It's been a while since I have been around, I am still running Spoondoolies SP30's from the buy that Roadstress setup a while ago. I drop in occasionally but this is the first hardware I thought I would have a look at in a long while but I like to have a quick check of what is going on.
Basic company check:
UK Registered Company registered 2015.03.26
Director: John Richard Colman
135 135 W SANTA CLARA CA , SAN JOSE
95078, CALIFORNIA
ENGLAND
Interesting since when has California been a part of England
Phone numbers on website:
+1-855-261-2270
+1-310-846-9028
These are in US not the UK
But on the website it says 'Our company's main headquarters is located in Manchester'
The website also says Copyright 2013 - 2015 but as the company had not been incorporated at that point the copyright would not stand up in court.
The website also goes on about Trademarks but nothing on the site has been trademarked, nor can I find any registered TradeMark for CloudThink
The website states that all disputes, etc will be submitted to the United Kingdom Court in London, there is no such thing, the terms have obviously not be created by a solicitor.
Address: 14 Lloyd Street, Manchester, England, M2 5ND
A rather grand city centre 5 story building that hosts at least 24 companies, at least there are on the first register I came to
http://www.endole.co.uk/explorer/postcode/m2-5ndOf the 24 listed, 21 are in liquidation
But wait there are loads more limited companies at that address, all registered offices and at least two accounting firms that are in that building.
14 Lloyd Street sounds grand but it is a set of serviced offices and as CloudThink does not have a UK landline I suspect they are just another registered office address c/o the UK accountants that set up the company
VAT Registration
500 x $2300 = approximately £737K
So they know that they will earn greater than the VAT threshold in a year and have not registered for VAT
Given a 10min basic company check I would think very, very hard before handing any money over.