Repossession

I was wondering if any of you have any experience with this as someone who would like to perform a repossession.

My company has been doing business with another company for a number of years. We make small metal parts that fit into the machines that they sell. We currently have 3 unpaid invoices with said customer, and we received a notice that the business was sold off and instantly transferred to another owner. There were definitely some back room deals going on. No one, not even the employees of this business, knew that they were in trouble. Then the next day it was under new ownership. The new owners are dealing with a lawyer to handle everyone's claims, and this is a response that I received when asking if we would be able to pick up the unpaid shipped parts that have been delivered.

I am writing in response to your letter to my colleague ********. In our capacity as legal counsel to ***, we are advised that as you may be aware, *** was unable to sustain its business operations on a financially viable basis in conformity with its obligations to its secured creditors. As a result, ***'s secured lender foreclosed on all of ***'s assets and sold certain assets to <****>. We are advised that neither the secured lender nor <****> assumed any of the company's liabilities and *** has no further assets to satisfy any other creditor claims.

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I realize this is their way of saying "go fuck yourself", but there has to be a way to reclaim our lost parts. I mean, if a company recently purchased a vehicle and then tried that shit to the manufacturer, it would be repo'd. How would I go about doing the same?

I'm thinking about responding to her email saying something likeI appreciate your response to our letter, but I feel there may have been some confusion as a result. I would like to make it clear that I am not attempting to secure any type of payment for our lost goods. I'm simply trying to repossess parts that we delivered to you that have been unpaid. This way we would be able to retain the scrap value of these parts to help offset our losses.

Any advise from you guys would be appreciated.

It's minimal. A whopping $6000 lost in total. We're just trying to reclaim the lost parts. I don't believe we want to go the route of a lawyer, as we still plan on doing business with the "new" owners. We're just trying not to get screwed in the process.

That's a shock. We've been burned a couple of times over the years, but we're just tired of it. Yet we're in a business that even when people fuck us and re-open, we need the business, so we always take them back. We're like a battered wife.

I don't know what it is. I believe they're under a new name now, but not even 100% sure on that. We received an email about a week ago from one of the employees saying that overnight the business had changed, but the employees were never told about it, nor were they affected in any way.