They mistakenly called my number, and I am the event director of the event they were saying they represent.
My colleague picked up my phone as I was not at my desk. She passed it on to me. I had the caller repeat that he was representing my brand and company, to make sure they neither my colleague or myself heard wrong.
As an international event organiser of B2B events, we never use the services of these types of organisations.
I was passed on to the manager and asked them to stop calling our exhibitors. They refused to stop calling on behalf of our organisation. That's their business model.
The manager also admitted that it is illegal to say you are calling on someone's else's behalf. Furthermore, that if this did happen on my call there would be consequences. Unfortunately, this is not the first time this happen and we know clients who have booked and not gotten their rooms plus lost money on this.
The issue here that you guys as a trade show organizers are ripping off your exhibitors by selling very expensive rooms while we can always beat your rate. Again customers are always happy with the rate provide and the service rendered. We have over 25000 customers and we must have some unhappy customers. We are not perfect but the total unhappy customers are less than 2% which is a great accomplishment for any business, please check the review on the world largest search engine in the world and you will be surprised to see all the bad reviews which does not make them a scam for the fact that have went to google to type sitejapper to write this review. Thank you again.