Marklin 2009 New Items announced

Marklin has just announced and we have published the list of new items for 2009. It also includes Trix and Minitrix.

You can follow the links to "New Items 2009" and browse this magnificent new items.

Highlights on Marklin are a new Big Boy item # 37993 and the release of item # 31859 containing 3 crocodile locomotives to commemorate the 150 Anniversary of Marklin.

A new Mega Starter set with 3 trains and 2 new Mobile Station is included in this new release.

A total of 173 new Items for Marklin.

Trix and Minitrix also have a very large selection of new items you can see them HERE including a large selection of Digital units in N gauge.

As always, we were the first publishing these pictures and we are already taking advanced orders for them.

Anyone placing orders before March 1st. 2009 will enjoy our lowest price at release time guaranteed to be the lowest in the United States. Orders placed after March 1st. still will have a lower price than anyone else but will not have the dip discount for those that order before that date.

We recognize that ordering without a price reference is tough, but our Customers know us and they know that we are the cheapest, fastest and more reliable source for all your European Model Train products.

In the pages for New Items of Marklin or Trix, we have included a link to the Brochure of new items. On it you can see the "List Price" in Euros what can give you an idea relative the price.

We do not sell at retail of course, so our price will be substantially lower (converted to US Dollars of course) than the price seen on brochure.

The brochure is in German language but is the only that has prices published. English brochure does not have prices.

We will try if time permits, to place a reference price in Euros on each item in our web site.

We invite you to navigate our new items now.

New 2008 last releases

These are the last arrivals from the New 2008 Marklin and Trix items.
We will start shipping them out starting January 4Th 2009, however, orders are being taken on our web site right now.

Marklin:
26549
37730
39300
39640
42760
43736
43746
43800
43810
43859
46717
55245
58542
81181
81865
86619

Trix/Minitrix
15848
22148
22152
22153
22182
22222
22355
23406
23426
23462
24527

We can say that 98% of the 2008 new program has been released already and we have them all in stock now in USA and in Germany.

Euro back up again making our prices more attractive

Well, again we have the Euro over $ 1.43 what sends again our cost up an extra 14%
If we add the newly increased prices by Manufacturers in Germany to this 14% since the last 20 days, makes our inventory more attractive than ever.

We do not rise prices based on new announcements or increases on those products we have in stock. To calculate our selling price, we take the real cost landed in our Store at the moment we pay for it and only those items on that particular shipment are calculated with a new price, either higher or lower, what gives our Customer the guaranty that they will get from us the lowest available price at release time.

By fortune, our sales remain very strong and we can say we are not falling on the "recession" that hits the World. It is know that when more problems attack people, they hide on their hobbies, so our Industry keeps doing well.

We can not say however that this year can't be better, no. Our sales growth was just a 11% compared with last year even when December has been lower than past year in Marklin and Trix, maybe because there was not enough releases during December so there was not that much to Invoice, but on Radio control and other Train Brands such as Brawa, we did spectacular.

So, as Christmas approaches fast, we would like to wish all our Customers and Friends a very happy Holiday Season, whatever your religion might be and hope that we will continue with the tremendous support we keep having from our Loyal Customers all year long.

Marklin Inc. Takes control on Club items for Marklin and Trix

We have just received the following letter from Marklin Inc. where they state that have taken control on Club items.
We hope they will also take control again on ALL the product line.

Letter follows: (to see full text of announcement click Title link above to read the pdf format letter)

Dear Märklin/Trix Dealer:

We are pleased to announce Märklin, Inc. will be handling the administration of the Märklin Insider Club, 1 FC Club and Trix Profi-Club effective December 22, 2008. We mailed the attached letter to the current membership last Friday.

Once we are up and running we will go back to the database of members who have not renewed the past three years and we will invite them to join the club again.

This is a very positive development for the North American market.

