acela add on passenger car set back order?

If you ordered it from Charles Ro on pre-order, I don't see how it could be on back order!  There is no "back order" for built to order items that I know of, when they're gone, they're gone!

Maybe Ro only received a partial shipment from Lionel of the add on sets, so he's saying they're back ordered.

Doug

just to be clear I did not state my earlier statement clearly john sorry. I did not pre order these I just called and place my order for these yesterday. the lady I spoke with said they were indeed in stock as there web sight showed. she said they only had one of the expansion sets left.

she also stated they would process the order today before noon. if the exspation set was purchased online by someone before they processed my order I may not be able to get the expansion set.

today however when I got the invoice via email it looked like she was correct. I was charged for the set and not for the expansion set. so just to be sure I called and a man told me that I still would recive the add on expansion set it was just on backorder.

as you stated john I thought these were bto and if they were out of stock I was sol. the reason I called and am asking here is if I cant get the expansion set from charlie I need to get it now from a dealer who has it in stock.

trnluvr, you are 100% correct I just called back to charles ro just to be 100% sure and thats exactly what they told me. they are waiting on lionel for the rest of the add on sets they ordered they were not all in yet. thanks gentlemen for setting my nerves and replying.

@Lionelzwl2012 posted:

as you stated john I thought these were bto and if they were out of stock I was sol. the reason I called and am asking here is if I cant get the expansion set from charlie I need to get it now from a dealer who has it in stock.

FWIW, larger dealers like Ro and Trainworld for that matter, almost always have/order extra stock of BTO items.

I believe it has been mentioned in the past, that a larger vendor like Ro will receive a partial shipment in order for smaller shops to get theirs in the first batch.

Not having pre-ordered them shines a whole new light on it.

ricko, that I did not know. glad you chimed in here. thanks

I wish I could have pre ordered this,but did not have the money at the time. so I took a chance on still being able to get the whole set. I am just glad charlie had these. there price was hard to beat.