[Harp-L] Harrison Harmonicas

["Jon Clark" <jdclark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Elizabeth wrote:

"There are a couple of customers who've written in public that after their final orders were ready their money was taken and the harps not delivered.  
I'm mostly curious about those, because they seem to have fallen during the same timeline when I received mine, if their accounts are entirely accurate." 

In my case, I got the message  that my harp was at end of production and that I should send in my payment. I did.  2 months went by; no harp. I contacted Harrison and was told that there was a vendor issue with the cover plates and that it had been resolved.  Shortly thereafter, I received another end of prodiction noitice regarding the second harp that I had ordered. I contacted Harrison and asked about the first one and was told that they would ship together. I then made the second payment.  I think it was only a few weeks later that Harrison went belly up. I understand that many if not most start ups fail. What is so upsetting about this is that Harrison had to have known that it was in trouble when they requested my payments. Further, I highly doubt that either of the harps that I never got were ever at the stage of production that was reported. Going under and not being able to deliver is one thing, but intentional misrepresentation is another. Also, I understood that the word was that another company had stepped in and was gong to be filling the back orders. Does the AG involvement now mean that that is not the case?