Best regards,

Brenda Hensleigh
Sales & Marketing Coordinator

Brawa New Arrivals 11/29/2008

These are the new items received from Brawa:
BR3401 PLASTIC HOLDER W.BULB
BR40019 Locomotive 75 001 DB
BR40052 Locomotive Fc. K.W.St.
BR40053 Locomotive Fc. K.W.St.
BR40207 Locomotive BR 06 DRG
BR40255 S2/6 K BAY ST
BR40256 S2/6 K.BAY. ST
BR40257 S2/6 K.BAY. ST
BR41050 Locomotive BR 132 DR
BR41051 Locomotive BR 132 DR
BR44086 Railcar ET 65 DB
BR45071 Passenger Coach EM 65 DRG
BR45300 Express Train Car 1. Class A4ü 30/52a DB
BR45301 Express Train Car 1./2. Class AB4ü 30/52a DB
BR45304 Express Train Car ABüe 324 DB
BR45405 Express Train Car Büe 368 DB
BR5814 Lattice Pole Lamp, Set of 2
BR5832 STREET LAMP SET/3
BR6280 CABLE CABINS
BR6290 BUILDINGS FOR 6280

Traxxas Slayer 5908 $ 50.00 rebate

Traxxas as announced a rebate of $ 50.00 on each Slayer model 5908

You may order the car HERE

Rebate Offered by Walthers after we complained on their prices

Well, after we sent on 11/12/2008 at 5.45 PM EST an e-mail addressed to Mr. Kevin Copsey, Vice President of Sales at Walther's Trains and in charge of the Marklin/Trix business where we pointed out several facts regarding the absurd condition Dealers in USA are facing on prices now that the Dollar has gained strength against the Euro and the no possibility to buy Direct from the Factory as used to be 3 years ago, Mr. Copsey (who by the way has been very open to our comments and suggestions and we can not say we have not received full response each time we have requested something, many times, he fixed some problems) has sent an e-mail to USA Dealers offering, if not a full solution, at least a "patch" that may help a little bet our Customers waiting for new 2008 items not released yet and that may be released from now till the end of 2008.

This is the text of the e-mail we got:

" 11/14/2008 4:45 PM CST (2 days after we sent our e-mail to them)
Dear Marklin Dealer:
Given current economic conditions and the volatility in exchange rates, Walther's and Märklin GmbH would like to announce a special program targeting previously undelivered Marklin and Trix new items that will be shipped to you between November 21st and December 31st.
Attached you will find a list of the new items that will be covered in the program. The items in this list will receive an additional 15% discount from Walther's. This discount will only apply to the items in the list that are shipped to you during the program period (November 21st -December 31st). Märklin Insider Club and Trix Profi-Club products are excluded. Please contact your Walther's Sales Representative if you have any questions on this program.
We value your business and hope this new program addresses some of the issues you have brought to our attention.

Sincerely,

Kevin Copsey
VP of Sales
Walthers"

Even when this measure does not affect us due the fact that we bring almost 95% of our items direct from Germany and we were already passing the savings from exchange rate to our Customers, it is not less true that North American and Canadian Dealers will take advantage of this measures and price reduction.

What really upsets me, is the fact that we have always fought for the American Dealers, trying to get the best of the business for all of us and we never got a "thank you" from them.

At the contrary, now maybe they will use this price reduction to fight and compete even stronger against us, but we are not worried about it.

Nobody can deny the power we have due our size and stock on Marklin, the service we provide, the speed we serve our Orders from Customers all over the World (just see testimonials in our web site HERE), the facility for Customers to see Stock availability (others do not offer this service because they just want your order that may take weeks or months to get a regular item) and so on.

So from now on, we will not fight in favor of any other Business than ours and we will keep offering our Customers with the lowest and fairest price we can and the best service they deserve to the limit of our possibilities.

We like to say now, that we will keep adjusting not only New items not released BUT ALL THE LINE of products as they arrive to our warehouse based on the exchange rate paid at the date we paid for them, new items or regular and from all the Brands we import and without any time frame limit.

We thank all our loyal Customers that had faith in our word and placed orders "Blind", some of them paying more than from other Dealers when the Dollar fell to 1.61 per Euro, but that now, are taking advantage on our lowest prices few can compete against us.

We also thank Mr. Copsey for taking time to do something in favour of our best seller Marklin and Trix.

However, if we can not get back to Factory Direct this February at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, we will open operations in Europe to sell direct to whoever likes to buy from us with prices in Euros or US Dollars at your wish by selecting the currency you like to pay, direct from the order form in our web site.

Orders paid in Euros will be served direct from Germany and those in US Dollars from Miami Florida.

As we do not have any tie with anyone in USA because Marklin does not exist here, we also will provide service to those Dealers that like to buy direct from us, paying in Euros and being shipped from Luxembourg.