Comments on: Perth Beer Fest – 10/11 Jan 09

By: Beer Festival 2010

Beer Festival 2010 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:51:18 +0000

Hello everyone we ran the bars for the beer festival last year. Firstly on last year. All the comments on your forum here are completely justified and for what it’s worth we apologise. We run a lot of bars for a lot of festivals and have never had issues that big before. It was the longest day of my life. How could such a thing happen? Well 1800 tickets were sold for the event and 4000 people were standing out the front of the gates before we event opened. So we got swamped. This year the event has moved to Supreme Court Gardens, we have tripled the bar and staffing sizes, the capacity has been capped at 5000 and there is a much bigger range of beers available. The reason the range of beers was limited last year was that we grabbed everything that was available it wasn’t as much as we had hoped. There will be 3 sizes of cup being $1 tastings, 200ml and 400ml cups. The promoter did give free tickets to the event to people who complained directly to them and we’d be happy to offer the same to any of you who would concider giving the event another chance.

By: James

James — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:20:00 +0000

THIS IS ON AGAIN!! 20-21 FEB 2010
BEING RUN BY THE SAME PEOPLE!!!!

http://www.beerfest.net.au/contact.html

http://www.beerfest.net.au/index.html

DON’T be scammed again Perth!!! Read ALL the comments on here AND ALL the other websites with people complaining about being RIPPED OFF and scammed.

I IMPLORE ANYONE thinking of going to think twice!

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:46:44 +0000

We could not believe how small it was considering the advertising. We struggled to find a reason why we paid $25 to get in, horrified at $10 a pint, and hugely dissapointed at blantantly being lied to regarding ‘tastings from $1′ which were non-existent.
Hardly ‘international’ when the main of the selection was australian and german.

HOPE THE ORGANIZERS TAKE NOTE OF CUSTOMERS/SUPPORTERS JUSTIFIED DISSAPOINTMENT!!

By: nat

nat — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:48:11 +0000

I wrote a letter of complaint, following the guidelines on the ACCC website. They have an example letter there, and I definitely think following through with the ACCC is legitimate given that this event was misadvertised.

I received a reply today from lisa (details on a post above) offering a full refund into my account.

I think everyone should pursue this option, especially since this event was partially funded by the city of perth.

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:35:02 +0000

TheWorstOfPerth: I was one of the first in the gates and I did a quick lap around to check out what beers were there… nowhere did I find a $1 beer tasting. the cheapest I saw was $4 for a 200mL cup. This to me reaks of false advertising and the organisers should be pulled over hot coals for it. I was also one of the first back out the gates because after only 1 hour of being there the queues to get a beer were about 20 minutes long. I recomend everbody who is pissed off enough write a letter to the city of Perth and forward that letter on to DoCEP as well, don’t bother writing the organisers because they will ignore it.

By: The Worst of Perth

The Worst of Perth — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:20:33 +0000

Was the $1 tasting a lie or was there a limited numner. Did anyone actually get a $1 taste?

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:46:31 +0000

“Jason’s” Post is an almost word for word post that was made to The Perth Files, Stu’s Blog & The Worst Of Perth – it sounds like the organisers are trying their hardest to polishing their turd of an event.

BTW Simone, did you get the Perth City Council Minutes of the Proposal I found via Lazy aussie ?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:02:03 +0000

Jason – and how much are they paying you to say that?

or are you just completely retarded? because everyone who went that has ever been outside their front door before understood how bad it was

By: CBD

CBD — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:55:22 +0000

Waste of time, I will never attend another beer festival in Perth again.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:34:07 +0000

I thought the festival was excellent. What is everyone complaining about ?
Well done event organizers, on a well thought out, and exceptionally well organised event.