PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 08:25 AM

I, too, spoke to him this morning. Nice chap. Looks like there'll be an article soon - probably this week.

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: GUEST,aelfleda
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 07:26 AM

Hi
I've spoken with David Jeffells on the phone this morning outlining our plight.
I've suggested to David that he might want to visit Mudcat to get some idea of the number of people who are owed money & the efforts that people have been making to get their refunds
Cheers
Jude

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Rasener
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 11:02 AM

Thats correct what the leveller says Raggytash. Its about trying to get the money back.

So if there is enough people who have not got tehir money back, then the paper will do a solurge on why not.

So we are not running into libel, just trying to get the guy to pay the money back that he took of the customers.

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: theleveller
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 10:42 AM

Raggytash, we're not doubting (well, I'm not) that there was a genuine reason for cancelling the festival - we were due to go up to Northumberland with the caravan afterwards and our campsite was closed as well. What we are questioning are the actions of the organiser who, after promising refunds from 27 August has failed to deliver or to communicate with us.

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 09:10 AM

Before anyone commits libel it would be well to remember that the festival was genuinely cancelled because of inclement weather

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: theleveller
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:12 AM

Thanks for starting this thread. I've just rung David Jeffells and left a message for him to call me. Let's hope that we can get enough people together to persuade him to run the article. If The Events Office are trying to run the rescheduled festival we need to warn people not to part with their money until the situation with refunds is resolved.

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Rasener
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:11 AM

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Pickering Folk Festival 2008 - Are you owed money

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 07:14 PM

I guess it would help greatly if mudcatters could get first post on this thread on as many different websites as possible across the UK.

The more people who let him know that they haven't had their money back, the stronger will be the reporters investigation and newspaper report

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 07:09 PM

probably wily & crooked & respected in Pickering and very hard to get

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 07:04 PM

Thanks for the info, Villan.
Simon Boak, huh? Don't think I've ever heard of him in 48 years of involvement in the folk club world.
Is he new, keen & stupid? Or old, wily & crooked? Any opinions needed here?
What's his track record on folk music events?

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 06:57 PM

The main organiser is Mr Simon Boak, The Events Office

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 06:55 PM

Who was the guy? I'm still in the dark on this one, but don't want to be stung in the future.

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 06:46 PM

I think he is more than that Captain Birdseye

Hopefully people will go to teh newspaper and expose this guy for what he is.

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 06:42 PM

frankly this organiser is a nincompoop,first he organises afestival theat clashes with Saltburn,then he organises it to clash with Ryedale Folk Weekend.

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Tootler
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 06:14 PM

The other thread was just below this one when I clicked here, but here's a link to it anyway

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=113028&messages=92

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 05:28 PM

There is Jack.It was called Pickering Folk Festival: Tickets Online, which developed into people saying how they are not able to get their money back after the Festival was cancelled

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Jack Campin
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 05:24 PM

What happened? There doesn't seem to be a previous thread about it.

Subject: RE: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 05:11 PM

no.
but anyone who is,should take this up[imo]

Subject: PickeringFolkFestival Are you owed money
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 01:23 PM

The Gazette & Herald that covers North Yorkshire are willing to run an article on this problem.

If you phone David Jeffells on Mobile [phone] or Home 01723 863395, he will create the article.
He is available all weekend.

Basically, if you are still owed money for tickets that you paid for the 2008 Festival or are owed money for services, he would like to talk to you, so that he has a story to go with.

He would like people to offer their name, but stated that it wasn't necessary if you so wished.

So this is your big chance to get this situation plastered all over the North Yorkshire newspapers.