Kiki A.

Last week I was contacted by Global Housing Corp (further as GHC). At first I didn't understand who they were or why they were calling me. The phone connection was quite bad. During our conversation the agent, Emma Smith (khem... can't the name be any more original?) stated that GHC are working together with the exhibition that we are about to exhibit. I thought, well, okay, because similar offers come from other exhibitions too, legit ones. The only difference is that those are sent by e-mail and nobody calls. Red flag #1. Then during the conversation I agree that they would send me an offer for me, after asking me what's the budget I've intended to spend. The first times I said that I didn't know, because it depends on the booking date, the distance from the city center, the hotel, etc. She kept pushing me for the budget, so I gave her that. We agreed that she would send me an offer and call me afterwards. Which she did. She sent the offer, I had a look at it and she called me. She asked me if I'd seen the offer, I said yes. She asked me what I thought of it. I said it's OK. She asked me if I'd book. I told her that it's way too soon for me to tell, because I look at hotels maybe 3 months prior to the exhibition. She told me that the offer's valid only this week for the "discounted" prices stated. She also said that this offer is for ME not her. Classic manipulative sales tactic. Aggressive too. Red flag #2 and #3. I went to Booking.com and checked hotel prices for the same dates. The prices were similar to the ones stated in the email also in other hotels. So, why order through them if I can get similar price through the trustworthy Booking.com? Red flag #4, I decided to google this company and I found this page. Finally, I decided to inform the exhibition about these scammers and they agreed that they're scammers and will work on informing other exhibitors. The end.

Attached pics of e-mail received from them.