Just heard rumour that Hard to Find Records in Birmingham has gone into administration, and the administrators literally came in last week and cleared out the entire warehouse!
To be honest its not a complete shame, as the staff in there were always rude and arrogant towards me when I asked technical questions about any products I was about to purchase. Just a shame that the midlands only in-store DJ / Producer equipment supplier has gone bust, and London seems the only liable option if you want to try before you buy.
Been saying they’ve got a sale on, on eBay for a while now.
I went on the website a few weeks back to compare hardware prices and there was no hardware, which I thought was odd, and an under new ownership banner up.
Companies House says they’re in liquidation … again http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/23fd51bdf4a96e0cdff673888b9c5d5c/compdetails
THIS… they won’t be missed by me… arrogant, rude, ignorant, and 5 weeks for a pair of control cd’s and vinyl to be delivered, when they said that they had stock!! Was not impressed!!
I used to buy a lot of stuff from HTFR but they quickly lost my custom when they started saying they had stuff in stock, only for me to buy it and then have to wait a month for it! And I kind of figured they were going bust when I was shopping for a new MPK last week and their website had no gear on it anymore, only vinyl.
It wasn’t all bad though, they replaced two mixers of mine that went bad, even after two years with one of them with no fuss. And when I visited their store in Birmingham, they couldn’t do more to help.
Only really used to pop in there when I was in town. Never really liked the staff and unless you were there to spend £££ on something they never had anything in stock and it always took weeks for them to get new stuff in. DV247 is another good shop in Birmingham but I mainly buy my stuff from DJkit.com now as they’ve been pretty decent.
Agreed, ever since vinyl for sale via the internet HTFR have always been expensive and delivery slow. I remember when Juno came in to existance, simple, text based website, good pricing and great delivery - the new benchmark. Also used Uptown and GlobalGroove (who’d play tunes down the phone to you from the shop - ace, but expensive phone bill!)
I used to shop there but had a few problems with items in stock, I took a complete new system out on finance and they only had half the items in stock. I demanded that the finance to be cancelled and that took forever. Once it was all sorted i never wanted to shop there again. So it forced me to look elsewhere. I found this other shop called matthews electronics, They stocked pretty much everything htfr did but had it in stock, they have also got a website not always up to date but they have stock. freindly staff aswell i think there website is www.4dj.co.uk
