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The company that sells FSI courses online

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Topic: The company that sells FSI courses online
Posted By: Manlio
Subject: The company that sells FSI courses online
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 10:20am
Brief question:

Does anyone know if the company that uses the webpage

http://www.foreignserviceinstitute.com/

is serious - or is it another fraud? Any experience with making purchases from them?

They sell many of the courses that are available on the present site - with the audio material either on CD:s or on DVD, in MP3 format.



Replies:
Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 5:42pm
It seems legitimate and they have a legal disclaimer which indicates that it is not affiliated with the Foreign Service Institute (despite the company's use of that name in the internet address.)

It's just another 3rd party reseller of courses, and has been around before this website came into being.


Posted By: Manlio
Date Posted: 11 October 2008 at 7:07am
Dear "Chung" - how can one tell that it is legitimate?

I just used both e-mail addresses on their contact page

http://www.foreignserviceinstitute.com/contact-us.asp

and received a strange error message in both cases (for which only the e-mail address used differed):

- - -

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

privacy-issues@ForeignServiceInstitute.COM

Technical details of permanent failure:

Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error.

The error that the other server returned was:

550 550 5.1.1
<privacy-issues@ForeignServiceInstitute.COM>
User unknown; rejecting (state 14).

- - -

Does this mean that you have to be in their address book in order to be allowed to contact them? If that is the case, "legitimate business" is not the first expression that comes to mind...

Feedback appreciated, since I am in a hurry with ordering the Italian course, but do not want to expose myself to Internet fraud.


Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 11 October 2008 at 12:09pm
That's weird. I'm basing this on the fact that I bought a course from that company a few years ago and got it without a problem. Maybe indeed it has gone under.

Have you tried calling this company? After I had placed my purchase, I called and spoke with someone just to make sure that everything was in order and that I'd get the course by a specified date.



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