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| Subject: | Re: How do you know others don't have other revenues? |  |
| Date: | May 17, 2005 |
| From: | Leo Lee | |
>>Dragon has considerable revenues from other sources and can absorb sub-optimal revenues from these kits. Can AFV Club and Tristar?
At least AFV Club has. Probably the owner of Tristar has too.
> I see Dragon's recent releases targeting AFV Clubs 251 series, Pak 40, Tiger 1 and announced 88, and Tristar's Panzer I (yes, I know they arn't identical) and Panzer IVD in that light. Occasionally, market research will end up with two companies producing the same kit, but this is too coincidental.
Well, that is quite true when we look at things in retrospect. But any producer here knows that German mainstream vehicles are on DML's list. When they plan to produce one, they know what DML will come after them.
My kudos to these smaller manufacturers. They are heading in harm's way and they knew it. When DML released a Kingtiger, you dn't have to be a prophet to tell they would do a Tiger sooner or later. Then someone wanted to make it faster than DML. That resulted in a faster schedule and better kit from DML.
DML started 1/35 AFV kits more or less the same time as AFV Club, and many years later than Academy. The market share proves DML is doing the right thing in marketing. We modelers may not like it. If AFV Club and Tristar were driven out of business, so what? It is a free market, and there will be new AFV Club, new Tristar; but I don't think AFV Club or Tristar will be out because of the recent competitions. |
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 | Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Paul A. Owen - May 16, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Hans Haase - May 16, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - R.C. Hill - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Sam Alderlieste - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . WOW - Bob Gregory - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: WOW - Kevin Johnson - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: WOW - Paul A. Owen - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: WOW - R.C. Hill - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Bill Young - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Charles Harrison - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Bob Gregory - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: How do you know others don't have other revenues? - Leo Lee - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Paul Roberts - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Billy Bishop/Michael Wawrow - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Fred A. Robinson - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . modeling psycology 101 - Mike Bedard - May 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Drooling Pavlovian hounds - Paul A. Owen - May 18, 2005 |
| . . . And of course... - Peter Ong - May 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: And of course... - Paul A. Owen - May 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . complain about new kit announcements - Bob Gregory - May 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . I meant to say - Peter Ong - May 19, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . And....oh, BTW... - Peter Ong - May 19, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Philippe - May 18, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Arguing Over New Kit Releases - Rob Bowman - May 19, 2005 |
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