Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / April 2004

What for Gary?

David

I have been happy with

www.alshobbies.com
www.inwoodmodels.co.uk
www.sussexmodelcentre.co.uk

Als and Inwoods are the cheaper
Als has the best site

A word of advice though in my opinion.  All the sites that I have seen are
front ends to real model shops.  They are not big e-commerce organisation
like Amazon, Dabs, Play etc.  This means that stock level indictaions are
not usual present and often your online order simply results in a printout
which the shop assistence will read at some point and attempt to process.

If they are busy they may not get round to looking at your order until the
end of the day.  It stands to reason that they won't ignore customers in the
shop or on the phone to process your paper order.  When they get to your
order they may not have your item in stock.  Usually, they will try to ring
you, but if you aren't contactable at the time and the shop is busy they may
not get to speak to you quickly.

So my advice is look at the site, decide what you want and then ring them.
Check the stock availability at the time.  That way you will get want you
want quickly.

Cheers,

Nigel

Depends what you are after....
But........
I've had successful mail order dealings with....
www.inwoodmodels.co.uk  Inwoods
www.srcm.co.uk  Slough Radio Control Models
http://217.154.246.27/  Sussex Model Centre

HTH

Andy Mc
-=Plane Mad=-

almost all of them.

I have found that just about any one of them will give excellent service,
with goods usually on your doormat the next morning, obviously depending on
what & how big, of course. For electric goods, I can highly reccomend John
Swain, at Puffin Models. Many others of course.  Ray