East Euro Link, Ltd. is a conference production company which invited members of the Consular Corps from the USA to their conference on Eastern Europe in Bucharest, Romania. We decided that we would travel from the US to Bucharest, Romania if we could get tickets to the event. Our reservation was send just one day before the deadline, a month before the event.
The registration advice said that the company would confirm the registration and invoice us within one week of registration. This was not received. Several calls and emails confirmed that we had not been registered. We realized that we had missed the registration date, and cancelled our travel plans.
Three days before the event, East Euro Link contacted us, requesting a copy of the unsuccesful registration. We provided it by fax.
The next day, two days before the event, East Euro Link suddenly invoiced and confirmed us for a conference which was, by that time, obviously impossible for us to attend.
We immediately reminded East Euro Link that we had not received timely confirmation, and would not be attending. East Euor Link billed us GBP 2, 478.91 regardless.
East Euro Link then immediately assigned the debt to the collection firm of Daniels & Silverman in Liverpool. Daniels & Silverman mailed us a demand letter in the U.S.
The collection actions of East Euro Link and Daniels & Silverman letter does not comply with US Federal Trade Commission Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, as well as UK Safe Harbor Privacy Regulations, The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (18 U.S.C. 2510-2521), and privacy protocols of the 1963 Vienna Convention pertaining to consular relations.
The funds demanded are not owed, as the provider failed to perform in a timely fashion, and only decided to enter the data and bill us after massive fallout of registrations to their event.
Be careful not to provide information which could be used for billing to East Euro Link, Ltd. Under no circumstances allow them near credit card data.
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