Tried the site, no products! LOL
Did you read the BIG MESSAGE saying they are updating the web site?
A few products do come up, HO track for example.
Hopefully when they are done it is easier to use than before.
Sheldon
Hopefully they look at one of the great on-line shopping sites like Grainger when they update the Walthers site.
I sometimes want to browse through stuff, and sometimes I want a specific product. Walthers, MTS, and Amazon all are frustrating to me after using Grainger and a couple other industrial suppliers.
-Kevin
No doubt, like any website, there is room for improvement. But, I never have had significant problems with the Walthers website. That said, the volume of business conducted by Walthers means that it better have an efficient website, one that is easy to navigate.
Rich
I had a much easier time finding products on Walthers old Website from a few years back before they went to the present one. If you ask me, the present site needs more than a little room for improvement. When it first went up, it was awful. It’s a little better now but the old one was tons better.
It’s up and working this morning, I had to check it out.
They still have the appointment arrangement before you can visit the show room. Thursday and Fridays, 10: am to 3: pm.
I still use Hiawatha Hobbies as my go-to. I don’t like the neighborhood that has taken over where Walthers is located.
Mike.
Years ago when I had the camera business we would do the Milwaukee show every year. One year we went to Walthers for a tour of the facilities. Only to find out that they discontinued that 2 weeks before.
Are they still in the old strip mall?
I don’t remember Walthers being in a strip mall, but I don’t know the history of the company.
Their address is on the bottom of their web site. You can look it up.
Hiawatha Hobbies is part of a strip mall.
Mike.
Walthers site is not working well this morning for me. It is painfully slow and the search box does nothing. Most of the pictures for items are not loading.
I will check it out again in a few days.
-Kevin
They rebuilt and major changes to the site. Works now
Shane
I think they must still be updating stuff, as I can not log in. I’m sure once the update is finished, all will be back to normal.
I logged into Walthers when I seen this post, earlier today. No problems.
Weird hey? Like the Trains. Some things work fine for some, and for others, it doesn’t work. [%-)]
Mike.
I just took another look at the Walthers web site.
There must be differences, changes, improvements over the old web site.
But, it still looks the same to me.
I thought the web site was fine before any changes. It still does look fine to me.
Am I missing something?
Rich
https://trains.walthers.com/new-walthers-1/6
Cheers, Ed
Thanks, Ed.
I guess that my searches on Walthers are pretty simplistic, so I don’t use a lot of those features that have been “refined”. Some of the other features like “Advanced Search” I do use, but I have always felt that the filters were good enough to find what I was looking for.
Also, I use the Walthers website a lot less these days than I did when I was building structures and searching for rolling stock as a newbie to HO scale. Nowadays, I usually go directly to the manufacturers’ websites.
Rich
Just played with it. It was hard to do a search and accually find a product unless you knew the product so very hard to just browse. At one time Walthers was the go to place to find out what was out there, not anymore.
That is the same complaint I have about Model Train Stuff’s website.
It is just not friendly for browsing around, which is the real joy of a train store.
-Kevin
So, I reset my password and can now get in, but I don’t see a big bunch of changes.
Maybe I just never used the options they changed?
That is pretty much what I concluded as well.
Rich
I’ve generally found the major search engines are better at finding things on sellers’ websites than a direct search.
just enter your search terms in your browser address bar and follow it with
site:www.walthers.com
Rhis forces a search on that website specifically and of course also includes sponsored results on other sites.