sam88

at the moment Foals album is a perfect pre friday night song to get them juices flowing...

funnily enough i spoke to a guy behind the till first and he was a right arsehole, after asking to speak to a manager it went something like "*laugh* well what are they going to do??" thank god i managed to get hold of one. tit.

im not sure what the new company is called, i thought it was reverb. Its still got all the sound control sh*t up on the walls and that, probably be a few weeks before it gets up and running and has a proper (re)launch.

Cheers, its such a weight off! It seemes like a really friendly place. Was eyeing up the yamaha EUB whilst there only £1000 in the sale. ......

well its been a very successful day. having gone to the salford sound control the new manager there was incredibly helpful and let me take away the ashdown head that had been sitting in the manchester city branch for these past few months. He could have just kept it i mean he was in his rights, so im rather pleased. Finally got my amp!! hurrah if anyone is in that area i would recommend it!

[quote name='ahpook' post='222390' date='Jun 19 2008, 06:56 PM']presumably he wasn't an organist[/quote]

id been doing it over the phone and Deloitte told me the amp was there but i would never get it and i might get my money back, they put me on "the list" of about 1000 people they owed money to. I then got an impersonal letter saying iwas getting nout. However! Ashdown were really nice when i emailed them and were the first people to actually have a sympathetic nature. after a few emails the guy there said he would see what he could do, later he also advised i go to the sound control at salford, which i did today. Long story short the drone behind the counter was as helpful as one would expect but i heard the managers were at the branch my amp was at, shifting the gear to the salford store. I raced over and managed to speak to a manager there and he was actually really nice, after showing my receipt he said to come back to the salford branch tomorrow and he would help me out, see what he can do etc. Im almost hopefull of getting something out of this maybe. If so then its definitely looking good for the guys taking over sound control!

so do you think it is worthwhile me going down to the salford branch n seeing whats what?

i dont get sweaty hands but i sweat like a mother in all other bodily regions when i play, even when its nothing challenging. just a dirty biatch i guess. and the dirt very much keeps the funk! i leave strings as long as possible to get that tone.

unfortunately not, i always though credit cards would be an easy way to get into debt and lose money, how ironic.

hmm is that seek and destroy by metallica or something at the end? about 2:40.

thats a good point, i brought this up directly with Deloitte who were/are handling the administration process and explained carefully the situation of the amp being in the branch etc etc and i was informed that they are within their legal rights to not hand it over even though technically it is mine. I imagine its long gone now anyway. Also i dont have any insurance damn.

cheers Cheddatom, it took me a while to get in a good mental state but its all good now. Bigredx i'm going to email them now i think, i ll let you know what they reply with up on here, like you say: you never know!

well at first i was absolutely fuming/depressed about losing it because i had to do some godawful shift patterns to raise the money e.g. a night shift, day shift, night shift,, day shift night shift SLEEP with the help of the ever ready Pro Plus caffeine pills . but after a while it becomes pointless to be annoyed, the fact the amp was there was definitely the major sore point but im assuming they hadnt paid ashdown for it either so maybe they have as much legal ownership as i do? best thing is just to move on, get on with it, it would only make me miserable to focus on it. a good few days of constant moaning was very theraputic!

[quote name='BigRedX' post='218981' date='Jun 14 2008, 08:44 PM']Was it a new amp and do you have any paperwork to prove that you bought it? If so it would be worth getting in touch with the manufacturer/UK distributor and explaining politely the situation to them. They're not obliged to do anything, but at the very least they could give you a good discount were you to buy another one from a financially more stable outlet. After all you'd be posting back here and telling us what a great company they were. A little good publicity goes a long way...[/quote] i ve found a good second hand ampeg now so i'm just going to cut my losses and go with that. lesson learned though for the future!