Our signed a contracton September 13th to have a booth space a health fair called, TotalHealth Expo Sacramento 2010. This event is produced by Expo Enterprises, alocal event company.
The event was scheduled for November 6th and 7th. Wegot a phone call October 18th from Tom Chavez, the business owner of ExpoEnterprises and he said that due to lack of public interest and booth spacebookings, he has decided to move the event to March and change thelocation to a different hotel and change the name of the event from "TotalHealth Expo" to "Senior Health and Leisure Fair". This changewas a breach of our contract and we informed Tom that we would like to have arefund of $700, the fee we paid for the booth space. We were also notified byemail of this change in the event.
We had already paid for this event in fullby October 7th, which were cashedimmediately by Tom. Ever since October 19th when we were made aware ofthis change, Tom has stopped returning our phone calls and emails when we haverequested our refund. We were able to get aholdof him by phone on November 11th and Tom agreed to pay us in full becauseof the breach of contract on his part, but when we asked if he could pay in atimely manner by November 30th, he gave us several excuses and never gaveus a clear response of when he would pay. Since then we never yet to receive any further response from Tom regarding the payment he agreed to pay.in an emailfrom Tom dated October 19th, he told us that the event name was changedand gave us a link to the new website, www.seniorhealthfair.com. On December3rd we went to this website and it proves that the name of the event andlocation has been changed and that it is still being produced by ExpoEnterprises, but in the contact information on the website, we noticed thatTom's email has changed from [email protected] to [email protected]. This seemed strange to us, so wedecided to try the old website for the original event which we were told is not going to happen anymore, which waswww.totalhealthexpo.net. We were very surprised to see that Expo Enterprises isstill trying to promote this same event in March just now under 2 different namesand on two different websites, Total Health Expo and Senior Health and LeisureFair!
We are in the process of filing reports with the BBB, which we just found out that Expo Enterprises has an "F" rating on their website. We are strongly encouraging business owners in the Sacramento area to not do business with any event produced by Expo Enterprises because they will change the event on you after you paid and then it becomes a nightmare to try to get your booth space fee back!!!
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