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  • #23067
    lee_UK
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    Just a quick word of WARNING, anyone contemplating selling musical equipment through this shop should beware, i sold a VOX AC30 TBX on Feb 16th and still havent got my money, i was supposed to get £650 and when i call him i get the old ‘cheque in the post’ quote.
    I have spoken to his Accounts dept. and his shop staff, and they all mug me off with the same story.

    I am starting court proceedings against him next week.

    So Beware: Andys Guitars , 27 Denmark st, London WC2H 8NJ .

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    • #78189
      Anonymous
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      Sounds like he’s going skint, I remember the shop,vsaw a filthy rotten Fender Stratocaster in there for about eighty million pounds

    • #76583
      Anonymous
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      hi i just wonderd if u ever done a vidio of the sherrells will u love me 2 morrow ive seen the music score but i cant work out the strumming pattern just though u might b able 2 help me on this ty roxanne

    • #69373
      damo1306
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      Hi there,
      I have also given this irritating tick an amp. Mine was a 1963 Marshall Bluesbreaker. It has been 2 years now since i have spoken with him. I kep trying the phone number and his email but can never get hold of him. He also told me that my amp was a copy. I know it wasnt as i check the serial number etc for authentication. I would love to give him a slap. Does anyone have a different contact number to mine 02072400754.
      Regards
      damo

    • #69403
      lee_UK
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      Im just glad i got my money out of him before the buisness folded.

    • #69340
      wlynne
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      By the time I got bored of calling and e-mailing and arrived in the shop there was only tat hanging on the walls. He was trying to make out some cardboard box was a very valuable vintage Jazz guitar … I took the delayed cheques instead (which bounced of course). I also spent £3000 on wasted legal fees… Hope I bump into him one day… 😈

    • #69364

      Shit that was you!!? Sorry really late response, i stumbled across this page and it made me laugh, Andy was such a c***nt. I was doing work experience in Andys guitars at the time you came into the shop for the guitar. Was it you who took the labels off the guitars and said you were going to come back for them in half an hour? Andy made us shut and lock the door and we had to open it for every customer.

    • #69370
      lee_UK
      Participant

      this months ‘Guitarist’ magazine has an article on the now dead parrot AKA andy’s guitar shop, so if anyone wants to reminisce, im just glad i got my money out of him before it sunk with all hands.

    • #69379
      lee_UK
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      Anyone watch ‘Fonejacker’ on ch 4 this week? Andy of Andys guitars was on the programme, being setup with a phonejack.

    • #69348
      lee_UK
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      Wonder what happened to all those vintage guitars? he had hundreds in their.

    • #69427
      fly
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      yeah,the shop closed in june and the phone number nolonger exists.i do have his mobile,which he used to awnser!

      the only thing now is to take legal action.

    • #69338
      lee_UK
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      I got this PM from another poor sod who trusted this crook, im sure he won’t mind me posting it up, this is a cut and paste from my personal message:

      ‘Hi Lee, I gave andys a guitar to sell and he now owes me £1,300. After 24 calls none of which was returned, and 2 months, I went into the shop only to find he’d gone, leaving a cheque with an old collegue (Dave) who said can you leave it a week before presenting it. I did this and just got it back from the bank saying that Andys had stopped it! I was just going to ask for some advice before I decide what to do. You mentioned that you accepted 100 plus 2 cheques, but how did you know they wouldnt bounce? As Im owed a lot more, maybe I should take a guitar off the wall? But I ve checked with a solicitor and that would still be classed as theft. what do you reckon. Did he offer you the cheques with a guarantee card? Id Appreciate your opinion before I sort him out one way or another! Cheers mark [email protected]

      Theft for taking back what he owes? i guess it could be a sale or return guitar, somebody else’s property, it’s a shame because Andy does genuinely have a good reputation, his shop has been trading for decades, he has loads of pictures on the walls of people he has dealt with, i originally posted my ‘Beware’ thread in hope that someone might Google ‘Andy’s guitars’ and see a link to guitarsite with the warning before trading with him, I hope you all get your money back, when you say he is bankrupt do you mean the shop is closed?? ceased trading?

