HogTrainz New Website coming 5/9, Maersk Cease and Desist Order, MT Supply Chain

[mu26aeh]

HogTrainz just sent out an email covering a lot of information.  Most importantly to those who have questioned their website......

HOGTRAINZ WILL BE LAUNCHING OUR NEW WEBSITE THIS MONDAY EVENING! SITE WILL BE DOWN FOR APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS
FIRST 48 HOURS OF NEW WEBSITE - HOGTRAINZ WILL BE OFFERING FREE SHIPPING ON ANY ORDER THAT INCLUDES ANY BROADWAY LTD ITEM (ROLLING STOCK OR LOCOMOTIVE) AS WELL AS ONE ADDITIONAL ITEM. SHOPPING CART MUST HAVE 2 ITEMS IN CART

USE COUPON CODE HOG

SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES BECOMING WORSE. AND ON TOP OF THIS - MAERSK SENT A CEASE AND DESIST ORDER TO MANUFACTURERS MAKING PRODUCTS WITH THEIR NAME ON IT (LOCOMOTIVES - CONTAINERS - ETC)
WE WERE WONDERING WHY MANY MAERSK ITEMS WERE NOT DELIVERED - NOW WE ALL KNOW!

MICRO-TRAINS STILL HAVE NO PLASTIC REPLACEMENT BOXES FOR SALE - AND MANY OF YOU HAVE NOTICED - RUNNER PACKS PACKAGED WITHOUT BOXES. IN ADDITION - MICRO-TRAINS ANNOUNCED THAT DUE TO PRODUCTION ISSUES - THE VERY DELAYED TTX RUNNER PACK 993 01 841 (60FT EXCESS HEIGHT DD BOXCAR SET) WILL BE DELIVERED AS THREE SINGLE CARS. IF YOU RESERVED THE SET YOU WILL GET ALL THREE CARS. WE WILL TRY TO TACK THEM ON TO ORDERS TO SAVE YOU ON SHIPPING

ETA IS 1 CAR EACH MONTH STARTING THIS JULY
IF YOU NO LONGER WANT THE SET - PLEASE EMAIL US AT HOGTRAINZ1@GMAIL.COM - PLEASE SUPPLY NAME AND ADDRESS AND ORDER NUMBER IF YOU HAVE - WE WILL REMOVE THE RESERVATION IF YOU DO NOT WANT CARS DELIVERED SINGLY

HOGTRAINZ IS UPGRADING IN MANY AREAS - WEBSITE JUST FIRST STEP AS WE HAVE CONTINUALLY GROWN YEAR BY YEAR

PLEASE NOTE - NEW N SCALE ENTHUSIAST CARS WILL BE UP ON OUR NEW WEBSITE MONDAY NIGHT

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT.

THE CREW - HOGTRAINZ.COM

[MetroRedLine]

HogTrainz just sent out an email covering a lot of information.  Most importantly to those who have questioned their website......



SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES BECOMING WORSE. AND ON TOP OF THIS - MAERSK SENT A CEASE AND DESIST ORDER TO MANUFACTURERS MAKING PRODUCTS WITH THEIR NAME ON IT (LOCOMOTIVES - CONTAINERS - ETC)
WE WERE WONDERING WHY MANY MAERSK ITEMS WERE NOT DELIVERED - NOW WE ALL KNOW!

In other news, Kato just announced this Maxi-I set!

[Pomperaugrr]

In other news, Kato just announced this Maxi-I set!

Awesome!

[mu26aeh]

Que the wave of Maersk decorated equipment being listed on eBay and sale groups in 3 .... 2 ...... 1 .........

[EspeeGoldenState]

https://jtcmodeltrains.com/search?q=maersk

JTC still has all their Maersk stuff listed, I'd assume they have an agreement with them for licensing.

[peteski]

I'm holding high hopes for the new site (trying to be positive), BUT WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THE SHOUTING?!?!?!? That is just not cool to do nowadays.

Funny how the copyright of logos rears its ugly head again.  No longer considered as free advertising (they have to protect their intellectual properly?).  Really. 

[MetroRedLine]

I'm holding high hopes for the new site (trying to be positive), BUT WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THE SHOUTING?!?!?!? That is just not cool to do nowadays.

Maybe the HogTrainz guy's keyboard has a broken CAPS LOCK key? 

[John]

I'm holding high hopes for the new site (trying to be positive), BUT WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THE SHOUTING?!?!?!? That is just not cool to do nowadays.

They probably use a model 40 teletype to write their press releases

[tehachapifan]

In the event they aren't going to do a license agreement for use of their name and logo, and because I have a Maersk terminal on my layout, I just placed an order for some more JTC containers.

[MK]

So will there be mysterious knocks on the door in the middle of the night, looking for Maersk items already out in the wild?   

[mu26aeh]

I'm holding high hopes for the new site (trying to be positive), BUT WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THE SHOUTING?!?!?!? That is just not cool to do nowadays.

Funny how the copyright of logos rears its ugly head again.  No longer considered as free advertising (they have to protect their intellectual properly?).  Really. 

I just copied from the email and pasted here.  Email is in all different colors but caps.  Don't shoot the messenger 

[wvgca]

They probably use a model 40 teletype to write their press releases

i -assume- you meant the M40-KD , they wouldn't get far with a M40-ROP , lol

[John]

i -assume- you meant the M40-KD , they wouldn't get far with a M40-ROP , lol

But my all time favorites in a previous century were these -- I could bang out close to 70-80 wpm and transmit at the same time ..

[nickelplate759]

The model 40 is entirely too new-fangled, what with those funny tube displays.  M33 for me.

Paper tape rules!

[thomasjmdavis]

So will there be mysterious knocks on the door in the middle of the night, looking for Maersk items already out in the wild?   

No...but slowly and surely, all the photos of your Maersk models will disappear from the World Wide Web as the web crawlers of the legal eagles find them.  Half of the railroad photo pages bookmarked on my browser don't work anymore, many due to various copyright nonsense.