when, hours before he was about to leave, he learned from the Hyatt hotel that Discovery Tours had not paid the bill for the room, according to another complaint on the BBB website. I paid $490 for her to go and now the company is non-existent and the money is gone,” a parent wrote at the Better Business Bureau website on May 9.Īnother 14-year-old student was ready to travel to Washington, D.C. “My daughter's school, Edison Middle School in Perry Township, Ohio, was going to go on a Washington, D.C. Most of the complaints came from disgruntled parents who had shelled out hundreds of dollars to the company before it announced earlier this month that it was closing its doors. The attorney general’s office said it has received more than 700 complaints about the Mayfield-based company that offered to bus students on school trips to cities around the U.S., including Washington, D.C., Chicago and Williamsburg, Va. “Families and schools across the state trusted this company, and their trust was betrayed.” “We believe Discovery Tours violated consumer protection laws and must be held accountable,” DeWine said in a prepared statement. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Discovery Tours in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on Friday, seeking an injunction, restitution and civil penalties for alleged violations of the state's Consumer Sales Practices Act. CLEVELAND (CN) - Ohio claims that a bus tour company has not refunded advance payments from schools, students and their families for canceled field trips and continued to take payments when it knew its business was failing.
0 kommentar(er)
