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Unethical practices/overcharging in Martial Arts

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  • #62
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    In what way? I know instructors who offer discounts on the first few lessons and then charge the full amount, but no one is forces to attend.


  • #63
    Ug Lee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭Ug Lee


    Boston wrote: »
    In what way? I know instructors who offer discounts on the first few lessons and then charge the full amount, but no one is forces to attend.

    Do the students know that the price charged for the first few lessons are at a disccount? Do they know the real price? In the scenario that I am talking about, students pay their training fees for a few years and then as they are about to receive a blackbelt, they are told they have to pay a couple of hundred euro. A lot of students will feel obliged to pay it as they will have built up a relationship with the instructor/club. The instructor treats to student like a commodity but if the student does the same with the instructor and goes to train with another club/organisation then they are made to feel disloyal, etc.And yes, as its a free market then the instructor is allowed to charge a few hundred/thousand for the blackbelt but the instructor should have made this clear when the student was initially deciding which club to train in instead of having these hidden charges.


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