Rue Education ripoff This is truly a company whose only interest is their own and the all mighty dollar! Clearwater Florida

 

I have this problem with rue educational publishers.

I signed up for their at home study materials program back in May 2003 to become an RN. I talked to their representative on the phone and they faxed me the contract. I signed it not reading the fine print which said once you enrolled you couldn't drop out.

I found out that their program cost nearly $5000.00 plus. I received one book, a test book and other materials in the first package. However doing the course of a few months I had a worsening illness that caused me to endure large numbers of costly testing thus ending with surgery.

After the surgery I knew that I wasn't going to be able to continue with the program and I wrote and asked Rue to consider letting me out of the contract due to my illness and financial difficulty but they refused.

They told me the only way I could get out of their program was to have a doctor or lawyer write a hardship letter certified and notarized and this was done by a lawyer friend of mine at no cost to me.

However Rue refused saying, "because MS Blanch does not have a medical condition that causes her a permanent inability to work as a nurse or study independently we feel that she is obligated to the terms of the contract."

They have turned me over to a collection agency for the remaining $3800 plus dollars and I won't be receiving any of the remaining materials while this account is in collections. Not that I want the remaining materials but it seems like a ripoff to enroll in a study material program that you can't afford because of illness and just plain loss of interest due to the stressors of trying to keep a roof over your head and trying to keep food on the table and pay your medical bills as well as still being under the doctor's care.

This is truly a company whose only interest is their own and the all mighty dollar!

Florine CrystalSprings, Mississippi
U.S.A.