we unfortunately can count ourselves among them. a cursory name search on Twitter shows a bleak landscape of artists, labels, small businesses, employees, investors, suppliers-anyone the company was associated with-left holding the bag. i’m not sure the discrepancies between the two tbh, but the premise is the same: they ran out of money). We recently found out our mail order fulfillment partner went bankrupt (or the UK equivalent of: went into “administration”. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we navigate this difficult and unforeseen situation.Ĭontext / the problem: what's happening and how we're trying to weather it how we can help: info related to orders and refunds.context / the problem: what's happening and how we're trying to weather it.this is a lot of info, so we've broken it down into chunks: We are scrambling to figure out what our options are for a plethora of complicated problems this creates. we don’t know more than we know at this stage, but we know we need help.we don’t know if we’re immensely underestimating how dire this is.we don’t know if we’re vastly overestimating how dire this is.but we have started this campaign because: we expect we can endure this and not have to lay off any staff, continue paying out artist royalties, cover our expenses, etc. we've launched a a Kickstarter campaign as a preemptive measure to help aid with ongoing efforts to fund a legal defense, and to pay for mounting expenses associated with this disruption.the property management company they leased from is withholding access to our inventory, treating it as collateral, and citing that their agreement with Awesome creates legal ground for seizing everything in the building.
they laid off their entire staff without notifying us, leaving us with no immediate way of shipping out orders or sending records to our artists on tour.they have abruptly shut down, owing us tens of thousands of dollars in revenue and forcing us to relocate 17 years worth of inventory immediately with no advance notice.the mail order fulfillment company we partnered with, Awesome Distro, has gone bankrupt.
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