Rock falls under administration, now up for sale

Hope you weren't really counting on getting yourself one of those Pegasus 210s. In a sudden announcement made today, Dominic Wong and David Langton of Deloitte & Touche LLP were appointed as Joint Administrators of Rock Group Plc. In layman's terms, that means those fellows will be attempting to achieve a sale of the now-defunct company. Reportedly, the failure of Rock is "partly attributed to the cash flow difficulties faced as a result of stock misappropriation by a former employee," though further details were omitted. As it stands, the admins are currently negotiating with potential suitors in order to place the outfit in more capable hands, but there is still a possibility that no one will bite. For more information on how all of this could affect you (you know, things like warranties and whatnot), check out the full release in the read link below. 'Tis a sad day folks -- Rock is dead (at least for the moment).

[Thanks, Peter]

[James Bowe @ May 8th 2008 10:20AM]

what the hell is rock?

[IT-Accountant @ May 8th 2008 10:26AM]

Rock is a UK PC retailer (similar to Alienware in their gamer-centric focus).

[Thi mam(kris120890) @ May 8th 2008 10:29AM]

rock were always better than alienware.

[Pochi @ May 8th 2008 10:58AM]

...except at staying in business.

[John @ May 8th 2008 2:26PM]

Deloitte & Touche? More like Toilette & Douche, amirite?

[konshuss @ May 8th 2008 10:30AM]

rock-rolled

[Flashpoint @ May 8th 2008 10:35AM]

They got rocked !

[gabe @ May 8th 2008 10:54AM]

HIP HIP ...

[John Z @ May 8th 2008 10:54AM]

o/~ ROCK! is deader than dead! o/~
o/~ the STOCK! is all in your head! o/~
o/~ the hype and the FUD was all that they bred o/~
o/~ so sell all your holdings or you're in the red! o/~

[tiuk @ May 8th 2008 11:41AM]

That was awesome. You've got my vote.

[John Z @ May 8th 2008 2:29PM]

It was either that or The Who.

[Mike @ May 8th 2008 10:56AM]

just for a second, I thought it was Uk's northern rock going down the tubes finally.

[Grammar freak @ May 8th 2008 11:00AM]

Can you smeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllll what the bankruptcy court is cooking?

[David @ May 8th 2008 11:08AM]

LOL, just bought a 1 year old rock pegasus 665 on ebay, best make sure I keep it healthy.
At least I have 2 (yes I have 2 pegasus 665s), just had the graphics card replaced on my first one, fortunately.

At least now I get to find out what was really meant by 'insurance backed' warranty.

Rock were better than alienware, pegasus 665 was built on same chassis as alienware 15.4" machine at the time + it had same hardware, for a third less £s and no alien face, sex.

[Pochi @ May 8th 2008 11:09AM]

If you're using an LCD monitor, scroll up and down quickly with the "FAIL" image on the screen.

What's with that (I just tried it on a different one, too)?

[James Bowe @ May 8th 2008 1:07PM]

what am I looking for? I didn't notice anything...

[Pochi @ May 8th 2008 3:42PM]

I am using a D-SUB connection right now. Might not happen with DVI...

[Transmitthis @ May 8th 2008 11:26AM]

http://www.techpond.co.uk/
This is where the people from the forum are hanging out since Rock closed their forum down.
A lot of users there with experience in notebook issues, plus cake,

Rock were going down for some time it seems - there support and repairs were seriously lacking

looks like Dell is the new er Dell

[Russell de Pina @ May 8th 2008 11:58AM]

Alienware wasn't that good at staying in business either. They bent over for Dell in order to stay alive

[Pochi @ May 8th 2008 12:49PM]

Rock went to prison and got stabbed by a sharpened toothbrush. Alienware became somebody's bitch for protection.

No matter how you spin it, Alienware is alive and Rock isn't. They win.

[Maurik @ May 8th 2008 3:01PM]

So they gotta liquidate their stocks riiiiiight ;)

[johnmcl7 @ May 10th 2008 1:20PM]

With regards to Alienware still being in business, Rock is in adminstration and could be bought by someone else (apparently Novatech are interested). Given Alienware let themselves be bought by Dell, the company whose image they always try to be the opposite of I don't think AW are much better.

John

[David @ May 11th 2008 10:00AM]

apparently they got a embezzled to death: check it out

"This stock misappropriation, as reported by the Kenilworth Weekly News, was performed by now former head of sales, Paul Bicknell. He had joined the company at the age of 16 and worked his way up through the ranks and became involved in the sale of components to a spare parts company called CFA Trading. This, it seems, proved too much of a temptation for the man, who began siphoning off money through the accounts of local forecourt garages.


The money he stole, reportedly £220,000 in total, was used on hiring expensive cars and online gambling. His solicitor has been quoted as saying that Bicknell was living in "something of a fantasy and unreal world", making up stories to his colleagues about how he had been adopted and that his real mother lived in the US, was an heiress, exceedingly rich and was sending him money to fund his increasingly opulent lifestyle. Shortly after leaving the company, Bicknell also broke into the company's warehouse and stole over £10,000 worth of equipment."


Damn you Paul@Rock