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Well 2020 was a rough ride and many things have changed in my life and I am sure the lives of others.
First I need to explain why you now see the Marketplace by 132slotcar.us at the top of the Forum
Ever since I took over www.slotcarillustrated.com also known as SCI I have tried to promote all products, scales and how to get involved with this Hobby
My mission was and still is to grow the Hobby in North America.
However since those early days many things have changed.
At first (2000) I worked for Scalextric after selling my Company "A Day At The Races" to Hornby Hobbies the UK owners of the Scalextric brand.
After leaving in July 2002 I continued on as a consultant. This ran till 2004 when we discontinued that arrangement.
Since then I built ScaleRacing LLC the owner of SCI, The ScaleRacing Center and www.132slotcar.us.
As an Importer and Distributor I built a network of Stores along with my own Store to continue to promote the Industry and Hobby of Model Car (Slotcar) Racing all scales.
The ScaleRacing Center was to be the Showcase of what you can do to keep Slotcars in the public eye and grow the market.
However since opening the market has changed dramatically. Now most sellers of this Hobby do not have locations, overhead, staff etc and sell increasingly at lower margins on Amazon and Ebay.
Also Advertisers that helped with some of the cost of keeping SCI online and developing the Site and Servers and Software have vanished.
I supply a Manufacturer Forums which were supported by those Companies but now are financed solely by ScaleRacing LLC.
So moving forward SCI will be focused on my Business interests as this is how I can keep the Forum online and hopefully developed into the future.
ScaleRacing LLC are the Exclusive Importer and Distributor for RevoSlot. We also sell these excellent cars and parts at www 132slotcar.us
We are business partners with BRM and Distribute their Cars and Parts and Accessories. In partnership we co own the ScaleRacing/BRM Trans Am line.
We are proud to be building these cars in the USA.
This venture will be expanded into other ScaleRacing/BRM products in the future.
We Import and Distribute Scaleauto and their expansive line of cars both 1:32 and 1:24 scale
Plus the DS line of controllers and Electronics and accessories.
We also sell Scalextric Sets and Cars and some Carrera product.
We Stock and support Slot.it and Policar products including cars, part, accessories and Track. We will be expanding our business with Slot.it and Policar.
We support Clubs running the products we are involved with and will help with Events featuring these brands.
We will discontinue many brands we use to stock as they are sold aggressively at margins we can not exist at.
We see a trend toward Manufacturer direct sales especially on Amazon and Ebay and feel this will grow in the years ahead forcing more Stores and even at Home Etailers out of the Market.
We intend to expand our Manufacturing and Direct sales to survive in the ever changing marketplace.
All of this said we still will support sections of SCI to help consumers of all products.However we will not allow linking to other Stores as sales are the only way we can survive.
We will be looking at the Club section and welcome active Clubs running brands we support to be involved and share their programs.
We will be working closely with Clubs interested to help promote interest in our products in their communities.
We realise as we drop lines no longer viable to ScaleRacing LLC people will want to know where to buy those products. For this I am sure Google will answer the questions.
So 2021 the times they are a changing.
Welcome to SCI the information side of ScaleRacing LLC.
First I need to explain why you now see the Marketplace by 132slotcar.us at the top of the Forum
Ever since I took over www.slotcarillustrated.com also known as SCI I have tried to promote all products, scales and how to get involved with this Hobby
My mission was and still is to grow the Hobby in North America.
However since those early days many things have changed.
At first (2000) I worked for Scalextric after selling my Company "A Day At The Races" to Hornby Hobbies the UK owners of the Scalextric brand.
After leaving in July 2002 I continued on as a consultant. This ran till 2004 when we discontinued that arrangement.
Since then I built ScaleRacing LLC the owner of SCI, The ScaleRacing Center and www.132slotcar.us.
As an Importer and Distributor I built a network of Stores along with my own Store to continue to promote the Industry and Hobby of Model Car (Slotcar) Racing all scales.
The ScaleRacing Center was to be the Showcase of what you can do to keep Slotcars in the public eye and grow the market.
However since opening the market has changed dramatically. Now most sellers of this Hobby do not have locations, overhead, staff etc and sell increasingly at lower margins on Amazon and Ebay.
Also Advertisers that helped with some of the cost of keeping SCI online and developing the Site and Servers and Software have vanished.
I supply a Manufacturer Forums which were supported by those Companies but now are financed solely by ScaleRacing LLC.
So moving forward SCI will be focused on my Business interests as this is how I can keep the Forum online and hopefully developed into the future.
ScaleRacing LLC are the Exclusive Importer and Distributor for RevoSlot. We also sell these excellent cars and parts at www 132slotcar.us
We are business partners with BRM and Distribute their Cars and Parts and Accessories. In partnership we co own the ScaleRacing/BRM Trans Am line.
We are proud to be building these cars in the USA.
This venture will be expanded into other ScaleRacing/BRM products in the future.
We Import and Distribute Scaleauto and their expansive line of cars both 1:32 and 1:24 scale
Plus the DS line of controllers and Electronics and accessories.
We also sell Scalextric Sets and Cars and some Carrera product.
We Stock and support Slot.it and Policar products including cars, part, accessories and Track. We will be expanding our business with Slot.it and Policar.
We support Clubs running the products we are involved with and will help with Events featuring these brands.
We will discontinue many brands we use to stock as they are sold aggressively at margins we can not exist at.
We see a trend toward Manufacturer direct sales especially on Amazon and Ebay and feel this will grow in the years ahead forcing more Stores and even at Home Etailers out of the Market.
We intend to expand our Manufacturing and Direct sales to survive in the ever changing marketplace.
All of this said we still will support sections of SCI to help consumers of all products.However we will not allow linking to other Stores as sales are the only way we can survive.
We will be looking at the Club section and welcome active Clubs running brands we support to be involved and share their programs.
We will be working closely with Clubs interested to help promote interest in our products in their communities.
We realise as we drop lines no longer viable to ScaleRacing LLC people will want to know where to buy those products. For this I am sure Google will answer the questions.
So 2021 the times they are a changing.
Welcome to SCI the information side of ScaleRacing LLC.
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