Keaton J.
Not the Batelle Sleep School it used to be
We signed up for Batelle Sleep School last year and were told our son is too young for sleep school so we would have to do Batelle Babies first and then sleep school when he was old enough. We were told Batelle Sleep School would always be in our back pocket and thats totally fine and honestly why we paid so much ($1250). Batelle babies went well and he was good at sleeping for a bit, but never through the night like was guaranteed he would, but whatever that’s babies, we didn’t mind. As babies do, he eventually got bad again and none of the Batelle babies stuff worked anymore and we wanted to do the sleep school. Little did we know, they had completely changed their program and no longer offered 24/7 live chat or video monitoring for their sleep school; they now have an AI chat robot that responds to you and tells you to review some lessons for help and a real person will get back to you within 24 hours. So my baby is screaming in bed, a robot is telling me to read some PowerPoint slides, and the next afternoon a person will get back to me and give me some vague response that is not all that helpful and may take 24 hours to get back to me again. Batelle is offering this downgraded service for $199/year. I paid $1250 (with a referral discount) last year and they don’t see what is wrong with this. They refuse to give even a prorated refund and try to claim it’s just as good of a program as what we signed up for last year, but if it’s just as good, why does it cost less than 10% of what we paid? The facts is that we paid for Batelle Sleep School, never got to do it, and were not allowed a refund even though their original sales promotional documents they sent before we signed up were covered in money back guarantees. Their solution was to offer me a “service [they] typically don’t offer, typically valued at $1,000, includes two video calls each week, daily chat support with quick response times (no need to wait 24 hours for assistance), video feedback, and a customized plan tailored to your family's needs” but while that’s all fine and dandy, we’ve already gotten our kid to sleep through other methods we had to figure out on our own and that offer is exactly what we paid for one year prior but paid $1250 for it. Might do it next time there’s a regression or something but honestly Batelle customer service has been soured to me now. They sold a service, completely changed it without telling us, keep all the money and refuse to even admit that it’s inferior to what we paid for.




