A woman who paid €325 for a 32-inch television from Mambra Electronics Ltd on June 13 is still waiting for its delivery exactly two months later, but is now worried that it is never going to arrive since the shop appears to have closed down.

Maureen Stephens was told that if she paid for the television in full she would receive it in July because a shipment was planned for that date.

By mid-July she had heard nothing from the shop so she decided to phone up, but received no answer. Eventually she visited the shop in Luqa where she saw a sign saying that the shop will be on shutdown until August 4.

But the shop has since remained closed and its prominent signage has been removed. "I don't know what to do. The shop's website isn't working anymore and when I call up all I hear is an answering machine telling me the opening hours," she told timesofmalta.com. "Now I'm hearing that the owner has fled the island, but I don't know," she said.

According to sources, Mambra had recently advertised a mega-sale but when it was due to start the doors never opened, despite queues of people who turned up. At the time of publishing, owner Joseph Pavia could not be contacted and his whereabouts were unknown.

The electronics store has been open since 1995 and was famous for low-cost television, hi-fi and DVD equipment.

It has been the subject of judicial protests filed against it by the Inland Revenue Department and the VAT Department for taxes due to the government which were in excess of €600,000.