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I can confirm the pricing is still wrecked. This make it tougher for the average local hobby store to compete when you have the larger internet retailers selling at 40% off retail since they get distributor level pricing and sell direct to the public.
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Nice score, Bob! I’m hopeful our local HLs get some new product in soon. I’m probably glad they didn’t have all these, I really promised myself that I’d quit buying and reduce my current inventory. I did order a Sasha from FlightSketch (one of the new vendors) but have not even opened the bag. “ MUST RESIST TEMPTATION. MUST RESIST TEMPTATION. MUST ...”
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Nobody is still performing the /25 function. See the Demise of Hobbico and Cal Hobby. |
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This craziness has to stop....I have a ton of vintage kits to build and Estes keeps coming out with new kits I want. Oh well just have to build faster, hopefully have more time to build when I retire in 6 years. I wanted to retire at 50, but dang health care premiums are so high I have to put in another 5 years and retire at 55, but that's another story. Anyway I will check my local Hobby Lobby and see if they are in stock.
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In reply to Post #23....Please Jerry, stop hijacking this thread about Estes new items with your lack of understanding of current pricing issues in model rocketry (or the hobby business for that matter). And last I checked (this morning), Cal Hobby is still in business.
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Thank god, not luck at my local Hobby Lobby.
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Wasn't Blue Bird Zero an exclusive kit for one big retail chain originally?
Later it became available to all.
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Nope.
The BBZ was a regular catalogued kit.
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My Local Hobby Lobby hardly carries any model rockets or engines anymore.
They Carry a few RTF rockets and a couple different starter sets and that's it. They also don't carry a lot of the stuff used to build rockets anymore like sanding sealer. They do still carry a full range of testers paints, and plastic models, but the rocket section have been severally reduced. Its sad really. |
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