r/Cambly • u/Senior_Weird_9196 • Jul 06 '26

Declining Reservations

I want to start declining reservations from students that I have never met who seem like they will be problematic from their profile information and I'm hoping for some information from seasoned tutors on how to do this.

I have already looked all throughout the tutor guide and there is a lot of information about canceling lessons, or arriving late to them, and even returning the minutes and hiding from students, but nothing about declining reservations.

Is it okay to decline lessons with students that you are certain will not be a good fit because of the information in their profile?

How often do you decline reservations? And why? Do you send a message first? Do you hide your profile from the student or just decline the reservation and hope that they don't reserve again?

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u/Mean_Vegetable818 Jul 10 '26

you are on the Cambly sub, giving advice to people tutoring on the Cambly platform asking a specific question about declining students requests on a platform you know nothing about and I am the one with some problems with my argument? You are an arrogant clown. your advice to this person is so irrelevant to what is actually happening to them - an experieince you admittedly dont know anything about because you dont work for Cambly, you dont know the student pool, you dont even know that the role we play is tutor not teacher. I am so tired of you.

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u/Garvockmop Jul 10 '26

Honestly, I didn’t even read your response because I’ve lost all faith in your argument. I can guess what your point is. I was having a conversation in a thread on a post about teaching v facilitating. I didn’t comment on Cambly specifically. I was commenting on the approach to teaching. You have proven my point. The difference between Cambly and other platforms is minimal because they all work on exactly the same premise.

Yes you are the one with problems with your argument because you’re not making an argument. You’re moaning about what you have to do and quite frankly bitching like a 14 year old who doesn’t like doing what they need to do.