What did you order or the post deliver? (Japanese N Gauge)

[Tecchan]

This is the timeline for my current order from HS (some Tomix train cases). Times are Australian local time, 1hr ahead of Japan.

 

11/05 2347 :Order placed

12/05 1744 :Payment request received

13/05 2335 :Advice of shipment received

15/05 1432 :Departed Sydney (according to Japan Post, so may be at my local post office as I type this)

 

There is a box I usually tick at the check out to instruct them to only ship items in stock and cancel the rest of the order, if you left it unchecked you may find they have been searching their suppliers and Tomix for the tram track and you will eventually get a very apologetic email from them about the delay.

Thanks a lot for the timeline.

 

I finally had the payment request this morning. Good news: the unavailable items are in my order. The must use a real-time shopping cart system that rely on the orders placed and not the orders shipped. It seems logical but not every shop uses this system which requires a really good inventory system.

 

Anyway, my order is payed and I can't wait to start on my layout!

I just hope SAL will be fast, I'm really waiting for this parcel!  (better I had for SAL was 7 days, worst: more that three weeks)

[Martijn Meerts]

Received my tuscan red GG1 last friday, looks almost as impressive as the real one. I still can't see it's a beautiful train though, but impressive nonetheless :)

[KenS]

Hobby Search has been slow getting the payment requests out lately, even after sending an email confirming a pre-order is in-stock.  If you click on their User Menu link in  the top right and log in, you can check your order status, and if it's ready for payment there's a Paypal link there, so you don't have to wait for the email.  In several cases I've waited two days without an email, then checked and paid via the link.

 

I suspect it's some kind of staffing issue, but as far as I can tell the payment link isn't there until they've confirmed the stock is available. They're just slow on some orders. Usually my pre-orders, which are probably things the have to process a lot of.

 

They do use a real-time inventory system for normal orders (non-preorders), and I've only seen it be wrong about an item twice in two years of fairly frequent orders. I've seen the available quantity go to zero the moment I made an order, but still received the item. I've never had them ask for payment before they discovered what was absent and corrected the total.

[keiman]

Waiting for myTomix Tram track that I ordered just before Golden week., Also a shipment of Tomix Fine Track (all straights- for my extra modules.)

[westfalen]

Hobby Search has been slow getting the payment requests out lately, even after sending an email confirming a pre-order is in-stock.  If you click on their User Menu link in  the top right and log in, you can check your order status, and if it's ready for payment there's a Paypal link there, so you don't have to wait for the email.  In several cases I've waited two days without an email, then checked and paid via the link.

 

I suspect it's some kind of staffing issue, but as far as I can tell the payment link isn't there until they've confirmed the stock is available. They're just slow on some orders. Usually my pre-orders, which are probably things the have to process a lot of.

 

They do use a real-time inventory system for normal orders (non-preorders), and I've only seen it be wrong about an item twice in two years of fairly frequent orders. I've seen the available quantity go to zero the moment I made an order, but still received the item. I've never had them ask for payment before they discovered what was absent and corrected the total.

They are not consistently slow, I got the payment request the next day (and I placed the order at 10:47pm Japanese time). Australia Post's website says it was ready for me to pick up at my local post office at 6:53 this morning so that's 6 days 7 hrs from placing the order, not too bad at all.

[KenS]

I didn't mean to imply they were always slow. Mostly I get the payment request the day after the "in stock" email for preorders or a couple of days after placing an order, but in the last six months they've had a few where I had to go find the payment link, and that had never happened to me before.

 

And shipping remains very, very fast. Typically about five days from payment to box in hand (EMS).

[Tecchan]

I received the payment confirmation.

 

Waiting for the shipping notice (if they do send one) and expecting around 15 days for my parcel in SAL.

[harukablue]

Hi, my last purchase was N gauge TOMIX 92358 3 car JR West 321 EMU set,,,i havent purchased any N scale for a while as I was concentrating on my 1/80 HO models, I must say on taking the model out of the box that the model is a little dissapointing and very basic, its not a patch on some of my KATO models like the 313 or 223, is the KATO 321 a better detailed model?

 

Lew

[David]

I'm not sure about the difference in detail, though the Kato model of the JR West 321 (which is sold as one 7-car set) is one of their newer toolings: drop in DCC, body mounted close couplers, etc.

[harukablue]

My Tomix comes with rapido couplers however the TN coupler can be added, im going to google and see if any Japanese model railers have done a comparison,

[scott]

My Kato Nagano-livery 115 just came in--it's another fairly basic set, but it looks good and should fit in well with our other trains.

