I think ALpha tech people have left the country.
no sign of any mining servers.
jokers.

http://fightalpha.net/

For those who wish to get their money back, there is a law firm that has won all cases they've tried against Alpha.

They will handle all aspects of suing Alpha, all paperwork and court hearing, without any involvement from you being necessary, for a reasonable flat-fee.

The fee that was paid to them has been recovered on other cases, as well they argued that Alpha should pay 8% annual interest on the money they refused to refund, which the court found in favor of.

I will be posting their details in a newsletter soon, so if you want to hear about them just sign up at the site.

I may have to pursue something like this if they don't give us another lipservice update very soon.

I'd get on that ASAP.   On my sliding scale based admittedly on nothing but my own opinion and observation of this and other similar situations,  the odds of bankruptcy are far greater than that of delivery of anything at this point. 

there hasn't been a substantive update in months that I recall and they seem to be getting their ass handed to them in court.

line forms to the left to sue.  run, don't walk.  no pushing.....

I have a feeling they don't satiate their lovers well, if they treat them like they treat customers--being in the final stages for .. half a year now.

What louses.

Their annual business filings will be when? July or April? I think it's just around the corner. Can't wait to see that.

As long as people allow folks like this to steal from them, they'll continue doing it. They closed up physical shop for a reason, to prevent people from seeking them out.

Translation:

LOL Marttijn,

This has been a windfall for us. First we got all of you to fund our research efforts.
We actually have had many working miners hashing away for a few months now.
We are currently in the process of having the miners cleaned by a professional computer
cleaning crew so as to look unused. Once we finish here we will hold the miners
a little longer, just to make sure they are completely worthless. The last thing we would
want is customers taking delivery of their miners.

Currently we are planning our exodus from England where we will be reunited with our
Family in India. Thanks for the plane fare, Grandmas retirement (and ours), etc.

We will continue to "offer" refunds when the law requires it. We just love this country
and don't believe in re-incarnation/caste system so we are comfortable in our decision.

Thanks so much for the money,
Regards,
Alpha Crime Enterprise

http://fightalpha.net/

We're winning boys.

Hello all,

Came to this thread by accident. I've not read through it all but what I have read makes me very angry, so I'd just like to introduced you to a little known legal tool in the UK called a 'Statutory Demand' which is way of demanding payment of monies owed to you by a company, whether it's an individual or a limited company (US corporation), This is the government website link:

https://www.gov.uk/statutory-demands/overview

It was really designed as a way of one company forcing a debtor to pay up, it's not used an awful lot and almost never by individuals, but that doesn't mean that individuals can't use it. It doesn't cost anything except the cost of registered or recorded delivery post to 'serve' it on the company in question.

Now here's the killer:

Even if your claim may rest on soemwhat shaky ground in terms of Alpha's T's & C's, you can still put in your claim and:

LEGALLY THEY MUST RESPOND TO YOUR CLAIM WITHIN 21 DAYS. IF THEY DON'T THEN YOU CAN ENTER A PETITION TO WIND UP (LIQUIDATE) THEIR COMPANY

Now one person doing it will just be a nuisance to them, but 100? or 1000? They don't have the option to ignore any one of you, because you might be the one that petitions for liquidation! This is not in any way similar to a small claims action, that takes place  in a court before a judge (or sheriff in Scotland) and each claimant has to pay court fees to lodge their claim. 'Class action' cases' are difficult to bring before UK courts.

The key here is mass action, one individual demand won't cut it.

I'm pretty sure that there will be some of you that live in the UK to coordinate this if you go down this road. What might be advantageous to you
all is to write (NOT EMAIL) to Alpha and demand your money back (on the basis that you haven't got the product or refund you were promised) giving the 7 days to do so. It can be 'served' by recorded delivery post, about £1.80 in the UK. They will likely ignore you or send out a standard letter, it doesn't really matter what they say, your DEMAND is what they ultimately have to answer, the 7 day letter merely reinforces your Statutory Demand.

