Pretty much 100% true. I have a copy of the letter SHS received, I did their NTTM presentation on Oct 13. Dealerships can NO longer buy below retail from SHS. Dealers DO HAVE stock on hand FOR SALE, ask me/them what I/they have. MOST of the smaller players in model/scale/toytrains ( 60 in total ) were affected by the June 14th letter from Sandha Khan, now owned by KADER, the longtime owners of BACHMANN. NO orders placed after June 14 would be accepted/honored, all orders in the pipeline will be filled at some date. For instance, SHS Christmas cars will ship AFTER Christmas under the current schedule. The story is ( colloquially ) that Sandha Khan, under the ownership of U S giant J P Morgan-Chase, suffered tremendously, losing large a amount of its value and ability to produce product. JPM-C then sold it to KADER, who IS trying to rebuild the company. There ARE other Chinese manufacturers who COULD make trains, the time required to sort it all out could be over two yrs easily. There ARE many companies in the US who could make trains, NOT for 26 cents an hour tho. I am NOT a principal in ANY of the 60 companies, my WARDIE-JAY products are made in Lancaster County, PENNSYLVANIA, USA. Jim "as it was told to me" Lyle
____________________________________ From: [email protected] Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: 10/18/2010 3:16:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: {S-Scale List} SHS Last night on the S-Trains chat we were told that SHS has cancelled their dealerships with the following statements on chat. "Did any of you know that dealershipe with SHS had been cancelled?" "October 13 was the last day for dealers to order anything." "They need to be able to sell retail to he public with their remaining stock It may be 2 years before anything new can be shipped." "Yes, there is no current manufacturer of S except for pre ordered stuff that is in production." "All the small "manufacturers" (SHS) eg. are out of luck." This is what was posted. Anybody know how true this is? Ed Eckert ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
