Oh, hell yes! Sorry, I only meant that it's perfectly legal to fold one company and then start up another that does exactly the same thing with no liability to pay any debts if that company was a limited one. Which Maelstrom was, a private limited company.

Whether it's ethical or not, is an entirely different matter! 

spalanzani said:

Agreed… As a person that deals with law as a job, I know that some countries allow this (mine included - Portugal) and that is why i asked what i asked.

But If is known that they "had been refusing to honour their debts for at least a year", then my counsel is exactly the same that Kasatka gives: 

Refrain from buying products from companies that have the same director/shareholder….

PS: Understood the legal implications of the UK law and thank you for that (it is always good to have knowledge on other contries in my job) - in this case is similar to Portuguese law.

No problem. 

Because I have time on my hands, I thought I'd check out Companies House on Maelstrom, see what's happening there, and interestingly they haven't filed a winding up petition for voluntary liquidation - in fact, it looks like they're still a trading concern. What, exactly, that means in this saga, who can say…

spalanzani said:

i dont know if youve checked but if you search in mealstrom games it comes up with a large thread on a wargaming site about it all

rich

richsabre said:

Wow. I have just had a browse at that theminiaturespage forum, and I'm suddenly glad I didn't usually use Maelstrom! I've had a few things from them, including Khazad-dum actually, but still. A company whose registered address is a residential one, and whose capital is just £1? The word "dodgy" just doesn't seem to cover it. I really feel for people who have outstanding orders with them.

EDIT - Wayland Games are involved too? There's a company I've mistrusted since it took them a month to acknowledge the fact that I had paid for an order they hadn't shipped, nor did they have the stock to ship. It just gets worse.

I'm in the UK, and have bought almost all the expansions for LOTR from gameslore.co.uk, always found them to be quite good. Other than that, I occasionally ebay from a US seller if I don't want to wait for the UK to finally get some stock (though given the shipping time, I usually end up no better off than having waited for a UK release). 

I did order laketown direct from the FFG store, and got it in just over a week.