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| - Bar none the worst!!! I have been waiting months to write this review. I need my daughters Bat Mitzvah to be over before sharing my awful experience with Living Energy. If you thinking about hiring Living Energy for party planning, DJ services, or lighting, read this review first.
I hired Toby to be my party planner. She had a flat fee contract of $3,500 and she promised to not mark up the contracts that she negotiated on our behalf. This sounded reasonable to me and I signed the contract.
The initial planning sessions went well. We picked out a venue for the event and solidified a contract. Then the pressure started to hire her DJ through Living Energy. I went to 3 different Mitzvah's to watch their DJ's and ALL the parties were flat and lame. They tried to make excuses, but their DJ's were terrible!! Go see them before you hire them!!
Not wanting to create an uncomfortable situation, we decided to hire a band - Sapphire Sky (they are amazing!!).
After we had picked the venue and the band, now was time for the "event extras." These are things like lighting, décor, a photo station, tattoo artist, airbrush artist, food items, video truck rental, etc. This is where the real trouble started!!
First, Toby gave me a RIDICULOUS contract for lighting through none other than Living Energy. It was $5,000 more than I ended up spending and she put a heavy pressure on me to sign the contract. Then came the contracts for the photo station and airbrush artist. All were around $1,000 more than I ended up spending for her "preferred vendors." Then came the décor package - another $3,000 more than I ended up spending.
I sat down with her and told her that the total cost was not in my budget. I looked at each item and asked simple questions like ..."Why does an airbrush artist cost $450 and hour without supplies??"
Finally, I went around her and called my the companies on my own, and found out that she was dramatically marking up the prices on EVERY ITEM!!! I have no proof that she was getting a kick-back from these companies, but I can tell you that I ended up with more services and saved over $14,000 from her original contracts. Needless to say, as soon as I told her that I was not using Living Energy for the lighting or her other vendors, she fired me.
My question is this ... If Toby made her money from her $3,500 planning fee and did not mark up other contracts, why would she fire me for negotiating contracts on my own??
I strongly recommend that people planning their child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah spend a few minutes and check the sanity of the pricing that they get from Living Energy. They are not honest and their DJ quality is lacking.
I am happy to help anyone planning a with the vendors that I used. Feel free to email me at zoneraich@gmail.com for information.
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