How NOT to get into BIG trouble
(Advise to BSM Learners-to-Be)

 This is a simple story, some of you may have also been through  the same ordeal, have your hopes destroyed and keep asking  yourselves: Why? Others may just consider starting to learn  driving and think of joining 'thousands of successful students'  of BSM. Before you do - read the story below and think twice or  even more times otherwise you may start asking yourselves in a  short time: Why?
 Don't get fooled with huge advertising campaign (by the way  explained in details in instructors - not learners section of BSM  Website) in attempt to make BSM a household name.
 Read this first - you will be surprised!

BSM: The Hell of Driving Lessons

Did you ever passed the driving test? I am sure many of you have been going through it, working hard during the expensive lessons and hoping that you will pass the test this time...

Every time the failure is making you low spirit, sad and discouraged, you fill guilty about yourself and worried more and more about the current balance of your account and thinking how many wonderful things you could do with all that money you have spent on endless lessons and upsetting tests.

That exactly what happened to my husband, a mature and talented man, who is an IT Manager of respectful company and a father of a three year old daughter, who’s waiting more than a seven month to get in our car and go somewhere on the weekend.

Almost all instructors of BSM driving school are telling that my husband is a good and safe driver and they don’t understand how it possible that my husband can’t pass the driving test for the sixth time!

But the thing is that we can’t get the right information about what is going on. BSM instructors keeps telling us that everything is OK and my husband is a perfect driver, while the driving tests authorities are determined not to give us a driving license.

I am not against the safe driving, we do clearly understand that, but am I getting the right impression that BSM is just up to the enormous amounts of money they regularly pull from people like us without teaching how to drive and pass the test? Our daughter has a severe flu, so we needed this car, which we bought more than seven month ago, desperately, to keep her warm on her way to the nursery, and now I am drugging her every morning to the buss-stop and waiting for hours to get on a buss. She is still filling very weak as the result, not to say how much we needed the car for our business and we had cancel most of our plans for Christmas.

We still haven’t got a clear picture of what we are going to do if the next driving test will fail, but we already dropped BSM because they could not provide us with a service, appropriate to such a large company. To say more, we’ve got information from some people, who didn’t pass the driving test after 40-50 lessons with BSM and needed to go to another driving school. We even heard a joke, which is widespread between the other driving schools and former clients: Bring Silly Money – that’s how it’s called now!

So, if you really want to learn driving and particularly pass the driving test, you better avoid BSM, otherwise you may get into a big, big trouble.

My Comments...

Well.. I took the advise of my friend and found a local driving school. Very nice one, one-man-band, just a gentlemen in his late fifties with a car. He laughed a lot on my story, and said:
"I am very grateful to BSM, they give me a lot of customers like you, by the way, you are second ex-BSM for this week. I had more than 1200 learners passed their test with me since I've started working as an instructor and more than 200 of them were ex-BSM. Bring Silly Money - that how they are called amongst other schools and how they sometimes call themselves. When you pass the test money flow stops from you, but if you don't pass for a long time their statistic drops so they want to get rid of you. If people will start talking that I am a bad instructor, I will lose my business but if people will start talking about BSM, they don't care - corporate protection."
I want to proof that the last sentence is wrong and want to make them care!

BSM - you have failed me! As well as many other people spending their money on you. But you have forgotten one thing - we are all professionals in our fields so if you use the Web to advertise yourself I will use the Web to let people know the darker side of your business. If potential learners can find your Web Site and read your story they will be able to read mine as well.

By reasons you all can understand I wish to remain anonymous. But you can always e-mail me with your own stories.

Ex-BSM learner.