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It currently employs 20 staff and has a little under 100,000 paying members among the several million people on its books. Mehlhopt, who served as StarNow’s chief executive until April 1, said the terms of the sale were confidential. But its shareholders were “very happy with the result and proud of what we’ve achieved with StarNow over the past 17 years”, he said. StarNow’s founders hadn’t been looking to sell, but had been approached by Backstage, he said. “We said, ‘look, we are not looking to sell but if you put an offer on the table we will consider it’, and they p...

After three days I gave up waiting and rang its customer service line. Apologies were profuse and to their credit they same-day couriered me a replacement book. Which is great except three weeks later, arriving back from holiday, I noticed something in the bushes beside my back door. Yup. You guessed it. It was the original package, which must have been blown by the Wellington wind off my doorstep into the foliage. In other words, not only did they deliver the original item when they should have, they proceeded to replace it effortlessly even though they were not at fault. Their only fault...