Special Reserve Down The Pan..

[vincent]

went to check on Special Reserve site botu 5 mins back.... to see what bargains/deals they got...

and recieved this

In Respect Of:

Inter-Mediates Limited T/A Special Reserve

TO ALL CUSTOMERS

I regret to inform you that the company ceased trading on 15 November 2005. The company is therefore no longer in a position to complete any outstanding orders that may have been placed by customers.

www.reserve.co.uk

Reserve has been in the gamming indutsry for donks....
used to be in every single Gamming mag.. shame that

[Ramedge]

Originally Posted by vincent

went to check on Special Reserve site botu 5 mins back.... to see what bargains/deals they got...

and recieved this



www.reserve.co.uk

Reserve has been in the gamming indutsry for donks....
used to be in every single Gamming mag.. shame that

Just before i built my PC - I ordered a rig from a company called Carerra SSC - They were in PC-Pro mag and there systems always got good reviews. Little did i know after i ordered they went into administration, they were brought out by watford in the end.

But they always seemed to have a great reputation in mags

ah well glad i never got that PC in the end

nothing to do with the reserve - but a similar case.

[dave87]

Never used em, but they do seem to have been pretty good. Shame you can't declare Chapter 11 bankrupcy like some airlines in the US

Dave

[zulander]

Jeez, they were a company I had forgot about. My mate used to buy games from em all the time when we were at school about 7-8 years ago i guess. i used to remember they always had a big list in everymag u could think of with their prices on. Bummer if u work for em, i guess place like play.com had an effect in the end

[autopilot]

Aye, shame. I remember buy games from them over 15 years ago!

[Spud1]

I bought shedloads off them before internet shopping took off with gameplay.co.uk and play.com..after that i almost never used them, except for the odd very cheap n64 game (often had some for 8 quid or so..bargin )

shame they are gone they still had some great deals now and again

[Workaholic]

Not to forget the free gifts you get for creating a new account and for every 5th sale made.....

[5lab]

i shopped there a good 10 years ago.. sad to see em go!

[EvilMunky]

hehe i used to order my sega master system games from them. And peripherals for back in the day.

There used to be a shop in basildon for them as well i beleive - only went there a couple of tmes - wasnt that cheap

[noah]

i bought my first playstation from them nearly 10 years ago

shame

[Oakey]

I remember Special Reserve. You could only order if you were a member, and all their ads in the gaming mags had a little comic strip.

[Mike Fishcake]

Obviously this is the problem - everybody *remembered* them, and didn't use them :-/

[Stoo]

tbh in the early years they were good, but as the internet took off they were simply outclassed by just about everyone..

[noah]

Originally Posted by Stoo

tbh in the early years they were good, but as the internet took off they were simply outclassed by just about everyone..

agreed, they used to be cheap and they did have a local shop in bristol, but this internet thing proved to be too big a beast to handle

[Kaizen]

I'd used them since the 80's, back when they also had a text adventure club.

Since it's been so easy to compare prices online and find cheaper games elsewhere, though, there wasn't much of an incentive to buy from them anymore, even if I did browse their site quite frequently.

One thing in their favour was the free delivery, but in recent times they started charging, perhaps as a last ditch effort to actually make some money, but that was the final nail in the coffin for me as far as buying stuff from them goes. And to cap it all, I must have dozens of those 'Reddies' vouchers and never got round to cashing in any of them! lol

What I'm curious about now, though, is the status of Freeola, their spin-off webhosting company. Hopefully their finances are healthy, otherwise there's gonna be a lot of websites that suddenly disappear before long!

[autopilot]

I doubt Freeola will survive, unless someone else has taken over it. It the company that owns Special Reserve that gone down the pan (Inter-Mediates ltd) and taken all the companies they own with it, including Gameloaded.co.uk.