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Re:Hobby Shops, was RE: (erielack) New EL car from Tangent S

Whoa - Maine Trains in MA discounts - and its noted on the sticker. How much? I never figured it out. Buts its a 45 minute drive for me and not a trip for one bottle of paint or car kit. No one asks him for the discount - its there, and includes the magazines and books. And yes years ago I did buy from a "basement" store - who handled only decals and detail parts which none of the stores in my area stocked or wanted to stock. Worked fine. But is discount liquiors opened up next door to the regular store and knocked 10% off the price - where would you buy your makers mark.

Jim


- --- On Sun, 11/9/08, Janet & Randy Brown <jananran_@_mymailstation.com> wrote:

> From: Janet & Randy Brown <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
> Subject: Re:Hobby Shops, was RE: (erielack) New EL car from Tangent S
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 5:28 PM
> So -- how about if your employer applies the same rule to
> you?  The longer you work there, the less he pays you?
> 
> Basement operators have killed the local hobby shop. 
> It's just that some of the LHSs refuse to die.  When you
> own the building, live in it, earn your living somewhere or
> someway else (that is:  you get somebody else to pay for
> most of your expenses) and amortize the mortgage on your tax
> return, your overhead is really zero.  Of course you can
> offer a discount.
> 
> Asking or expecting a brick-and-mortar shop to discount is
> like bargaining with your dentist -- you don't want to
> win, because you'll lose in the long run.
> 
> In the long run, your B&M (no, not PanAm) shop will go
> away.  How many of them are still Railroad Only Shops?  I
> know of one in the Northeast, and I hope they charge full
> MRSP.
> 
> I suggest that all who disagree go down to the butcher shop
> and  bargain for some meat.  Then you can go next door and
> dicker for your liquor.  And the next time you need a
> hospital, be sure to look for the cheap one.
> 
> If you want to pay cut price, you have to be willing to
> work for cut rate.  Go in and tell your boss that you are
> willing to work for less, if he'll only give you more
> work.  That should be worth a laugh.
> 
> Remember, free or cheap stuff is usually worth every penny
> -- but often, not more.
> 
> End of rant -- for now.
> 
> Randy Brown, who remembers Arno Rincke, and has been to
> Tucker's.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> There is something I don't get about hobby shops and
> their insistence in most of the rest of the country that
> they "have to" charge full retail, or as in the
> case below, more than MSRP.  Here in New England, or more
> specifically, in eastern Massachusetts, the norm is that
> there is a discount from the MSRP. . .  My favorite shop, a
> 40-minute drive away, even 10-percent's the special
> order stuff he gets for me.  And he gets that more or less
> instantly, within a few days.
> 
> I feel sorry for you guys in full sticker price territory.
> 
> SGL
> 
> 
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