Vintage HiFi Audio Forum
Audio Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: ST-Rider on October 27, 2015, 12:29:15 PM
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Will it ever open back up???
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"Ever" is a long time. :)
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Not yet.
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Any reason why it's so secretive ? It seems like there are a few that are "in the know" about what's going on, and there's all sorts of cryptic responses. Is it likely to open in 6 months? 1 year? 5 years? never?
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ST-Rider, if I was you, I'd arrange a time to go pick up my stuff and be done with the shop. My patience would have worn thin long ago.
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Thing is, I don't even have stuff to get repaired (at the moment). I just really liked the shop as a resource to buy great audio gear at great prices, and Tom was(is) always such a good guy to deal with.
I'll be in the market for more stuff shortly, and I guess I'm just lamenting the fact that the shop is no longer a place that I can go to for browsing and buying gear.
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Maybe you should have posted a poll...
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Who are there people "in the know"? I'd like to know that myself so I can direct my questions at them. Other than Al, I don't think anyone here has any particular inside info. I certainly don't.
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I really have to agree with St rider that is the biggest thing I miss and also the chance just to get the hell away from the wife and get out of the house all night
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Tom is a great guy and friend. I wish I'd have had the chance to hang out at the shop. 8)
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I really have to agree with St rider that is the biggest thing I miss and also the chance just to get the hell away from the wife and get out of the house all night
Amen. Good times at the shop every time I visited, and even a chance at some pizza, which was often ordered after I left just to piss me off. And how much fun it was to hook up stuff in parallel to try to blow up a victim amp.
Anywho, I will go out on a limb here and give you my take. The man is getting better slowly, there is no mystery - he hurt his Achilles heel while moving a gun safe, and while recovering from that he hurt the knee on his other good leg (a common problem when you depend on one leg after using two for a bunch of years) so now he is getting *that* fixed. Eventually he will be back, that is my bet (if you want a number I will say 1 year). I don't think he will continue the same business model when he does return, but he will return, IMO (I do not foresee Tom repairing electronics the way he did before, I speculate it will be more about upgrading/refurbishing and reselling).
The one thing that will not change is that the pizza will be ordered after I leave the geek meeting, just to piss me off. ???
OBG
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The one thing that will not change is that the pizza will be ordered after I leave the geek meeting, just to piss me off.
Thanks for the laugh.
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OBG, sometimes pizza is ordered and consumed before you get there with the empty boxes left laying around for your benefit!
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OBG, sometimes pizza is ordered and consumed before you get there with the empty boxes left laying around for your benefit!
OBG always got the slices with the extra spit >:D
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I'm sure there will be good times, pizza, good fun and tunes with Tom at the appropriate time. It will happen.
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I would also like to know. My equipment and money has been there for well over 1 year. At this point I would be happy to just get my stuff back but when nobody responds to email or answers the phone I doubt that will ever happen.
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nothing secret going on that I know of.
Life has been keeping me busy with overtime at work and the house being worked on.
Hope to someday soon finally get my stereo up and running.
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ST-Rider, if I was you, I'd arrange a time to go pick up my stuff and be done with the shop. My patience would have worn thin long ago.
I have been trying every outlet I can to get somebody from the shop to answer me along with the moderators and claimed friends on this forum. It can be email, phone call, a private message on the forum, I don't care. My patience did wear thin well over a year ago. My equipment has been locked up at the shop since Feb of 2013, and long before the injury the communications from their end became sporadic and eventually non-existent. I have long given up on getting any satisfaction for the money I prepaid to have my amp fixed. I just want the darn thing back so I can send it to somebody that gives a darn about customer service.
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ST-Rider, if I was you, I'd arrange a time to go pick up my stuff and be done with the shop. My patience would have worn thin long ago.
I have been trying every outlet I can to get somebody from the shop to answer me along with the moderators and claimed friends on this forum. It can be email, phone call, a private message on the forum, I don't care. My patience did wear thin well over a year ago. My equipment has been locked up at the shop since Feb of 2013, and long before the injury the communications from their end became sporadic and eventually non-existent. I have long given up on getting any satisfaction for the money I prepaid to have my amp fixed. I just want the darn thing back so I can send it to somebody that gives a darn about customer service.
This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder what's up. It's not an isolated event. It's one thing to not be open, but to not attempt to give back customers their equipment over a period of years with no communication at all makes me think that there's more to this story than just a foot injury. There seems to be enough folks on the forum that are good enough friends with Tom that this kind of thing shouldn't be that difficult to get resolved. A friend could just schedule a time to meet and pick up the equipment. How hard is that, even if you can't walk?
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Tom is slowly but surely making things right; one piece at a time.
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Tom is slowly but surely making things right; one piece at a time.
What does that even mean? This is the thing....clearly you know what's going on, and rather than give a good reason why the shop is closed for 2 years and people haven't been able to even talk to anyone to just get their stuff back, it's yet another cryptic response.
Personally, I don't really care...I don't have anything being repaired at the moment...but if I did, this kind of thing would be infuriating to me.
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I think what it really means is that, as of right now, no one knows what is going to be happening with the shop.
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Tom is slowly but surely making things right; one piece at a time.
What does that even mean? This is the thing....clearly you know what's going on, and rather than give a good reason why the shop is closed for 2 years and people haven't been able to even talk to anyone to just get their stuff back, it's yet another cryptic response.
Personally, I don't really care...I don't have anything being repaired at the moment...but if I did, this kind of thing would be infuriating to me.
It is not my responsibility to give a "good reason" for anything. The personal hardships that Tom is experiencing is his own business, and it is not up to me to disclose it on a public forum unless he asks me to. My "cryptic response" is the best I can offer. I'm sorry if it's not good enough, but it's the best I can do given where I stand in the chain of command, which is nowhere.
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It is not my responsibility to give a "good reason" for anything.
Amen, well said.