In Stock items discount this weekend (Fri 13th Sept)

[GMD]

Just had email in offering 15% off in stock items if anyone is about to make any purchases. 70YEARS15 is the code at checkout

[Silver Fox 17]

1 hour ago, GMD said:

Just had email in offering 15% off in stock items if anyone is about to make any purchases. 70YEARS15 is the code at checkout

Thanks Greg, I never received the email but used the code successfully.

[dBerriff]

Thank you. Email arrived here ok. As I have amassed quite a few points this could be tempting. Again. 🫤

[Baz657]

Typical. I ordered a few things on the 11th and were marked as dispatch this afternoon... just as the email came in.  😒

Edited September 13 by Baz657

[Peter Stiles]

Well, that turned Martin Frobisher from a Maybe to a Boo-yeah!

[Andrew-372848]

Succumbed, Duchess of Montrose on its way. 😀

[dBerriff]

You will not regret it! It might by Friday the Thirteenth, but you will not regret it.

[Ilmson]

3 hours ago, Andrew-372848 said:

Succumbed, Duchess of Montrose on its way. 😀

 

The same here. I couldn't resist - Montrose digital.
I also ordered a required point at the same time.

The code can also be found on the main page.

 

 

Edited September 13 by Ilmson

[Pete82]

Will try to resist this as I already have £500 worth of stuff on pre order.  I'm sure I'll find a way to justify a purchase though. 

[Andrew-372848]

After gaining approval and hitting the “Pay now” button with a satisfying smirk on my face, I was asked “do you not have some items on order?” 🫢 Thankfully (and truthfully) I could reply that they were delayed until next year! Phew!!😀

[My name is Bond]

Just when I thought I had everything I need for the next 24 hours.

Wish Hornby would stop doing this! 😀🚄🚄

Edited Saturday at 12:11 by My name is Bond

[dBerriff]

I expect it will keep happening while they need to reduce stock levels. Mk 2 coaches and mineral wagon ordered. 🤫

My argument is that there is no point in accruing points unless you use them. 🤔

Edited Saturday at 12:23 by dBerriff

[My name is Bond]

26 minutes ago, dBerriff said:

I expect it will keep happening while they need to reduce stock levels. Mk 2 coaches and mineral wagon ordered. 🤫

My argument is that there is no point in accruing points unless you use them. 🤔

Hornby could start offering some bundles if they want to destock. Various locos/HSTs and coaches would be a start. The HST bundle recently offered had far too many coaches included. I'll have to review my siding arrangements as trains look better with 4 coaches than 3, but other than for my 5 car HST, sidings are currently too short to accommodate more than 3 coaches at a time. Wish Hornby had some traditional wagons in stock.

Edited Saturday at 12:49 by My name is Bond

[Rallymatt]

You are witnessing what is known as ‘The Mike Ashley Effect’ 

Keeping stock moving is critical to any business; stock on the shelves costs money. Expect more direct offers and special deals going forwards, not ‘DFS style’ with 364day a year ‘Sales’ but certainly targeting marketing campaigns. I wonder when the massive Hornby mug will appear? 

Edited Saturday at 13:22 by Rallymatt

[Tim Allen]

17 minutes ago, Rallymatt said:

You are witnessing what is known as ‘The Mike Ashley Effect’ 

Keeping stock moving is critical to any business; stock on the shelves costs money. Expect more direct offers and special deals going forwards, not ‘DFS style’ with 364day a year ‘Sales’ but certainly targeting marketing campaigns. I wonder when the massive Hornby mug will appear? 

This is sound if you're selling t-shirts or trainers. Buy a bulk load and when they've gone move onto the next batch. While no business needs stock just sitting on the shelf due to it being tied up capital, this hobby does need a certain amount of stock to be available to compliment other items (ie locos AND wagons / coaches) or for new people to buy. If you're already into the hobby and have a layout pretty well set up then a run of say 500 or 1000 of an item either loco or rolling stock is fine but this changes when it's someone new who is just starting out.

I remember looking at OO last year. There were loco's I wanted and did put them in the basket to buy but when I moved to the coaches / wagons section there was nothing I wanted or needed. No LMS maroon coaches, No BR Mk2 or Mk3 coaches era 7 or 8, wagons were out of stock or didn't exist. I ended up not buying anything and moved on. Again in January this year it was only because TT had stuff coming out soon that I decided to try it out with a starter set.

It's ok selling an HST train set but if there's no Mk3 coaches available to add to it (out of stock or discontinued) it's either going to be put on eBay, put away and forgot about or not bought by the customer. You won't sell locos if they have nothing to pull and you won't sell coaches or wagons if there's nothing to pull them. 

[Shunter77]

Oh well I had been thinking about a class 50 and along comes this offer. Looks like Edward Elgar will be running a Pullman special as I have nothing from the right period. 

[Ilmson]

2 hours ago, My name is Bond said:

Hornby could start offering some bundles if they want to destock. Various locos/HSTs and coaches would be a start. The HST bundle recently offered had far too many coaches included. I'll have to review my siding arrangements as trains look better with 4 coaches than 3, but other than for my 5 car HST, sidings are currently too short to accommodate more than 3 coaches at a time. Wish Hornby had some traditional wagons in stock.

There is also a bundle with 5 coaches, the GWR HST Bundle.
The bundles came too late for me, otherwise the HST Executive bundle might have been worth it.
It would still be one carriage too many, but it would have been cheaper, apart from the extra tracks, which I would have passed on to my youngest niece.

As this is not my first layout, I fortunately thought of a convincing city station with a platform length of 1.60 m.