u/Roxygen1

It was briefly mentioned in this Warfronts video

https://youtu.be/yRCDlBcFEKU?is=BvXqmXEIWKTUMBDB

There's also a Warfronts video about Ethiopia, but without any background knowledge I wasn't really able to follow who's fighting who and why.

SO.

My previous post got a fair bit of attention, and ended up leading to an article in the Daily Mail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/s/aClr8bhlga

In the article, they interviewed some vendors who gave their names, and one lady who stayed anonymous.

Since then, several of the businesses that were there have been sharing the article about as much as they can on Facebook etc, including a lady I've been in contact with.

She is NOT the one who spoke to DM anonymously.

She shared the article on a few FB groups for the area where she and the scammer live. The scammer has then retaliated by spreading lies about her and damaging her reputation, and getting her blocked from groups where she advertised her business (which was already struggling before he ripped her off)

This screenshot https://ibb.co/TMqssJGv is a copy of a message which he sent to the admins of one FB group where the article was shared.

I'm well aware that even if there was any defamation and libel (not slander Jay, know the difference you twunt), it wouldn't be a police matter, but what is the best way to deal with his behaviour?

I feel responsible because my post led to the DM article so I really want to help this lady out.

Approaching the top left roundabout, the sat nav voice says "take the first exit" and the lane guide on the screen puts you in the left hand lane.

So you take the first exit and find yourself in the queue for the Dartford tunnel with no off-ramp so you have to go to Essex 🤢 and back.

Then you come back to that same roundabout and confirm, yes it does tell you to be in the left hand lane and take the first exit it wasn't my fault!

Luckily I was driving a vehicle with an exemption for the dart charge but my boss and I were 20 minutes late to a client 😅

The left and centre pics were pic one and two on the listing.

This weekend a friend asked me to help out on their stall at a "festival" which claimed to be the biggest food and music festival in the county, with street food, a farmers market, interactive kid zone, interactive dog zone, pop up art gallery, wellbeing area, yadda yadda.

Social media posts from a couple of days before the event showed things like a ferris wheel and helter-skelter, and what we thought was a previous year's festival with loads of stands and a huge crowd, on closer inspection the images are all AI with the odd stock image thrown in.

The reality was a badly organised shambles in a small field, seemingly only put on so the "organiser" could get pissed up and put his own band on as the headliner for both days. It was like fyre fest if no one had gone to fyre fest.

Vendors were told to pitch up next to the last person who got there, so there were no clearly defined areas, and nothing like what was being advertised- no interactive kid zone (unless you count a single face painter) no pop up art gallery, the "wellbeing zone" was a masseuse and a yoga instructor who clearly expected to be part of a much bigger area as they pitched up at the far end of the field expecting the festival to fill out towards them (it didn't)

A lady who does permanent jewellery needed (and had paid for) and electric hook up, was put in a place where they couldn't give her the electric she'd paid for.

On day one, maybe 100 people turned up throughout the entire day. It was supposed to go on until 10pm but by 6pm most vendors up and left as the only attendees were other vendors and their families. Most food vendors only sold 2 or 3 meals in the whole day. Day 2, maybe 2-300 attendees, still very poor sales. Attendees were charged £20/adult and £10/child so when they walked in and saw what they'd paid for, they weren't interested in spending any more money.

Vendors were charged different amounts that the "organiser" had pulled out of his arse, ranging from £200-1000 on the expectation that the event would have the 5000+ visitors stated in the traders info pack. The claim of it being the county's largest food and music festival is made repeatedly on the socials.

The info pack said something about targeted advertising to 500,000 social media followers (the Fest actually has 3000 on insta and 2300 on fb).

There were a couple of things stated in the Ts&Cs that didn't transpire:

"[The Fest] will plan the layout of the event carefully in advance to try to satisfy the requirements of members of the public and Exhibitors alike." (Didn't happen).

"Details and map to be provided prior to the event" (there was no map, vendors list, schedule ect).

T&Cs also mention vendors badges and parking passes which didn't exist but that was inconsequential.

It says people who are drunk or under the influence of drugs will be ejected immediately (the "organiser" was pissed up and another vendor says they saw him smoking a joint when he ran off to hide in the woods and they followed him).

They did put in the T&Cs "The stallholder accepts and agrees that [The Fest] will not be held liable for its volume of trade at the event."

Is that alone enough to cover their arses, or would it be worth pursuing in small claims if they don't refund the pitch fee since vendors were massively oversold on the scale and standard of event they were paying to be at?

Next time a guy starts telling you about how he lives on chicken and broccoli, just tell him "oh you mean the pink diet? I thought that was just for women but it's great that you're in touch with your feminine side"

Too much/not enough of water/sun? Needs plant food? Curse need lifting?