Advanced Weldtech

I signed up here for a weld test ($ 375) + on day of training to help pass the weld test ($ 475) and boy did I have a bad experience.
The owner here is the instructor, test taker and everything else in between and out of an 8 hour training day i got about 45 minutes of actual instruction, the majority of time not spent welding is waiting for him to be done with someone else and it’s very frustrating because it cast almost $ 500 a day and you want to get your money’s worth.
The owner/​instructor is also a plain jerk and rather spend time telling you how much your welding sucks, that you’re trying to take shortcuts in life and that your chosen brand of equipment also sucks and how every other school sucks, he’s a very negative guy and has napoleon syndrome too.
Upon realizing that I wasn’t ready to take my actual welding test I asked him if i could reschedule it for the following friday so i could get some practice in and he said «no problem», but when I mentioned that practice would be at my work and not his shop that cost $ 500 a day, he changed his mind and said I had to take the test the next day or I would loose my $ 375 because he canceled other appointments for me and was busy etc. Next day when I showed up it was literally just me and one other gentleman (who was also disappointed by the end of the day) taking general training. He also tried to keep me from even taking the test so I wouldn’t waste steel coupons (test plates). This leads me to my other complaint: This guy is stingy with the materials he provides to you for practice, he’ll make you practice and same same used up plate over and over which sucks because the plate get too hot to get any real results.
At the end of the day I welded up my test and asked him if he could inspect it (to see if i was going to be certified) but he made me wait about an hour and a half to tell me that he wasn’t going to be able to do it until next week, i was irked and accepted it and left the shop but not 15 minutes after I had left (about the time it take him to test the coupons) i get a text message from him showing my failed plate. I asked him «didn’t you say you had something to do and couldn’t get to it ’till monday?» he responded with all sorts of obscenities so i replied and told him i had nothing more to say on the matter and deleted the text.
The following week I called a few local shops and funny thing was that before I even mentioned advanced weldtec one guy already knew I had been there because of my story, apparently this guy has a bad reputation and the guy at the other weld shop said: «i always get Weltecs’ customers after they get fed up with the owner there.
Now i’m not perfect either and I did a few dumb things:
1. showed up with my grinders without guards
2. failed to buy some of the equipment on the list (i brought 2lb sledge instead of a ball peen)
3. I smoked my Ecig on the property which is apparently against the rules.
But everything aforementioned is 100% true.
My advice: shop around for another good school (there are many choices) or if you have time, go to a community college, but avoid weldtec like the plague!!!