John Wood Audio, a tale of woe

[Marco]

Ain’t that the truth!

Marco.

[Marco]

Still awaiting a reply from John to my email…. I’ll give him until the weekend and then try phoning him.

Marco.

[twotone]

Just read this entire thread, absolutely shocking treatment and bleeding glaringly obvious that the amp guy doesn't want to pay a penny.

This will cost him dear BTW.

Marco you know how I was treated in a similar fashion by a similar operator although in saying that I do believe the guy I had the problem with did have serious issues and genuinely got himself into a really bad situation however to this day he has never apologised and I am a bit ashamed to say that I sold his amp as soon as I could becuase I had no faith in the on-going warranty or customer service issues.

Geoff don't fuck about with this guy, go for the jugular and go back to court for a bankruptcy order as Paul Stewart suggested.

Best of luck OP.

Tony

BTW, who in thier right mind would send a £1400 amp back to a conman and a liar without the money up front?

[Eagle owl]

Just read this entire thread, absolutely shocking treatment and bleeding glaringly obvious that the amp guy doesn't want to pay a penny.

This will cost him dear BTW.

Marco you know how I was treated in a similar fashion by a similar operator although in saying that I do believe the guy I had the problem with did have serious issues and genuinely got himself into a really bad situation however to this day he has never apologised and I am a bit ashamed to say that I sold his amp as soon as I could becuase I had no faith in the on-going warranty or customer service issues.

Geoff don't fuck about with this guy, go for the jugular and go back to court for a bankruptcy order as Paul Stewart suggested.

Best of luck OP.

Tony

BTW, who in thier right mind would send a £1400 amp back to a conman and a liar without the money up front?

Thank you Tony.

I contacted the County Court bailiff's office yesterday morning and was told they'd attended Mr Wood's address recently, the person they spoke to said he no longer lived there.

[Clive]

Thank you Tony.

I contacted the County Court bailiff's office yesterday morning and was told they'd attended Mr Wood's address recently, the person they spoke to said he no longer lived there.

Did they believe that....they must have been fed that line so many times.

[Marco]

Just had this in from John this morning (don’t really know what to make of it):

Well first the courts have to be dealt with he put it there so he can take it away and then return the amp to me for a refund as I said in the first place we could have dun this a long time ago ,,as I have said to you before,, if I ever get into court with him he will lose everything and have some large costs and slander will have to be answered to by him
and thanks for your time Marco
John.

From that, it doesn’t seem that he wants to go down the route I’ve suggested….

Marco.

[synsei]

Silly man! What little reputation he might have been clinging on to just wafted out the window...

[twotone]

Thank you Tony.

I contacted the County Court bailiff's office yesterday morning and was told they'd attended Mr Wood's address recently, the person they spoke to said he no longer lived there.

Hi Geoff, sorry mate but it looks as though you've landed a right slippery bstard so there's only two options open to you now, well three actually, you can let it drop, go the legal route to the bitter end or sell on the debt .

Really feel for you mate.

Personally I would try to get some money back by getting the amp repaired properly then selling it on and taking the hit on it and at least that way you will get some money back but don't let the court thing come to an end even if you do nothing in that regard make sure that you fight him every step of the way if he goes to court.

Good luck

Tony

[twotone]

Just had this in from John this morning (don’t really know what to make of it):



From that, it doesn’t seem that he wants to go down the route I’ve suggested….

Marco.

Marco your fighting a losing battle with the guy, you've done all you can mate which, reading the thread, has been above and beyond the call but the guy is just using you now.

He sounds like a complete headcase to me, it will be very very difficult to get money out this guy IMO probably because he ain't got any.

Regards

Tony

[twotone]

Did they believe that....they must have been fed that line so many times.

Aye they probably have which means that the buyer/OP has to move on to the next stage Clive which means escalating the legal process or letting the thing drop, at the end of the day it's all about money and costs.

I went through a similar thing this year with a customer of mine who became completely entrenched and refused point blank to take legal advice three times from solicitors I had employed to try to resolve the situation (debt) and then she finally saw sense when the one of the solictors pointed out how much her intransigence was going to cost her. This took her a year to accept and cost me and my insurance company (it's a long story) about £2,000 over a relatively small debt.

With civil proceedings such as this one of the OP's there is only ever going to be one winner and that ain't going to be either of the two protaganists.

Personally I would have let the solicitors get on with the case and bankrupted the guy if that's what it took to get a resolution but that would undoubtedly have cost a good deal more than the cost of the amp.

Tony