Cool Ice,
Is it 'badmouthing' if you are typing exactly what happened to you without emotional misrepresentation or exaggeration of fact with backup of personal paperwork and witnesses?
What I have written, and pasted to this forum is accounts from Smiths School of English Japan.
I won't waste my time, and the time to type such accounts if it were not for my purpose.
My purpose is to ensure that the information and intent of this company and it's owner are made publicly available to potential customers.
Even McDonalds now posts information about the calorie content of its products. People (including me) still eat and enjoy McDonalds. The most important thing is that they exercise their right to choose, based on having the information available to them.
McDonalds does not
hide the fact that their food is high in saturated fats, sugars and salt. They put that information down on the table and let their customers decide whether or not they put their money over the counter for the meal.
With Mark Smith and Smith's School of English/ Japan-Investments, the ability to hide such information behind smoke and mirrors, while selling and bending the facts is something I have witnessed first-hand.
He has had closed down numerous threads about his operations, written by ex-customers who ran out of money, energy and time because they believed in him and his words.
He is responsible for putting at least two people (that I know of) into such a mental state that they never, ever even want to hear his name, or the name of his company again. They start to panic, get angry and irrational just upon hearing 'Mark Smiths' name.
They lost a lot more than money.
Businesswise and ethically, if this wasn't Japan, he certainly wouldn't have got away with it up to now.
Personally I have been threatened (though not physically attacked) by members sent by him, the day after I quit.
While I have breath in my lungs, I will let the truth be known to those who need to know it.