Eric Mayers of LMG, LLC                                                                                   Shakedown Fest

Eric Mayers  Cell: 503-475-4913   Prod. Mgr. eric@lmgllc.com

 

Totally misrepresented his company’s experience and ability to secure vendors and sponsors. This one thing created such horrific problems and stress, it ended up being a contributing factor for the show’s cancellation.

 

Eric was also contracted to secure sponsors. In a city of 105 microbrews, he couldn’t get one sponsor of any kind. Just a complete fraud and imbecile.

 

I don’t believe Eric or Kayla ever physically met with any sponsors, nor did they ever make a physical presentation to them. How many beers did they contact for sponsorship and how did they contact them.

 

Totally unprofessional, uncaring effort. They were going to end up charging is $5,000 to secure $11,400 worth of vendors. When this was brought up with Lowell by Hal and later Peter, he brushed it off as a small thing that they were doing a good job on.

 

July: I asked him 5-6 times in the last few weeks if he wanted me to take over the Vending operation as far as soliciting was concerned. I was hearing more reports that potential vendors could not reach them.

 

Though requested in acknowledged emails, they never tendered the vendor agreements.

 

Once the event switched from Hornings to Columbia Meadows confirmed by July 11, I requested the new vendor application and other docs to inspect them. I requested them for weeks. If I got them it was not until my attorney pushed them for them in August.

We never signed the vendor agreements. Just sent the checks and the vendor name was re[orted occasionally on a print out. The vendors, who could not be verified, were demanding

refunds after the festival.

 

Eric acknowledged 2 weeks before that I was to receive a final list of all vendors on the 25th by noon. This did not happen. He basically ignored me that morning.

 

Weeks before the event, he also asked me if I’d rather have Brad Lyman run concessions during the show rather than Kayla Hutt who proved incompetent and ineffective. Eric was walking around with Kayla backstage the morning of the 25th and Brad was not there. 

 

Some of the vendors claim they were never made aware of the venue change.