The reason Walthers is giving a short discount is because the
manufacture is also giving them a short discount
Thank you
Larry Jackman
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I was born with nothing and
I have most of it left.
On Feb 20, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Scale S Only wrote:
> Hi Ken --
>
> I can't speak for your poster's hobby shop, but some things that
> Walthers
> sells to their retailers are at a short discount, meaning that the
> retailer
> has no additional room for giving a deal to the customer. I don't
> know if
> this was what happened in his case, but it is a lot more prevalent
> is S than
> in other scales. In this day and age, I think a dealer is looking
> to lose
> a customer when he doesn't explain his sales situation so that one
> knows
> that he is not taking advantage of you. Too easy to order on the
> 'net...
>
> Web sales are usually done by folks who deal directly with the
> producer so
> they don't have to live with Walthers' discount to dealer policies.
>
> Have fun!
> Bill Winans (former hobby shop owner)
>
> It seems that I hit a sore point among some S scalers. -- Ken Hough
>
> One poster sent me a private reply. I'll quote part of it.
> " My local shop is great at stocking HO, N, Lionel, MTH etc. But
> when I
> asked him to try to get a SHS boxcar (through Walthers) the owner said
> "So you are one of those S guys. Why can't you make up your minds
> if you
> are scale, or tinplate?" I gave him the item number to order and it
> was in
> stock. I got it a week later. The store owner discounts everything
> about
> 15% and I assumed I'd get that same discount. No I did not, full list.
> Many places on the web offer discounts on S scale.
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
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