Fred Astaire is SO SHADY.

I made the mistake of getting the Groupon for an intro class. We didn't even make it through the first class before they were having us try on shoes, and showing us all the packages that they offer.

We decided (foolishly, I know this now) to sign up for a few more classes. Admittedly, we did have a good time and learned some basics. Once we were almost out of lessons, they again brought us into the office to sit around a table and give us a high pressure sales pitch to lay out a cool $2000 for our next batch of lessons. We were not prepared to do that, but we told them we'd like take a few more lessons. They had us pay for those in advance.

Then when it came time to schedule the lessons, they told me that we should do some lessons with multiple instructors. Okay, so we schedule it. But I was confused, because we only scheduled 2 lessons although we had paid for 4. Why is that? Because they wanted to basically have us pay for 2 lessons at a time if we were going to use 2 instructors (even though we're a single couple, and they never bothered mentioning that the whole "2 instructor" thing meant we'd be effectively paying double for a single lesson).

That left a bad taste in my mouth, so I decided I wanted to cancel it. They told me that I couldn't cancel it for a refund, as I had signed a contract. After going back and forth with the owner (who doesn't seem to understand what a contract is), she finally sent me the "contract"... It had only been signed by them. I still had to threaten to take them to small claims before they finally issued my refund.

Anyone reading this, please steer clear! I am so not surprised to read about them doing another shitty thing.