Wyrley Ralph
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Marketing |
| Location | Great Wyrley, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | After leaving school, I worked @ ‘WOOLIES’ –in theory ‘until I grow up and decide what I want to do with my life’. 40 years on and I still have not made up my mind. I have worked in the Toy & Hobby trade for over 35 years, as Rep (Meccano [Dinky], Corgi,) and as one of the people to start Hasbro in this country then as an agent selling Lima Trains, Burago, Italeri and Dragon plastic kits . We started our own import distribution business in 1996 and supplied Departmental stores, Toy and Hobby shops all over the country. My wife and I decided to slow the pace of life and activate our dormant eBay site in March 2006. I don’t think our feet have touched the ground since. For a business that by its nature [you, the customer, doesn’t physically visit] to succeed, you need to feel safe and we need to be seen to be trustworthy; offering that “feel good factor”. We felt that a business based on strong traditions of quality, value for money would ultimately grow. |
| Interests | My Family, Music-whilst I can hear it, Procrastination, Nature, Art, LIFE, Military History, Literature, Wargaming, Railway Modelling, Survivalism, Walking,Model Engineering, Not falling off the stool at parties, not taking life tooooo Seriously |
| Favorite movies | The Sharpe series, Hornblower, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, a Good Weepy |
| Favorite music | Scheherazade, Dvorak, Holt's the planets, John Denver, The Jazz Singer, 1812, The Queen, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, etc |
| Favorite books | C S Forester, Bernard Cornwall, Adventure Stories, |