Honey I’m afraid Yurtel went bust and now we’re yurtless for our glamping. No they didn’t take credit card. Anyway we’re out over ten thousand pounds and they’re not doing refunds
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At the risk of sounding unempathetic, I'd suggest that anyone who can afford to blow ten thousand quid on a tent at Glastonbury can afford to lose ten thousand quid.
Lol, so Glastonbury actually has the yurtel tickets held back, but can only release them to another yurtel-style hospitality company (which, of course, the customers will have to pay for again because the yurtel money gone.)
yurtel is a company that books luxury yurts for glastonbury? i was all but certain i illicitly used their satellite network to phreak prank calls to the KGB during the cold war. i need to look at my notes
Damn so the Yurt company was £1.8 million in debt and made everybody pay in cash for their luxury Yurts, which they then promptly spent on company operations, until they ran out of money, at which point the company died and all the Yurt money was gone. Do not say “all my yurts gone” it’s been done
so you're saying the yurt glamping was a ponzi scheme? perhaps we can come up with a succinct and pop culture referential summation of that revelation.
My favourite part of this story is that this company was formed 12 March 2012 as “Rosies Kitchen” and then renamed to “Yurtel Limited” in April 2012. What happened there? We shall never know. All has been swept away
was it a shelf company? like, a company that's already registered but does nothing, so that you can start a new company by just renaming/transferring it, which is faster in some jurisdictions
I have to imagine the "members" is literally the one dude who's a director (he's listed as owning 75% or more of the shares, which can include 100% ownership). Also October 2023 is normal, accounts with Companies House aren't due until 9 months after the relevant year ends.
The thing is yurts are actually cool, and very practical for what they're for, it's just what they're for is living by the steel saddle song of the steppe
British racism means Mongol horde encampments are strictly regulated. Can't even crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women anymore, smdh.
If I could persuade multiple rich fools to give me £16,000 each for a four night stay in a yurt next to a music festival I would never be able to run out of money
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Customers must provide three forms of photo ID and the address and alarm deactivation code of the house that will be empty while they're staying in the yurt
Currently working on a new app game called Yurtle. You have to move festival goers around until everyone’s dietary restrictions are met. Hoping to be part of the NYT games app by 2027.
You're laughing, he took Tatler's advice on how to freshen up the classic Hampstead lifestyle this summer with a yurting experience and you're laughing
The fact that they wouldn’t accept any payment from credit cards should have been a big red flag to people. Shows they didn’t want to even contemplate dealing with refunds.
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My bank frantically beats down my door if I breathe too heavily in the direction of the wire transfer tab on my phone app and they did a transfer of 10k fucking quid. I am spiraling
I simultaneously do and don't want to know what it feels like to be told "you just lost 10k and got absolutely nothing in return" and find myself with the privilege to go "oh well, that sucks", rather than it radically upending my life and existential security
if i spent 10,000 (local currency) and got told i was getting nothing in return, i would [ACTIONABLE THREAT] myself. that kind of money just disappearing would devastate me. that's MONTHS of rent, groceries, etc.
There’s is something seriously fucked up in a country where child poverty, reaching levels they had to resurrect the victorian concept of destitution, has grown exponentially for the last decade, where nurses and many others have to use food banks (that outnumber MacD’s now) to eat
"The company is insolvent and we don't have your money or your tickets, the only thing you can do is buy the tickets directly through us" ???????????????????
16.5k pounds for a yurt presidential suite. What. You know, I’m not feeling so bad that I bought slightly fancy tickets to see Taylor Tomlinson this year despite *everything*.
Imagining a scenario where Yurtel did deals with social media influencers for "exposure" then tried to run their company on and pay bills with that exposure.
Bit of a giveaway. Only the victims here are, for a change people, with more money than sense who have been coasting for months that they had tickets, didn't bother spending hours online with a wing and a prayer and wouldn't be roughing it with the hoi polloi.
Sounds like these people wanted to be defrauded. They clearly have too much money and will be able to scrounge up another $26k for the next family weekend outing.
This is so wonderful. Many years ago, in a more innocent time (or at least I was a hell of a lot less cynical), I published an amateur press association called "Turtles all the Way Down."
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My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will take your yurt
And for the folks going, "Wait, how could they have gone bankrupt renting out tents?"
This was never a legit operation. The goal was always to take the cash and run.
That money should have been forcibly taken from them some time ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/glastonbury_festival/comments/1ks1hsr/help_please_yurtel/
This is what we need rn
The other 50% also go broke but *much* quicker.
THAT'S YURTZI!
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07985116/filing-history
In fact this whole balance sheet feels extremely skinny for what should be this operation. $500,000 in cash is only 50 customer bookings?
🤷♂️
Sometimes I wish I was ruthless and incapable of shame.
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you yurt
Still, he's got a handful of other companies left.
(Disclosure: I have friends, they have their own yurt, it can be a thing)
option
Unconsidered option: not going, and saving 16K
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My bank frantically beats down my door if I breathe too heavily in the direction of the wire transfer tab on my phone app and they did a transfer of 10k fucking quid. I am spiraling
cannot imagine "aww dang :("
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It’s absolutely sickening and shows the worst traits of human nature.
There's no hope for anybody.
"the only option"
"THE ONLY OPTION"
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