Author Topic: Soundcontrol Goes Into Receivership (Read 11955 times)

indysmith · « **Reply #30 on:** May 02, 2008, 05:05:40 PM »

...if i get a strat from them with a "don't pay til 2009" policy on it, does that mean I won't have to pay?

dave_mc · « **Reply #31 on:** May 02, 2008, 05:15:21 PM »

Quote from: Simon D

Personally, I think it's going to be a bit of a buyer's market for a little while.

fingers crossed. it's no fun prices being artificially high because eejits are willing to take out credit (at extortionate rates of interest) which I'm not willing to take out.

badgermark · « **Reply #32 on:** May 02, 2008, 07:41:37 PM »

Quote from: Machinehead

Quote from: Twinfan
The vast majority will go back to the suppliers, certainly tthe high end stuff (Gibson, PRS, Fender etc). It's the cheap stuff that's already paid for that will be discounted.

Yup. It's the Schecters etc that maybe on the market at a knock down price.

On a brighter note I went to my normal guitar store, which is Guitar Guitar in Glasgow. Staff were as helpful as usual and prices were still lower than Sound Controls ever were - again as usual.

Sound Control is no loss for me but again, I do feel for the decent staff who are now looking for employment.

What's going to happen to Jimmy Egypt's though? They are based in the city centre and west end Soundcontrol stores. A dark thought for Glasgow's set ups...

Oh and their website was shocking, they made it utterly useless to navigate and find anything.

Scotty477 · « **Reply #33 on:** May 02, 2008, 07:57:56 PM »

I'm sure Jimmy will relocate to a suitable location.

The tech at Guitar Guitar has a decent reputation and is less expensive as well I believe.

notaguitarplayer · « **Reply #34 on:** May 02, 2008, 11:08:16 PM »

Just read that M Audio group will not support any in warranty items bought from Sound Control. If that is the case they will get no more purchases from me and are probably in breach of the Sale Of Goods Act

ailean · « **Reply #35 on:** May 02, 2008, 11:50:02 PM »

Quote from: notaguitarplayer

Just read that M Audio group will not support any in warranty items bought from Sound Control. If that is the case they will get no more purchases from me and are probably in breach of the Sale Of Goods Act

Ultimately the manufacturer of any goods has to honour the warranty period. Normally this would be through the retailer, but if that is not possible then the manufacturer has to deal directly with the customer. At least that's how I think it works.

dave_mc · « **Reply #36 on:** May 03, 2008, 04:30:36 PM »

i was under the impression in this country that your contract was with the retailer and not the manufacturer... makes it easier most of the time, but not in this situation, i guess.

though i'm not sure if MI is allowed to do that i.e. completely disavow any sales through a certain retailer.

I could be wrong, by the way.

Oli · « **Reply #37 on:** May 18, 2008, 11:23:48 PM »

I went into the London SoundControl and Turnkey the other day.... it's a very sorry sight, i have to say. Neither have any high end guitars at all- only the SE PRS series, and Epiphones where all the high end stuff used to be. Remember that corner in SoundControl that had PRS's on the one wall, and the wall next to it covered in Gibson LPs and SGs? Now it's got a few PRS SE's on it, a couple of nasty looking Deans, and some Epiphones. Round where all the acoustics and the keyboards are, there's a big space where some other stuff (which i can't remember off hand) was.

Turnkey was just as bad in the guitar dept, and the area where the monitors and the rack stuff was was closed 'for refurbishment', and there were no keyboards or stuff like that out. They've taken out the counter that was on the right as you went in, so it looks really bare- they'd set up a console with some monitors and a computer to fill the space, but it didn't look good.

jt · « **Reply #38 on:** May 19, 2008, 01:56:27 AM »

:D Yer i liked sound control i think there`s one here in Milton Keynes i used. The customer service was ok but i order a triple headed guitar stand of them. One of the Samson ones, they where more than happy to take my money but every time i went in to see if it had arrived they would say it`ll be here in 2 weeks mate. I had this for 6 months ! In the end they had to give me my money back because they were also sick of waiting as well ! but what really pissed me off was they never phoned me to tell me what was going on. There was always a pissy excuse of some kind. That was very discourteous in my books. There selection was ok but again spaced out a bit.

AndyR · « **Reply #39 on:** May 20, 2008, 01:15:37 PM »

Quote from: Oli

I went into the London SoundControl and Turnkey the other day.... it's a very sorry sight, i have to say. Neither have any high end guitars at all- only the SE PRS series, and Epiphones where all the high end stuff used to be. Remember that corner in SoundControl that had PRS's on the one wall, and the wall next to it covered in Gibson LPs and SGs? Now it's got a few PRS SE's on it, a couple of nasty looking Deans, and some Epiphones. Round where all the acoustics and the keyboards are, there's a big space where some other stuff (which i can't remember off hand) was.

Turnkey was just as bad in the guitar dept, and the area where the monitors and the rack stuff was was closed 'for refurbishment', and there were no keyboards or stuff like that out. They've taken out the counter that was on the right as you went in, so it looks really bare- they'd set up a console with some monitors and a computer to fill the space, but it didn't look good.

I visited them as well on Saturday - all looked and felt very depressing.

I had a chat with one of the guys in the Turnkey guitar department about it. Sound Control bought Turnkey 2 years ago apparently, and he moved there from Sound Control. He's not allowed to order any new stock, etc, and he's scrabbling round warehouses looking for stuff to put out.

Down at his level, they're waiting it out hoping for a buyer to emerge. No-one's jumped ship though, because if it does go down there are possibly big commission opportunities when there's a closing down sale.

Not sure how big those opportunities might be if there's no stock that anyone wants to buy though?...

nfe · « **Reply #40 on:** May 20, 2008, 02:57:59 PM »

Quote from: Oli

...Remember that corner in SoundControl that had PRS's on the one wall, and the wall next to it covered in Gibson LPs and SGs?...

This isn't even actually much to do with the administration situation.

Gibson ditched Rosetti 5 or 6 months ago, deciding to take over their own distribution, so no Gibsons were being sent to the UK until Gibson UK was established on April 1st. When they started they set up with an inventory of 40 guitars. FORTY! All of which were bought by soundcontrol and sold through in a week or so. Since then, no more Gibson deliveries have come into the UK. So virtually no one is getting any new stock (bar GuitarGuitar probably, with all their grey imports and others who do the same).

Major fuck up on Gibsons part. Which is probably just gonna get worse now that they've lost three quarters of their entire first years sales projections with Soundcontrol going down the pan.

Afghan Dave · « **Reply #41 on:** May 20, 2008, 03:37:27 PM »

Quote from: nfe

no Gibsons were being sent to the UK until Gibson UK was established on April 1st.

Is this how you spell.. IRONY? :lol: :roll:

sgmypod · « **Reply #42 on:** May 20, 2008, 04:35:22 PM »

yeah soundcontrol had there place..and was nice for competition in Hull...some of the blokes at soundcontrol in Hull had'nt been in the job long since williams went under and some had worked in goughs before that..so 3 times in a shop that closes...now that is bad luck

badgermark · « **Reply #43 on:** May 20, 2008, 06:05:07 PM »

THIS is an interesting read- As I mentioned earlier Jimmy Egypt's is a guitar repair shop based in the glasgow sound-control, hope they land on their feet.

jt · « **Reply #44 on:** May 20, 2008, 06:25:28 PM »

:D Yer guys have to agree with `ya. The article from the guitar repair guy got the rough end didn`t he. Good explaination though.

:D 8)