An email from the FlashEurope venue
I was not going to post anything further about Flash Europe because I pulled out of speaking following a total lack of communication with the organizational committee (and a not-too-pleasant phone call I received following my last blog post on the subject) but I received an email from the venue today that I believe will be of interest to the community. I present it here without comment. You can make your own decisions.
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Dear all,
Last July we received the request of Flash Europe to place their 2004 meeting in our facilities and met Harold Polo personally. On september 2004, the dates of the meeting were moved to March 2005. We confirmed our availability and interest to held this Event. After some time without emails, nither phone calls and the total lack of communication from Flash Europe' part, last december 2004 we have been forced to cancel all the meeting rooms reservation and we have not heard about HAROLD POLO so far. So please, be advised that as far as we are concerned the Flash Europe Meeting next march is not happening in our Campus. Thank you.
We hope this will clear some of the questions you had.
PS.As I cannot post my coment, I am sending an email to all ouf you. We remain at your disposal,Kindest Regards,
Agencia de Promocio d'Activitats i Congressos - UAB Campus
[Sent by Meritxell Navarro]
Comments
Kind Regards
Guy
by Guy Watson on 2005-02-09 21:52:55
by Matt Voerman on 2005-02-09 23:57:43
by Erik-Jan ten Brinke on 2005-02-10 11:10:49
Registrant:
LangleyAirforce Base CIA Virginia
ATTN: FLASHEUROPE.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA. 20172-0447
Domain Name: FLASHEUROPE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Langley Airforce Base, Langley Airforce Base f68gb58k8fu@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
Langley Airforce Base CIA Virginia
ATTN: FLASHEUROPE.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
570-708-8780
Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC. (HOST-ORG) customerservice@networksolutions.com
13200 Woodland Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20171-3025
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620
Record expires on 17-May-2007.
Record created on 17-May-2004.
Database last updated on 10-Feb-2005 09:12:30 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SECURE.NET 192.220.124.10
NS2.SECURE.NET 192.220.125.10
This listing is a Network Solutions Private Registration.
any more questions...?
so what should we do to get our money back?
by dctrl on 2005-02-10 14:20:50
I am only responding because others may be in my position.
Today I requested a recall on my funds I sent to FlashEurope.If I don't get my money back in a week, my only option is to start a wire fraud investigation.
Whether the conference is happening or not, it's been a MONTH since I sent my money for registration. I've never been exposed to such laxidasical, irrepsonsible silence in 15 years in the multimedia industry.
BTW, the above post about the CIA - the info is true according to WHOis, but I'm betting it's a joke or a faked name. But that doesn't make the trail easier to follow.
I actually called the numbers there (they are for Network Solutions) and I learned that the host of FlashEurope.com is secure.net - itself a weird site with a 1999 copyright notice - run by some group in Colorado, USA. The host for FlashEurope's email, uvision.net, is bouncing all emails to registration@flasheurope.com and has yet to answer a phone call (I have placed several).
As I am not made of money and my Spanish is still a bit rusty, I have not called META Media Studios, another sponsor...curious how they don't seem to have a major web presence...
"wyrd" had some hopeful comments on 01.26.2005 on a related post here at FlashAnt, saying within a week he'd have more info. He sounded so hopeful. What happened?
by Nathan Moody on 2005-02-10 22:52:16
I know I'm not the only one in this situation. I don't know if it's worth chasing this guy or not, but if anyone else is thinking of contacting fraud units or the police, and need more evidence, people involved etc, feel free to contact me.
Emma
by Emma Steer on 2005-04-20 12:04:55
by Flash Ant: Flash and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Blog . :: The sorry end of FlashEurope on 2005-04-21 05:27:58
by Flash Ant: Flash and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Blog . :: The sorry end of FlashEurope on 2005-04-21 05:28:17
By leaving the site up, the reputations of the speakers who were originally associated with it (in good faith) are possibly being damaged.
by Matt Voerman on 2005-04-22 04:03:18
I'm who some time ago wrote about that I rented together with some erasmus students a flat in Barcelona in the street comte borrell 122 (Harold rented to us and we gave him the money for 3 months but he didn't give anything to the real owner, and also he didn't pay the rent for the last 10 months). I just wanted to inform you and specially to Atomick that he doesn't need to speak good spanish to call to Meta media Studios, cause Meta Media Studios is also Harold's fraudulent company... I know cause he recieves many letters in the flat for Meta Medaia Studios, and also for IQ Networks Dynamics. You should know also that he told us that he would come back to the flat in 6th april maximum, but he didn't came back... and a friend of him called Anke, who is living in Barcelona, that is the only person with who Harold is "in contact", told us that he was coming back on 20th april,but he didn't come back also.... This man disapperad... We think he is in Köln maybe, but we are not sure.. The owner of the flat is taking legal steps with him, but the legal steps are very very slowly... So everything is a big shit... and this man is the worst of the worst...
by airun on 2005-04-22 12:04:03