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| Subject: | Okay, I'll take the bait |  |
| Date: | Sep 9, 2006 |
| From: | Ken Hartlen | |
While it would be nice to support the local shops religiously, there is a fine line supporting and local shop and making it one of my favourite charities.
In Canada, since 2002-2003, Borgfeldt has pretty much destroyed the demand for Tamiya static kits with their obscene Suggested Retail Price. You can pretty much take the MSRP Yen price x 2.5 and convert to $Cdn to get a good approximation on local pricing.
When the Tamiya 1/20 William BMW FW-24 was released it was $76Cdn for what cost just $34Cdn back in 2003. With today's exchange rate it is even cheaper, just $28Cdn. A Tamiya 1/35 Famo is $130Cdn locally, but just $54 in Japan. Do you really expect me to ignore this difference and buy locally?
The last time I ordered from Japan, I saved $180Cdn on ONE order. And that is after shipping and Customs charges. AND, I had what I wanted weeks before any local shop could dream about putting the stuff on their shelves. Sorry, but to get the stuff locally and spend another $180 unnecessarily would have been just plain dumb.
I don't even think about buying a Tamiya kit in a local shop anymore unless the price has been slashed to what they should be priced at.
While I don't mind mail ordering, I don't do it often. Borgfeldt cost local shops business and in the long run, also cost Tamiya Japan business since now I'm not an impulsive shopper any longer.
However, some of the money I don't spend on Tamiya stuff goes to Dragon and Trumpeter kits since the importers of these kits haven't gone insane.
And thats my $180Cdn.
Ken
P.S. Negotiate, why on Earth should a hobby store customer have to even think about having to negotiate over the price of a model? |
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 | Support Your Local Dealer! - Hans - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Mark Austen - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Sometimes money isn't everything. - MIke Tittel - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Sometimes money isn't everything. - Mark Austen - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . Support Your Internet Dealer! - Paul A. Owen - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Support Your Internet Dealer! - Thomas J. Deimling - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Art Store - Ken Hartlen - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Art Store - Brian Bocchino - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Good point - Mike Tittel - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Support Your Internet Dealer! - Bill Naessens - Sep 15, 2006 |
| . . . Uh oh, 2 in the Hans crowd now. - Hans Haase - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Uh oh, 2 in the Hans crowd now. - Paul A. Owen - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Me too for a moment.... - Hans Haase - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Uh oh, 2 in the Hans crowd now. - Hans - Sep 11, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Uh oh, 2 in the Hans crowd now. - John Harris - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . Okay, I'll take the bait - Ken Hartlen - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Okay, I'll take the bait - Dwayne Williams - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Strangely enough, never been there - Hans Haase - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Strangely enough, never been there - Dwayne Williams - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Borgfeldt: what a joke - Roy Chow - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . I'm lost...Will someone explain Borgfeldt? - Mark Austen - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: I'm lost...Will someone explain Borgfeldt? - Alan Tong - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Borgfeldt == Canadian Exclusive Distributor - Ken Hartlen - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - David Manning - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Michael Wawrow - Sep 12, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Joe M - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Tim Streeter - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Addendum - Tim Streeter - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . Support Your Local Dealer! Why? - Steve Campbell - Sep 9, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! Why? - Philippe Blumenthal - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! Why? - Joe M - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Mark Magoo - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Joe M - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Go figure... we're very lucky here in the Detroit area - Roy Chow - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Fred A. Robinson - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Jonathan Bowe - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Ordering Through LHS - Tim Streeter - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Ordering Through LHS - Jesse Spute - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - "panzers" koenig - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Alan Leong - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Gary Cooper - Sep 10, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Johannes Allert - Sep 11, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Oyvind Henriksen - Sep 11, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Pawel Kowalski - Sep 11, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Also... - Pawel Kowalski - Sep 11, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Mike Johnson - Sep 11, 2006 |
| . . . It depends on the Hobby Shop - Charles Harrison - Sep 12, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Support Your Local Dealer! - Philippe Blumenthal - Sep 12, 2006 |
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