Commercial add-ons for Â£4.97 !!

lateknight · Post by **lateknight** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:59 pm

PC World are currently offering 2 cool MSTS addons for only Â£4.97 each.

London & South East
&
LNER Pacifics

These are, unfortunately, only available through their website as a 'collect@store' items. Availability might be a bit patchy - I did have to travel 18 miles to find a store that stocks them.
If your lucky enough to find a nearby stockist, reserve them using the collect@store link. Give them an hour- and go collect, taking your reservation number with you. Easy.
Click on this (rather lengthy) link;

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/ ... =undefined

Good luck

After a little research (and not realising how few stores have this) I have compiled a list of stores - as of 06/07/06 - who are still listed as having this on their collect@store program

London & South East;

Solihull
Manchester
Lancaster
Gloucester
Carmarthen
Newcastle upon tyne
Sellyoak (??)

LNER Pacifics;

Solihull (the only one showing both)
Stirling
Glasgow
Croydon
Kidderminster

Thats it
So they are as rare as hens teeth

If you live anywhere near (or know someone that does), good luck to you!!

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:07 pm

Good luck if you can find them in stock, because I could not find any within about 50 miles of here !

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:23 pm

Hi
Glasgow and Solihull for 'LNER Pacifics'.....I didn't search for LSE...I've already got it.

Interesting post though, from this 'new' member

,and a bit of a contradiction in another of his posts where he claims he's got lots of money, can afford any addon and thinks the EB ECE parts 1 and 2 are good value.
Cheers
Jon

terrone · Post by **terrone** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:33 pm

I was just wandering around my local PC World last week and found LSE for Â£4.97! Snapped it up straight away!

Cheers,
Terrone.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:52 pm

Hmm, my local store doesn't have LNER Pacifics, nor does any of the other 6 stores withing 20 miles of me (according to the site).

XPTE · Post by **XPTE** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:32 pm

Only add-ons in Virgin Oxford Street(the largest Virgin Megastore in the UK) are several copies of LTV Eire Mining Company Trainset for Â£24.99 each! I'll say no more on that I think, except I think it's the exact same copies that were there a few years ago!

petethetim · Post by **petethetim** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:49 pm

Well I was in Game in Forestside Shopping Cent in Belfast on Sat & I could have got LSE Great Diesel's & Great Electrics the Three for Â£10 & MSTS was was there also in same section as was southern Pity I had em all

117305 · Post by **117305** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:49 pm

XPTE wrote:Only add-ons in Virgin Oxford Street(the largest Virgin Megastore in the UK) are several copies of LTV Eire Mining Company Trainset for Â£24.99 each! I'll say no more on that I think, except I think it's the exact same copies that were there a few years ago!

Isnt that the route where you have to send off for the stock????????-if so no wonder its still there!

bigvern · Post by **bigvern** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:25 pm

117305 wrote:
XPTE wrote:Only add-ons in Virgin Oxford Street(the largest Virgin Megastore in the UK) are several copies of LTV Eire Mining Company Trainset for Â£24.99 each! I'll say no more on that I think, except I think it's the exact same copies that were there a few years ago!
Isnt that the route where you have to send off for the stock????????-if so no wonder its still there!

That's the route with the 1 in 20 gradients, more than 10 miles between point nodes and unmodified couplings...so getting from one end t'other without modding the stock is not possible.

lateknight · Post by **lateknight** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:57 pm

jbilton wrote:Hi
Glasgow and Solihull for 'LNER Pacifics'.....I didn't search for LSE...I've already got it.
Interesting post though, from this 'new' member ,and a bit of a contradiction in another of his posts where he claims he's got lots of money, can afford any addon and thinks the EB ECE parts 1 and 2 are good value.
Cheers
Jon

One has to laugh...
Did you not actually read my post?
Do you not think my reply was a bit tongue in cheek? (after all you were insinuating that I possibly had connections with EB - just because I happened to mention that I thought E.C.E was a good add-on).

Please re-read the post again - and see if you can 'have a shot' at who I was trying to 'pass' myself of as.
It would be crass for anybody to 'seriously' come on here and boast about having shedloads of money, wouldn't it?.

I just so happens that everywhere I have lived, has been in places that are either on or very near to the ECML. So I'm bound to have a bit of a soft spot for it.

The previous post was entitled ECE2 (i think)

Cheers
Paul

oldrocker · Post by **oldrocker** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:20 pm

lateknight wrote:
jbilton wrote:Hi
Glasgow and Solihull for 'LNER Pacifics'.....I didn't search for LSE...I've already got it.
Interesting post though, from this 'new' member ,and a bit of a contradiction in another of his posts where he claims he's got lots of money, can afford any addon and thinks the EB ECE parts 1 and 2 are good value.
Cheers
Jon
One has to laugh...
Did you not actually read my post?
Do you not think my reply was a bit tongue in cheek? (after all you were insinuating that I possibly had connections with EB - just because I happened to mention that I thought E.C.E was a good add-on).

Please re-read the post again - and see if you can 'have a shot' at who I was trying to 'pass' myself of as.
It would be crass for anybody to 'seriously' come on here and boast about having shedloads of money, wouldn't it?.

I just so happens that everywhere I have lived, has been in places that are either on or very near to the ECML. So I'm bound to have a bit of a soft spot for it.

The previous post was entitled ECE2 (i think)

Cheers
Paul

And your point is . . . . ?

ForburyLion · Post by **ForburyLion** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:59 am

http://www.game.co.uk have a Great Electrics add on listed at Â£2.99 and a couple of others for Â£4.99 inc the Fires and Wires Electrics pack.

All currently out of stock though.

For flight sim fans there's a fighter pilot add on listed at 49p.

petethetim · Post by **petethetim** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:42 am

ForburyLion wrote:www.game.co.uk have a Great Electrics add on listed at Â£2.99 and a couple of others for Â£4.99 inc the Fires and Wires Electrics pack.

All currently out of stock though.

For flight sim fans there's a fighter pilot add on listed at 49p.

yeah as I said above they seem to sell them off in there shops I got most of my back Catalogue from their 3 for Â£10 or 2 for Â£15 offers

Tonysmedley · Post by **Tonysmedley** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:54 am

Whilst no doubt helpful to a few, these tips aboou cheap add-ons in some stores are frustrating to the majority who find that there are no local branches, or that those that exist do not have the Add-ons. ( or the staff do not know where they are, is not uncommon )

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:09 am

Hi
All it is, is stock being cleared.
Therefore if a store has a copy(ies), you can buy it (them) at that price.
It doesn't mean the addon will be re-stocked at that price, or that the RRP has been reduced.
The only difference is that PC World tell you about it on their website, as they obviously have store-wide computer controlled stock levels.
My son works in a 'game type' shop....and they haven't stocked any train sim addons for months...they don't sell in the quantities they like to move.
ie one of the latest PC games shifted 300 odd copies in a week, and Xbox type games sell even more.
This could well change with KRS, however its interesting that there's no advance notification, of a Christmas release......yet.
Cheers
Jon

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