Shipping date joke

"the site (product locator) is being run by amateurs"...

This sounds about right!

 

Jeff Davis

I still say they all should list it as "First Quarter 2014" etc. and at least be in the ballpark (some of the time), rather than appear really out of touch by indicating a specific month which changes every month, and sometimes in retrospect.

This is precisely what happens when something is made "customer-facing", and then is not properly maintained.  When something is customer-facing, it can't be somebody's 19th job responsibility that they get around to doing when they can.  It's either a priority or shouldn't be visible at all.

 

Things are only compounded by the fact that it appears that personnel stateside really have NO clue when specific items will be manufactured overseas.  If they do, it certainly hasn't been communicated well to consumers or dealers.

 

Allan's suggestion about going to calendar quarters rather than months is a step in the right direction.  But whichever approach is taken, the dealer network and the consumers need to FEEL they're getting accurate and authoritative information from someone.  And that clearly hasn't been happening. 

 

David

I noticed last night all the updated dates. That means my Flying Yankee add on cars are still going to be here two months ago, everything else I ordered will now come this month   Yeah, right.

When it shows up on my shipping schedule, I try to pass the information on to you guys.  Very rarely do I see something show up that I didn't already know hit the water several weeks earlier.  It's early in the month so stay tuned for another update.

You guys really need to brush up on the theory of general relativity.  You really think time only flows in one direction?  Ha!  We're still counting down to August 2013.  In fact, it's coming up.   Any day now.  Through the fifth dimension by way of the twelfth planet.  

 

Alternate Universe.

 

aka Ivory Tower.

 

I'm just concerned about what effects time dimensional travel will have on my Empire State set when it does arrive; the molecules will all be scrambled?

 

 

Shipping schedules are as reliable as a rain dance.

I'm sorry, but that is severely maligning rain dances.  I take umbrage.

 

 

 

Not so much scrambled, but more like "negative energy" molecules.   You're train will still exists but when it comes in contact with your positive energy layout, it will likely result in a catastrophic explosion resulting in a singularity that will ingest most of the known galaxy...

 

... or at least that's how I read it... I could be off....

Yoda is right!  

Yoda is right, patience is important, but it's also nice to know what is going on. I have been waiting patiently for my items which are due in December (even though the original shipping date was over the Summer). If they would have posted it as December in the first place, I wouldn't have been upset at all, but since they moved it about a month after the date passed, I was a little upset.

 

This is why I only preorder something if it's really something special (first preorder in 10 years)

I used to check the Lionel shipping schedule constantly. As in daily (how crazy is that?).  Finally decided to stop obsessing and just let it ride. The stuff gets here when it gets here. Much easier on the on the Stress-O-Meter.

 

On a humorous note, recently was notified by a dealer that a tinplate item came that I - honestly - had totally forgotten about. It's been that long.

 

Just put in a BCR  before you run it to prevent further scrambling.

 

J White