Eileens Emporium Newsletter Deceember 2019

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Eileens Emporium Newsletter Deceember 2019

Postby derekrussan » Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:37 am

As the festivities approach, we would like to take this opportunity wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.

We hope this finds you in good health and that you are enjoying your various activities.

We are very busy in the run up to the end of the year and are having a few supply difficulties, so please bear with us.

SPECIAL OFFER

It is a while since we made a special offer, so we are correcting that by offering you 5% off all e-vouchers until Christmas.

This is valid for any order of Gift Vouchers for Electronic Delivery with no other items in the cart, placed and paid for via the website before the end of day on 24 December 2019. The code for this is EVOUCH5. E-vouchers are delivered as a PDF file by e-mail that you can print or send on to a friend. You can even keep them for yourself.

These vouchers can be redeemed by telephone or at Shows. To use on web orders please advise us first and we will set up a unique code for you.

This offer is for web orders only. Please enter the code in the Coupon box on checkout

PRODUCTS

The Modelu range has proven to be extremely popular, our stock levels in 4mm are growing rapidly, the 7mm stock is also growing. Other scales are available but will not be from stock. More products are due to be added to the range very soon.

We have had delivery problems from DCC Concepts and all Cobalt Point Motors are due in early next year. Cobalt Omega motors are not affected by the delays and we have very limited stock of Digital IP's. We have now finally had deliveries of their wire strippers.

Some DCC Concepts back to back gauges have been out of stock for over a year, but we are reliably informed that they are due in a few weeks now. Meanwhile we made a batch of multigauges and sold out before getting them to the website. More are being made and will be on the site as soon as we have a sample to photograph.

We are pleased to say that some overdue Metric tubes are on their way to us as this is being written.

A major issue is that K&S metals have withdrawn a lot of products. All the TT61, TT61X and TT62 tubes, A2, A4 L sections and pretty much all of their small Brass flats (F series), C, U, H, I and Z sections are no longer available. This does not affect any of our Metric products. We have been, and continue to search for alternatives.

A reminder we are now stocking Limonene, a milder solvent than MEK, Butanone, Plastic Weld etc. This is excellent for fitting glazing without fogging etc.

There is a (hopefully) short term problem with supply of Cambrian kits due to a health issue with the manufacturer. Up until when this happened, we had seen improvement in the availability of Cambrian Kits.

We are continuing to expand our stock of the HMRS range of transfers. We have the majority of 4mm Pressfix and Methfix transfers in stock, the limiting factor is what HMRS have when we order. We will continue to re-order the rest. We have a limited number of 7mm transfers and will continue to expand this.

Exchange rates have taken a hit and hopefully will stabilise now, however we are anticipating price rises with imported items. There is also significant import duty being applied to imports from the USA that are yet to filter through. So therefore be prepared for a number of price rises in the new year.

CHRISTMAS POST DATES

We are intending to work up until 20 Dec and, subject to stock availability, should ship all orders received by 14:00 that day. We will be working at odd times between then and the new year and may be able to ship some orders during this time. Normality returns on 2nd January.

Orders for E-Vouchers will be delivered by e-mail and will be checked daily until Christmas Eve.

Royal Mail last posting dates are 20 Dec (1st Class, which we use for all UK post). Most of Europe is 16 December and the date for the rest of the world has passed.

EXHIBITIONS

We would like to thank our customers at both Manchester and Peterborough for their support and understanding while we managed with two large shows at the same time. Thankfully, This will not be an issue next year as Manchester will be 1 week later than Peterborough.

Guildex at Telford is changing. 2020 will be it's last year at the current venue. This we understand is due to the high rent there. So for 2020 a major change is that Guildex at Telford will be earlier, over the August bank holiday weekend. As we have fewer staff available over that weekend, and we expect many customers will be away on holidays etc. we are taking a smaller stand which will not include Parkside and Cambrian. These can still be pre-ordered for show collection

The new exhibition at Gaydon went off very well, and we expect it to improve next year. This is at the excellent and interesting Motor Museum.

KNIVES AND BLADES

We are advised by Royal Mail that we will soon have to send knives and blades to be signed for with proof of age (over 18). Although Royal Mail say the policy is clear, the detail is far from this, no sizes are stated etc. we are still awaiting clarification.


Full details of all our other products are on our website.

Derek, Anita, Matt and Judith.




Forthcoming Exhibitions:

Do not forget that you can beat the queues at shows by pre-ordering through the website. There is a checkout option for this. You can choose to pay through the website or on collection. Please state in the 'Comments' box which show you wish to collect the order from.

Please allow at least 1 week for pre-orders, 2 weeks for Ally Pally, Guildex - Telford, Scaleforum, Railex, Expo EM, York and Warley. Also please allow 2 to 3 weeks for orders of Parkside Kits. Cambrian kits will be as available from the manufacturer.

A full list of shows is on our website http://www.eileensemporium.com


11/12 January CMRA Stevenage http://www.cmra.org.uk/exhibition.html
25/26 January Southampton https://southamptonmodelrailwaysociety.wordpress.com/
26 January Bristol 0 Gauge http://www.bogg7mmexhibition.com/
1/2 February Stafford https://www.staffordrailwaycircle.org.uk/exhibition/
8/9 February Festival of Railway Modelling - Doncaster https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/inf ... -modelling
7/8 March Leamington and Warwick http://www.lwmrs.co.uk/index.php/exhibi ... nformation
7 March Gauge 0 Kettering http://www.gauge0guild.com/events/events.aspx
Derek Russan, Eileens Emporium.

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