Institute For Independent Business, IIB
Hype, lies, oversell, unethical

I attended an IIB so called 'recruitment' seminar where I was told that I was just the right sort of person they were looking for, as they did to everybody else. There was a tremendous amount of hype and overselling and at the end of the meeting I was asked to book a personal 'interview', which was at a later date and really only confirmed what I felt about them, as it was simply some sort of hard sell to get me to agree to part with thousands of pounds sterling to go on a residential training course. After the meeting, I was told that I would certainly be receiving an 'invitation' to join and one was forthcoming in the post within a few days.By that time I was so overwhelmed with the unethical hype and overselling, that the last thing I was going to do was to join them.

Unfortunately, a friend of mine was persuaded to join. He had been made redundant after a few years in middle management as an engineer and was desperate and vulnerable after his redundancy and had attended a seminar and 'interview' just before myself, and joined in desperation for some income as we had all been promised that there would be plenty of opportunity for quick rewards if we joined. It seemed that he had been told the same things 'confidentially' at his 'interview' as I had been told and also 'guaranteed' that he could not fail. It must be a standard sales line as we both had different 'interviewer/salesmen' and both heard the same thing.

My friend rang me within the first few days of being on the residential training course to say that it was 'a nightmare' and that it was clear even to him by then that he had made a big mistake in trusting the IIB.By the end of the training course he was almost in tears on the phone at what he had gone through. He said that just about everybody on the course felt as he did and greatly regretted being caught while vulnerable and needy when they were looking for some opportunity to earn money again.

He has now been in the IIB for nearly 2 years and has hardly earned anything. He has certainly not covered his fees yet!

Almost everybody from his course has all but given up and most are now on the dole.

It seems that the money for the IIB and it's owners is really made from selling these training courses to vulnerable people who have been made redundant and have some redundancy money and are desperate to find some way of earning money again.

Ripped off by iib
London
United Kingdom

Company: Institute For Independent Business, IIB
Country: United Kingdom
Region: Other
City: Watford
Address: Clarendon House, Bridle Path

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