David,

You may be on to something there. Perhaps a UK based Marklin collective could start a small online shop, and register as a Marklin dealer? The online shop could run a small profit to benefit the hobby of the collective?.

So if gaugemaster are the distributor for the UK, do all other shops have to buy from them? It was that way in NZ years ago, but marklin moved away from that here because it is just an added layer of business expense that is no longer relevant or needed.

Anyway, hopefully any new tariffs etc wont be too steep and marklin will remain affordable for you all.

If only I could:-) I’ve just recently seen a job advertised in NZ for my line of work. Trouble is I can’t go anywhere as my daughter is going to start her GCSEs this year😱😁. Maybe when she starts university

The euro currency would be 10-15% more expensive if no deal.

The price EUR 1.08 to £1 at the latest. Any paypal or credit card fees would be near to 1 EUR to £1.

That is solid reasoning, though the electoral votes wrapped up in the northeast of the US, I'm not sure is substantial enough to be that significant of a factor but the key money influence on just the right senators and representatives may be enough, so I'll assume it will be an effective pressure. But just because it makes sense doesn't mean the politicians involved on all sides won'd do something completely bizarre for some twisted reason. May's negotiated exit agreement couldn't get support in the House of Commons because the house is so fragmented around a variety of issues, so you may never get a position that passes the Commons AND meets the key points the EU requires. And not wanting a hard exit isn't something that requires any legislative effort - that is what will happen if nothing else gets done, so to get out of the bind, the Commons (and or the people, and in a damn hurry) would need to clearly indicate a lack of an agreement must result in a withdrawal of the request to leave, as a complex arrangement won't be able to be negotiated at the last second. Of course I cannot really rule out the EU doing something bat-s crazy and reversing on the hard border to the EU requirement which would cause immense harm to the EU going forward, but thats only because politicians do some wierd things for reasons I'd not support. (eg the bank is too big to let fail, lets bail it out at taxpayer expense).

Thankfully things haven't got antagonistic but I will reiterate the warning.

Apologies.
Did not mean to start a political debate. This Brexit thing will be the subject of many PhD students, just very interesting with all its aspects and effects.

OK so nothing at all do do with the B word, but surely you cannott be serious.

If I finally persuaded the FD that "we" could afford a much cherished brown croc in the current model line up as 39568 then surely yes I could look at the Marklin shop and pay 480Euros plus 9.95Eu shipping and expect to receive it within the week.

I could look at Guagemaster and see that it is £475 plus UK shipping. Of course it is not in stock, there are after all only 18 Ho loks in stock of the 131 loks listed. My experience from way back that the delivery time from Marklin to GM is quite a long time and variable because they try and wait until they have a bit of an order to cut down on their shipping cost. Woe betide if there is any thing wrong GM will tell you to return it to Marklin for warranty at your cost until you stamp your feet and remind them of the Sale of Goods Act 1896 or whatever it is called now.

I don't have a model shop in town prepared to order my Marklin.

But of course in reality I would order from MSL at the logged in price of 395 Euro plus horrendous shipping of 3 Euro and look forward to nearly 12 Euros rebate against my next purchase. I would expect to receive it by DHL probably on Monday well packaged - my usual gripe - no haribos any more. If there was a problem MSL would Email a return shipping coupon and a very rapid warranty return.

Didn't Doris Day sing a song about "What will be, will be"?

We are to small to make a difference so "don't sweat the small stuff".

Dereck

I just had to send my brand new ICE 3 (88715) back to Germany for a warranty repair and the Post Office asked me to fill in a customs declaration form (on which you have to declare the orginal value of the item). I thought that this was a bit weird and I was also was concerned that I may have to pay import duties if the model comes back to me only after Brexit. So I phoned up HMRC to ask them about this. The helpline had to contact the subject matter expert ("SME") so I had to hold for quite some time. The SME couldn't understand why a customs declaration needed to be made (but this is a new Post Office policy) and as to what happens after Brexit, HMRC does not have a clue what is going to happen.

The helpline's advice was to keep all the orginal invoices and if the courier/Post Office insists on me paying duty if the repaired model only comes back after Brexit, keep any receipt for that and then apply to HMRC for a refund of the duty. (If I would have to pay for any repairs, the value of that may be subject to import duties post Brexit).

Carim

Carim

Fill the customs declaration, if you need it you need it and if you don't you don't, it doesn't cost you anything. This way you will be able to prove that you have sent the engine for repair and that it is not a newly purchased engine.

I have sent an aircraft engine to be O/H in the USA, the shippers filled incorrect forms so when the engine came back I was asked to pay duty and VAT as I have imported a brand new engine and this was much more than what I hade to pay. I told the shippers to sort HMRC out and that I give them a month to do so because after that they will talk with my solicitor, they had X2 meeting with HMRC before HMRC agreed that there was a mistake.

Hate you!!!!!!!!!!!

Denmark informed Trump that Greenland is not open to US style real estate development, so the deal never got started!

I’ve been thinking along the same lines😁if you pardon the pun:-) Hornby oo has had its appeal to me for a while now. With its availability in two local model shops. You can even fit Smoke units if you wish👍 But we’re would I put it I’m going to see what happens. I have all my stuff and one set I’m waiting for, which will arrive shortly. After that I can, start a new collection if I wish.

Hi, I’m definitely not done with Märklin, just very worried that new Märklin will cost just to much for say a double container wagon. They are just below 100 Euros at the moment. And when one of those gets to over £100. It’s starts to get a bit off putting!!!