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Liked, subscribed, and commented. Good luck to everyone

 Phatom wrote:
Liked, subscribed, and commented. Good luck to everyone

It seems highly unlikely anything is going to come of this. They claimed they were robbed and then went silent.

I find it odd it's been argued they wouldn't have insurance. How common would that be, seems perilously reckless to me.

 Iron Dragon wrote:
Keep in mind that it's a micro business, and they claim to have been robbed. It's very unlikely they had any sort of insurance and the losses come directly out of their pockets.

Unlikely they had any sort of insurance?
That's a horrible way to live, let alone run any kind of business.
Heck - my wife's home business is insured through our required homeowner's insurance.

I don't know about other people, but if I had my home burglarized and lost a lot of my stuff, I wouldn't be looking to give away anything else for a while.

If it was me, the first thing I'd do is follow through with the contest. By not doing so they've "poisoned the water hole" and destroyed their reputation - even if the burglary did happen.
I'd try and get an outside sponsor to help with the expense that I (obviously) wasn't planning on, but following through is even more important when you're having hard times than it is when everything is gold.

 Sharazad wrote:
They're saying that they got robbed or something like that :/

'for your information why we have not posted up anything is that our studio got broken into and lots of stock, our till all our painting stuff and a lot more got stolen. we havnt been aloud into it as forensics and stuff dont want us in. so we have alot on our plate at the moment'


So I guess this is never ever going to happen.

S.

Wow, forensics, your lucky in the UK in the states the cop take a report then tell you your best bet to getting your stuff back is to call the pawn shops.

 Eldarain wrote:

 Phatom wrote:
Liked, subscribed, and commented. Good luck to everyone

It seems highly unlikely anything is going to come of this. They claimed they were robbed and then went silent.

I find it odd it's been argued they wouldn't have insurance. How common would that be, seems perilously reckless to me.

Ah that's to bad. And I agree but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. All well theres a big chance I wouldn't have won anyway

As they are a small business it could well be they were opperating out of one of their homes, and assumed their home insurace would cover them

Unfotunately home insurance (here in the UK) usually does not cover business stuff on the same premisis. It's a mistake many smalln first time businesses can make

You guys have clearly never been to Scotland before! This is an entirely believeable story

Eldercaveman wrote:
You guys have clearly never been to Scotland before! This is an entirely believeable story

Ah then I apologies.

 Phatom wrote:

Eldercaveman wrote:
You guys have clearly never been to Scotland before! This is an entirely believeable story

Ah then I apologies.

Everything Frankie Boyle says about Scotland is true

Hope all is well

Meh. *shrugs* I don't know these guys, I was only making a presumption with my post about insurance and all that.

Even if they got cold feet and changed their minds, it's within their right to do so. I won't berate them for backing out, even if they weren't burglarized. The 40K community doesn't benefit by people getting mad that a contest is cancelled. It could be cancelled for any of a hundred different reasons, all of which are entirely fine.

PS: I entered the contest but, I never win anything anyway, so I'm not all that disappointed that the contest was cancelled. I wouldn't have won, hehehe.

Sure it's within their right. But it's bad form to say "Hey guys - give us free advertising and one of you will win a few hundred bucks of stuff!" And then "jk lol no free stuff for you".