WCA November 2011

Editor ( 编辑 ): ............................................... David Bell Features Editor – USA ( 专栏编辑 – 美国 ): .............................. Dorothy Fabian Editorial Assistant ( 助理文字编辑 ): ............................... Christian Bradley Design/Production ( 设计/制作 ): ........... Julie Tomlin Production ( 制作 ): ................................ Lisa Benjamin Translation ( 翻译经理 ): .............................. Tony Zhou Jianye Yang Linda Li Advertising/Marketing : ......................... Jason Smith ( 广告/营销 ):

What exhibition? Very few things shock me, I have to admit. My eyes and ears have witnessed and heard a lot during my 44 years and I am a firm believer in the saying ‘believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear’.

UK, ROW, USA, Canada Giuliana Benedetto Italy Hendrike Morriss Germany, Austria, Switzerland Linda Li 中国 Jeroo Vandrevala India/Pakistan

But I was left amazed by the lengths that Chinese ‘company’ Copex Global went to trying to take cash from wire and cable companies for a fake exhibition.

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Whilst giving publicity to such companies is not something I particularly enjoy, it has to be done to prevent people and companies from parting with money for nothing in return. Our story on p9 goes into the full details but it is easy to understand how some people are duped into believing these very simple scams. The people behind the ‘company’ concerned were incredibly forthcoming. Having seen their promotional literature – bearing our logo without our permission – and listing a veritable who’s who of the industry as speakers, it is easy to see how you can be taken in. A flurry of emails after we had been alerted to this were all answered. Indeed, after an apology was issued to us we were asked if we would like to support the event! I made a number of telephone calls to Shanghai. None of my questions were answered but my calls were returned time after time.

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And that included a call after I had spoken to the hotel in Shanghai where the event was supposedly happening. They had, of course, no record of such an event.

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There was no attempt to avoid talking to me, as I had expected. Finally an apology was sent saying sorry for

using our name as media partner, and then a further email informing us that the event had been cancelled. If only they showed a tenth of that enthusiasm in running a legitimate business. . . just imagine the results.

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