Posted by : thowden on Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 01:57 AM

Over the past year I've had lots, and lots, of interruptions to my hobby time and while the online store has still accepted your orders, I've not been responding as quickly as I would like to be nor as quick as you would like.

As this year has unfolded we seem to have settled into a routine again and I am now planning to have back my one day a week to 'play cars' !!

The first Sunday is this weekend and I'll be working through a small mountain of around 150 back orders and trying to clear those asap.

Over the coming weeks I'll be in contact with all of you with open orders. You can check the status of your order(s) by logging into your account. All your order history is displayed in summary and with a View option to look at the details.

I have a lot to catch up on and will be doing so every Sunday.

Thanks for all the emails and I hope to make contact with all RecoverToy customers in the next few months.

Posted by : thowden on Saturday, November 07, 2009 - 06:16 PM

Back in June I decided that it would be best if I announced the closure of RecoverToy store for a period of 3 months while I did some travelling for my other work commitments. It actually took 4 months but I am now back and hopefully settled here in Melbourne for the forseeable future.

This of course means that I have some time for my hobby of model cars and a chance to catch up on orders and repairs. However, I don't plan on officially re-opening the online store until the new year.

If you do place an order, please don't expect that it will be despatched instantly, as there are around 100 orders already ahead of you and it could be some time before I get to yours. That said, I will be cleaning up the outstanding emails in the coming weeks and will at least advise on availability of stock and responding to queries.

Posted by : thowden on Saturday, June 27, 2009 - 05:38 PM

If you are reading this then you will know that RecoverToy is back on line. So what happened in the last week? The domain name of RecoverToy.com was due for renewal and in the process of renewing there was an error in communication somewhere which resulted in the domain not being renewed and not being renewable....

Which left me with no email and no website. For anyone who has sent email in the last 6 days or so, your emails will most likely be processed through to me in the next 24 - 48 hours. Email is retried over a period of time. If you have had a message to say that your email was undeliverable please resend it.

For everyone trying to contact RecoverToy please wait for a couple of days while I catch up on the backlog of mail that is coming through now and I hope to address all queries during this coming week.

Please note that I do only have Sundays generally as hobby time and while I try to get everything done in a day, somethings will have to be left for next weekend.

Posted by : thowden on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 06:30 PM

In order to catch up with outstanding orders and restorations I am closing the RecoverToy web store from this coming Saturday 13th June 2009 for a few months.

I will be conducting a sale of a large range of empty original boxes, stock of repro boxes, models for restoration and surplus items from my collection. This sale will be on eBay under the RecoverToy_USA store.

All current orders will be fulfilled over the next few weeks as time permits.

Thanks to all my customers and collecting friends for your support and I look forward to catching up with you again in the future.

Posted by : thowden on Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 08:25 PM

Given the large volume of orders coming through the store and a general lack of time for me to support the collecting community I have closed my two eBay stores for an indefinite period. All outstanding eBay transactions will be finalised this week. Hopefully I will catch up on all the store orders over the next two weeks.