Hula Groove Wedding Band - Threatened court action!

OlliesDad

As a side note, to the people who are abusing the SEO. Are you planning to keep doing this forever? as if you stop, this page will go down on the rankings again.

Equaliser123

blue_monkey wrote: »

I'd be going to court on a matter of principle. Especially seeing as the final hearing will be at a place of your choice (Please live as far south or north as possible!!) and they would have to pay at least £130 to get you into court in the first place.

They would have to tell the judge that they are suing you because they want you to pay full price for a booking that was never confirmed with payment and have no cancellation notice.... er, go on then. tell them you'll see them in the court of your choice in about 3 months time. I am sure you do not need the stress but it'll be a nice little tale to tell your kids one day.

From a legal perspective you should NEVER go to Court on "principle".

And the choice of Court will be up to the Court to determine. It is likely to be the Defendant's local court but not necessarily.

blue_monkey_2

OlliesDad wrote: »

As a side note, to the people who are abusing the SEO. Are you planning to keep doing this forever? as if you stop, this page will go down on the rankings again.

Not neccesarily, I often get pages from MSE from 2007 or older when I am looking for stuff on Google.

People should be warned if they are pulling this kind of stunt. Never heard anything like it in my life, especially when they steam roller you into booking with virtually no get out clause.

Was the OP's girlfriend given a chance to view the TC before booking? If she had got their number and called them, did they read out the T&C to her BEFORE she agreed to make the booking? Because that puts and entirely different slant on things. She could have called them, told that she needed to book there and then without even knowing there was virtually NO get out clause.

Scary really.

shortchanged_2

Equaliser123 wrote: »

Totally wrong in my view to try and destroy a bunch of musicians business because they may or may not be heavy handed about trying to enforce their T's and C's.

Agree with your comments, I just feel they need to use a bit of common sense instead of being so unreasonable.

Equaliser123

shortchanged wrote: »

Agree with your comments, I just feel they need to use a bit of common sense instead of being so unreasonable.

Thanks. Perhaps if OP picks up the phone to them and talks them through the concerns then there will be a really, really quick resolve to this.

OP doesn't need this hassle. The band certainly don't need their business destroyed by people on MSE.

And as an edit - if I were the band, I think threads like this would make me really quite bloody minded and so take an even more aggressive stance.

blue_monkey_2

Equaliser123 wrote: »

From a legal perspective you should NEVER go to Court on "principle".

And the choice of Court will be up to the Court to determine. It is likely to be the Defendant's local court but not necessarily.

I absolutely would for something like this. And it absolutely would be on principle for me, sorry, for each time they try and scare money out pf people like this I would. All that money for doing nothing?? Not even played a note. 3 days after booking - in fact 1 WORKING DAY after the booking - the cancellation was made. Disgusting.

blue_monkey_2

Equaliser123 wrote: »

Thanks. Perhaps if OP picks up the phone to them and talks them through the concerns then there will be a really, really quick resolve to this.

OP doesn't need this hassle. The band certainly don't need their business destroyed by people on MSE.

Yes, they have stated they want all of that money and will charge 8.5% a day. Reasonable? What do you think?

How many people do you think they have 'scared' into paying?

OlliesDad

blue_monkey wrote: »

Not neccesarily, I often get pages from MSE from 2007 or older when I am looking for stuff on Google.

People should be warned if they are pulling this kind of stunt. Never heard anything like it in my life, especially when they steam roller you into booking with virtually no get out clause.

Was the OP's girlfriend given a chance to view the TC before booking? If she had got their number and called them, did they read out the T&C to her BEFORE she agreed to make the booking? Because that puts and entirely different slant on things. She could have called them, told that she needed to book there and then without even knowing there was virtually NO get out clause.

Scary really.

The OP states that she booked it online and accepted the terms.

I agree that people should be warned if they are pulling nasty stunts, but not by a forum who have heard one side of one persons story.

Equaliser123

blue_monkey wrote: »

I absolutely would for something like this. And it absolutely would be on principle for me, sorry, for each time they try and scare money out pf people like this I would. All that money for doing nothing?? Not even played a note. 3 days after booking - in fact 1 WORKING DAY after the booking - the cancellation was made. Disgusting.

Well all I can say is that I have seen plenty of people lose out big time in respect of going to Court on "principle".

The 8.5% is a red herring. If the OP has a claim, it would be 8% p.a.

somethingcorporate

OlliesDad wrote: »

The OP states that she booked it online and accepted the terms.

I agree that people should be warned if they are pulling nasty stunts, but not by a forum who have heard one side of one persons story.

It's hardly one-sided, the other side are the set of T&Cs that the band are using!

Seems like they have been taking advice from Gary Cooper!?