Squadron rant

is the 2006 catalogue out? i never got one and the flyer keeps getting later and later. it seems they are kind of sloppy on orders here, too. little problems they fix, but who need the annoyance. i hate to see a good company tubing.

If the '06 catalog has the '05 kit of the year on the cover, then I have an '06 catalog.

If not, then I'm left puzzling with everyone else...

eyeball wrote: : Has anyone else had problems with orders from Squadron lately? : Assuming this isn't a troll...

1) Order by telephone. Then you know what is/is not in stock 2) Pay using a credit card. : : This is my forth problem with a Squadron order in 2 years.Time to stick : with some of the other excellent mail order companies I guess... : Sounds like it.

Bruce

they used to send a catalogur to everyone. but i think you're right.

My last order (June 06) was the first one in many years that wasn't completely filled. I ordered several items, normally totalling around $50-60. I ordered via the website like I usually do. This time, only half the items were in stock. First time that has happened when ordering from the website.

I get the annual catalog as well as the monthly flyer. I've noticed the flyer making it to the mailbox on or around the first of the month. This year they are coming before the 1st of the month on a regular basis.

At least they will still sell you things. I have been black listed at Squadron for some time now and was even told so by one of their employees, and I had been spending a lot of money with them for some time too. All because I told you guys not to worry about being able to get the once new

1/48 Monogram ME-410 kits. I was told how many they had shipped and I passed it along here. Not knowing it was some sort of a secret, Then I get a irate phone call from one of them over it. Later, this same individual called another manufacturer I purchased kits wholesale from to complain to him that I was selling them at a discount. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!? Hell I was just clearing out some kits i had sitting on the shelf for over a year and there were only 3 of them! Glad to see they are starting to reep what they sew.

Mike

I got my 2006 catalogue but I haven't placed an order for several months. The last time I had several back orders and they showed up shipped free as advertised.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

It has the 1/24th P-40B on the cover.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Gee, Mike, I thought that I was alone.

Maybe they should bring the schoolyard bully back? :-)

A friend orders anything that I want from them, it's just that I havn't seen anything for awhile. It used to be that the people working there would do just about anything to make you happy. I even get catalogs and monthly sheets thanks to one of the crew there, just blacklisted from ordering anything direct.

Somewhere Bo is shaking his head in sad disbelief.

Tom

Mike West wrote:

I'd have to agree with this statement. I too have received my 2006 catalog and sometimes the flyer gets here on the first, sometimes later. Fortunately I realize its not Squadron's but the USPS fault for that.

As for orders, I've noticed that if you place an order early in the month for sale items you will almost never go wrong, however should you wait til the end of the month then you miss out sometimes.

As for "other excellent businesses", I placed an order last Thursday for 4 1/35 scale tanks, 2 1/48 aircraft and 2 1/144 bombers and they were on my doorstep when I got home Friday afternoon.

Personally, I can't ask for much better,

Cheers, Tom

...then I don't have one either. :(

the curse of the Beamish?

I place an order with Sqaudron about once a month over the internet using a credit card and have never had a problem.

I get my order about 5 days after it is placed. I use FedEx ground.

I prefer them to the other internet hobby shops. Had nothing but problems with greatmodels.com

I thought Squadron was sold to a new owner (or owners?) a little while back. Is this the case?

eyeball wrote:

The crux of all the comments seems to be that that is the reason for the problems! I haven't ordered from them since the "new broom" took over, but in all my previous orders, and some were not small $$, the service was excellent. If the new management is falling down on the job I will be very disappointed.

Bill Shuey

"eyeball" wrote

So, what, they can't receive more between the time you place an order and the following month? Once they declare something out of stock they are forbidden from ever carrying that item again?

On top of that, it is perfectly acceptable for a company to set aside a given quantity of an item to sell at a certain price and declare that item/price combination "out of stock" when gone, even though they may have

50,000 of the same item at regular prices sitting next to them. That's what the "Sale limited to stock on hand/Limited quantities" stuff is all about. It is along the same lines as "Melons 60 cents/lb - Limit 4" at the grocery store.

KL

----- Original Message ----- From: "eyeball" Newsgroups: rec.models.scale Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 8:58 PM Subject: Squadron rant

What's embarrassing about having to show proper ID to cash a check?

KL