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| Subject: | Re: Same here |  |
| Date: | Feb 11, 2003 |
| From: | Alex Hodges | |
The fun and excitement of going to a hobby shop that actually has
something besides 10-20 Tamiya armor kits and a ton of Cars, RC Cars,
planes, and other things I'm not interested in was last felt by me in 1985.
Since then , there has been a hiatus and now trying to get back in - I find
that if you want that experience you have to go on-line. I really hate it
because you have to wait, use a credit card, put up with stupid problems
(soemtimes) and you don't get to see it until it's at your door. I think
the waiting part has to suck the most. I have said before that as far as
where I live is concerned, it is a desert. Nashville does have hobby shops,
but if you put all 3 to 4 shop's inventory together - they couldn't fill up
my wife's MINI with 1/35 scale armor etc. I just don't get it. I hate that
I'm relegated to these 3-4 places, but yet I still go to them...hoping.
On-line shops have so much to offer product wise, but you lose the
experience and the smells and the gratification of going home with
everything you need from one place that day as opposed to getting the paint
from "X" waiting 2 weeks to get aftermarket tracks from
www.ihopetheyhavethatkit.com and the model from "Y" on the otherside of
town, tools and stuff the hobby shop didn't have from Home Depot, etc.
ugh....
-Alex Hodges
"Peter Ong" wrote in message
news:3e49368d@news.track-link.net...
> Several years ago, Toys R Us became way more of a toy store for kids than
for "kids of all ages." I remember they used to have a long aisle dedicated
to models and board games. Now, hardly anything.
>
> However, what really upsets me is not the stocking WWII kits ONLY but the
fact that the employers
> in hobby shops don't seem to know what they're doing...or care much about
business.
>
> Employer: "Oh, we ran out of that color."
> Me: "When are you going to get more."
> Employer: "I don't know. Sometime next week?" (Which is like seven
days).
>
> And if they ran out of a model, they have no clue as if they're going to
reorder it. Everything is so "up in the air" as if they have no control of
their inventory.
>
> Furthermore, I've seen lack of stock, battered and beaten books, and also
kits that are so junky (like 1:144 planes), there's hardly any way they can
sell. What's more, sometimes the organization and display of kits are
confounding. Often times when I go to the hobby shop, it's more to see what
they have than to buy what I want. Is this a good way of doing business?
Only a few hobby shops around here have employers that really care and
believe in the business and hobby.
>
> Yes, I do wish that if I could afford, I'd open my own hobby shop.
>
> Pete
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 | lack of shops - Patrick Grumbrecht - Feb 11, 2003 |
| . . . Re: lack of shops - Alex Hodges - Feb 11, 2003 |
| . . . Try drug stores? - Peter Ong - Feb 11, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Re: Try drug stores? - Patrick Grumbrecht - Feb 11, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . lack of stores in uk - tim white - Feb 11, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: lack of stores in uk - Christophe Jacquemont - Feb 11, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . true - tim white - Feb 11, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Same here - Peter Ong - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Same here - Alex Hodges - Feb 11, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agreed - Peter Ong - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Agreed - Paul A. Owen - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Agreed - Alex Hodges - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Agreed - Alex Hodges - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What I meant - Peter Ong - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What I meant - Peter Gay - Feb 13, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Agreed with Alex, that is NT/NM - Peter Ong - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Same here - Patrick Grumbrecht - Feb 17, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Same here - Damon Agretto - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . stock control - tim white - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I don't really buy that - Peter Ong - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: I don't really buy that - Damon Agretto - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No argument here - Peter Ong - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Same here - Peter Gay - Feb 13, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Same here - Patrick Grumbrecht - Feb 17, 2003 |
| . . . Re: lack of shops - Mike R. - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Michaels - Peter Ong - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . Re: lack of shops - Fred A. Robinson - Feb 12, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Re: lack of shops - Damon Agretto - Feb 12, 2003 |
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