Amiga Inc note to dealers

[CodeSmith]

:-o

Is this real?

[CodeSmith]

Wow.  Looks like someone finally hit him with a clue-by-four.  Next week should be interesting.

[CodeSmith]

Really?  if that's the case then the Kent city officials are literally looking a gift horse in the mouth.  Asking for ten year old financial records from a company that's offering to give you hundreds of thousands of $$$ doesn't sound too smart to me.

[CodeSmith]

@Krashan

I guess it could be that, although I would imagine all this would have been sorted out before the agreement was signed.  My theory is that they're trying to track down all those A1200s that got sold from under them at way below cost.  I remember Bill McEwen at some Amiga show saying something like "we know who you are and we're coming to get you", but nothing happened.  Maybe they didn't have proof back then, and now that they have the money they've decided to pursue the guilty parties?

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@Manu

Ah, found it.  It was in Amiwest 2002, the transcript is here (post #65) http://www.ann.lu/comments2.cgi?view=1061210784&category=forum&start=51

"We have a situation creating an Amiga museum, with a lot of hardware that was ours that we owned that was in Germany. We went to go get it. The warehouse was empty. Pallets and pallets of our product had been stolen. Now, we know who has it, we're not gonna... that's... we're not here to point fingers or names or let people know, we even know where it is."

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@hooligan

I don't see anyone accusing Petro.  But the people who were doing business with Petro would be the best place to start looking, since they would have been the biggest Amiga dealers of the day and so the best place to find a "fence".

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@hooligan

Ahh, whatever.  I'm too old for this daytime drama sh*t. All I care about is what gets announced on Monday :-)

[CodeSmith]

The thing is, what are you going to do with a few hundred A1200s other than sell them?  Seeing all those old invoices will give them a good idea of who all the dealers were at the time, and maybe figure out who ended up buying the stolen ones (if company X only bought 10 A1200s from Petro and Amiga Inc have discovered they sold 100 to the public, where did the other 90 come from?)