34theletterbetweenB&D Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 When I scrolled down it is still descibed as a 'temporary' website until the new one is available later this year. That's IT promises all over 'better later'! My advice to Mr Haarhus: your previous site was really simple and easy to use and a great advertisement for your business. Reinstate it, and don't permit change until shown something better and fully working. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) All the lists are there now, we're back in business Bit more work required on the listings - the pictures aren't auto-zooming on Chrome and there are some odd words like 'Admin' scattered on the pages. There is a 99 page list of stock availability - not the most useful format but it's something. Edited March 2, 2018 by woodenhead Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Well that's annoying - the GWR livery Collett I want has an 'out of stock' label rather then expected date - I've been waiting ages for this particular model and thought it can't be far away when it's BR brother turned up at Christmas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy L S Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Looking at the Farish pages a number of price hikes too, albeit not on the scale we have seen previously. Roy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 So before the availability was next to the product, now we have to open a 99 page PDF list, remember the product code and find it. This is not an improvement. Whoever signed off on this....give yourself a bit of a slap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star-rider Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Well that's annoying - the GWR livery Collett I want has an 'out of stock' label rather then expected date - I've been waiting ages for this particular model and thought it can't be far away when it's BR brother turned up at Christmas. The very same thing has just come to my attention, resulting in me doing a sudden "panic buy" via a retailers pre-order button. Whilst I can't help feeling it is a misprint, it is perfectly possible that retailer's demand for stock on the shelves has eaten up the production run. They may therefore be sold out as far as Bachmann are concerned, but it would not be impossible to pluck one from a model shop for a few months yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Well at least we now know exactly how much the Farish MK2F/DBSO coaches will be at £43/45. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 So before the availability was next to the product, now we have to open a 99 page PDF list, remember the product code and find it. This is not an improvement. Whoever signed off on this....give yourself a bit of a slap. And, it appears that you can no longer sort by era. Whoever signed off on this can jump of a cliff, after having slapped themselves, of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 As much use as a Chocolate fireguard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PMP99 Posted March 2, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2018 As others have said, not being able to sort by era, no easy availability etc. is certainly a backward step, although the individual product displays are perhaps a little clearer? One of the things I liked about the old website was that it was much easier to navigate than the Hornby one. The new one seems to me to have acquired many of the latter's deficiencies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 If it ain’t broke, break it! It isn’t a bad site; the trouble is that the old site was so much better. PMP99 sums it up well. On the old site, we could scroll down all the entries under a particular heading. Now we have to dig through several screens. I dare say that, in time, the boobs will be spotted and tidied up (009 runs on 00 track, does it?) Please, Bachmann, go back to an easy-to-navigate, informative site. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGiraffe22 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I'm sure it's not finished yet, chill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Whilst I can't help feeling it is a misprint, it is perfectly possible that retailer's demand for stock on the shelves has eaten up the production run. They may therefore be sold out as far as Bachmann are concerned, but it would not be impossible to pluck one from a model shop for a few months yet.The availability indication on the web site has always been on respect of Bachmanns stock rather than what is on a model shop shelf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) I'm sure it's not finished yet, chill. Exactly. It says as much on the website. This is a temporary website whilst we work towards our new website which is due later this year. But it seems some like drama as much as that Channel 5 documentary on the NYMR. Jason Edited March 2, 2018 by Steamport Southport Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGiraffe22 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Exactly. It says as much on the website. But it seems some like drama as much as that Channel 5 documentary on the NYMR. Jason Premature melodrama on RMWeb? Surely not... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 2, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2018 I have to agree the Products pages are awful. Default is presumably alphabetical, but that’s silly if the product names all start with Branchline. And what we are used to, and probably makes most sense to group all versions of a model together, i.e. by catalogue number is not available. Hopefully such issues will be rethought and changes made. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PMP99 Posted March 2, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2018 In fairness to Bachmann, I overlooked it still said it was a temporary website so hopefully much better is to come. However, still somewhat surprised that they would develop and switch to a somewhat inferior 'interim' website whilst the new one is being developed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NINJA Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 If there was ever a case of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it, this is one of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted March 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2018 Is anybody really surprised? 2018: Bachmann announce new website, if the delivery matches their models, it'll be up-and-running some time in 2022. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Is anybody really surprised?... Yes, because this shouldn't be subject to delays in China! (Perhaps it is a salutary warning to those who want our hobby product manufacture returned to the UK?) 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 I'm sure it's not finished yet, chill.Of course it’s not finished and it is, after all, only a website. But Bachmann’s strategy on this is somewhat bizarre. They had a functional, albeit dated, site that they replaced with little more than a holding page. They then replaced that with a half baked temporary site. The old site really did need updating, there’s no doubt in my mind. But there are ways of going about it, and then there’s this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigP Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 (edited) -- Edited January 31, 2021 by bigP Deleted Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 (edited) Was not the old site done by a web design company for Bachmann. The current temporary site does not appear to have any third party named. Possibly the contract ended or the third party ceased to trade. Its the price of the Bachmann 03 that has stumped me - £125, crikey, I suddenly have £375 worth of models that only cost around £130. Seriously though I wonder what the increasing prices across the board from all manufacturers are going to do for exhibitions as exhibitors start quoting higher layout values. Edited March 3, 2018 by Butler Henderson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 £54.75 a coach - no thanks! And we haven't factored in the cost of Brexit yet. Anyone who’s bought the birdcages already knows how that feels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 The point about availability was valid. Because you could see what was sold out at the barwell warehouse easily, and as such, knew if it was worth asking your local model shop to order something in or not Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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