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AUTHOR: ReactorCore - Victoria (Canada)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, August 19, 2009
POSTED: Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The joke is ultimately on them.
Sorry you lost your cash to this questionable business, but look at it this way:
After I sat and thought about it, what they appear to be offering would actually be a very viable and profitable business model! However, they seem to have gotten greedy, which has led to them being sloppy which has led to a rip-off report.
People here, for the most part, take their application and test for their learner's or new driver's permit very seriously. It's become a time consuming and (very) costly thing. If, for example, you fail your initial written exam, you only have 24hrs. to resubmit, or it's back to square one, including all the fees you already paid! SERIOUS BUSINESS!
A site that gave an honest "dry run", with score results, prior to your actual exam would be a welcome thing for a lot of people, especially if it was up to the standards and applied exactly as the DMV did. If you charged a reasonable fee, say $10 per applicant, with a printable result sheet, starting in the province (or in your case state) of residence, I have no doubt people would flock to the site to participate.
There's nothing saying you can't slowly add the standards for the tests of other provinces or states over time, which is something these people you're dealing with have missed, so to speak, but that would take something called "research" and "effort" to make sure they have their facts right and present them as such on their site. Thus, they've put out the "blanket" test you mention.... Sloppy. Lazy.
Hell, eventually, with enough of a track record, such a site, if run properly and with good ethics and business morals, may even get an endorsement from the government body. Can you imagine the site traffic then??
They've screwed themselves... Even if they try to straighten up and fly right, by the time they do so, it's very possible that more rip-off reports and bad word of mouth will have sunk them before they manage to clean up their act.
I suppose you can be happy that it was only $20 too. Could have been a lot more. I really, really know the value of $20, and it hurts, but it could have been worse, amirite?