New Store Ready and Open for Business

Finally the new Store is ready for Business. It took a lot more than we wanted but we are hanging on and almost all our stock is on display and available directly from the Store (and of course on the Internet)

We invite you to visit the link to our new store http://www.rocousa.com/hobbystore.htm for you to browse the facility and maybe even see something you need.

We have still work to do but now is under control. At least, now we know where are the things that are not on display yet so we can get them in just one minute.

In other news, we are happy to see the good response that our Customers had for having the prices set in Euros for Marklin, Trix and some other imports for pre-orders in 2010 as then price of Euro has gone down in more than 20% this year and our Customers are taking now advantage on this low cost of Euro translated in a lower price in US Dollars.

Those other we know, that complained about not having some items prices in US Dollars and went to our Competitors because they had a price in US Dollars, now we invite them to compare the BIG difference it made to place the order there instead than here with us. Well, you can not win all then games but we still are receiving pre-orders and calculating the price in Dollars at release time of the new items.

Due the new space we have, we have increased our stock and product lines in more than $ 300.000.00 at cost so the volume of items and Brands is highly larger than before.

We are converting slowly in a true Hobby Store and not only a Model Train Store, however, we are still the LARGEST Marklin/Trix Dealer in USA and maybe the Largest in Faller/Vollmer/Preiser/Viessmann and other European Brands.

There is no doubt about our volume in Tamiya, Kyosho, Traxxas, HPI, CEN. Revell, Forces of Valor, Helimax and others we carry for the General Hobby.

I think that is well worth to visit us if you have then time.

New 2010 items have been posted in our web site

The new items for 2010 are already posted in our web site.

Please visit the link above to see what's new from Marklin, Trix, Minitrix, Brawa, Vollmer, Faller, Viessmann and Preiser.
Also this year, we will carry LGB, POLA and Kibri as result of purchases from some of our Manufacturers of these new Brands.

344 items arrived in one large shipments

344 items arrived in this last shipment from Marklin, Trix, Faller and Vollmer.
We can say now, that we are well prepared to face the season 2009 and that our Inventory in Faller and Vollmer is almost 98% of the products on the program of each of these Manufacturers including a very large selection of discontinued items that we still have stock. If you have the time, we invite you to browse each of these Manufacturers in our web site www.rocousa.com/faller.asp

and www.rocousa.com/vollmer.asp and take advantage of our very low prices nobody can bit us in USA.

Do not forget to review Preiser at www.rocousa.com/preiser.asp We offer the lowest guaranteed price in the Continent and our stock is more than 97% total production in HO, N and Z gauge.
In 1 gauge and G gauge we are not well stocked due low demand on those gauges, but we are able to bring any item you need in our next regular montly shipment.

Also, now for Marklin, we offer upgrades from conventional or Delta units to Digital at cost of decoders plus locomotive, no labor charges. If you see any locomotive in our database you like and need it Digital, we will install the decoder for you at cost of decoder and no charge for labor.

Survey running in our web site

As many of you have noticed already, we are inviting some web surfers to enter in our web site survey.
This is a survey very easy to answer and will take you less than 2 minutes, just a few clicks.
Please note that all answer are anonymous, so we can not know who wrote or punched what.

We have received some comments requesting all sort of stuff such as the cost of shipping a product.

The survey does not indicate name or e-mail of user, so there is no way for us to answer any question you may have.
If you have any questions, please use e-mail to us at rocousa@rocousa.com and we will be happy to answer your questions or deal with your concerns.

If you need more info in a particular item, e-mail us, do not request that on comments on the survey as we will not be able to know who you are.

And please, say what you really think without any restriction. (any way, we do not know who you are). This will help us a lot to improve or make the changes our Customers and viewers want.

Thank you for participate.

PD: Not all visitors are invited to the survey. This is not in any way a discrimination, it is just the way the people of the survey work. They say in this way is more realistic that having the opinion of each visitor.

Any way, you can refuse the survey without problems or restrictions to enter our site.

Large quantity of Preiser just arrived

PREISER has released this item PR28144 for those "politics" that want to have a replica of the President and then First Lady. They have "suggested" even a way to have a parade in honor of the visit of the President to Germany.
If you are not a politic, then even for fun you must have this set. Every friend of yours will laugh a lot seeing this perfect replica hand painted.

All the items of the parade are available in our Store.

Also, we have received over 500 items including many new releases of 2009. check our web site and follow the links for PREISER.

Vollmer, Preiser, Brawa and Viessmann

We have received large quantities on these Manufacturers and have all been posted in our regular Web Site.
As many of you like to compare prices with other competitors, we invite you to do so before you place an order so you will be able to see that we still have the lowest price available in USA.

Regarding the products, if it is not available in our web site means that it is not available at Factory, either because they [Manufacturers] do not have stock, new items not released yet or it is a discontinued item.

In Marklin we have received all the latest releases as well as new restocking products, but the highlights are the Club Locomotives that were sent past week to all our Customers Members of the Marklin Club that had orders for it. There are no pending shipments and all were sold at discounted price as said at the time to place the orders.

Please look at the new items in our web site or on the blog to know more about the new Club Items for 2009.

Big jump of Euro against Dollar

Today we had a big jump of the Euro against the US Dollar.
These are not good news and those who say they know about currencies, are saying that Euro will be even more stronger, what will have as a result, new higher prices for all those items imported from Europe.

As many have noticed, some items have arrived previously to this rise and can see that for those items we got, the prices were adjusted lower, so we keep our word to try to have the best price possible within the range of our possibilities.

To help a little bet, we have not increased our prices on all what we have in stock, so you may take advantage of those very low prices.

Brawa, Faller, Vollmer, Preiser and 4MFOR new items 2009 published

We have published the new Items 2009 for Brawa, Faller, Vollmer, Preiser and 4MFOR.
From the page of new items, you can navigate to the specific page you look for.

Orders are being taken to assure not only availability and faster shipments but lower price.

We invite you to browse our pages for the latest news on new items.

Preiser, a new large shipment has arrived to our Store

A new large shipment of Preiser has arrived today to our Store.

Due lower cost on Euro, many prices have gone down. We invite you to visit our Preiser pages and check it out.

Many new Presier 2008 items have been released and are on this shipment.