No way would it cover their or the company's costs. I had heard the assumption was 30-40 a month could just about cover costs, on takeover. I heard later that it would need to be double that. They say 100 now. Usual pinch of salt, but I suspect they were bleeding money out of their ****.
RS-Pinball (Austrian & by extension German distributors) lost way more. The investors lost way, way more. In total, original pre-orders lost way more. There's no way people should be doing GoFundMes for distributors, especially not when staff exist - Dave particularly.
So, let me get this straight.
You assume
That Pinball brothers,Looking at the document lost 820k stg and lets say 100-200 pins complete ,semi complete missing the odd part , play fields and any cash that they wont receive any of their £820k owed that was let say sold/reclaimed by them wont get them solid?
RS also have 120k in there and are shareholders and they knew nothing about stuff heading to PB or maybe some pins made it to them by way of ? or have a stake in New company ?
Investors that were not shareholders agreed lost cash and unlikely to get anything.
Pre orders and full paid guys ,yes agree they lost lesson learned not alot can be done to help them.
Distributors/ Coin taker . Look to have lost £80k plus what ever they paid back to customers . who order a machine on customers behest like phil from heaven does for uk guys and because they do that get hit with a whammy that could put most business out service and
you say that any of there customers that were made solid should not try help them out? even though they stopped an order that clearly has helped there customers not get shafted with dodgy machines?.
Sorry maybe i am a bit wrong in thinking their community should look after them as they did there customers .if phill was to take a whammy like that and go out of business (from what i seen/heard of phill he would not be that stupid to deal with andrew anyways)where would people buy machines in the future.
If i investing into something and it went tits up id not expect any cash back as it was a major gamble even bigger one with andrew at the helm.
But i think pre and full orders and distros need to follow up and get the share holders brought into it to pay them.
Ok i might be talking out my **** here sorry having happy day my divorce came in today and on the beer so might regret what i been saying here tomorrow.