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Hi everyone, the title pretty much describes what happened. I agreed to rescheduling because it doesn’t clash with my schedule so I have no issue with that, but now I have a notification in chat asking ‘Did you request this change?’. My question is should I just answer yes - does this affect my account in any way?

It’s my first time using preply so I just wanted to ask if this is a normal thing that happens when a tutor reschedules.

I have been trying to find an English tutor since the beggning of the year. I find it increable how easy it is to get lessons for math from tutors with master degrees or lessons for biology from doctors for less than 10 US dollars. Once it come to English tutors think that they are on a vacation, do not put effort and it is not related to the amount that they charge as I have had lesson with people charging up to 35$. I wish I had self motivation and learn but myself grammar but I do not have such self motivation. Most tutors want to ask about my life like I am talking with some stronger on discord or something. They do not correct pronunciation unless it is something grossly mispronounced. I do not understand why is it so difficult to learn English academically? Is it because all those tutors are unqualified to teach anything and travelling abroad and need some type of income? Is it because they want to have some side gig? Are those "certifications" only for speaking? They dont teach how to teach grammar? I am genuinely curious

Question in the title, and what about a situation where I delete a message after days of weeks? Is it still visible in students chat? He has already seen it before but is it still available in the chat.

Not only does it look unserious but you need a table to at least take notes or something. Not just lay in bed in pyjamas.
Also not make any effort besides just asking what the tutor is gonna do and what their lessons are gonna be like ? But respond with one word answers. And not show any interest in the language or the videos the tutor is sharing ??

*it was my 1st trial lesson btw

I got a notification that I'm a potential tutor for a student. I messaged her. she didn't read my message -which is totally okay- then she booked a trial in like 3 min.

I sent her a message to know about her goals, level.. etc before tomorrow's trial especially that I have three more trials this week. Two of them are tomorrow and I'm kinda suspicious there's a kind of offer in Preply for free trials!

Anyways, she read my messages and didn't reply till now. I'm thinking of waiting till midnight (she's same my timezone) then block her if she doesn't reply till that time.

That's the first time for me to message a student who booked a trial, and they "read" the message without replying.

It's okay if they don't read them at all. But reading without a response is weird and feels a kind of disrespectful for me.

Should I block her?

My converstion rate is 66.7% and I have 3 booked trials other than this one. That number of trials in two day is weird for me it didn't happen before, and One of the booked trials is already weird bc she asked me about my rate. She then told me that she's okay with it, but I'm really suspicious of those silly students who book trials just to have fun or to not miss an amazing offer!

Should you always write what the next steps are gonna be on preply after a trial or first lesson ?

Hi guys.

I've been on Preply for 2 months. I just increased my price, so I want to make sure my profile looks like it belongs in this price range. I would appreciate any advice.

So, I have a book and audios to the book. Before on my own laptop I would play the audios directly from a file saved on my laptop and no issue. Everyone could hear everything.

But, now with this new laptop, everytime I play an audio they can't hear anything.

Does someone know what's happening and how can I fix it? It's very important to me that they can hear them.

I am a tutor so as i was teaching
The other person offered me a job
Like its very simple and all
He even shared the website etc
Should i go for it
I don’t want to get scammed
But he showed me some girls working with him
He even talked little bit in my language
Sounded genuine
So yea need suggestions

Hi, I recently finished a master's degree in a therapy training program, in a country that does not have this license. I thought to tutor online and saw that Preply has a Mental Wellbeing section, so I chose that.

I set my price at $30 at first, but then dropped to $20 to get more interest. Then I got 4 trial lessons, with 3 immediately deciding to continue/subscribe, with varying consistency. A few more added me to favorites (Preply always tells me to message them, but tbh I don't know if that actually helps or can backfire by being annoying to some).

Anyway, I realized that with trial lessons not being paid, the big commissions, and the fact that I'm actually delivering something closer to therapy than psychology lessons, I raised to $45. But since then, no trials booked.

So been toying with the idea of lowering the price again slightly and increasing more gradually rather than a big jump like I did.

That said, I'm only on Preply for 74 days in total, so not sure if I should just give it more time. The insights feature says I meet all the Super Tutor requirements other than the number of lessons, which is the only one I feel isn't in my control at all.

Would love to hear any thoughts.

I had my position steady around the same spot (+/-5 positions) and today it suddenly went down almost 30 positions. No changes, only would add or subtract a dollar or two here or there to the price. Has anybody else have this happen to them?