Bike SA 2016

Organizers of Expos, Festivals & Markets

<p>Hallo Tommie,</p> <p><br />Vendors Complaint!!<br /> I am writing this on behalf of myself and I know that all the owners of the Vendor's who supported & attended your Bike Expo 2016 on 02 Sept - 04 Sept 2016 are totally in agreement. We discussed this on Saturday and I am sorry to say that this was one of the WORST Expo's I/we have ever attended and will definitely never attend nor support any expos planned by your organization in the near future. Firstly all stall owners were promised that many bike clubs and thousands of people would attend the Bike Expo 2016. We counted roughly about 80-100 bikes in total for the duration of the expo with a few cars here and there. Computicket estimated not even 150 tickets sold. It was also stated that a club from Cape Town left on Thursday the 01 Sept and will join the Expo on the Saturday, well we still waiting for the club. We are still trying to determine if this was a Bike Expo, Food Expo, Bike & Food Festival...etc as there was NO bikes on display as expected, but except the Harley's of which I can recall. Car in the Park had over 4000 cars on display as that's what the CAR EXPO are  all about. It attracted over 40 000 people in one day!!! Now surely the aim of the so called Bike Expo 2016 is to display hundreds of different Bike's, but once again no bikes were on site. Even the few visitors who attended asked us where the bikes were of which we could not comment. The stall owners mostly supporting each other due to no people attending the Bike Expo 2016. On Saturday afternoon the majority of the Stall owners just packed up..they were fedup due to false promises. The place looked like a skeleton coast afterwards. To tell the truth all Stall owners lost thousands of rands and nobodyrecovered even their stall costs they paid not even mentioning about the cost of their stock. Also there seems to be different rates charged for food stalls which came with a shock when the stall owners discussion the situation duration of the Bike Expo 2016 on the weekend. Bike Expo 2016 Management must remember we all do weekly & weekends markets/expos/festivals and with the understanding that BIKE EXPO 2016 could be good expo they gave up other good expos/festivals...etc instead. The festivals that "boomed" last weekend were the Aarbeifees, Varkfees, Gariepfees..etc and many more also held on the 02 Sept - 04 Sept. We were mislead and expectations thrown in front of the Stall owners that the BIKE EXPO 2016 will be great especially being held on an extreme racetrack with all the clubs, music stage...etc.  </p> <p>I personally demand that BIKE EXPO 2016 Management need to refund each and every of the vendors for the costs they paid for the stall space...etc as well their total losses & petrol expenses..period! Many of the vendors are dependent on markets/expos/festivals for a living. Personally BIKE EXPO 2016 was 'n total loss and waste of time period. I hope management understands my/our concerns as well my constructive feedback and you as a Management team should do the right thing to refund all the vendors without any doubts or excuses. Sorry I would luv to give positive feedback but I have unfortunately nothing good to say about the management team, organizers & marketing of the BIKE EXPO 2016.  I just want to mention that there was more mobile toilets than people who attended and if you go onto social network your BIKE EXPO 2016 got very bad publicity and comments. Lastly and I think the most important about all was that certain members of the BIKE EXPO 2016 was drunk on Saturday afternoon & evening and that's a very bitter taste in  any decent Organizers mouth. How can Stall owners and the public respect organizers behaving like that...sorry its unacceptable.</p> <p><br />Awaiting a prompt reply from the BIKE EXPO 2016.</p>