"Hey ,
Sorry I couldn't find time to treat you like Royalty whilst your Bass player was unwisely contamplating spending £1600.00 (don't make me laugh )on an Ashdown rig.I was probably worried about my Childrens future whilst you were Pissing about."

Sorry Kev, but your reply just backs up my point. I'm very sorry you and your colleagues have lost your jobs, especially if you've got families to feed, but you might want to think about how your own attitude has contributed to that outcome. No-one was expecting to be treated like royalty, and if you think maybe wanting to try an amp out before you buy it is "pissing about", well there you go. Mind you, we were also the only customers in the shop at the time so you were clearly under a lot of pressure.

At the end of the day, Sound Control's staff could not have been more helpful and were quite happy to do a bit of haggling meaning my mate got an 500W Evo head, a 4X10 and a 1X15 for £1100 - paid for in cash. The remaining £500 then got spent with them a week later on another bass when he collected his new rig. So they, unlike yourself, probably were laughing.

I would always prefer to support smaller independent music shops rather than feed the coffers of some anonymous group of business investors, even if it sometimes means paying a bit more to do so. But what I won't do is pay more and have a shit experience for the privilege.

I am not the only person I know who had a similar experience in Spectre in its last few years. So, if you think that if you had a just couple of people like my mate per week, that's well over a hundred grand a year of sales you were turning away simply because you'd decided we were time wasters or simply unworthy of your attention. Then you wonder why the place closes down.