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[cmac]

Does anyone know if the online store is still running? Has anyone bought anything from UE in the last few weeks?

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by cmac

Does anyone know if the online store is still running? Has anyone bought anything from UE in the last few weeks?

YES I actually have an order on its way here now from the UE store. His lag time may be a bit longer these days, but he told me that he was still shipping store items out as usual. I placed a $200 order wondering the same thing, and it did take more than a week for him to get around to packing it up and shipping it out, but it did get shipped. I would just place the order and give it a week or two. If you see no action in the tracking section, then shoot him an email to request status. Sometimes it takes a little nudge for him to get moving on orders, but they are still going out. Good luck.

[JERRY2KONE]

Here is the latest update straight from the horses mouth 07/Jan/2012. I sent Robin an email asking if there was anything at all that we could do to help him get things back up and running again on the forum. Here is the response that I received this morning.

There’s nothing u can do. Machine has a problem, I don’t know how to fix it and the person who does is dealing with his dad’s stroke right now.

Sorry, but I don’t feel right about pushing him right now.

Regards,

Robin

What we have to assume from this response is that the forum is no longer an important entity to his buisness, and keeping it up is not a top priority on his list of things to do. His server must be failing and he is trying to get it fixed using friendship and not cash to get it repaired. With little to no sales driving his business anymore, and given the fact that he just closed up his shop and moved everything to a new location I doubt that he is operating the machine shop at all now. So his income level is pretty much zero except for the occasional UE store sale as he depletes his inventory. Unless he is sitting on a new found oil well or a pot of gold at his new location one would have to assume that the future for UE is fading fast. Its sad, but one would have to believe that we are seeing the end of UE as we know it. am glad that I have managed to aquire what I have up to now, and will try to purchase items from what he has left sitting on the shelves before the store disapears all together.