Yet another of the Great Hobby shops is gone.
Jan 8, 2024 22:05:55 GMT -5
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Post by tjdreams on Jan 8, 2024 22:05:55 GMT -5
The following was copied from a email i just received
Re: MB Klein Follow-up
Dear David,
In a previous email, we had advised that MB Klein (modeltrainstuff.com) had been purchased by UK train store Hattons. The upshot was that Klein was shuttered and out of business. And that’s true. However, customers were promised that their orders and service requests would be properly handled.
We now know that Hattons, itself, is going out of business. So, the UK company that put a US company out of business is, itself, out of business. Oddly, the modeltrainstuff website says nothing about this, as of this moment (7 PM Jan 8, 2024).
But the Hatton’s website DOES declare their exit. Because we can’t know how long the Hattons website will survive, we have made a copy of their announcement which you may review here:
drive.google.com/file/d/16OYwE32B0yecbT204sEUZtQTsL3OFymr/view?usp=sharing
There shall, no doubt, be a great deal of discussion and speculation about this. And for now, it is important that you, and the hobbyists you know, be properly informed of what is proven to be factual.
Mike and I, as operators of the Great Scale Model Train Show, obviously receive many “shop-talk” questions. We hope this message to you portrays our commitment to sorting through rumor and speculation to deliver reliable information which is important to you.
Thanks for reading.
Re: MB Klein Follow-up
Dear David,
In a previous email, we had advised that MB Klein (modeltrainstuff.com) had been purchased by UK train store Hattons. The upshot was that Klein was shuttered and out of business. And that’s true. However, customers were promised that their orders and service requests would be properly handled.
We now know that Hattons, itself, is going out of business. So, the UK company that put a US company out of business is, itself, out of business. Oddly, the modeltrainstuff website says nothing about this, as of this moment (7 PM Jan 8, 2024).
But the Hatton’s website DOES declare their exit. Because we can’t know how long the Hattons website will survive, we have made a copy of their announcement which you may review here:
drive.google.com/file/d/16OYwE32B0yecbT204sEUZtQTsL3OFymr/view?usp=sharing
There shall, no doubt, be a great deal of discussion and speculation about this. And for now, it is important that you, and the hobbyists you know, be properly informed of what is proven to be factual.
Mike and I, as operators of the Great Scale Model Train Show, obviously receive many “shop-talk” questions. We hope this message to you portrays our commitment to sorting through rumor and speculation to deliver reliable information which is important to you.
Thanks for reading.
