Vantage Audio

[Daisy5858]

Hello all,
I have just joined your throng and have questions about Vantage Audio. I am aware that many of you have probably discussed this subject when things were going wrong back in 2013, but I haven't read any of that.
Basically I just wondered if anyone has a contact for Vantage Audio, or knows of where 'stock' waiting for repair / refurbishment has gone?
Daisy

[jostber]

Hi, and welcome. Seems like one of the later threads on Vantage was this from 2014:

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?18111-Has-anyone-heard-from-Richard-at-Vantage-Audio-lately&highlight=vantage

[Daisy5858]

Hi Jostein,
Many thanks for your help. I have now read all the old thread.
Here's hoping for contact!
Merry

[Marco]

Good luck with your search, Merry. We're here to help if we can :)

Marco.

[Spectral Morn]

The fact his website is gone, does not bode well. I think going legal may be your only course of action.

It would be good to know how others on that past threat faired re getting their issues sorted.

Welcome to AoS sorry for your trouble.

[Wakefield Turntables]

i'd completely forgot about this, i wonder what he's upto?

[Big Vern]

Hi Merry,

PM sent...will speak soon

Best Wishes,

Paul.

[SP10]

Despite promises from the younger Ritchie & his father before that, I have STILL not managed to get my SP10 motor and power supply back from them. [Vantage still has a £300.00 part payment for work on these units.]

Despite the fact that he is a first rate technician and may well have had a tough time with family health issues, he would appear to be totally without moral or ethical fibre with regard to making good his unfulfilled promises.
[I know that at least one other member has problems in retrieving even more valuable goods and has had promise after promise unfulfilled by both father and son.

In my case I was about 66/67 years old when I gave him the TT. I am now 74!!!!! and all I have of that TT is the platter and retaining screws + a plinth!!!! I cannot but think that the goods may well have been sold.

IF anyone has contact with either of the Peachys please let them know that they have proved to be criminally unreliable in taking a deposit and not performing. And that I will be in their area later this year and will not leave without my goods or items of a similar value.

Many thanks.

PS: Spellcheck changed the title!!!

[Spectral Morn]

Despite promises from the younger Ritchie & his father before that, I have STILL not managed to get my SP10 motor and power supply back from them. [Vantage still has a £300.00 part payment for work on these units.]

Despite the fact that he is a first rate technician and may well have had a tough time with family health issues, he would appear to be totally without moral or ethical fibre with regard to making good his unfulfilled promises.
[I know that at least one other member has problems in retrieving even more valuable goods and has had promise after promise unfulfilled by both father and son.

In my case I was about 66/67 years old when I gave him the TT. I am now 74!!!!! and all I have of that TT is the platter and retaining screws + a plinth!!!! I cannot but think that the goods may well have been sold.

IF anyone has contact with either of the Peachys please let them know that they have proved to be criminally unreliable in taking a deposit and not performing. And that I will be in their area later this year and will not leave without my goods or items of a similar value.

Many thanks.

Go to the police, or trading standards, a scandal.

Maybe these guys can help http://thesheriffsoffice.com/

[SP10]

Any updates on this?

I did manage to talk with his son who made promises and then emulated his father by going into Purdah! I have been unable to contact either and emails have been bouncing for over a year. Legal action without any knowledge of their whereabouts would be costly and without any chance of success other than adding to the loss. Any doctors/medics who can check the 'breakdown' story on line???

[Marco]

Disgraceful behaviour this, as is the fact this matter is still not resolved. I can't stand folk who hide, rip folk off and don't honour their commitments - no matter their personal circumstances there is NO excuse for it!! :nono:

I wish you all the best, Brian, in obtaining what is legally yours and getting Vantage Audio to cough up accordingly. If I can help in any way in hunting down these dishonest, morally bereft scumbags, please let me know.

Marco.

[SP10]

Marco,

Thanks for that.

I would be grateful if anyone who knows the truth about the overall situation at what was Vantage Audio or Richard Peachey would let me know, either through a reply here or PM.
It is known that he still had a VERY valuable Trio DD from a guy in the Far East and another from Cheshire. It is such a shame as Richard seemed a very nice and decent guy when I met him some years ago.
The fact that not only does he have a TT which I wanted to enjoy for a few years, but that he also had £300.00 generally on a/c makes the matter really stink. I am 75 in a few months and have a new slate plinth for the unit...that cost a lot as well!!!

