Model Forum / General / Models / January 2008

It may be:
A.) You are using a browser program incompatible with their website.
Although it would be great if all browsers would handle all websites the
same, and vice-versa, it's awfully difficult for companies to set things
up that way particularly when you have to interact with them in regards
to ordering things.
B.) You are using a older version of Windows that's having the same
problem.Windows 98 isn't being supported anymore, and it's causing  
problems with a lot of websites when you go to them.

It really would be, as they are from back in the good-ol-days of plastic
model building when it was first hitting its stride with international
kits being available in the US.
I was one of their first 150 customers, and back then they were so
efficient that you would have thought the place had its own drill
Sergents overseeing the staff:
"What does that motto say, maggot?"
"Sir, Orders Processed And Shipped Within 24 Hours, Sir!"
"And it is now 24 hours and TWENTY-SEVEN-SECONDS since that order
arrived isn't it?
"Sir! Yes Sir!"
"I can't hear you..."
"SIR,YES SIR!"
"And you know what that means, don't you? Drop and give me 27 good ones,
and make sure you kiss the toe of my boot at the bottom of each
one...that's it...make it nice and wet... SO IT WONT HURT AS MUCH WHEN
IT HEADS UP YOUR "VALLEY PLAZA HOBBIES" LOVIN' a.s!" :-)
Seriously, I think one thing that really worked for them back then is
that most of the staff were model builders themselves, so they were as
keen to get their hands on the new kits as everyone else, and wanted to
make sure the other modelers got them as quickly as possible, out of a
sense of fellowship as much as a desire for profit.*
It's the first generation in most companies that gets things going, the
second that keeps them going, and the third that lets them fall into
decline.
And unfortunately, this could be generation three that we've arrived at.

*On the few times I talked to one of the people on the staff back in the
1970s-1990s, they knew everything about everything they were selling in
detail.

Pat