Buyer Beware !!!
Let us help you understand some of those too good to be true introductory offers
WOW !! 10 lessons for £99, Guaranteed Pass I am sure you have seen these offers and thought Wow! "What a deal I’ll have a bit of that"…. But are they what they seem ?
CAVEAT EMPTOR !!! Lots of you will have heard this before, a lot of you will know what it means, for those that don’t it translates into one of the most important sayings you could think of when choosing the right driving instructor in Bolton, Bury and surrounding areas.
Caveat Emptor
LET THE BUYER BEWARE”
Beware of what exactly ?
There are so many different instructors out there, some are multi car national driving schools, some are multi car local driving schools and some are single car driving instructors. Each of these are all trying to get you to join them and part with your cash with the goal of getting you your driving licence.
Let me now simplify things a little bit for you, whether you choose a national driving school, or a multi car local driving school, your driving instructor will be a self employed local driving instructor working for him or herself. This industry does NOT employ driving instructors.
Have you tried Googling a driving instructor in your area for example “driving instructor bury “or “driving instructor Bolton” ? If you have you will receive in return 10’s of pages of driving instructors. Just because they are on page one of google, does not mean they are a better instructor than someone on page 10, it just means they are better at some techie stuff or are happy to spend money on getting onto that lucrative page, to find the right instructor for you then delve into some of those later pages, a couple of extra mouse clicks or screen taps could save you quite a bit of your hard earned cash.
You will have no doubt seen many offers to entice you to choose a particular driving school, and this really is where THE BUYER NEEDS TO BE AWARE ………lets take a look at just a couple of them
10 lessons for £99
On paper and easy on they eye, this looks an absolutely fantastic offer, who wouldn’t want 10 hours of lessons for just £9.90 each. Before making that call and speaking to one of the nicest people you could want to talk to (this is unlikely to be your instructor and they are trained to get you signed up), check the terms and conditions first.
This tends to be how your 10 hours for £99 looks in reality.
- First two hours
- Two further hours after 12 hours of full price lessons
- Two further hours after 30 hours (What if you didn’t need this many hours)
- Two hours on test day
- Two hours of your PASS PLUS (after you have passed) (You will have to pay at least £100 to claim the other 4 hours of the PASS PLUS.
All the hours and lessons taken in between these “£99” hours will be charged at full price.
So looking at the above does it now look as tempting an offer as it did originally ? If it still looks good to you, then please save some cash and go and book it.
GUARANTEED PASS
Hey if someone can guarantee you can pass your driving test, they are either lieing, or are bribing an examiner. Nobody can take into consideration what happens on test day. However if you still fancy this offer then once again give them a call, but I would recommend getting that guarantee in writing.
So my warning to you before choosing any driving instructor be they a national school, multi-car local school or a solo driving instructor would be ;
- Read between the lines of any offer
- Check the small print
- Ask to speak to your actual driving instructor, to see if you actually like him over the phone, if you don’t “click”over the phone you certainly won’t click in the car.
Thanks for reading and stay safe.
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