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Originally Posted by glassdoctor
My LHS is stocking hobby city products, with a similar markup. So a Turnigy pack that's $60 at hobby city (plus at least $10 shipping) is priced around $100-110 in the shop. Any hobby store could do this. I would, if I owned a store.
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This is exactly what we are saying. Retailers have the option, or at least should have, the option to get products from whereever the hell the want. People want cheaper but good quality lipo's and the ones from hobbycity were questionable back in the day but are now pretty proven. So why can't these LHSs get on the bandwagon and supply what people want.
For example: I managed a local tire center while going through college. There was distributors lining up to get our business. So we bought some from this guy, some from that guy, and etc. When got price break from some and not the others, well sorry from the guy that isn't giving price breaks... This strategy proved pretty successful for us. We started out working in a 2 car garage out of my boss's home and moved up to the #2 Firestone dealer in the Southeast district. Not to shabby I'd say.
So when they catch sight of products that are good and cheap, WHY NOT? I don't understand it. Even if I can buy them at the same price as the LHS can, I'd still go get them from the LHS because they have them in stock and when I need them.