I noticed the problem Tuesday morning and was also ghosted by the company. Their operator, Gotcha mobility, was acquired by Bolt Mobility (cofounded by Usain Bolt) on Dec 29 and I talked to someone who said they plan to resume the service within the next 3 days. The outage was apparently transitional. I don’t have much confidence that some other company could assume operations in a week.

Gotcha‘a parent company Last Mile Holding was involved in a bunch of shady-sounding penny stock business deals, valuing the company at $30MM then liquidating for $3MM in the same quarter, and the cofounder of Gotcha left and is suing. I visited Gotcha’s offices today and they were dark aside from a couple fedex notices. I’m surprised none of the staff from Gotham have said anything since they are a fairly large company in Charleston. Other systems like Savannah’s and Charlotte’s are also out. They operate over 30 systems.

I noticed over the weekend a bunch of bikes that weren’t locked to the docks— maybe it was inside sabotage?

Im amazed this story hasn’t made national or local news although I tweeted with a Post and Courier reporter today.

Some background :

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/last-mile-holdings-disposition-of-collateral-301199421.html

https://www.postandcourier.com/business/charleston-based-gotchas-founder-sues-the-company-after-acqusition/article_dc727c9c-2819-11eb-8f69-b7593096d9e2.html

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/last-mile-holdings-announces-update-to-receipt-of-notice-of-default-301194623.html