[British high fidelity]

Do you have a picture of richard

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[Riislingen]

Do you have a picture of richard

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https://dn3pm25xmtlyu.cloudfront.net/photos/large/29128103.jpg?1252697400&Expires=1483594411&Signature=e5lZhqa6A3oVz~7EJkGQ-90mBTmlXm-Ad2~N5J3C7FMTnqfM42m9DYpaxkF47T4UA~ZTzBvNPuLI7ghV4 EgQMjhh3IUl7bUVOXEvW-UA3Q1g617hP75EdP7kbJq1i5tXLvf6pH3X59QZO9fgFy87yPhC 8h7e5MUMPhAibJOHG80_&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA

http://twitpic.com/hcbdz

[SP10]

If that is a picture of Richard then it is a very old picture...


Edit:

Just opened the link and pic is from the time I met him...he was totally different, heavier and older looking!

[sq225917]

I posted his address in the old thread, not sure if its still there. Don't fuck about, go and collect your stuff in person.

[British high fidelity]

Yes go and knock on his door and if need be take the police with you, i cant tollerate fooking thieves

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[Jac Hawk]

Just a word of advice before going to the Police, make sure you can prove that he has or has had your goods, or that you entered into a contract with him, receipts, photos etc. As unfortunately your word won't be enough, even if you can show that you have passed money to him, without some sort of receipt or evidence of a contract the Police can't do very much, to be honest the best people to speak to in the 1st instance would be Trading Standards.

i've not personally had dealings with this company, but something like this has happened to me in the past.

Good Luck

[SP10]

Thanks...I have that address; two unacknowledged letters/one failed delivery 'Signed For'!!

I have adequate 'proof', and the other antics reported here and elsewhere add evidence by example. Any form of doorstep confrontation can end with the pursuer having more troubles than he started with...anyway:

eMails have been returned as undeliverable

I am 74, have a reasonably serious heart condition, live the length of England from there (800 mile round trip) and have no guarantee - if I were to travel down - that he is/would be there or that he still holds the goods involved. [For all I know he is dead/hospitalised/on the run/living elsewhere/etc etc. The outlay for, say, a three day trip would be substantial - without ANY certitude that I would be successful in making any contact, let alone get my goods back

In the earlier thread a couple of people tried to act as placaters and failed. They - I am confident - know more than they have let on and could possibly have been more helpful when all they did was buy him a little more time to everyone else's disadvantage. Perhaps they could now at least confirm that he still exists and has not moved residence. Go to lawyers and then to court and he will be found guilty (probably due to non-appearance) and then with Court Order in hand I am back where I started! To go the full hog means another appearance plus getting offered five bob a week recompense. The only legal route is to involve the police by asking for a prosecution on the basis of taking £300.00 on false pretences....I can't see them obliging; can you? After all it is, in essence, a civil matter

As I have said, I did have success in talking with the son on one occasion; he made all of the same promises...and now does not answer his phone.

[SP10]

Thank you for you concern and advice @JakHawke & @British High Fidelity: am I right in thinking that a guy from your part of the world also had great difficulty with this man? Did he get his very valuable TT returned?

[Spectral Morn]

Thanks...I have that address; two unacknowledged letters/one failed delivery 'Signed For'!!

I have adequate 'proof', and the other antics reported here and elsewhere add evidence by example. Any form of doorstep confrontation can end with the pursuer having more troubles than he started with...anyway:

eMails have been returned as undeliverable

I am 74, have a reasonably serious heart condition, live the length of England from there (800 mile round trip) and have no guarantee - if I were to travel down - that he is/would be there or that he still holds the goods involved. [For all I know he is dead/hospitalised/on the run/living elsewhere/etc etc. The outlay for, say, a three day trip would be substantial - without ANY certitude that I would be successful in making any contact, let alone get my goods back

In the earlier thread a couple of people tried to act as placaters and failed. They - I am confident - know more than they have let on and could possibly have been more helpful when all they did was buy him a little more time to everyone else's disadvantage. Perhaps they could now at least confirm that he still exists and has not moved residence. Go to lawyers and then to court and he will be found guilty (probably due to non-appearance) and then with Court Order in hand I am back where I started! To go the full hog means another appearance plus getting offered five bob a week recompense. The only legal route is to involve the police by asking for a prosecution on the basis of taking £300.00 on false pretences....I can't see them obliging; can you? After all it is, in essence, a civil matter

As I have said, I did have success in talking with the son on one occasion; he made all of the same promises...and now does not answer his phone.

Go to the Sheriffs

http://thesheriffsoffice.com/contact Contact them, and get advice.

http://www.albertchambers.co.uk/storey%26fellows/sheriffs.htm