    • #69397
      glw
      Participant

      Can’t you just get down there and grab a guitar off the wall? You’re entitled.

    • #69431
      fly
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      i sold him a 78′ custom telecaster for almost £2k, in august of last year!
      he still owes me half of that.after going down there twice to pick up cash.

      i called everyday for the last 10 months.hes a compleat tosser and a crook.

      he’s now gone bankrupt…anyone got any advice?

    • #69411
      lee_UK
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      The only way is to go to his shop yourself and get right in his face like i did.
      I was going to take one of his guitars off the wall and walk out with it.
      He knew i wasn’t going anywhere so he gave me all the cash in the till, and
      2 cheques and he gave me an extra £10 for my petrol and parking.
      Both cheques cashed OK, but i would never sell my gear through him again.

    • #69350
      Ebenezer
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      Regrettably, I too have fallen into this trap. Andy Preston’s shop sold a guitar for me more than nine months ago and I still haven’t received payment, in spite of phone calls, emails, Recorded Delivery letters etc. (and promises from him that he’d mail the payment ‘immediately’). Trading Standards have phoned him, written to him (letter ignored) and sent a Trading Standards Officer round to see him in his shop (he again promised to send a cheque ‘immediately’), but with no result.

      The Registry Trust says he currently has more than £11,000 of unpaid CCJs outstanding against his name. Looks like I’ll only get my money back by sending in the bailiffs.

      Not happy about this situation at all.

      Like Lee says, BEWARE of Andy’s.

    • #69342
      1bassleft
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      I would seriously beware some of the Tin Pan Alley (Denmark St) shops and amps. They’re waking up to valve amps = serious money but, IMO, I’m not sure they have the expertise. I’ve seen some real cackola on ebay with fantasy prices that I can link to some of these places.

      Nobody pays the silly money asked, so they end up with a cashflow problem. I’m not making myself out to be some mega-expert, but feel free to post up here on guitarsite if an amp tempts you and you wonder if it’s reasonable money. I’ll happily post an op.

    • #69356
      Michael
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      Glad to see you finally got your money mate. Four months is just way too long.

    • #69344
      lee_UK
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      Just a follow up.
      Both cheques ‘Bounced’ so i got back on to him,
      Drove down to Denmark St, went to his shop and told him i was going to take one of his guitars from the wall if i did’nt get my money, in the end i had to settle for all the cash in the till, £100, and 2 further cheques for the difference, and he gave me an extra £20 to cover my fees getting to his shop.
      The both cleared in my account 2 weeks ago.
      So it took over 4 months to get my money.
      While i was in Denmark St ( a street in London historicaly devouted to guitars, still has over 10 shops in the street) i went in to a shop and saw a 1974 Hiwatt DR103 100 watt custom head, for £1,100!!
      I got a 1973 DR103 model from my old bass player for nothing, it needed a few quid spending on it to bring it up to scratch, but it was well worth it, i gig with it all the time.
      I do love bass players. 😆

    • #69425
      noodle69
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      yeah considering they would have made at least £500 on the resale , the customer service was pretty much as you may expect !!!

      they are all a bunch of wannabe posers !!!

    • #69409
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Now have the ‘Cheques’ for the amp, (£325 each) one dated for today and one for 10 days time, took me 7 weeks to get my money!!
      so in my book, he’s still a S***bag.

    • #69362
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Watch out for him.

    • #69358
      lee_UK
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      Thats the place, lots of celebrity buyers, but then i think that has to do with location rather than service.
      Andys dont pay, dont go there.

    • #69423
      glw
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      I know the shop you mean. It’s always got guitars with scary price tags in the windows.

    • #69383
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Like trying to get blood out of a stone, every time i call they say, ‘oh is that the Status Quo AC30?’ i say no, its not, its the proper AC30 the reissue with Blue Alnicos.

      Anyway remember it is :

      Andys guitars or Andy’s Guitars
      of 27 Denmark st. London WC2H 8NJ

      but not Andies guitars

    • #69346
      glw
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      Blimey! I always thought they had quite some reputation to uphold.

    • #69368
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Also known as Andy’s Guitar or Andy’s Guitars of 27 Denmark St London WC2H 8NJ.

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