RMT Ready Made Trains forever "going out of business?"

Welcome to the RMT email listings. I too have been getting all sorts of going out of business emails from RMT. The only sale that is worth it is the Black Friday sale, all the other sales are at or above regular prices for RMT stuff.

Lee Fritz

I suppose that their warehouse is like the underside of my layout.  I find something that I didn't know that I had every time I crawl under the benchwork.  There seems to an unlimited number of surprises.  

NH Joe

Yes first it's Walt's retirement, then his wife steps in. When she gets tired, the dogs will take over.

Kerrigan posted:

I've been receiving "out-of-business" sale emails from Ready Made Trains (RMT) for months, with "new discovered" items from their "warehouse."

Either they have/had a warehouse the size of New York City, or an endless supply of "new discoveries".

Did Walt "quit" or not?

Same here...

I am getting the same "out-of- business" e-mails about "new discoveries".

IIRC  forum posts indicated Walt "retired" early this year and his wife was running the closing sale. Her house-keeping/cleaning skills seem to be better if she keeps finding the items that Walt had lost track of.  

The sale will probably end some day -- perhaps before we colonize Mars. 

Tony

Up on "The D & H Bridge Line"

Waiting to see some "sale prices" ... ;-)

phillyreading posted:

The only sale that is worth it is the Black Friday sale, all the other sales are at or above regular prices for RMT stuff.

What Black Friday sale?  I didn't see anything that was price competitive.

All of the "new discoveries" makes me think Walt needs a new inventory system.

Right after the retirement was announced in January, I bought a few items (PRR Beef A-B-A and Streamliner 4-pack). Come the middle of February I hadn't received the order yet, but when it finally came at the end of the month the Streamliners were in the yellow O-Line Reproductions boxes. The owner of my LHS said that Walter was constantly calling him asking to buy back inventory (they carried the RMT by Aristo line and had a lot of stock left, but apparently he was esp. track and switches at the time). I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that's what a lot of these "Warehouse finds" actually were. The prices are still higher than any of the other retailers who carry the O-Line reproductions, though, so this Retirement period may last indefinitely.

Yeah, the prices seem uninviting. I don't expect to see anything dirt cheap - it's nice stuff, if not exactly scale-y - but nothing makes me want to buy at the prices I see. A few pieces appeal to me.

I keep hoping Walter will finally run out of warehouse finds, so I can run a retrospective Collector's Gallery story about the Beeps

They are fun little engines and the story behind them is worth telling for our readers, but it will work better once the story is finally over.

However, from what he told me, he has stuff in more than one barn. We'll see. It is sort of like those "final tours" of famous rock bands.

Ed Boyle

That is one of the reasons I had my email address removed from him

And what happened to the remake of the mp15?

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

And what happened to the remake of the mp15?

Or the 'coming' Box Cab locos??? I was looking forward to them....but will finish my own version I had started.!!!

rtraincollector posted:

That is one of the reasons I had my email address removed from him

I just did the same thing today.

This reminds me of a local furniture place where I grew up that would do, "Going out of business" every now and then. After a while, it became a joke and people would openly, in the store, ask when their next "annual going of business sale" would be.

Now that you mention that, as kids we had a furniture store by us that always had a going out of business sale on.  For years.  Same joke.  I don't see any attraction to the RMT stuff.  Seems like a waste of money to spend it on a beep or whatever they are selling.  Cute I guess, but how long does that last.

I have no issue with the PRR Bang I purchased a few years ago. Next to my MTH PS2 engines, this is a real stump puller. It doesn't have any "real" slow speed, I was going to get into it & play with the wiring, (series vs parallel), but have had 100 other things going on.

I must have removed myself from the email list some time ago- because now that it is mentioned, I don't remember getting my weekly email updates for months now.

Best wishes on retirement.

We have a men's clothing store that has been having their going out of business sale for the last 30 years. Nobody seems to think it is odd.

Thank you to all that have posted on this topic.

The continuous stream of comments has kept the post alive.

RMT website visits have been 1567  today alone and 164 new 'train hobbyists/OGR Forum readers' have signed up for RMT emails since this post began.

Keep those comments and replies coming!

Walter/RMT 

That clothing store might be a last chance to pick up a pair of tube socks that have been languishing in a bin for thirty years.  Hurry up while they're still in style.  I have as much use for a beep as I do a hole in my head, or my heel.

There was a shop on the Jersey Shore that was always "going out of business" until the local authorities put an end to that, so then they were "going out for business".

Walter Matuch posted:

The continuous stream of comments has kept the post alive.

 

gunrunnerjohn posted:

phillyreading posted:

The only sale that is worth it is the Black Friday sale, all the other sales are at or above regular prices for RMT stuff.

What Black Friday sale?  I didn't see anything that was price competitive.

There were 2 or 3 hopper cars with prices closer to what RMT had been offering them for over a year ago, but not much selection left. Mot much else to mention being discounted in opinion. RMT was sold out on a lot of items so not much I was interested in as well.

Lee Fritz

Ed Boyle posted:

I keep hoping Walter will finally run out of warehouse finds, so I can run a retrospective Collector's Gallery story about the Beeps

They are fun little engines and the story behind them is worth telling for our readers, but it will work better once the story is finally over.

However, from what he told me, he has stuff in more than one barn. We'll see. It is sort of like those "final tours" of famous rock bands.

Ed Boyle

We have three of the Milwaukee beeps ... coupled together locked in forward they will pull a decent little train.  Pretty snug inside those shells for an upgrade, but I see it has been done to TMCC ...

They're not going to sell much at those prices.  "Going Out Of Business" prices should be slashed by at lease 50%.

Every year around this time, the rmt posts keep coming.  Now look at the # of menards posts.... the new rmt.  It's free advertising so treat it at that.  

chinatrain99 posted:

Every year around this time, the rmt posts keep coming.  Now look at the # of menards posts.... the new rmt.  It's free advertising so treat it at that.  

Menard's PAYS to be here.....so free?????  I like hearing what's new and what others think about their items. 

Kerrigan posted:

We have three of the Milwaukee beeps ... coupled together locked in forward they will pull a decent little train.  Pretty snug inside those shells for an upgrade, but I see it has been done to TMCC ...

Plenty of room to upgrade them, you can even do cruise and sound.   I did this with the beta version of the Cruise Commander Lite.  It even got some pretty fancy lighting, more lights than most full sized locomotives.

Cruise Commander Lite Beta Test, Part Deux

It was that kind of marketing strategy that did them in.  Distributors started to pick up their product, but you (customer) could buy direct at a lower cost than the distributor was selling to the dealer.  At that point a few dealers and I am sure distributors got burned and I am sure that did not end well.  No discipline with trying to hold the product price at a reasonable value.  Hence the going out of business especially when Aristo Craft fell.  G

wild mary posted:

They're not going to sell much at those prices.  "Going Out Of Business" prices should be slashed by at lease 50%.

I agree with you! The prices could be slashed up to 60% to really sell the stuff quickly.

Lee Fritz

He could also just have a first come, first serve $1 fire sale, but I doubt any of this is going to happen.