According to our principal distributor, the May Hobby Master shipment is expected to pull in to their facility sometime around the middle of next week. Its quite possible the follow-on June and July shipments could be right behind it, meaning lots of new Hobby Master models to go through by the middle to tail end of the month. As always, we would very much appreciate it if you could hold your inquiries for a couple of weeks until we’ve gone through everything and made our initial shipments. At that point, we’ll field any questions you might have as it relates to Hobby Master.
The next AFVs of WWII shipment is also expected this month, although no firm date has been established yet since the shipment is still mired at its port of call. The distributor is working in earnest to free up the shipment so here again we would be very thankful if you hold off any inquiries until these items are marked as being received and have already been shipped out.
In other news, we are finally onboarded with Walmart so for the next week or so will begin listing items that are approved for sale on the Walmart marketplace site. If they permit us to open a storefront, then we will point our Contact Us page right to our Motor Pool storefront. After Walmart has been seeded with a good assortment of product, we will then turn our attention to Target, and hopefully get them set up before the start of the holiday season. We will put our plans to launch our VR store on hold until 2023, since we still have our move to Florida on hold. Presently, it looks as if the move will occur in the beginning of the year since there doesn’t seem to be much progress with the build.
That’s about it for now. If anything else occurs to me this weekend then I’ll update this blog post and pass along any news that crosses my desk. Ta ta!
Update: So, we’re finally up-and-running on Walmart, after some trial-and-error work and a good bit of finessing with the powers that be. Right now, we’ve launched just a handful of items to test the system and see how their marketplace works relative to other similar marketplace sites. Once we feel confident that we understand everything and can perform up to their lofty standards, we will slowly increase our product portfolio size, which must first be reviewed by Walmart so that everything is in compliance with their code of conduct. Items such as German tanks featuring Maltese crosses or German aircraft with swastikas on their tail may not pass muster unless we can somehow demonstrate that these are simply artifacts of war that bear no political leanings. Anyway, just thought you might like to check out our presence on the world’s largest retailer site. Next stop Target then one other viable candidate, before we start to explore our VR options in 2023.