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Data? Marketing relationship Trainworld and St. Aubins?

General Discussion
#1

For me, here’s a unexplained apparent relationship between St. Aubins and Trainworld:

In checking prices for a B’mann 3-truck Shay, I went to TRAINWORLD’S web site.
Clicking the graphic for the Bachmann Shay on the same line as their listed price, I got lgbpola.com’s site listing. There was no explanation. No option for a picture on the Trainworld site.
Clicking on lgbpola.com then brought me to St. Aubins.
The pricing for the same shay at St. Aubins was $519.00 vs. 495.00 at Trainworld. Price obviously was not the motive.

Clicking on the other large scale Trainworld Bachmann graphics for freight cars and locos, again took me to St. Aubins.

Is this a clever computer-savy hobbiest creating this link?

Is Trainworld and St. Aubins financially related per Bachmann’s large scale locos and rolling stock?

Anyone with any insight?

Wendell

#2

Ok, I got ya…seems somebody is lazily building the websites? I think this question would be better asked on MLS, simply because STA is a sponsor there, go to the source sort of thing?

But I gotta tell ya, this intrigues me like mad, I’d love to know the source of this “new” confusion…thanks for bringing it to lite!

cale

#3

My bet is on lazy… email St Aubins and see if they are mad.

Regards, Greg

#4

Greg-
I have an e-mail into St. Aubins.
Did you check out the sequence I noted?
Is it simply a case whereby Trainworld thought they were getting LGB promo pictures of the locos they were selling? If that were the case, a simply check would reveal St. Aubins is the end result – with at least one product at a higher price. Hmmmm. Now, there is an interesting sales gimmick - take the customer to the higher priced competitior.

Wendell

#5

“Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.”

I vote for lazy

#6

You must have woken up the programmer at Trainworld, 'cause the entire site is down at the moment.

#7

I still see it, even after a refresh or two?

#8

OK - It’s up now. I was getting timeouts earlier Would you buy a used train from this man ?

(http://www.trainworld.com/sopranos/images/sopranosbig.jpg)

I see the pictures as being served by lgbpola.om, but clicking on the link just gets a 404 error now.

#9

Ok I took a look at the code. The answer is they have the wrong code written to use the pictures.

From the way the code is done. I’m guessing the are using a code making program and not a person writing the code. What happend is common place for code writing programs.

Now, I could be wrong but that is my guess at what has happend.

#10

Someone taking a few shortcuts, why create my own pic files when I can use these nice ones from over here…:slight_smile: