How hard is it to issue a refund you have clearly acknowledged I am due? They have admitted the debt. I can't tell if I am being lied to or if EF is simply incompetent.
I have made multiple inquiries by phone and email but I can’t seem to get anyone to respond and settle this matter. Having spent well over $40,000 I can’t fathom why any organization would treat its customers this way. Second, this also clearly indicates that EF’s customer service is abysmally bad. What does this mean? It means that EF has rolled everything into a single fee that makes it impossible to determine what portion of their very expensive program fee is for housing and what part is for language training. Although I suspect that they are actually being paid more than this refund suggests, I doubt they are being paid much more. This can’t be right as that would barely be enough to pay for food, let alone lodging, and it is difficult to understand how it would be enough of an incentive for any host family to participate in the program. The miserly amount of this refund suggests that EF is paying host families a mere $13 per day. I draw several conclusions from this: First, EF is not being transparent about the actual cost of room and board with host families (which is arguably the single most important aspect of language learning in a study abroad experience). I have been trying to email and phone the staff member for the last three days to no avail. The staff member apologized for the problem and promised me that a check would be cut as soon as possible, on the next Wednesday, which would have been November 20. I followed up checking my credit card statement 3-4 weeks later, saw I had no refund, and on NovemI contacted another employee, who the first had said was his boss. After arranging all this I called his assistant instructions and left my credit card information. I was told this would be refunded to my credit card, and as my ex wife and I had both paid Stefan's tuition, she would need to call to give her consent that the payment go to me alone. He also agreed to refund an additional $56.59. On 9/17/19 after about 10 attempts to contact him since mid June, on 9/17/19 a staff member finally agreed to refund me $1220.31 (the cost of room and board from June through August. After some initial push back, in which it was claimed he had not given sufficient notice. Accordingly we both contacted EF seeking a refund for room and board we had paid for from June 1 to the end of August. The very next day he told the Munich school, and as he would be enrolling in a German University in the fall and would need his own apartment he went and found one and vacated his EF lodging by June 1.
While his experience there was good, he was asked to leave his guest family and given only two weeks notice to leave in mid-May of 2019. My son went to the EF Munich school from June 2018 until August of 2019.
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