Hope the forum providers are on the ball

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/critical-security-issue-affecting-php

but if the forum vanishes for a while at least we'll know why.

A shame you need to offload the collection, but with more than a passing interest in Swiss stuff I will see if I can give any of it a good home!

Very sorry to know this, Mike
I only do UK stuff and don't do Facebook but, just in case, I'm after a Farish blue class 25 on the very off chance you have one surplus.

Good afternoon all. Hope all here are well.

Sad news perhaps, but later today I will begin to list all the items I have for sale on my wife Sheila's eBay account.

It is mostly Swiss railways / Alpine area related, but some items will have general appeal, such as figures and vehicles. The listings will include unmade model kits, rolling stock of all kinds, and scenics. I must confess I got a little manic in my collecting over the years so there is rather a lot!

Nearly all will be brand new in unopened original boxes. None of the other items will have had anymore than inspection after buying, with locomotives having had only short testing runs.

I can't afford to give things away and my pricing is based on a bit of research and a lot of hope, but I am always open to advice and reasonable offers. And don't be afraid to voice an opinion here on the Forum - life is always a learning curve after all.

It has been a long-fought and hard decision to sell most of my collection but my health is not what it was - is it for many of us over 70!

There are other factors involved but now is not the time and place to tell the full tale.

I have retained what I want and will continue to enjoy all of that.

Anyway, I shall list items a few at a time and I expect it will take a fair few months to go through it all.

Sheila's eBay monika is sheeps833 so if you are interested please take a look-see once in a while.
And I am always open to reasonable offers via Sheila's eBay account.

Cheers all!

Yeah, one BG won't weigh 2kgs unless they put it in a lead box topped up with lead shot

@Stuart Down Under

Hi Stuart,

just been e-mailing with Andrea@Dapol to make a small adjust to my order and questioning the shipping and the pricing:

"As we do not know the total weight yet we will say the order will probably come out with DHL as Royal Mail it has to be under 2kg"

So I think it would be worth you asking Dapol to ship to you with Royal Mail (which , for example, woudl be 13 quid if it were Rails),

Cheers,

Colin.

Colin.

Quote from: Stuart Down Under on Today at 08:23:17 AMSo the email with my order arrived today. It turns out that I only ordered one unit - a maroon BG. Price of £39.95 – not too bad. But that includes £6.66 VAT which, as an Aussie resident should not apply. Then to "carriage" – FOURTY OF YOUR BRITISH POUNDS! – Good grief! That's a total of £80, when it should be more like £52, when compared with Rails & TMC international charges. At that price it becomes an elective purchase and I have elected to cancel. Nobody needs another full brake at that price. I hope that they come up with a better deal when we get to a couple of rakes of Stanier non-corriodors in the near future.
 

Hmmm - mine was calculated OK correctly with no VAT added (I am in Japan - and will end up paying Japan VAT on the import). As to the shipping charge that seems to be fixed - I have half a dozen vehicles on the order but the shipping was also 39.95....  it seems to be a flat rate ( although based on recent experiences somewhat more than Kernow and Rails' what appears to be flat rate - its similar to Harburns flat rate).

I am going to ask them their UK domestic shipping cost to compare to international as there is a crossover calculation of the differecne in paying UK VAT vs Japanese VAT where I then pick up the coaches from a family address on a UK trip ( like I am just now and have picked up a bunch of stuff I bought from Ebay since that makes such a hash of international shipping... ).

£40 courier? Wow. DHL at a guess from a parcel price comparison site.

Royal Mail is quoting less than half that for ~7 day, tracked delivery.

Perhaps worthy of an email to Dapol asking is they could use a different courier? Or save the model until the Staniers arrive?

So the email with my order arrived today. It turns out that I only ordered one unit - a maroon BG. Price of £39.95 – not too bad. But that includes £6.66 VAT which, as an Aussie resident should not apply. Then to "carriage" – FOURTY OF YOUR BRITISH POUNDS! – Good grief! That's a total of £80, when it should be more like £52, when compared with Rails & TMC international charges. At that price it becomes an elective purchase and I have elected to cancel. Nobody needs another full brake at that price. I hope that they come up with a better deal when we get to a couple of rakes of Stanier non-corriodors in the near future.
 

Lovely railcar. Reminds me very much of ones that used to run on Derek Naylor's classic Aire Valley railway.