u/Sea-Night2401 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Honestly tho. I did the research and everything to make sure they were legit and they were registered as a real business, but I believe they’re so unprofessional.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I was digging into them and noticed several problems that I pointed out to them professionally and gave them a chance to address them and thought we had a good correspondence, and then they blocked me and posted publicly about me.
Try complaining to your credit card company. They can also suspend their accounts so other people don't get scammed.
u/Sea-Night2401 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Thank you so much, idk what more I can do. Hussam was actually the one who emailed me saying they were gonna refund me :(
u/michaelnovatireplied·
If you paid with Paypal, and it was a "goods and services" transaction and not a "personal, friends, or family" transaction, then you can file a Paypal dispute. If Build A Dev doesn't respond in I think 14 days or maybe 30 days, then you automatically win.
u/incredibleEdible23 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I’m sorry that you don’t understand what non-profit means. 🤷🏻♂️
u/michaelnovatireplied·
They are a non profit but not a charity and in Canada this is a big difference.
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/charities-giving/giving-charity-information-donors/about-registered-charities/what-difference-between-a-registered-charity-a-non-profit-organization.html
u/incredibleEdible23 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Yeah it seems like perhaps they should be a charity as an educational org vs a nonprofit as in Canada the examples of nonprofits are things like hobby clubs or whatever.
Regardless, I forgot they were Canadian but my point is just that just because a non-profit charges money fo
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Yeah sorry I was not correcting you and meant to post that one level up just to add more info
u/Drawjutsu wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Yup, feel sorry too that you can't scam someone like me using a non-profit ID to trick me into giving you my money. And I'll keep warning others to be alert and question how transparent an org is or whoever claims that they're non-profit.....before ~~giving~~ paying them with yo
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Yeah see the link above, in Canada, a "non-profit" is just a normal company that has a mission of social good and there are ZERO tax benefits for the company or for you. You can't even donate to them.
I actually disagree they are a scam though... I think they are just really poorly run. They had 6 people last year and 6 people this year. For the $12,000 they collected (and then refunded some), I'm not sure if that was even worth anything for them. They hired an (allegedly bad) instructor who was presumably paid, they have a website, they have TWO companies (a data science company that runs under the same name) and they spent hours commenting on Reddit and Instagram to promote the business.
One of the founders works at Amazon (or worked, not sure after layoffs if still does) and presumably wouldn't put this much effort to scam people out of a few thousand dollars.
I think incompetently run is more appropriate, in that the business is not run by people competent in how to run a business.