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DMX Will
09-05-2007, 10:15 PM
I (Like quite a few) got an email a while ago from 1venue.co.uk. I read on another forum (unnamed) that this was bad news, and alot of people had just hit the delete key to the email.

I took a slightly different route, in that I followed on and "registered my intrest" with the company (carefully reading everything as I went along). Now I had this email today, explaining how the system works


Thank you for your ongoing interest. One of our consultants will ring you in the near future. In the meantime may we take this opportunity to tell you more.

You will see an example of how your listing will look, which will be.


Company name

Your Location

Whether your liability insured, and PAT tested

The price for a basic 4 hour set which is the price you will set.

Under the 4 hour set price will be an information link, which customers can click on to view more information about you and your setup.


The listed price is for a basic disco of 4 hours. If you have bigger or smaller setups and wish to let customers know or you charge for extra things like i.e. after a set distance you charge for travelling etc, you can put that information into the more info link. We will also ask you how much you charge each hour after the 4 hours, because as you well know not all parties are just 4 hours.

Once a customer goes onto the 1venue.co.uk site they will go to the services menu select as in your case a mobile disco or karaoke, and then select the area. This will then bring up all the discos in that area. Once they have read through the choices they are asked to select 3 as a provisional booking. If they have selected yourself we will ring you to let you know we have a provisional booking wanting you. If you accept the booking, we then ask the customer to go ahead with confirming the booking.

At this stage we take a 10% commission fee off your listed price, and ask the customer to pay that 10% as a deposit. The rest of the balance is then paid to you on the night in CASH. We recommend that you add a little bit extra to your listing price to cover our 10% commission, you still get the money you want for your 4 hour set, and we get our 10%.

No one loses and everyone is happy.

Lastly we do make customers sign a terms and conditions too. They agree too many things, like cancellation fees which are as follows. 28 days or less 25% of balance fee payable, 14 days or less 50% payable, 7 days or less full balance 100% payable, which goes to you. If you do get cancelled we will try our best to get you another booking, but understand we can’t guarantee this. Also customers are told if there isn’t parking they will be charged extra, if there is early setup of more than 1 hour before start time there is an hourly charge. If parties are up stairs the customer must let us know and this there may be an extra charge. If anyone abuses DJ’s or equipment the damage is at their cost.

If you have any more questions either you can wait for when our consultant calls or e-mail us at [email protected]

Please find below the link that will activate the registration form. Included in this form:

An example of how you’re listing will be displayed on the 1venue.co.uk website.

Text area to enter your description that you will want customers to see when viewing your listing

1venue.co.uk Terms & Conditions
Once you have submitted this form, your details will automatically be passed to 1venue.co.uk. Once you have been registered on to our system, you will then receive you personal identification number via email. Please remember this number as we shall use this number to identify your company. This number will also be required when sending any future emails to 1venue.co.uk.

Activate Registration Form (http://www.1venue.co.uk/djreg.html) Click on the form link or if the link doesn’t open
copy and paste this link into your browser
http://www.1venue.co.uk/djreg.html
Kind Regards

1venue.co.uk

Now I'm undecided if this is "good news" or bad, OK they take a 10% commission fee, but as they say, you can make your fee higher to cover this. So as I'm undecided I would like your opinions, and indeed hopefully at the same time make you aware of them (for good or bad purposes).

Go..... ;)

Sam
09-05-2007, 10:35 PM
hmm.. seems ok..
but..


Also customers are told if there isn’t parking they will be charged extra, if there is early setup of more than 1 hour before start time there is an hourly charge. If parties are up stairs the customer must let us know and this there may be an extra charge. If anyone abuses DJ’s or equipment the damage is at their cost.

Does this mean the DJ will get the extra money?

I don't know if I am being silly here but personally I would want a bit of dosh up front.... and would we get a contact for the person in advance?? I would like to discuss this personally.. make sure they are clear of the money they need to bring etc. music requirments etc.

although i guess there is no harm in signing up and seeing what comes your way!! (i may do.)

Danno13
09-05-2007, 10:39 PM
Well i don't take payments as cash on night anymore, so I wouldn't be interested. And cancellations less than 30 days in advance should be full fee.. not 25%.

mikeee
09-05-2007, 10:45 PM
Reading it, it does appear the info is losely based on a musicians contract as opposed to an agents contract. They are not charging you to be there, see what happens.

Just had a look at there T&C's, I don't think 15 is a 100% cosher, as an "agent" does have a legal responsiblity to check if you have PAT & PLI.

