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Guide to product availability

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Product availability An explanation of product availability status: IN STOCK - in stock and/or available to be sent out within a day or so. PRE-ORDER - a popular item temporarily out of stock but more are expected very shortly, please pre-order to go on the waiting list. OUT OF STOCK - product run either finished, not yet available, or future availability unknown - see availability date shown or enquire via contact page. Please note that whilst stock levels update automatically on these pages for online customers, there can be a delay with fax/post/phone orders going on to the system, and sometimes items shown as in stock can be temporarily sold out. Also orders of multiple items can sometimes surpass remaining stock. In such cases a back-order will be placed for you wherever possible.

Stock levels and the production process If you are new to buying slot cars, you might be unaware of the way cars are produced and stock levels and availability keep changing from month to month, as new cars come along and older models are dropped. Here's a quick explanation of why it's not possible to always keep everything in stock. Each year, it is decided which cars will be modelled, usually many months ahead of production. So when a phenomenon like Lewis Hamilton comes along it is often hard to quickly change the plans. Producing a model often involves a lot of licensing work with the manufacturers (Ferrari for example are particularly pernickety), drivers (if the helmet is being modelled) and advertisers on the real car, which can slow things down. This is why you rarely get a model of a current season's F1 car, for example, till the season is nearly over. Also any alcohol and tobacco advertising has to be removed on the Scalextric version. Quantities are manufactured based partly on feedback from customers - the better the pre-order interest, the more cars are likely to be made (and sometimes cars are pulled from production if there is not enough interest). Otherwise once the run is finished, attention moves to the new cars for next year.

The cars are usually only made in single runs, while batches of perennial favourites like track pieces will get sent out periodically through the year. We make an educated guess about which items will be good sellers but you can help us with that (see below). When we run out of a particular car, that's probably it, unless there is another batch in production. Sometimes we can obtain expected delivery dates for cars still in production, you will find these mentioned by each item where known, or you can check the catalogue. Think of it as a bit like a Generation Game conveyor belt. You can have what is going past the window right now, some items (like the "cuddly toy") keep appearing at regular intervals, whilst others are on there once only and once they're gone, they're gone.

There are so many cars and other products we *could* stock, we need you to let us know if there is something you want that we aren't currently offering. If we can obtain it, we will. And we will get some extras in, in case some other people want it too.

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