Ebuyer, the U.K.’s second-biggest PC retailer, is reportedly ending its operations. Reports have circulated that its staff were unexpectedly sent home early, and Overclock3D has also confirmed that Urban Logistics Acquisitions 6 Limited, the organization from which Ebuyer leases its premises, filed a Winding Up Petition against it on August 1. This is an application to the courts to have a company that is unable to pay its debts closed and compulsorily liquidated. This is the latest in a series of challenges that the company is facing, after an alleged potential buyer lost interest in the company and canceled negotiations.
The company was founded in 2000 and was owned by The West Retail Group from 2004 until the end of the pandemic in…