Chapterhouse VS GW - Assets Frozen Announcement
Chapterhouse has made an announcement on thier facebook page that they have had assets frozen pending an appearance in court to have the decision reversed.
[URL="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chapterhouse-Studios/159482580794"]Chapterhouse Facebook[/URL]
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Our assets have been frozen.
Yes, thats pretty much the issue. Many of you may know that Games Workshop has been in a legal battle with us for almost 4 years now.. maybe its 5...
Anyways, they have asked the courts to freeze our assets and this has happened, this happened early September, not long after I posted the photos of the last set of products that were being produced and almost ready to ship.
What does this mean? #1 we have no means to ship or produce or pay for anything... and I mean anything, internet, phone, gas, nothing. We cant use or accept funds (well technically we can accept but I wont do that without a means to ship out new orders).
#2 the demon lines are sitting at the casters, waiting to be shipped but not able to be shipped to us. Even if they were shipped to me, I couldnt ship them out since they are technically "assets" and I am not allowed to ship them out.
#3 the company infrastructure, email, website, is pretty much frozen.
I am flying out (which GW allowed us to buy a ticket) to chicago next week to step in front of the courts and plead my case to have assets released and do business as normal until the appeal is addressed.
For those of you who are understandably upset, I am sorry, this has been a long and hard road and many of you have stood by me. I wish it was better but its been very stressful and now I have learned that its not only my company at risk but my personal assets and home are being threatened as well now.
Ill do my best to keep you all apprised.
And to be clear, no orders were taken after I found about about the freeze mid september.
Any orders that have issues were due to customers not putting in correct addresses and a new shipment needing to be sent (and couldnt due to the freeze).
Or lost orders in the postal system.
Nick
I had an inverse problem with GW back when i worked for the U.S. offices.
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goldenS
Erik, I agree with you on this. I just wish that rather than focus on legal battles like this, that GW focus more on making and selling more non-limited edition stuff. I mean if you don't buy the data cards for army X then your stuffed unless someone in your group has kindly bought you a box. If it wasn't limited edition and prices were cheaper, GW might actually keep more loyal customers. As it is, I'm getting 3rd party re-casts of FW's MKIV legionnaires. GW need to re-focus on the customer and they might stay on business for longer, you never know....
While working for GW i created a Kyrl Grimblood Wolf Lord figure that looked like the drawing in the codex out of other figures because they had rules but no figure for him. Three months after i showed him around the office including to the visiting English VIPs and explained how I put him together, the exact same directions appeared in Citadel Journal. However, someone else from GW main office. Was taking credit for it. When i complained i was shot down.