and e-mail addresses and began the process to book the 1st lesson. She said she was a flight attendant and was not available all the time but we managed to book one lesson. She cancelled it. We booked another lesson. She had to travel and couldn't make it. Then another lesson was booked and it snowed. She obviously cancelled it. Then it was Christmas time last year and she decided to leave it for the new year...

I was available to have the lessons from mid January 2010 and reminded her of this by sending numerous text messages and e-mails. She never got back to me...

But in the meantime, this other lady showed interest in my services. We started the whole process again and managed to book a day, time and place for our 1st meeting. The website interfered saying that we HAD TO PAY OUR FEES OR OUR ACCOUNTS WOULD BE CLOSED. We were not allowed to exchange messages anymore unless we paid our fees.

I nearly paid the fee again when I stopped and remembered that the 1st lady had simply disappeared. By the way my fee had gone up by roughly a £1 compared to the last one.

This to me looks like a fraudulent site or a terrible way to financially abuse people who need to advertise their services in a recession.

It was actually stupid of me to sign up to a website like that when there are other sites that offer free services and are proved to be reliable.

I wonder if there are other people out there who have used this website or know whether they are dishonest or not.

Best regards.