Underhanded tactics?

[DeargDoom]

Got this e-mail from my sis over the weekend. Its quite a bizarre little tale and I wonder if the chancer involved often operates this sort of nasty scam? Names have been changed etc etc.




"Meant to tell you - I was talking to Amy about her wedding. She told me 2 DJ's turned up. Basically she was emailing around for quotes, as you do, and finally picked some guy called Martin. When Martin turned up on the night however, there was a DJ called Lee Carroll or something setting up.He was one of the guys she had emailed for a quote but had not gone ahead and booked him.The best man and the husband said they would sort it - they ended up paying the "Real" DJ his fee, and the pseudo DJ was the one who went ahead and performed.I suppose they didn't want a fuss, but Amy said if she had handled it she would have turfed the pseudo DJ out on point of principle."

I know theres a lots of respected wedding djs who post here, so I'd like to know their views on this one.

[Avid Listener]

Wow,.... You'd want to have some balls in fairness to pull a stunt like that.... I'm with the bride would've turfed him out. I'm presuming like me most wedding dj's wouldn't even turn up to a gig without confirmation... weather it be e-mailing or like i do a phone call a week in advance

That's just mad....

[mini-fanatic]

This happens quite often, mainly where the resident DJ arrives to set up for the gig. In a lot of cases it is because the hotel themselves did not tell the resident DJ that the couple had booked someone else.

[Avid Listener]

wow...I'm actually shocked to hear this happens quite often but surely if the resident presumed he was playing he would still have gotten in contact with the couple about music and general ideas they have...no?

I'm resident in a couple of hotels and it's rarely that they actually book me for a wedding (oh wait they do but i make a point of calling the couple and confirming it)... it's usually my number that's passed on and the couple make the decision. I thought this was kinda the norm.

[Hood_Rich]

The mistake here was to even entertain the jock who turned up just because he thought he was doing the gig. It has happened me twice personally over the years.
The thing to remember here is this shit goes on all the time but usually behind the scenes. I used to work for a well known wedding jock many moons ago. I would be told "your name is bob when you turn up at the gig" (name is changed for obvious reasons). What I'm trying to say here is even though some guys are around a while at this game, there are cowboys amongst the ranks. An email of location and time and sure if your there before the jock thats meant to be there they'll just go with the cowboy anyway. From a consumers point of view its simple. You've booked a reputiple jock, paid a deposit and no question s/he will turn up.
Incendently are there any female jocks doing weddings?

[Rob Ryan]

I once had a similar experience, but in the end the client was such a bitch that we BOTH walked off and left her without a DJ. They HAD booked two DJs by mistake. We agreed if they added to the deposite to make up for the travel (it was outside dublin) and time spend one of us would stay. They refused and we both left!