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| Subject: | I don't really buy that |  |
| Date: | Feb 12, 2003 |
| From: | Peter Ong | |
I do know that DRUG STORES have no control over their model stock and parcel stocking to a Third Party sales rep.
Computer video game stores, sure, but most hobby shops are independently owned and operated unless they're a chain like Hobbyland. I remember someone asked the employee where was John Doe and the employee said he was in the back ordering which made perfect sense since the armor shelf was bare (and I mean EMPTY!). Also, one time I wanted to see if I can trade or sell something to this store for credit and John Doe said, "No! We keep very tight control of our stock!" Eventually he relented though.
I DO believe that hobby shops mark up at least 100% from wholesale price because I saw their distributor catalogs. Not only that, the distributor catalogs have lots of items I never seen in this hobby shop, items such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Gundams, Academy, Verlinden, Warriors, Hasegawa, etc. So, yes, it's true that hobby shops don't need to go on the web to survive but I do believe hobby shop employees should surf the web to know what is new and what people want! It seems stocking of more of an "eeeny-meeeny-miny-moe" or "word-of-mouth" from customers.
It seems that hobby shop stocking these days are communistic or such a dictatorship. If you don't like what's on the shelf, tough---take it or leave it. Even the DML doll craze died for I see shops stock less and less dolls (not to mention less and less of everything. Could be the poor economy---could be).
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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