DMX Will
09-05-2007, 11:21 PM
No big red alerts popping up so thats good, I'll continue with them, and see what happens (and report accordingly). TBH, im not really sure why I'm doing this, as I don't actually need anymore work...lol, but hey I can always turn them down ;)

electricnite
10-05-2007, 07:38 AM
e mail.. got it..deleted it ! muppets. enough said

DMX Will
10-05-2007, 11:40 AM
e mail.. got it..deleted it ! muppets. enough said

and your judgement based upon what exactly?

Sam
10-05-2007, 02:37 PM
e mail.. got it..deleted it ! muppets. enough said

how an you say that without a reason...:rolleyes:

Shaun
10-05-2007, 02:43 PM
how an you say that without a reason...:rolleyes:

Isn't receiving unsolicited mail reason enough?.

rob1963
10-05-2007, 02:47 PM
If they are not charging a signing up fee, it might be worth joining & seeing what comes your way.

I notice they don't say how much work you will get, so it might well be none!

The other thing I noticed is that the client will pay on the night in cash. What if they want to pay in advance like many of MY clients do?

Shakermaker Promotions
10-05-2007, 03:41 PM
I got one of these emails today, read through it and then by chance I came on here and saw this topic.
In my view, they have obviously gone through other websites or forums to get our details. I'm not bothered whether it's a good deal or a bad one to be honest. I don't like being part of one huge mailout and one that doesn't look that professional either (spelling mistakes etc along the way that do not make it look that great). IF I want to go on to something like this then it's more than likely that I will go out of my way to find reputable ones and not let them come to me. As it happens, I too have more than enough work at present but I still wouldn't turn more work down, I would just sort it out myself.

This seems like someone has come up with the idea of making money just for being some kind of go between / co-ordinator / agent / someone who will sit there and do all the admin and get cuts from DJ's for doing.....funnily enough, something I have thought about doing in years to come (I'm sure a number of us have to), the difference is, IF I was doing it, I would be a bit more professional about it. I agree that most of my customers either pay me a week in advance or on the night by cheque. I don't deal with cash and also, you only need a 'chancer' of a customer on the night who say isn't happy with the service and won't pay OR says to you at the end of the night that they have paid in full already OR even worse, does a runner...then you have to go all round the houses trying to get the money you are owed.

In other words, I pressed the DELETE button too!

rob1963
10-05-2007, 03:52 PM
I got one of these emails today, read through it and then by chance I came on here and saw this topic.
In my view, they have obviously gone through other websites or forums to get our details. I'm not bothered whether it's a good deal or a bad one to be honest. I don't like being part of one huge mailout and one that doesn't look that professional either (spelling mistakes etc along the way that do not make it look that great). IF I want to go on to something like this then it's more than likely that I will go out of my way to find reputable ones and not let them come to me. As it happens, I too have more than enough work at present but I still wouldn't turn more work down, I would just sort it out myself.

This seems like someone has come up with the idea of making money just for being some kind of go between / co-ordinator / agent / someone who will sit there and do all the admin and get cuts from DJ's for doing.....funnily enough, something I have thought about doing in years to come (I'm sure a number of us have to), the difference is, IF I was doing it, I would be a bit more professional about it. I agree that most of my customers either pay me a week in advance or on the night by cheque. I don't deal with cash and also, you only need a 'chancer' of a customer on the night who say isn't happy with the service and won't pay OR says to you at the end of the night that they have paid in full already OR even worse, does a runner...then you have to go all round the houses trying to get the money you are owed.

In other words, I pressed the DELETE button too!

Hi Shakermaker,

I completely agree with you here.

I had the same email, and deleted it having read the first few sentences!

Shakermaker Promotions
10-05-2007, 03:59 PM
Cheers Rob.

CRAZY K
10-05-2007, 05:23 PM
No big red alerts popping up so thats good, I'll continue with them, and see what happens (and report accordingly). TBH, im not really sure why I'm doing this, as I don't actually need anymore work...lol, but hey I can always turn them down ;)

Will, have sent you a PM

CRAZY K

DK Karaoke
11-05-2007, 02:45 PM
This seems like someone has come up with the idea of making money just for being some kind of go between / co-ordinator / agent / someone who will sit there and do all the admin and get cuts from DJ's

I got one of these as well, haven't done anything about yet. Just had a thought, what if its Aplus in disguise??? or someone like that!

Martyn

Sam
11-05-2007, 03:14 PM
why would it be aplus in disguise...... what would aplus gain?


and i thinkt here are some valuable points... i must admit i get a lot of disco related emails in where obviosuly they have grabbed my email address from a directory or something... i dont mind... but it is when the constantly send the same email out that gets me..

But i think if it is free then there isn't much harm in joining up - as i probs will do to see what happens :-)