Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Winter Park, FL This dancing institution is a pyramid scheme. They refused to allow me to cancel because I'm a few days outside my 30 day cancellation period. The fact that they would want people attending dance classes who clearly do not want to be there, is just bad bu I was outside the 30 day cancellation by a few days and they would not provide me with a refund. Winter Park Florida

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Even though Mr Whiney Rebuttal says he doesn't work for AMDS, I suspect he does. Gee...AMDS serves men and women. Nothing in the original post gave away the sex of the complaining party. Maybe that comment about "stomp your feet" was a Freudian Slip coming from a dance instructor closer? [Dance...stomp? You be the judge?]

Now for the rest of the comments. AMDS is not a pyramid scheme. A pyramid scheme works on suckering-in people to grow the business like a pyramid for which the suckers are INVESTORS. Not clients or cusomers. 

About the only pyramid in genreral in the dance business is the instructors become owners who apply the same sales...."tools"...to use the term loosely. In reality AMDS works "procedures" upon people to get them to sign up. Each lesson carefully orcehstrated to find out the objections to not spending more money. Illegal...hardly. However in most states they can't do certain sales procedures such as 2on-1 sales. So look them up. AMDS went thru a whole amount of problems yearsssss ago and largely cleaned up their act. Now that said the ballroom dance business in general is  PYRAMID in the sense of INBREEDING in that IF you get a teacher who operated under an a con-artist owner, he learns that trade, and applies it when he gets his franchise. They can be veryyy convincing. Old habbit die hard and the money is too easy to come by with old windowed women looking for some attention and men looking for the exciting hot woman teacher who'll actually dance and talk to them.

FYI;; Like most dance studios...AMDS is more classified as a SOCIAL CLUB that teaches "a measure of dancing." If you've never danced...The instructor you meet is designed to be "MR or Ms Personality with sales training" and usually a crash course on dancing. The better instructors are typically the back dept reserved for the students who get good enough to know the difference.

SPeaking of dance studios in general like FADS and AMDS and independents....

Will you have fun? Probably Will you pay? For sure. Will it be less than you expect? Probably not. Will it offer value? Well...I've seen a lot of people that had no confidence acquire same there. So what's that worth? You could go to a shrink and he won't teach you to dance and you'll get no exercise. Or you could go to AM and Party on Garth. Trust me--the students that go there ALWAYS remember the "blast" they had. [Even though they sadly run out of money usually...but hey...you can't go on a cruise forever.]

FYI:

A lot of dance studio use contracts that aren't up to date, illegal in that state or outside FTC guidelines. Rarely does the head office keep them legal per each state.

If you want to get their attention, send a letter to Kimmins or Theis at the head office in Pompano and tell them you're going to get the FTC involved back again in AMDS looking at their contracts and that a particular studio owner isn't accomodating you and ask them to help. SInce you were a repeat customer they might simply have another local studio honor your contract. 

This is the classic example of a little immature brat stomping his feet because he didn't get his way.  When you didn't get your way, oh yes, now its time to call them names and say all other kinds of false derogitory things.  If they were so, so, bad little boy, why were you a RETURNING customer???

You repeatedly said you knew about this 30 day limit.  You waited until you were beyond that thirty day period which YOU KNEW ABOUT.  Since they will not break their own policy...a policy you knew about...oh, its all their fault!

GROW UP!

Don't bother saying it...I don't work for them!