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    Barbeques Galore goes bust, enters voluntary administration
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    Barbeques Galore goes bust, enters voluntary administration

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    5. -gradmania- on

      Gets worse for anyone holding vouchers – from the link:
      >Anyone holding vouchers for the store will need to pay $2 per $1 they hope to redeem from their voucher; i.e. to use a $100 voucher, a customer needs to spend $200 cash.

    8. AussieBob71 on

      US Investment Firm doing what they do to make money which is to gut companies, lump them with debts, strip assets and then go bust.

    9. iball1984 on

      Private Equity again.

      Slash, Burn, Cut, Gut and Shut.

      I don’t understand how Private Equity makes money.

    10. OkBookkeeper6854 on

      Weber is the category killer in BBQs, and their margins are lower than every other brand. They don’t need to be high. If you sell BBQs and dont embrace Weber, you’re dead.

      When they eventually did get Weber in, they tried to switch sell the customer into something else every time. They never had the “good” Webers, with the high tops and the temp gauges, for $10 more or so

      Exactly the same thing happened to Godfreys with Dyson.

    11. ObeseQuokka on

      “Anyone holding vouchers for the store will need to pay $2 per $1 they hope to redeem from their voucher; i.e. to use a $100 voucher, a customer needs to spend $200 cash.”

      – We won’t honour the money you already spent unless you spend more money with us.

      Shit behavour led to a shit outcome for this company.

    12. PaxKiwiana on

      Wtf? That was legendary back in the 90s in Melbourne. I guess you can’t always adapt fast enough these days.

    17. Catman9lives on

      I don’t get it, a 205 barrel a shopping trolley an angle grinder and a couple of hinges and you are well away. forget paying $$$ for a bbq. The only thing getting cooked is your wallet.

    18. No-Willingness469 on

      Is that the canary in the coal mine for the economy? BBQ specialty shop in AUSTRALIA going bust????

    19. redex93 on

      Well could also argue that when 30+% of the population are renting they probably can’t be too focused on having a nice backyard with a BBQ, and then the other % of houses that don’t even have enough space to begin with.

    20. katandkuma on

      So we bought a BBQ in the boxing day sales i think 3 years ago? They said they had them in store, confirmed they had all the stock. Then said oh no it’ll be available in 2 weeks. We took that cos it’s not their fault if they had huge demand. And then it came out they had no stock across the country at the time they were selling them all, and they knew this but they’d been telling everyone they had them in stock. We were so mad- we ended up waiting months to get the damn BBQ, we had a gift card so didn’t want to lose our money . So I’m not super surprised they went out of business. It was super dodgy.

    21. Its4MeitSnot4U on

      I’m 64.

      I’ve owned 3 BBQ’s in my life.

      I BBQ at least every week.

      The Weber Q was a game changer because it’s aluminum with a polymer trolley and vitreous coated grills.

      Its not steel with a wooden trolley with cast iron grills.

      Plus, 90% of people never BBQ.

      And I live in an apartment these days

    27. Powermonger_ on

      Not surprised. My local BBQs Galore was always empty and service was poor. Aren’t these stores franchises though?