is up for sale, and he has not blogged on his own blog or Video Professor's blog, or tweeted through his "VidProf" Twitter account, since late April 2010. The company's corporate headquarters in Lakewood, Colorado are also for sale at a price of $2.875 million. This is exactly $1 million more than the company's purchase price of the building in 2002. According to the company website at www.videoprofessor.com, Video Professor is now owned in part or full by Falan Funding Corporation which is based in Scottsdale, AZ. It appears that customers who didn't receive refunds prior to the ownership change will lose their money and not be refunded. John W. Scherer, former CEO of Video Professor has just launched a new website promoting himself as a public speaker and as talent for commercials. Video Professor itself no longer uses Scherer's image in its own online advertising, although it did for a few months after the company's assets were sold in early 2010. John Scherer is now also listed as CEO of Hurricane Canless Air System. Scherer's Denver mansion recently sold for just under $3 million. Video Professor, Inc. has changed its name to Content Distributing, Inc. and filed for bankruptcy in Colorado Dist. Bankruptcy Court (Case No. 10-34729 MER). The holding company Falan Funding is owned by Robert Elliott Alpert. The Arizona Corporation File Number for Falan Funding is F-1459848-0. Sales practice controversy Video Professor, Inc has been criticized for allegedly using deceptive and unethical sales practices regarding its television and internet advertisements offering a free trial of a CD-ROM for just the cost of shipping and handling – with terms stating that the customer will be billed amounts including $190 to $399.99 (depending on the version of the offer) for other Video Professor products at the end of their trial period unless the customer has canceled their trial. Numerous complaints allege that full terms of the offers (regarding the billing at the end of the trial period) are not clearly disclosed, while others allege that customers were billed in full without their consent immediately upon placing the order for the free trial. Complaints also allege that customers have been unable to receive a refund after they were unknowingly billed in full. Video Professor was the subject of the 5th highest number of complaints (112) filed with Colorado's Office of the Attorney General in 2009 and was the 10th highest(15