Minimax Consulting

The ABSOLUTE WORST company I have ever worked with. Minimax Consulting were very nice and polite on the phone which is what initially attracted me to them, but that's were the positives end. They must have had a second grader work on my project. After complaining they promptly said they would fix the problem and so they hired a 5th grader to finish it up. I was so sick of dealing with them and their awful service that I just decided to move on and do the work myself. Take my word for it... DONT use this company! I threw away $2,200 and angered myself in the process.

I asked for statistical help from Minimax Consulting and the owner asked me for money upfront. He made me use western union so he could get the money right away. After he got the money, he said he was going on vacation and that he would send me the analysis in a day or two. Then one day, i got an email with bunch of analysis that were not mine. I wrote to him right away and told him that those were not my analysis and he made things up saying that he had gotten the clients mixed up. He said he had sent my analysis to another client and the other client's analysis to me and that he had deleted everything from his computer right after he sent it out. How can a profession company delete everything from their computer right on the day when they send the stuff to the client.

Before you use their statistical services, or anything related to your dissertation, and before you give them your money, do some research!

I feel rather strongly because they made what was already a trying process, writing a dissertation, into a total and utter nightmare. Imagine relying on them for a clean dataset, and never receiving it. Imagine trusting them with your empirical analysis to only get back incorrect models -- they never checked model fit. Imagine counting on them to explain things and prepare for your defense, and they don't answer any emails. Just imagine yourself in that position. It was terrible.

I hope that this review will help some poor graduate student, and save them from taking out loans to pay for the substandard services of Minimax Consulting.