Dropping Walthers
We have dropped Walthers as our distributor. All of our products are still available direct from KingMill.
We signed up with Walthers back in November of last year and had high hopes that they would do a good job of getting our products out to hobby shops.
Unfortunately it took them months to list our products on their web site even though we provided them with a CD full of high-res images and text descriptions of each product. After numerous emails and phone calls to urge them to promote our products they did very little.
After hearing many complaints from hobby shop owners and individual customers we've decided that it is not in our interest to have Walthers represent our products. It simply doesn't make sense to give up 55% of the retail price when a distributor fails to keep a product in stock or promote products in any meaningful way.
Walthers seems to be far more interested in promoting the products they manufacture for pennies on the dollar in China than promoting and selling the products of American manufacturers.
It is a sad day when mom and pop eBay sellers out sell Walthers month after month.
If you are a hobby shop owner who needs high quality model kits feel free to contact me directly.
Chris Jessee: email
We signed up with Walthers back in November of last year and had high hopes that they would do a good job of getting our products out to hobby shops.
Unfortunately it took them months to list our products on their web site even though we provided them with a CD full of high-res images and text descriptions of each product. After numerous emails and phone calls to urge them to promote our products they did very little.
After hearing many complaints from hobby shop owners and individual customers we've decided that it is not in our interest to have Walthers represent our products. It simply doesn't make sense to give up 55% of the retail price when a distributor fails to keep a product in stock or promote products in any meaningful way.
Walthers seems to be far more interested in promoting the products they manufacture for pennies on the dollar in China than promoting and selling the products of American manufacturers.
It is a sad day when mom and pop eBay sellers out sell Walthers month after month.
If you are a hobby shop owner who needs high quality model kits feel free to contact me directly.
Chris Jessee: email
Labels: eBay, failure to communicate, hobby distributors, Walthers
