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| Subject: | Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant-rant) |  |
| Date: | Jan 3, 2004 |
| From: | Ken Hartlen | |
Since I can't print my own money (thats illegal) current Toronto pricing is
forcing a lot of local modellers to shop around for the best prices, or more
seriously, stop shopping completely or serious reducing purchases. If the
only way to get a decent price is mail ordering, then so be it.
Sorry, but I will not pay $70-75Cdn + tax for a Tamiya 1/20 Williams BWM
FW24 locally when it can be bought in Japan for 2900yen($35Cdn). And when
you do the math, about 16,000 of the little buggers can fit in one 40ft
shipping container. Thats just $3.12Cdn/kit shipping if the container cost
$50,000 to ship. I've been told that $50G is "silly", so shipping/kit is
pretty cheap for Borgfeldt.
I could mail order ONE FW24 from Japan, pay shipping, GST & PST, and $5 fee
to Revenue Canada and still have the FW in my hands for $60Cdn, or save at
least $20 over locally pricing. Now if I order THREE kits from Japan, I save
at least $92 or $30.66/kit. Sorry, I will not subsidize a local shop to the
tune of $30/kit. Could you please tell me where in T.O. I can get the FW24
for $50-55Cdn+tx. Enjoy the scavenger hunt!
When I see stupid prices like a Dragon Elefant for $79.99Cdn + tax and a
Tamiya FAMO w/Trailer for $289.99Cdn + tax, I'll switch into bargain hunt
mode in an instant.
BTW Ed, Military Hobbies has a store front in Markham and not a cow pasture
like other mail order operations.
http://www.militaryhobbies.com/directory.cfm?FPID=8
Ken
"Ed Bouwmeester" wrote in message
news:3ff640e4@news.track-link.net...
> Hey guys.
> I remember scanning threw Track-link when
> I think Paul was still using his 900mhz comp
> as the server. What I read back then was a
> slogan I don't see often anymore. It's a shame.
> "Support your local Hobby Shop"
> On line shops have no overhead and no support
> staff to pay wages which support our economy.
> There must be more than one/two shops in metro T.O.?
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 | What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Christophe Jacquemont - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Kurt Laughlin - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Christophe Jacquemont - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Leo Lee - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Ken Hartlen - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Kurt Laughlin - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Chris - Jan 3, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Steve Willoughby - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - James Tainton - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Ron Vollstad - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) (no rant) - Ron Volstad - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) (no rant) - Leo Lee - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) (no rant) - James Tainton - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) (no rant) - MSW - Jan 4, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Hartmut von Holdt - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - ian sadler - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - dusty miller - Jan 2, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - David A. Levy - Jan 3, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant-rant) - Ed Bouwmeester - Jan 3, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant-rant) - Paul A. Owen - Jan 3, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant-rant) - Ken Hartlen - Jan 3, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant-rant) - MSW - Jan 4, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant-rant) - Ed Bouwmeester - Jan 5, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supporting the local hobby shop? - David A. Levy - Jan 5, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Supporting the local hobby shop? - Ed Bouwmeester - Jan 5, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Supporting the local hobby shop? - Jeff Larkin - Jan 5, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Supporting the local hobby shop? - Rick Young - Jan 6, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Supporting the local hobby shop? - Andrew Herbert - Jan 7, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Leo Lee - Jan 3, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - James Tainton - Jan 3, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What's up with Dragon's box art? (rant) - Barry Biediger - Jan 7, 2004 |
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