[PLUG] "New Horizons" Scam

[Paul Johnson]

Please turn your line wraps on to about 80 columns.

gilmanhunt at comcast.net writes:

> It's my humble opinion that a lot of training places (not just New
> Horizons) have under-qualified instructors.  I'm recently employed
> (in a shop in Vancouver) after being unemployed for four months and
> that free pizza was sounding awful tempting. I was actually more
> interested in the LapTop training courses- I liked the idea of
> getting an "extra" laptop.

I looked into LTS, and they seem a bit more legit.  You can take the
courses without getting the laptop for half-price.  Something like
$1700 for the CCNA plus the laptop, IIRC.

> My only previous association with NH was giving them money a few
> years ago to take my MCSE tests (yes yes whatever. drool over there
> please).

I'm sorry, but Windows belongs to the past.  What good is an MCSE?

> I wouldn't classify "New Horizons" as a scam- or their selling
>methods that way either, unless you also go after IT Tech, Laptop
>Training and any other "school" that's going to charge you (a lot of
>money) to train you for a position that may or may not exist- and if
>you believe their salespeople (who just want butts in chairs) without
>doing your own research on job availability... you're at fault too.

Yeah, but New Horizons is charging ten times what everybody else is.
Someone earlier mentioned that they charge something like
$17,000/course, and Laptop Training Solutions will do the same thing
for about $1700 and you get fries...er, a laptop with that to boot.

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