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Missed chance to purchase your R6674 wagon Im wondering when you will be getting more stock in. Ive noticed people selling on ebay. This is not fair as these people have taken all the stock to sell on at a huge profit while people like myself are unable to purchase at RRP from your website.

hi I to sent an email regarding the sale of the 2014 christmas truck I fail to see how someone on ebay can take pr-orders for this and be supplied in what appears to be in hundreds when club members and other customers cant pre-order. I to got the answer try Con stores or ring around, but no answers to my Questions. Perhaps if Hornby Club members were offered a max of 2 before general release it appear to be fair to all.

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Was it available for pre order?

 

Last time I went to a toy fair there were plenty of the 2013 versions for sale.

 

Don't think it was available to pre order walkingthedog

yes there seems to be a lot of the 2013 for sale .when I had a look at Chester models website thay still had the 2014 ones available this morning .

 

as admin says the ebay sellers take a risk with there pre orders of not being able to get stock .I would have thought that they buy them from the retailers and then resell them

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I never quite saw the point of purchasing these, as far as I am concerned, ugly liveries on completely oudated frames. What's the fun?

 

If only Hornby were using old wagon stock repainted fror Xmas to get rid of them and introduce an up-to-date P.O. and other wagons it would make sense.

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I never quite saw the point of purchasing these, as far as I am concerned, ugly liveries on completely oudated frames. What's the fun?

 

If only Hornby were using old wagon stock repainted fror Xmas to get rid of them and introduce an up-to-date P.O. and other wagons it would make sense.

personally i like The Christmas wagons and like collecting them every year. I have every one hornby have made .

 

I think there's room for both things like the christmas wagons and like you say to introduce more upto date PO wagons

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I don't collect fake wagons, either, except one - I just had to have the recent release of the LLANFAIR P G one! (merely because it is daft!)

 

One or two of my private owner four-wheel coal wagons are 'might have looked like this' livery, because no genuine original one, or photograph, has been found.

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I wouldn't give them houseroom on my layout. More of a collector's item, I'd have thought.

 

Don't forget that anyone selling them on eBay will have to pay 10% on final sale price and postage, so they need to make a fair bit more than their cost of purchase to make it worthwhile. I personally wouldn't consider the risks involved. And, potential buyers, just don't buy them that way!

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Christmas wagon ordered on the 5th still hasn't arrived :o(

 

Neither has Cock O the North ordered on 7th :-(

 

I emailed Hornby yesterday for an update, today they telephoned and gave an update. Great customer service Hornby.

 

Both orders, including a few other bits will be with me tomorrow ;o)

 

Can't wait, it will make a change to programming signals.

 

PJ

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Hi Gordon photos of the R1046 'The Christmas Special' train set.Wagon is red with parcel load not writing on side. Have taken photos of other  Red Christmas Wagons in the series./media/tinymce_upload/9cc1d410a308e8b0392b40b29b8de92c.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/eff100daa61d3acc04305e8f866d9da3.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/82b2122ff62e498285be64f8f1213c17.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/9c52e80be736cf0f67f2195893ea08db.JPG

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Thanks for these images, new lad on block.  😀

 

Is the Christmas Tree load removerable from the flatbed, or is a permanenet load, like the RailRoad / Thomas & Friends Circus Flatbed's?

 

I like the plain 7 plank red, no logoed open wagon that was supplied in the R1046 The Christmas Special Train Set. I would to get a couple. Could easily be disguised as a Thomas & Friends wagon. I don't the presents load though.

 

GNR-Gordon-4

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/media/tinymce_upload/1b99e672b0574950b9432a95b8e28097.JPGHi Gordon, The flatbed load is surpose to represent two trees. The load will remove.No way of making trees larger.

I think Hornby missed a trick with components of this set. In my opinion they /media/tinymce_upload/4df834876e99bf1f723e751851c356ef.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/96f5a795771b0865d5417e3dea2b1680.JPG would have made a good Thomas Christmas set.

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