I stopped doing business with MR late 07' with invoices owed to me in the thousands, they took me to the cleaners for 3 whole releases which were not P&Ds and probably 3 releases before that as P&D’s!
I went legal but small claims was a waste of time, in the end MR would not even reply to my solicitors when I tried to sue them last year!
Another company which I will not name was owed about 18k from them, they took it to the courts and were never paid it, subsequently the company had to write off the dept as the legal costs were going to be ridiculous and they were still not guaranteed payment even if they did win in court again.
This has been the main reason as to why Flavor has been slow releasing, it’s taken along time to recoup the losses.
I think in total with my digitals also in limbo with MR for 07/08 it will of cost me close to 10k, this also meant I let down all the artists on those releases and they never got paid either! (Not good)
They did the same to every label I know who worked with them, it appears they never released clear sales sheets and never paid, even if you were luckily enough to get paid it was always months and months late!
I really wanted to see how much of other labels money they had not paid out!
I think it would be in the tens of thousands, it seems they used labels for a few releases, promised them the world, then never pay them, **** them off, and then move onto some other new labels and start it all over again.
