Specialized Events, Inc.

Thank you for this opportunity to share a personal experience with this company who produces the Women's Day Out Expo. Our company sells insurance and relies on consumer shows to get leads for prospective customers. The promoter of this show Scott K[redacted] took extraordinary measures to communicate with our organization prior to the event, and aggressively promoted the event we attended at Mesa Convention Center and appears to be extremely savvy when it comes to social media marketing and also conventional marketing. We gained over 56 valuable leads at the event we attended on May 7th, 2016 and we normally may get 4-6 at a consumer show so needless to say we were very pleased with the outcome of our company's attendance at the Women's Day Out Expo. I just wanted to spread the word about our most favorable experience. Thank you for this opportunity from the Revdex.com.

This individual received their refund and cashed her $300.00 refund check on 4/15/16.  End of Story.  We continue to believe like MANY BUSINESSES that the Revdex.com DOES NOT support BUSINESS and has turned into a NEGATIVE BLOG.  This is the reason businesses DO NOT become members of a...

Revdex.com.  Even human errors are able to become blown up out of proportion on the Revdex.com Blog so we will NEVER be a supporter NOR much less a MEMBER of such a NEGATIVELY RUN ORGANIZATION.  This complaint was caused simply by a double booking and two exhibitors were charged and THIS INDIVIDUAL was refunded her booth fee due to the fact that someone else submitted their exhibitor application EARLIER than them.  That is called a HUMAN ERROR and then being 100% FAIR we simply refunded this individuals $300 payment,  Thank you once again Revdex.com for allowing a human error to create a silly posting on our behalf.  We will continue to spread the word about how poorly the Revdex.com continues to be operated.  
S. K[redacted]
4/19/2016

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and have determined that this proposed action would not resolve my complaint.  For your reference, details of the offer I reviewed appear below.This company has been defrauding small and local business all over the country for years and they continue to get away with it. There are numerous complaints that nearly mirror my complaint filed with the Revdex.com, festival advertising sites (who are in the process of investigating for permanent removal of SEI from their sites), the [redacted], and online blogs against SEI yet they persist in their activities and their arrogant dismissivness of the outcomes of this fraud upon their victims. I reject their false claims of innocence! SEI is a professional criminal "bait-and-switch" operation and they need to be held accountable!PERIOD![redacted]

I paid over $300 for a table and chair to be a vendor at this show. As did 20 other vendors. When no people showed up at the event we waited and waited. Some of us requested our money back and were denied and were then told if we left early we would be charged another $100. The man in charge was rude and even made a girl cry. I have been to slow shows before, but this company does shows all over the U.S and claims to put on a great show.

Our Exhibitor contract/application clearly states that $100.00 deposits are non-refundable.  It is written in BOLD print.  Thank you for the opportunity to respond.

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and have determined that this proposed action would not resolve my complaint.  For your reference, details of the offer I reviewed appear below.

I did drive completely around the building where the event was held trying to determine a) if I were in the right location (it wasn't obvious at all), and b) find a way to load my display in (also not clearly indicated), and never noticed any banners. As for the other efforts he supposedly went to, it is very easy to fake such things these days with photoshop. If there are receipts proving that "great expense" was made to specifically advertise this event, I would very much like to see them. 

For additional proof that he had no expectations of a good turnout, he did not hire a reasonable number of personnel as would be needed to handle large crowds. As far as any of us could tell, there were just two people running the event. If he had truly expected "thousands" of attendees, then there would have been staff to hand out welcome bags, staff running the sound system, an emcee to announce the seminars that never happened, staff supporting the vendors, and more. Large events require large numbers of people to keep things running smoothly. 

This event was never intended to succeed, and therefore was intentional fraud, plain and simple.

Regards,[redacted]

I just felt that I should review this company Specialized Events, Inc. based in Gold Canyon, Arizona. My personal experience has been amazing especially from the perspective of communication and response time in forming me about booth availability and as a former show participant. I sell hair accessories, make up and skin care products and the traffic promised was higher than the company provided and I actually should have brought more product than I did. Needless to say we are participating again in almost all 2016 show from SEI or Specialized Events, Inc. A personal thank you to the Revdex.com for allowing me to post such an extraordinary report on this company and its owner, Scott K[redacted] Enterprises Scottsdale, AZ

This is a response to Ms. [redacted]:We have attached a copy of our Exhibitor Application which:1)  Ms. [redacted] selected to participate at the venue, [redacted] indivcating she knew where the venue was located in advance of the event.2) We are attaching in addition to our first response a tear-sheet copy of the 1/4 page full color ad from the [redacted] Reporter-[redacted] as Ms. [redacted] wants the Revdex.com to believe her that there was no advertising for this event.  This is in addition to the THREE full color 1/4 page ads that appeared in the [redacted] newspaper.3)Highlighted in yellow and in BOLD PRINT that our events may in fact be Co-Located.  Ms. [redacted] agreed to this when she chose to participate.4) No where does our organization guarantee attendance or participation.  This is also highlighted in yellow on page two of Ms. [redacted]'s application/contract.5)Tables were not just scattered all thought out the gymnasium as Ms. [redacted] wants the Revdex.com to believe.  In fact I commend the staff of the [redacted] for doing a very good job at laying out the gymnasium according to the floor plan.  6) In response to basketball games being played we are attaching a written statement from the [redacted] stating we rented and paid for the entire gymnasium for our event rental.  7)In addition to our internal e-mail blast and a e-mail blast that went out from Bella Spark a local Magazine in [redacted], CO.On line we posted our event on [redacted]as only a few examples. Once a show date passes it is difficult to recover these sort of on line examples as they become obsolete after an event date passes.This is our final response before getting down to an "elementary" level of addressing this issue.  We do have numerous photos on file of our on the street signage for the [redacted] event if the Revdex.com would like to see these photos.We typically do not respond to Revdex.com complaints due to time constraints.  being we are at the end of our season we have a little time to respond and are a little less busy.We wish everyone the best of holidays.[redacted]

We have participated in 4 shows during 2015 and have found the Women's Day Out to be actually an extremely profitable show/event for us in Arizona and Nevada. we look forward to working with Scott during 2016 and beyond. Thank you. [redacted]