What's up with Soundstage Direct?

hey the link to buy a gift-certificate still works!

read somewhere they fled to Ohio, hope that makes this a Federal racketeering criminal charge

This really sucks.  I live in Doylestown and whenpurchasing from SSD would always just walk over and pick up my order.  I have know Seth for his days at PRE and is is a good guy.  A few weeks ago I was grabbing my morning bagel and chatted with him for a min.  No mention of issues.  Another buddy comes over to me right after and tells me that SSD is going out of business but did not give a reason.  I will see if I can dig up some info because I do not like dishonesty.  Hope to have info tomorrow after my bagel.  Peace.  

Hi Guys, I'm from Speakers Corner Records in Germany. We have an open invoice with SSD about almost EUR 10.000,-, which is around $11.500,-. They ordered from us since 2011 in regular terms. The last order was the biggest ever and suddenly they were gone. No payment, no contact, no phone working, nothing. We even had to pay their freight costs to UPS as they gave them a bad check. Since the last order was so big, I'm sure, all this was planned to get the most money out of a sudden disappearance.
But to you as customers: you can't expect a 20% discount on the price for good analog vinyl reissues! There has to be a certain price level to make the whole thing going. Production, licenses, shipment to the US, dealer margin, aso...Buy from Acoustic Sounds or Music Direct, those companies are reliable and get our product very regularly. Thanks, Christiane

Amazon Pay came through for me with a refund on the unshipped portion of my April order.  I hope everyone else is getting refunds.

waldmann10-12-2018 3:27am

Hi Guys, I'm from Speakers Corner Records in Germany. We have an open invoice with SSD about almost EUR 10.000,-, which is around $11.500,-. They ordered from us since 2011 in regular terms. The last order was the biggest ever and suddenly they were gone ...

Thanks for sharing. I am so sorry to hear this - it really sounds deliberate on SSD's part.  I think many people don't recognize how much in sales you need to rack up in order to offset a loss of this size.