Dave Coleys Emporium Reviews 

16
TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

4.5

While we don't verify specific claims because reviewers' opinions are their own, we may label reviews as "Verified" when we can confirm a business interaction took place. Read more

To protect platform integrity, every review on our platform—verified or not—is screened by our 24/7 automated software. This technology is designed to identify and remove content that breaches our guidelines, including reviews that are not based on a genuine experience. We recognise we may not catch everything, and you can flag anything you think we may have missed. Read more

Company details

  1. Model shop

Written by the company

A Real bricks and Moarter business We offer a full mail order service from our huge barn location just out side of Skegness. Parking for lots of cars. We import from all over the world to give you the best prices we can. For all your scale modeling needs from plastic kits too tools glues and paints. We also carry our own brand of tools and paint brushes


Contact info

4.5

Excellent

TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

16 reviews

5-star
4-star
3-star
2-star
1-star

Asks customers to review

This company invites their customers to review, whether positive or negative

How this company uses Trustpilot

See how their reviews and ratings are sourced, scored, and moderated.

4.5

All reviews

(16)

7 reviews in the last 12 months

Write a review

We perform checks on reviews

Companies on Trustpilot aren't allowed to offer incentives or pay to hide reviews. Reviews are the opinions of individual users and not of Trustpilot. Read more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Best on line Model ‘shop’ for AMT kits

Have now ordered and received three model kits. Always find the prices and service to be first class. I love the old AMT US car kits, I haven’t found anyone else that stock such a large selection.
I will certainly buy more kits in future, thanks for stocking the kits I love, Revell and AMT especially

18 November 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service

Have used this shop irregularly over several years and no doubt will continue to do so.
Only had one problem where a part of a Heller car kit came with a snapped axle part but this was rectified by manufacturer easily enough, the packaging was undamaged so was not sellers fault.
Always well packaged, fast delivery and lower than rrp items available here.

18 November 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service and stock

Dave is a great person, he has a lot of stock, and some of his kits are hard to find elsewhere, and at great prices too, I've been buying model kits from him for many years, and he's always provided top notch service! Cheers, Dave!

22 September 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/10 Very Happy.

Been buying via their Ebay shop for a while then realised that via the website, the products are cheaper, so I did an order of a few 1/24 model car kits.
Its arrived 24 hour royal mail tracked and is exactly as described and well packaged.
Several emails and updates as well.
10/10!

Ohh and it does state on the purchase page and on several other pages in huge capitals that its the customers responsibility to give the correct details.
I did and am 100% happy and will be a returning customer.

9 January 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Offering A Consistently Satisfying Customer Experience!

As a foreign customer living in Sweden, I have, over many years, placed numerous orders for slot cars and parts from Dave Coley Emporium. Each of my orders, whether large or small, has been handled, expedited, and shipped from England to Sweden with great care and efficiency by the knowledgeable mail order representatives at DCE.

I have experienced first-hand how customer service, the overall customer experience, and business-to-customer communication are top priorities at Dave Coley Emporium.

For those hobbyists unfamiliar with small HO-scale electric slot cars (such as Aurora, AFX, Tyco, etc.), it is worth noting that there are countless tiny and highly specialized components and parts associated with the wide array of vintage models and brands from the 1960s through the 1990s. Successfully fulfilling a customer order requires the service representatives at Dave Coley Emporium to possess a deep knowledge of these specialized products and an unwavering attention to detail.

It would be remiss of me, and unfair to the wider customer base, not to openly share my honest and positive assessment of Dave Coley Emporium after years of purchasing products from them: DCE consistently delivers first-rate customer service, rapid shipping times, and high-quality products.

6 December 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Ordered a kit over Bank holiday…

Ordered a kit over Bank holiday weekend. Received it well packaged and secure on the Wednesday.
Very quick service, and great kit.
This is my second order from this company and I will be using them again

28 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great price, choice and service!

Ordered my kit via eBay and stone me, I received it bang on the money when they said I would.
Was best price anywhere on the web for this kit.
Will deffo order again and recommend other modellers to have a butchers!

16 February 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The seller and his man friend

The seller and his man friend have been disingenuous by having a link that states ‘track shipping status’!
There is no actual shipping so when my item was incorrectly sent to a wrong address (the top line of my address had been clumsily omitted by the seller) there was no way to track. Instead the only thing the seller offered was to stonewall and try to shift the blame. They even threatened to take me to court (something I would relish). When the bigotry gets this bad it’s time to smile and take one’s custom elsewhere! The petty sabre-rattling isn’t going to stop me warning my fellow modellers!

28 December 2023
Unprompted review
Dave Coleys Emporium logo

Reply from Dave Coleys Emporium

Sad little fella does like 1 start reviews
You ask for tracking you get it. You miss the first line of your address of your order you wont gat it
See you in court and staff members are not friends
FACTS are lacking as always a bit like your ability to input your own address,.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic Service

Used Dave Coley Emporium twice now and both times the goods were dispatched the following day and they arrived the day after that. I cannot fault the service so far and will definitely be using it again.

31 March 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A really good site for any modeller

A really good site for any modeller, excellent choice of items at very competitive prices, very reasonable postage and great service. I will be visiting this site a lot in the future, -it's always great to find a new shop that cares about it's customers and you can rely on. I recommend any modeller to take a look, -you won't be disappointed.

10 July 2020
Unprompted review

The Trustpilot Experience

Anyone can write a Trustpilot review. People who write reviews have ownership to edit or delete them at any time, and they’ll be displayed as long as an account is active.

Companies can ask for reviews via automatic invitations. Labeled Verified, they’re about genuine experiences.

Learn more about other kinds of reviews.

We use dedicated people and clever technology to safeguard our platform. Find out how we combat fake reviews.

Learn about Trustpilot’s review process.

Here are 8 tips for writing great reviews.

Verification can help ensure real people are writing the reviews you read on Trustpilot.

Offering incentives for reviews or asking for them selectively can bias the TrustScore, which goes against our guidelines.

Take a closer look