Hi,
Apologies, I'm not sure if this is classified as Australian consumer law - it's regarding a booking made to host a stall at an event.
We have an Acoustic Duo band. We recently booked a stall at a wedding expo and paid a $150 deposit (full price is $550). Unfortunately since booking, my business partner's full time job has made it difficult to free up weekends for business with the duo, and we had to terminate the band.
This leaves us no reason to attend the wedding expo. We tried cancelling 2 weeks in advance, and they are saying that because the form we signed says you have to pay in full within 4 weeks of the date of the expo, we owe them the full amount. We have repeatedly requested to talk to the events manager with no reply.
I feel that even for a normal cancellation, $550 or 100% is excessive, and they have made no attempt to refill our spot. Further more we have had to cancel for reasons outside our control. Also we never had the benefit of any of their marketing prior to the expo as we didn't send anything to them when we knew the band was terminating.
We are happy to write off the $150 deposit.. Do we have a case here to not pay the outstanding? Or should we just cough up the rest of the $550
Apologies, I'm not sure if this is classified as Australian consumer law - it's regarding a booking made to host a stall at an event.
We have an Acoustic Duo band. We recently booked a stall at a wedding expo and paid a $150 deposit (full price is $550). Unfortunately since booking, my business partner's full time job has made it difficult to free up weekends for business with the duo, and we had to terminate the band.
This leaves us no reason to attend the wedding expo. We tried cancelling 2 weeks in advance, and they are saying that because the form we signed says you have to pay in full within 4 weeks of the date of the expo, we owe them the full amount. We have repeatedly requested to talk to the events manager with no reply.
I feel that even for a normal cancellation, $550 or 100% is excessive, and they have made no attempt to refill our spot. Further more we have had to cancel for reasons outside our control. Also we never had the benefit of any of their marketing prior to the expo as we didn't send anything to them when we knew the band was terminating.
We are happy to write off the $150 deposit.. Do we have a case here to not pay the outstanding? Or should we just cough up the rest of the $550