The OP post was quite-on-the-mark.

Helen has been around and in this business a long time and she is widely known for her nefarious practices.

Once upon a time, Helen was simply the FAO of a Hangzhou University and prior to that, she is rumoured to have worked in the Zhejiang Foreign Experts' Bureau in Hangzhou. Thus, over the course of time she built up her contacts in the industry and then used them to found her own business.

She is well-known in China for her endless bait-and-switches, even after the contract has been signed. Many times the witless applicant will comes to China believing that he will be going to "y" will be sent instead to "x" or maybe even "a, b, c". She will not, under any circumstances, help an applicant whom she has placed in peril through bait-and-switches. Everything that the previous poster has written has been written over-and-over and again-and-again on so many ESL boards on the 'Net.

She also runs a series of summer camps where the poor unsuspecting FT will end up working a great deal of hours for relatively little money. No foreign teacher should believe the blurbs re money and hours about Helen's summer camp programs.

She is relatively powerful in Zhejiang Province and a foreign teacher stands no chance if he or she should seek redress again her in that province.

Working for Helen is a loose-loose situation on all counts.

Safer to go swimming in an ocean infested with sharks then to get involved with this lady. And that is history and fact.