SPC - New Ownership

decisivedave · Post by **decisivedave** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:50 pm

Just tried phoning SPC to sort out something on my S and guess what - Under new ownership, won't be open for a while!

A couple of months ago I posted on this forum a bit about my dream about turning up there and it was deserted - spooky de ja vu or what?

Guess I'll be going to Guildford instead

Cheers, Dave

Gromit · Post by **Gromit** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:26 pm

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Neil178 · Post by **Neil178** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:15 pm

Dave, if I send you a quid, will you do the lottery for me next month?

Gromit · Post by **Gromit** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:55 pm

Neil178 wrote:Dave, if I send you a quid, will you do the lottery for me next month?

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:31 am

Does history relate why they went bust?

YouTube · Post by **Paul** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:50 am

Well judging by the great deal I got on my F800S, I guess they had a pang of guilt about the Wunderlich markup and decided to put something back into the community by offering silly deals on bikes

As an aside, I received a letter from the administrator of SPC on Saturday morning, claiming I owed then over £900 and asking for a cheque, pronto. They supported this spurious assertion with a document on SPC notepaper with a statement of account for me. There were two lines on there, one showing a debit of £6,492 (presumably the figure SPC had the bike on their books for when they bought it as a demonstrator/loan bike) and the second a credit of £5,500 which is what I purchased it off them for. The lightening quick minds of the administrators instantly leapt to the conclusion that I therefore owed them the balance of £992... I have written to disabuse them of that curious notion, enclosing a copy of my sales receipt... Cheeky beggers

Paul

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:53 pm

Paul wrote:Well judging by the great deal I got on my F800S, I guess they had a pang of guilt about the Wunderlich markup and decided to put something back into the community by offering silly deals on bikes

Paul

More likely your money went straight into Ronnie's pension fund

Met a guy at Stafford who has a bid into BMW to resurrect SPC, don't think it'll be long before they are trading under new management - with a completely different set of business morals

Boxadog 2000 · Post by **Boxadog 2000** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:57 pm

Not sure if Business & Morals can be used in the same sentance when talking about bike dealers.

theseadog · Post by **theseadog** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:00 pm

Paul wrote:Well judging by the great deal I got on my F800S, I guess they had a pang of guilt about the Wunderlich markup and decided to put something back into the community by offering silly deals on bikes

As an aside, I received a letter from the administrator of SPC on Saturday morning, claiming I owed then over £900 and asking for a cheque, pronto. They supported this spurious assertion with a document on SPC notepaper with a statement of account for me. There were two lines on there, one showing a debit of £6,492 (presumably the figure SPC had the bike on their books for when they bought it as a demonstrator/loan bike) and the second a credit of £5,500 which is what I purchased it off them for. The lightening quick minds of the administrators instantly leapt to the conclusion that I therefore owed them the balance of £992... I have written to disabuse them of that curious notion, enclosing a copy of my sales receipt... Cheeky beggers

Paul

That's not cheeky, that's just f@cking incompetant, that sort of nonsense drives me feckin potty. They're meant to be in trying to tidy things up and they can't even check a simple fecking invoice ! What firm of brain surgeons are acting ( and I mean that ! ) as administrators Paul ?

What you should do is send them an invoice for your time as they've wasted it through their numpties.

Toodle Pip

Boxadog 2000 · Post by **Boxadog 2000** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:05 pm

I had the misfortune to work for a Company in Wales that went bust, the receivers came in and set about there work.

I was in a meeting and they said to one of there partners ok go to Bristol and close the branch, which they did.

Only they went to the Avonmouth branch and closed that made everybody redundant removed the stock and handed the keys back to the property owner.

That branch was one of the only ones in the group that made a profit, they should have closed the city center retail branch

Ade B · Post by **Ade B** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:59 pm

That's not cheeky, that's just f@cking incompetant

From the couple of my erstwhile clients that rudely went bankrupt owing me money... notes from the administrators are always cause for amusement, usually along the lines of:

number of creditors - 65780
amount of debt - £999999.99
administrator's fee - £999993.75
amount due to me - 30p

amount that turns up 2 years later - 2.5p

Shocking really..

Ade.

decisivedave · Post by **decisivedave** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:06 pm

Silver lining is I rang Guildford BMW today and had a really useful conversation with the service guy there, they were really helpful, didn't mind spending abit of time chatting about my queries and makes me think (if I can afford it) future dealings will be done there from now on.

He said tho' he's choka with SPC work on top of their usual workload at the moment!

Cheers, Dave

ps my prediction for the lottery is - every pound you spend is a pound you'll never see again!!

adamski49 · Post by **adamski49** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:11 pm

Paul wrote:Well judging by the great deal I got on my F800S, I guess they had a pang of guilt about the Wunderlich markup and decided to put something back into the community by offering silly deals on bikes

As an aside, I received a letter from the administrator of SPC on Saturday morning, claiming I owed then over £900 and asking for a cheque, pronto. They supported this spurious assertion with a document on SPC notepaper with a statement of account for me. There were two lines on there, one showing a debit of £6,492 (presumably the figure SPC had the bike on their books for when they bought it as a demonstrator/loan bike) and the second a credit of £5,500 which is what I purchased it off them for. The lightening quick minds of the administrators instantly leapt to the conclusion that I therefore owed them the balance of £992... I have written to disabuse them of that curious notion, enclosing a copy of my sales receipt... Cheeky beggers

Paul

Paul

You are not alone. Have a browse of the ukGSer website to see more than one post of a similar vein to yours.

Adam

RiceBurner · Post by **RiceBurner** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:47 pm

decisivedave wrote:Silver lining is I rang Guildford BMW today and had a really useful conversation with the service guy there, they were really helpful, didn't mind spending abit of time chatting about my queries and makes me think (if I can afford it) future dealings will be done there from now on.

He said tho' he's choka with SPC work on top of their usual workload at the moment!

Cheers, Dave

ps my prediction for the lottery is - every pound you spend is a pound you'll never see again!!

oo fuck - Guildford is my dealer and I need a service soon..... hmmmm

julian · Post by **julian** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:53 pm

Paul wrote: As an aside, I received a letter from the administrator of SPC on Saturday morning, claiming I owed then over £900 and asking for a cheque, pronto. They supported this spurious assertion with a document on SPC notepaper with a statement of account for me. There were two lines on there, one showing a debit of £6,492 (presumably the figure SPC had the bike on their books for when they bought it as a demonstrator/loan bike) and the second a credit of £5,500 which is what I purchased it off them for. Paul

Good job I didn't buy their black R1200S. I'd probably owe them 3.5 grand.