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Complaint Review: Happily Ever Laughter - Nationwide

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Happily Ever Laughter Bait and Switch Rip off Fremont Nationwide

*Author of original report: Buyer be aware

*Author of original report: 42 Employees with picture

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I spent 2 hours trying to understand her prices and packages finally today I called. Do you have the Face painting package for 12 kids or less that you say is 140 dollars for 1 hour? Will I get the face painting that it shows on the sight, full faces, butterfies ,etc the whole face painted? She said sure as long as you buy the 90 min package for 210$ plus milage. No I want the $ 140 as seen on the sight I said. She said we do not do that package on the weekends, only the $ 210 for 90 min package.  I said I did not see a note that that is a weekend rule on her sight! I asked my friends to look at a copy of the ad we did not see that. Bait and Switch  is a possible form of Fraud  when the customers are baited with a low price and then it is switched or not available so you need to buy a higher one.   So even with a small group as you suggested I do not get these pretty face paint but rather simple design that is not shown. Unless I go for 90 min or a extra entertainer on weekends. Actually I can't get the hour pakage at all unless I want to do my party on bargain days according to you.

Then on the same pages it said if I buy this face painting package I can get Free balloons. Now I happen to no that the codes on free are really a fine line. Most people in business understand that and do not go there for that reason. So if I  get free balloons and it is still in my hour that I am paying for what does that mean to me. It means that the amount of kids must be  less or the quality of the work goes down to simple face painting.  Now she said if we stay for more time we can do our normal balloon made with 1 to 3 balloons {wait a min. the other companies said 3 to 10 balloons} So this company is already doing less. If there is over 15 kids we will only do 1 balloon example sword or heart.  So what that means to me is if I take this wonderful gift that my time is  paying for, the quality of the work will go down as the entertainer is rushed to do basic work. 

The good news for you is I read on your sight employement  that the more advanced girls get perks. So this helps you send out people with little skills to all of us who take the bait and say sure I would love free balloons! Faster for you to hire out more little faries if they have less skills. So out of the 210 fee I give you the fairy gets 80 plus expences it says on your site. I see why they must be employees for that would be an illegal booking fee. I think its 12% or something like that. I have to ask myself. what other things are you ripping us off on.  It is so hard to understand her packages you can not see clearly what you are getting.  I think it is smarter to go with a performer who works for them self and they keep it all. Its just me but I think they would be more moved to do a better job with the full amount in their pocket then a third.

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#2 Author of original report

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AUTHOR: Saralyn - ()

POSTED: Thursday, February 26, 2015


. There are many questions you can clarify to the public at that time about the Internet booking process. For many years I have watched  Happily ever laughter work .Since I am a expert in the kid market I can see what other miss. Like how can she get all her booking off Gig master  and Gig salad when they are not even foreign corporations in CA? Gig master  is a CT corporation and CT is supporting  Jim Hood from Mississippi.

 

We are required to have business license for each city we work in last time I looked she did not EVEN have one for Sacramento. I found only one in Fremont weird with 42 girls working from Santa Cruz to LA and every other state

. My second problem with this company is that she is not a foreign corporation yet she advertises in all states on Google. She also post on Face book that she has 42 employees with a photo, the most current stats I can find is 5. If these young girls are not employees then she is taking 2/3 of there salary. That looks to me like she is possible exploiting these young girls. That really troubles me. Booking fees are usually about 12% not they get 80$ and she gets the remaining 130$. Yet she states on her sight that they are all employees and insured!!!!!

 

What about  the question to me about her saying on the sight that all the girls are insured and employees. If she is working all the states  that she is not licensed to work how can they be insured or employees?

 

I am not am attorney so I could be wrong about my questions concerning this company. Times are changing with Internet. Especially with all the Internet laws being questioned in the courts at this time. I have sent all this to the FTC, State attorney , and higher to get answers concerning the laws and asked them to check this out.

 

 The question now is are all the laws set in place to protect our families thrown out the window with the inter net? We can just have anyone called Miss Daisy come into our home handle our kids and they are insured because she has a blanket policy that covers anyone she wants in any state who may or may not be employees! So why are the rest of us getting business license ?  My insurance in this field does not cover employees. Each person must have there own entertainers policy in there real name.

 

Unless all laws are now thrown out with the bath water we have some questions that need to be addressed to protect our children and our homes.  It would be very sad to find out the insurance did not cover the unnamed person you let into your home after a child chokes on a balloon. It would be a great way to lose your home. And you have no idea who they even are because you did not ask there real name and there is no paper trail of business license in any city. We must stop allowing strangers into our homes to handle our kids!!!!!

 

.These are my personal opinions said in good faith. Honest and sincere care for the good of the families.


 

 

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AUTHOR: Saralyn - ()

POSTED: Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Now the owner is showing a group picture of 42 girls on facebook saying they are growing!!!!! Can't believe we have 42 !!!! On her web site it says ''All the people we use are employees, and insured". Now let me see you work the whole state of CA without business license in most cities. And you are not a foreign corporation and you work all states! You get your jobs off of Gigmasters.com and Gigsalad who are Not foreign corporations in CA. but advertise here anyway. Can all this be that you are saying a big fat Lie? Lieing is a crime!!!!!!And it damages the whole nation and those you are deceiving. Maybe fairys will be our next Christmas movie.  They can fly you threw your life. Christmas past and Christmas present and see all the people you have deceived to get rich. These people are not Fairy godmothers!!!!

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