This is not driven by consumer law, that's why it's so sneaky!

If nothing else it will force them to do something. Everyone's claim will be different so they won't be able to get away with a standard letter, there is too much risk that a court will accept a petition for liquidation if they do this. If they get liquidated yes, you may lose your money bus as a creditor you have rights and that includes forcing the liquidator to bring the company directors to account, and perhaps even asking for criminal action to be taken against them if they have behaved fraudulently. It does happen regularly, believe it or not.

Hope you all get a result of some kind!

I'm not familiar with all that's gone before here but I think this is worth looking into.

If Alpha's people are reading this then they might want to consider telling you the truth about what they've done with your money and try to find a resolution. Directors have statutory duties in the UK to protect monies they are given either as investment or payment for goods, They can be jailed if it's found that they did not exercise due care in protecting those monies and spent them on their personal enrichment. Think on.

start of quote from Freejack2K

as anyone been able to enforce payment on their judgments? I have only heard one or two stories of people who managed to corner them and get them to cough up some money, but nothing very substantial. They owe so much money and are so slimy, I am suspicious that they have moved money out of reach by now...and I'm skeptical that a winding up petition will yield anything through liquidation, because I suspect they have outsourced pretty much everything and that the company has no real assets to liquidate.

I'd like to go to Manchester and give them a piece of my mind, though.

end of quote from Freejack2k   (see a couple posts up)



can't seem to quote on this page...(heh they don't like me much) so unsure if alpha still moderates this thread or what

anyway...I got refunded...thru cc and amex in sept 2014 if i remember right...the process was i put in a dispute to Amex (talk to an actual person on this) They made a complaint (wrote it all down including web pages/bitcointalk pages and their own no refund policy on pre-orders) ........

then alpha has 30 days to reply..on the 29th day alpha  sent them a pdf of my bill saying the item was paid in full (this was the 30% down thing I paid for the 50mh miner).pretty much saying it was NOT  pre-order and item was paid in full ie implied it was delivered ..hoping i'd let it drop i guess on the dispute loss...so AMEX then refused my dispute (only found out cause I called amex again)...they sent me the .pdf they sent and I was like wtf i never paid for the whole thing and no i did not get it...

so ...back to square one

called amex again...got a hold of someone with web access (supervisor) told the whole story with web links to alpha and the scam.....took like 30 min (i think the amex rep was thrilled..much more fun then telling folk their balance)....had a NEW dispute written up.....and flag'd do fraud...every bell/whistle and stupid we will not give you $$$ back on the
alpha web page

because of comments and links and such .....the fraud dept probably looked at all the stuff the amex rep put down and EVEN THOUGH IT WAS PAST 45 DAYS for my Amex dispute stuff....or whatever the time line was (maybe 60 days) ie a couple months past...AMEX got ALPHA TO REFUND (from the fraud dept guy's point of view all the research was in the comment thread of the dispute and easy resolution their part of the problems cut/dried imho .... not a mean trick..not sure ...but I THINK they contacted alpha's bank directly that was collecting funds yet ...for the last 70%.......and

Amex was not very pleased to see alpha take 30% down and not deliver and then turn around and say pay the other 70% and we might deliver anything and keep your 30%

anyway ..amex would not comment on how they got alpha to pay ..but that is likely how they did so with the bank at the time in place to take the last 70% funds from folk via wire xfer....so i think amex used the bank to get the funds back to m....and if i remember right that did not last long either I think the bank pulled the plug on that as well from complaints

so get amex they are brutal on chasing back your $$$ on anything online.....so anyway thats the catch ....if alpha has no assets to track and contact like the bank...hard to get the $$ back or impossible...and no doubt it has been too long for any cc options now...a lot of work to get my ..i think it was 700 bucks or some such back for my 30% down on their smallest unit

anyway ....i think it went down somewhat along the above lines..so i may have gotten really lucky they had a bank involved to track from their taking the last 70% at that time via wire xfer..