Fraudulent Profesional Certification Since 1994
The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) is based on one idea: they offer professional certification for the wine industry. They sell a two-year diploma program that costs thousands of dollars to complete. They claim that their classes are for the "wine trade and sommeliers, for accreditation by London's WSET".
Those claims are false. Their programs are not accredited or recognized in the United States. The WSET cannot offer professional certifications. They cannot train sommeliers. They cannot train offer training for any wine trade or restaurant job. For them to claim otherwise is false and illegal.
For a certifciation to be more than just a piece of paper, the school offering the diploma must be approved by a state's department of education. This is true for all professional training, from travel agent to CPA to helicopter pilot. Any school claiming to offer professional training or certification without that approval is defrauding the public and violating the law.
None of the WSET programs or its affiliated schools across the country have been properly licensed in any state to offer professional training. The WSET programs are now illegal in 49 states, and soon will be illegal in all 50. This means you cannot legally use a WSET certification to gain employment in the food or wine industry. Even more alarming, you can be prosecuted for attempting to use WSET certificate to gain employment or a raise, in at least 9 states. Moreover, you can be sued for fraud if you attempt to use your WSET accreditation to gain employment.
Protect your rights! Learn about how the Wine & Spirit Education Trust is violating the law, and how that will affect you. Learn how to get your money refunded and make an official complaint. The information you need to start the process is to your left.
You spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours working toward your Wine & Spirit Education Trust diploma. You expect that those hard-earned qualifications to help you move forward in the wine industry. You expect that such an august firm as the WSET, one that has been in operation for over thirty years, to offer legitimate professional credentials.
Your trust in the Trust has been violated. Their certifications are a sham in the United States. In the decades the WSET has been colleting tuition and claiming to issue "professional training," the WSET never took the necessary steps to legitimize their credentials in America.
Our goal is guide the WSET to do the right thing and legalize their operations in the United States. Help us put trust back in the Trust.
If you were lead to believe that the WSET offered a professional wine course, you are the victim of fraud. If you were lead to believe that a WSET certifcate could help you get a food or wine industry job, you are the victim of fraud. There are several ways to get your money back.