Chapterhouse website down?? Anyone know anything?

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**ArbitorIan**

I have some stuff on order from Chapterhouse, ordered about five weeks ago. I'm in the UK, so that's not a totally crazy wait time - just a little on the long side. Emailed them about the order 10 days ago, and got no response. Now the website is 'down for maintenance' and has been since last week.

http://chapterhousestudios.com

Anyone know if something weird is going on, or are they just having a REALLY LONG maintenance period...?

**Accolade**

Going off what's happening in the CHS v. GW thread, it appears GW has frozen all of CHS's assets, which include their ability to ship (or even refund) orders.

Check it out (last couple of pages) over at: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/355433.page

**Azreal13**

CHS Kickstarter Update wrote: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 techinically 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.

Nick

There you go, you don't have your stuff because GW have moved to stop him doing business. To summarise what has been said in the other thread, there were methods open to CHS and their counsel to prevent this, why it wasn't is a matter of conjecture at this point.

**Breotan**

ArbitorIan wrote:
Anyone know if something weird is going on, or are they just having a REALLY LONG maintenance period...?

Pending legal issues mean they can't take any new orders at the moment. It's probably easier just to take down the whole site than to try fiddling with the shopping cart software.

**ArbitorIan**

Thank guys, good to know.

Though annoying that they were still accepting orders and taking my paypal payment mid-September, if they'd been frozen since the start of the month!

I guess I'll just wait and see what happens... :/

**Theophony**

You could always put in apaypal claim and get your money back. Then when/if they get to open again just place your order. It would be better than waiting to see if they go bankrupt and not get anything back.

**frozenwastes**

Definitely put in a paypal claim.