Affinityconstructiontraining Reviews

I m currently stuck in a contract with

I m currently stuck in a contract with affinity fuming at the fact they ve misold information and a plumbing course to me that I ve already payed 1300 at the moment I m currently going to seek legal advice to get out of my contract and be reimbursed my money that I have spent I m so angry

This is not the way to learn a trade

Am having the same experience with an electrician s course through ACT as the other people who have left reviews have had on their courses Avoid them if you can as they will lock you into a long-term contract with only a 2-week cooling off period which is not nearly enough time to discover how little value the training is compared to the cost of it at 8 000 If you contact them and attempt to cancel they will throw the contract terms at you and tell you there s nothing you can do Spoke to Citizen s Advice Bureau about it and they told me basically the same The joke s on you idiot etc With regards to the training material itself it s sold as self-paced training which is very misleading as the pace is very much set by ACT and they love to procrastinate They will send you reference books in the post which are divided into haphazard modules each one ending with a Tutor Marked Assignment a multiple choice test which needs to be submitted via an online portal It will take 1 - 2 days for the submission to be acknowledged followed by another 5 days to receive a mark - so much unnecessary delay For a computer this is several back-to-back eternities given just how quickly they can process simple information and turn it into glorious reports in a heartbeat You need one TMA to be marked before you can submit another The course outline implies there are 39 modules so absolute minimum it will take about 39 weeks just to get the assessments marked On top of that the books have no contents page no glossary of terms and no index so they aren t exactly easy to navigate It s a minor miracle that they have page numbers to be fair In addition to the self-paced learning there is supposed to be weekend learning on-top however I am 6 months into the course and have yet to attend a training centre I started in July 2022 and I have a booking for first attendance for March 2023 The tutor team that is supposed to be there to help you along they way may as well not exist Not once in 6 months have they ever contacted me to find out how the course is going how I am finding it or commented on the marks I have been getting or anything but then why would they As they have my money and aren t giving it back I have mailed them a few times are most often they ignore the questions I ask and answer ones they wanted me to ask instead I am highly doubtful I will complete this course with the necessary practical skills knowledge or means to obtain work as an electrician When compared to the electrician s short-course I completed with Trade Skills 4 U the companies are night and day different To date the only electrical knowledge I have has been retained knowledge from the previous Trade Skills 4 U course and bits and pieces I have picked up from watching various YouTube videos If I lived within commute distance of Trade Skills 4 U I would have used them again My saga with ACT is not going to end anytime soon and I hope this review along with the other reviews here will serve as a warning to other people looking to learn a trade This is not the way to do it To everyone please very much caveat emptor

Trap and Scam

I signed up blindly when I decided to leave the Navy Was fed a pipe dream and am now stuck in a 7 000 contract I was told by the recruiter that I could leave any time however after talking to the unproductive customer service a couple of weeks ago I was told I had a 14 day cooling off period which is such little time considering the course is 3 years long On the phone when I was expressing my intent to leave the course I was told I can t and I might as well do the work because it will look good on your CV I could not believe how I was treat and after receiving a letter confirming why I could not leave the course I was also sent a screenshot of initial interview on a slide called Loan Agreement which apparently acts as substantial evidence to prove I signed an agreement I have not been shown anything to say I have signed any documents and have found the company is under an umbrella company for Green 360 The course is miss-sold misleading and embarrassing as it is a self taught course which is an appalling way to learn a trade It is a trap and an absolute scam if I was to change anything I would have avoided this company and not wasted a penny to be told I am a liar and trapped

Completely misleading recruiter and no legitimate reason why you can t get out of the contract despite receiving minimal help materials

After enquiring on the ACT website I was contacted by a man who I thought worked directly with them however turns out he was a third party recruiter During the call he basically making me give him reasons why I should be given a place on this fantastic course told me there s no time frame for the course and didn t explain that it s all basically by yourself and if you have any queries you contact a tutor team He made me believe the 60 deposit was just to hold my place as it s a very busy course he skim read through the contract and made me sign it while on the call Me 19 and not knowing that s a terrible idea signed it and that was the end of the call I didn t start studying for another couple weeks due to work stress then after a few weeks of studying I decided this course isn t for me and it wasn t a great system I was then told I m not allowed to back out and was told about the 2 weeks cooling off period which I had apparently signed for but it wasn t explained I then went back and forth for a couple months between them and the credit company but was essentially told too bad So I am now stuck in a 3 year course paying 7 800 that I apparently can t leave despite only receiving little to no tutor help apart from courtesy calls after I had complained and one text book Anyone thinking of doing this course I BEG research into it and read real reviews before you are stuck in an expensive contract If anyone has had the same experience and can offer me any advice if you ve got any further with getting out of the course please let me know

Avoid this company at all costs

I ve had a change of job which is now much more labour intensive and longer hours and therefore wanted to drop out from the course I ve received next to no help as it is anyway and have completely lost all interest in the course I rang the admin team to express this and was told that I m signed into a contract now and only had 14 days to leave the course when on the phone I was told I could leave at any time I just wouldn t get my money back I feel genuinely sick with worry now about having to pay over 7000 for something I don t have the time or motivation to do I wish I d seen the other reviews saying the same thing before I signed up with this evil company

Affinity C T Plumbing and Gas Engineer Course

Hi I started the course of Plumber LVL 2 and Gas Engineer LVL 3 all good and beautiful until I got to the situation of taking the H S test which is a special one made so that you don t pass it the first time to waste your time I passed the same H S tests at a CITB center on the first try with a 100 result and at AFFINITY I gave it 4 times without success I tend to think that I didn t pass it on purpose to pass the time so the month in which I have to pay the course also passes In the books I received from them it is written very clearly that the first week of practice at the center is after I finish TMA 13 and H S test I passed both and then they tell me that I have to do up to TMA 16 not TMA 13 I sent them a message why they don t schedule me for practice and they said that I have to call at Customer Service But I talked to them by email and they said that they would contact me automatically but it didn t happen like that they are liars and take their time to take my money If someone solved it somehow and stopped this course respectively the payment to them we can discuss by email m marius08 yahoo com no space between 08 and yahoo

Keep as far as possible from these

Keep as far as possible from these scammers They misleads and are total crooks Everything all the other people say here is true about them They say after TMA 13 you are booked for your first practical workshop I completed up to TMA 25 never saw a workshop yet the so call tutors are waste of time as well What these scammers did realise I went to college in the late 90 s and been doing electrical work since then But after recently moving to the UK I had to pretty much retained to practice electrical here So being now in my early forties I couldn t see myself in a full time college for I have my adult responsibility Their materials had so many errors In fact the material they sent where from c g 2008 and now the regs are 2022 alot have changed from then to now

SCAM REPORT THEM

SCAM DO NOT SIGN UP I don t even know how they got my details but the fraud who calls himself Luke Clarke Tried to make it sound like there are limited spaces on the course made me tell him why THEY should accept me onto the course Now I m stuck paying 190 pm for a course that is worthless don t know why it takes to weeks to mark a multiple choice test which can be marked in seconds This is the tactics they use to make you lazier because you can t move forward with the modules until it is marked Anyways DO NOT SIGN UP TO THIS REPORT THEM