While only small by recent partworks launches, we are supporting the launch of the Build the U-Boat partwork with good placement so people can the low-cost first issue and know we are their local partwork specialist even if they do not purchase this title.
No U-boat here just a hello kitty that’s been done before
Not another part works!
No U-Boat , Hello Kitty sent straight back as its been out before.
I noticed this post this morning, alerted my husband to it, who I knew would be equally interested in the partworks, he went away and did a place-away at a local newsagent for this, what or why is the often negative comments I see here surrounding partworks? is it the failing of the customer, or the people who make these things?
Barbara the challenge with artworks is the publisher limits supply to retail after the initial issues – to push shoppers to sign up for subscriptions.
Barbara, partworks can be a valuable part of magazines for a newsagency, however in our newsagency we find that by the time we get halfway through a series of partworks we can only get supply for about 50% of orders, or less in some cases. This leaves customers angry at us because they have spent a lot of money and can’t finish.
I had someone come in looking for this this morning but we were’t supplied it only the Hello Kitty rubbish. It ended up being OK as I sold the customer a very similar U-boat model kit that I had on the shelf (I’m increasingly diverging into models and other similar hobby lines) along with the interior kits at a total of $260 which made me similar money to selling the whole series now and saved the customer about $900 overall and they got to assemble the boat now rather than waiting a year ! 🙂
No u boat here either , did get the crappy hello kitty again tho, early returned.