More than 100 fitness students are being hounded for thousands of dollars by debt collectors after they refused to keep paying for an online course which has lost its industry accreditation and gone into liquidation.
When Sumire Tachibana signed up with Fitlink NZ in October 2015, she thought she was paying $4000 for a recognised qualification.
A year later, the company lost its accreditation with the New Zealand Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) and went into liquidation. Its small team of staff quit after a change of ownership.
However Fitlink’s new owner said she was the victim of an attempted takeover and insisted the course was still offering what it originally promised.
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Tachibana and about 13…
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