WetpixelTravel issues

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This is the summary that @Alex_Mustard posted on his group chat.

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First late last year, Adam/Wetpixel had a trip on Damai. I have heard that after the trip Damai told all guests that they had not been paid in full for the trip and also he did not pay the gratuities to the boat (which he had pre-collected). Adam was supposed to be running a workshop - but did not attend because of "health reasons" - and unsurprisingly he did not refund the workshop fee or his travel costs to the group.
Next up were two Wetpixel Lembeh workshops. Which I was hired to teach. Personally I was not paid for 3 weeks of work and also not refunded for my travel. Adam has also not paid the gratuity money to the resort and dive staff that he pre-collected (which is a lot of money with 28 guests attending). Also several people had to cancel from this trip and Adam agreed to refund, but was too ill to actually send payments.
Then in May Wetpixel had a cenote workshop in Mexico. Again he did not attend. And nothing was pre-paid or organised until the day before the guests arrived. Food was supposed to be included. Adam asked people to pay and he would refund…
However, despite this being in May when Adam was supposedly too ill to even send an email to any of us - he joined the group for multiple Zoom sessions of teaching and image review.
And then the Wetpixel Red Sea example, two weeks of liveaboards. Everyone has paid - no money or booking with the liveaboard 

It would seem a mix of situation of partially paid trips, tips gone missing, and trips not booked at all and then paid by the guests in their entirety. And guest unable to attend and not reimbursed (the latter however it would not stand a case for refund in my opinon unless the spot was resold as the trips was rescheduled due to force majeure and wetpixel terms and conditions state that quite clearly).

It would be useful to collect a log of all those situation to evaluate the potential liabilities of wetpixel which in turn determine how likely survival is. In addition if for some reason the management of wetpixel took money out of wetpixel that made it insolvent this may become of interest of the police and the authorities if there is intent of fraud that can be demonstrated.

As explained elsewhere regardless of all of this in UK there are specific ways to make claim for money that is due and unless people join forces and instruct a lawyer this will be dealt on a case by case basis.

If you have an address in UK you can file a small claim if your amount is under £10,000.
I believe there are some UK residents affected. Unfortunately if you are not resident or have no address this process can’t be followed.
I want to clarify that being awarded the claim is different from enforcing it in case the other party doesn’t pay.

https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money


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