 

Of course, this means that we now have *five* 115 sets (3 Niigata, 1 Nagano, and the misfit Minobu-line Tomix), so it might be time to stop collecting them.    I'm thinking about repainting the Minobu-line set after I get the airbrushes figured out.

[Guest JRF-1935]

Sam my mailman was very busy this week and woke me up on a few days to deliver my 2 Kato #4 switches, right and left hand, my Tomix #2747 and #2748 TAMU 500's - 1 grey - 1 - white,  the Tomix #2257 DD51 in JR Hokkaido color with a #2543 OHANE 24 and #2561 OHANEFU 25 sleeping coaches, and the Neiko #6 book on Japanese Electric Locomotives from 1911 to 1944. 

  Have the TOMIX #2770 Private Owner Tilt Floor Wagon w/2 Lorrie's and the #2727 TOMIX JNR WAMU 9000 (black) #2728 TOMIX JNR WAMU 9000 (black with no door ribs) coming soon.  Just acquired a KATO C11 on ebay.

Rich C

[KATO74]

My postie brought me the following, all from ebay Tomix 2203 JNR Diesel DD54, Kato 3005-1 EH10, Kato 3050EF58 60, KAto 10-051 Hankyu 6300 Series add on set

[disturbman]

Hobby Search has been slow getting the payment requests out lately, even after sending an email confirming a pre-order is in-stock.  If you click on their User Menu link in  the top right and log in, you can check your order status, and if it's ready for payment there's a Paypal link there, so you don't have to wait for the email.  In several cases I've waited two days without an email, then checked and paid via the link.

 

Hum... I was waiting for my payment requests and instead I've received a notification of order cancellation. I guess I've waited too long, they could have at least retry me. One email is definitely not enough... so easy to miss out.

[keitaro]

Hobby Search has been slow getting the payment requests out lately, even after sending an email confirming a pre-order is in-stock.  If you click on their User Menu link in  the top right and log in, you can check your order status, and if it's ready for payment there's a Paypal link there, so you don't have to wait for the email.  In several cases I've waited two days without an email, then checked and paid via the link.

 

Hum... I was waiting for my payment requests and instead I've received a notification of order cancellation. I guess I've waited too long, they could have at least retry me. One email is definitely not enough... so easy to miss out.

 

i sent them an email about this i missed a payment request too. seems like they have a newbie not sending the request or a system issue not sending it.

 

i know i didn't miss it as it's not in junk as i already marked them as safe and i checked it anyway.

[Guest JRF-1935]

Have the TOMIX #2770 Private Owner Tilt Floor Wagon w/2 Lorrie's and the #2727 TOMIX JNR WAMU 9000 (black) #2728 TOMIX JNR WAMU 9000 (black with no door ribs) coming soon

Arrived today

Rich C

[KenS]

My preordered Micro Ace Joyful Trains arrived yesterday.  Well worth the six month wait.  I'd also picked up the Kato Super Express Rainbow cars and matching EF65 a couple of weeks ago.

 

photo 1: Hana, 6-cars incl. motor

photo 2: Yamanami, 4-cars incl. motor

photo 3: Seseragi, 4-cars incl. motor

photo 4: Super Express Rainbow (7 cars) and EF65 1019

 

The Hana was showing "Sold Out" last night, but now appears to be back in stock, which may mean there's only a few left.

[scott]

Those are really nice, Ken--you should have fun with all that.

[Kamiyacho]

MicroAce Shiki 800, from Popondetta.

[scott]

Yesterday I ordered the Micro Ace Iida Line 119 (white w/ orange/green stripes) from the HS sale section, plus the Kawai onsen-hotel model that Jeff recommended.

[Guest JRF-1935]

MicroAce Shiki 800, from Popondetta.

  NICE !!

Rich C

[cteno4]

MicroAce Shiki 800, from Popondetta.

  NICE !!

Rich C

 

 

Ha, rich i thought you would like those beasties! they are quite impressive!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Guest JRF-1935]

Kato #2002 C11 arrived today - Mint!!  Great buy on ebay

Rich C

[Guest JRF-1935]

MicroAce Shiki 800, from Popondetta.

  NICE !!

Rich C

 

 

Ha, rich i thought you would like those beasties! they are quite impressive!

 

cheers

 

jeff

Jeff

  I've wanted one of those for a "long" time - maybe someday - ;-)

Regards

Rich C

[keiman]

Looks like the postal system may have lost the box of Tram Track  I ordered from Plaza giving it till Friday and then they have said they will issue a refund.