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Jesus, Vulpine tried to price inflate your bikes? I'm amazed they didn't offer them for £6k one week then drop them down to £2k for the next month actually. That would be more in line with their strategy of late...
Really sad to hear your friend got shafted. That's not nice at all.
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@bashthebox Yup! They DID inflate them. They tried to do it even more but I had to step in and say it was ridiculous! They'd be pricing Gav right out of the market. Our friend did a whole lot of photography for them, all of which is incredible, and is now one of many creditors doomed to be out of pocket. He's just bought a house too, so that unpaid invoice is having a huge knock-on effect! We've kept hold of one of the wheels for the men's bike, as we hoped that would be leverage to get our friend paid, but nope!
hahaha! Yes, reduced without a word of warning!
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Hey Rob!
Thankfully, we (August Bicycles), were paid in full, as we are so careful to not let anything leave the workshop until it has been paid for. You just have to be like that, as a small set up! It could have crippled us to not get paid for them.
The prices of the bikes themselves made a few people's eyes water, but these were heavily inflated by Vulpine, against our advice, and now that everything has come out, we simply don't feel as though we can promote the builds on our website, which is such a shame, as they really were beautiful.
A good friend of ours, who we put forward for some work with Vulpine, hasn't and probably won't get paid, which makes us feel awful and this whole thing has really tarnished what seemed like a terrific chance to build some lovely bikes. We must be pretty blinkered to have not known something was brewing! The bikes themselves have actually been seized now, as assets, so Gavin's efforts were pretty much all for nothing now, which makes me so sad.
But hey, there might be a couple of sweet bikes being auctioned off soon, if anyone wants to get a bargain! Haha.
Amy (Mrs. August)