Loving Cats WorldwideReviews of lcwwgroup.com

I've visited a few shows now, after my first visit I bought a lifetime pass and cannot wait to visit more shows this year. The organisers are fantastic and always helpful when I've emailed, and I've always had questions/queries answered. The atmosphere at the shows is welcoming and friendly. The people with stalls and the people showing their cats are always super friendly and happy to chat and answer any questions. Keep up the good work!

This is a complete scam. I purchased tickets as a Christmas gift for the Belfast January 2025 event. It was cancelled at short notice (terrible excuse about wanting to wait until after Christmas to tell people!) Rescheduled to unsuitable dates in July. When I asked for a refund, I have had excuse after excuse and now they are ignoring my emails. First, they needed time to get things in order, then they couldn’t find my email address (that they have emailed me on!). I have had to raise a dispute through my credit card company to try to get my money back. Please don’t waste your money. I have seen the comments from the organiser on FB, responding to people’s concerns. He actually told one person “do you know who I am”. No effort to help people to a resolution, or apologise to those who were not told the event was cancelled and actually travelled to the venue. Avoid!

They cancelled the event in Belfast without notice. We travelled 2 hours each way to go to it only to arrive with nothing happening. We weren't the only people either. They claimed they sent out emails 3 times before the event that it was cancelled, this is a lie. First time we got notice about it was the evening AFTER the event was supposed to have taken place. They claim they changed the schedule in December, this is a lie, as we bought our tickets mid-December, and many others online bought tickets in January for it. They're refusing to give out refunds.

I wish I could give this ZERO stars! My daughter booked tickets to the Belfast show 18&19 January’25 as a Birthday treat. We went to huge expense hiring a cat sitter to take care of our own cat, taxis,bus & train tickets, hotel accommodation etc. When we arrived at the venue it was completely closed & another couple of would-be attendees told us that it had been cancelled & postponed until July! We were shocked as we received zero communication from the organisers. When we contacted them they kept insisting that they had sent us 3 emails advising us that it wasn’t going ahead. We checked spam/trash etc. and zilch from them. Ironically at 8pm that night (8 hours AFTER the event was due to have commenced) we received an email. Clearly this was sent as a ‘test’ or some coverup to pretend it was our Yahoo servers issue - where are the other 2 you claim to have also sent?! We got zero apology from the organisers and were told we would get a 2 day pass instead of a one day ticket for the rescheduled event - which I’m 100% positive will be cancelled again as they clearly didn’t sell enough tickets or have enough vendors. I wish we had read Trust Pilot and saw these awful reviews before we booked. The self professed ‘cat expert’ is a scam artist, he has zero qualifications and clearly no business skills either. He commented on a FB cat group page asking me “Do you know who I am”? In response to my complaint about the show. It proves he’s a total narcissist & has zero empathy for his customers. Avoid at all costs.

LCWW, Loving Cats World Wide! What a load of rubbish. Should be Loving Cash World Wide. The owner of this company is a con man. He has been bankrupt more than once. He scams people not only for their money but also on his knowledge of cats. He has the gift of the gab. The cost of entry not only for the general public but also each cat is exorbitant. The amount of cats attending is very low and there are very few different breeds. I would avoid at all cost. If you want to see a proper cat show Google GCCF and Tica. Proper show and proper qualified judges.

They scam small businesses. The owner seems incompetent/money hungry, if you change the dates/venue of your show you need to refund the vendors/attendees that can’t make it to the event, or worse you change the venue to something not accessible or advertised to the public eg the Birmingham show where you advertised it to be at the NEC only to then remove all mentions of that from your website and then actually change the venue to be a agricultural barn that is 80 MILES away! Who would attend that? you’re nothing without the driving force of the vendors and to pull the rug from under them is unacceptable and I hope this review deters anyone from working with this event in the future. The owner is very casual about the lack of refunds to these people as if it were growing pains, but the reality is they’ve been a registered business for 10 years and should not just be so nonchalant about it. Small businesses can’t take this on the chin, especially after covid. There is also a severe lack of advertising meaning awful footfall for businesses that still went ahead with the show.

They exploit small businesses. Not a great experience at all. Me along with a fair few other traders feel the same way. They lie about footfall, overcharge for space, move the venue around too often in the build up to the show and don't advertise enough at all. Like a lot of the other reviews here explain, I would stay clear. Also please be mindful that the LCWW group are the over arching company and they hold events under different names, but all owned by the same people. Please look into this before trading/attending as a paying customer.

I was so thrilled when I first discovered the LCWW events…so to be burning this bridge is saying a lot for me. First up- the other vendors and cat owners/breeders are incredibly lovely people. This is a problem with the organisers not the exhibitors. Over the last year I tabled at 5 of their events, and 2 of those I barely made table costs back let alone hotel/travel/stock. They take vendors money, with no curation at all. Ali express resellers, AI apps, they don’t care, they just want the money. Judges for the cat competitions haven’t been paid, and it seems like they just start up in a new country every time people catch on to the scam. (They’re hitting Australia next year). As much as I love seeing all the cats, it’s just not worth it as a vendor, we small creative businesses need to be careful with our time and money! My first inkling of things going wrong was the Manchester June event. With two dates and venue changes it was a mess with very little footfall, and no one even on the door… The next chaos event was Stoneleigh in September with less than 100 tickets sold and a completely empty venue. Then there was the event booked for the NEC in Birmingham event that was moved 80 miles south to an empty agricultural barn in the middle of nowhere with no heating… The final straw was the London event. When booking it back in august, it was set for February 2025 at the London Olympia. Then I noticed that the Olympia part had been removed from their website in some places and that there still hadn’t been any advertising by late December… Most events like this will advertise well in advance (cat show live are already advertising for their September 2025 show!) When I contacted the main vendor contact in the UK, she told me she’d be surprised if the London event was even in London at all! So I requested a refund December 14th which they said would be issued by December 20th, on which date they informed me that operations had moved to Portugal (?!!) and to give them all my bank details etc and address. I immediately did but the refund still hasn’t been actioned…and what’s worse is that they’ve not responded to any emails since. The link to buy tickets for the London event led to an error page as of last weekend and vendors still don’t have an update for the venue. Wait - as of this morning there’s a new venue for London and new dates…it’s now on a Friday and Saturday valentines weekend, meaning hotels will be impossible to book. Oh and vendors still haven’t had an official email about the venue change. There’s only one official LCWW event planned in the UK this year, the others being advertised are now being run by smaller companies made of vendors and judges…something isn’t right. So basically- avoid. It’s a scam, exploiting small businesses and cat lovers.