JamesV

1 hour ago, flapland said:

So do I, still waiting though so will have to chase in the morning. 

given the service I received I’d imagine you’ll be well looked after

41 minutes ago, 30801 said:

 

I see Hornby missed the opportunity to up-sell you a train case

Doubt it'll ever leave the box TBH...

8 hours ago, sjgardiner said:

 

FWIW I got the email about my order and payment today. It appears from my online banking the payment has gone through, so they are still clearly working their way through the orders.

 

Stephen

Mine is approximately 15 minutes away according to the DPD app, big delivery today, new iPhone, new iPad, train, phone case and iPad case

1 hour ago, adb968008 said:

it is desirable to people outside of the hobby, probably many of whom don't own any track, nor even know what a 66 is, and are buying it because they believe someday it will be rarer and more valuable than now. Indeed i’m sure theres probably at least 1 person out there who thinks its the Flying Scotsman.

 

Comparatively to Rocket though, theres not that many on ebay, I think more people are holding on to them, R3809 Rocket was a much bigger frenzy, despite R3810 coming, theres no more coming where this one came from.

bit judgemental perhaps, I don’t have a layout but did 30 years ago, this loco might well be the one that spurs me into modelling again. I certainly didn’t buy it to make a profit.

24 minutes ago, 30801 said:

 

All I got was 'Do you need another train? blah blah something' I'd stopped listening by then.

I think in my case she realised what it meant to me, as I say, I don’t have a layout (or any track, a controller or anything) but last year I was very unwell, and suffered a huge bilateral pulmonary embolism at the ripe age of 39, so being able to do something to support the guys that brought me back from the brink was very important to me.

1 hour ago, 30801 said:

 

The weird thing I have is that on making a pre-order it goes through the Verified By Visa faff so you'd think it would be OK. But when when they try to take the payment later. Fail.... 

ah was entirely my fault in my case, card I used to pre-order was lacking in funds! It doesn’t get used often as it’s a pre-pay MasterCard for internet purchases.

Luckily I woke up to this note from the good lady this morning... she’s a keeper! 

Had similar problems to others with the card payment issue, though this was my fault as I pre-ordered it on a card I rarely use, so had no money in the account, cue a mad panic to move the money around and get it paid for, Especially being the deadline for the order being cancelled was midnight yesterday, rang up this morning and spoke to a very helpful lady who said I had made it in by about 20 minutes!

so, it should be here in the next few days, I don’t actually have a layout, and haven’t done for about 30 years, so that may need to change now!

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I’ve ordered one of these and I don’t even have a layout, though I’ve been thinking about building one for a while (had my last one when I was about 10, so about 30 years ago).

that said the 66 doesn’t really fit in with my plan anyway, as my layout would be 80’s/early 90’s freight (probably based around the Three Bridges are as it’s close to me) but hey ho, rule 1!

And of course it’s a fantastic cause!