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Aristo stainless track prices dropping

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Posted by enginear on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:25 PM

Ok, to be fair, RLD is having a thanksgiving sale. Pick the heading on the top left of the list marked thanksgiving sale or:

http://www.rldhobbies.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=386

They have the AML track awful cheap and a DRG sd70 among other things. I thought prices go up at XMAS! Joe

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Posted by dwbeckett on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:51 PM

Camaro1967

 Does St Aubin in Las Vegas count as a west coast distributor?  Otherwise, I am not sure what you mean here.

Paul

Make that a distribution point,as in instead of the east coast.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:37 PM

 This doesn't make sense if they're using more modern cost accounting methods. You either don't get money by not selling inflated merchandise, or you take a hit by selling inflated merchandise at a discount to reflect the new market.

 You take a loss either way. 

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Posted by Camaro1967 on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:27 PM

 Does St Aubin in Las Vegas count as a west coast distributor?  Otherwise, I am not sure what you mean here.

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Posted by dwbeckett on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:41 PM

What both of the BIG two need is a west coast distributer, that would cut cost for both and lower the cost to us the end user.

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Posted by Camaro1967 on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:55 AM

 According to Lewis Polk, the prices won't drop for them until they unload the stuff they bought at the inflated price, then it may go down a bit.  He estimates about the middle of 2009 for this to happen, unless someone buys up all his inventory.

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Posted by cacole on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:15 AM

Possibly as a result of the stagnant world economy and collapse of the housing market, metal prices have plummeted.  There was a news blurb last week that the copper mines in Arizona are laying off workers because of the lack of demand for copper.

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Posted by altterrain on Monday, November 24, 2008 8:59 PM

 They have had the 4.5 footers on sale for quite awhile. I picked up a couple of boxes of brass a while back. Aristo has discontinued the 4.5 foot size.

We should expect all track prices to drop in the next year as the bottom has really fallen out of the metals market.

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Posted by lownote on Monday, November 24, 2008 8:33 PM

Wow--they have dropped their prices! That's a good price for 12  4.5 straights too. I may have to bite

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Aristo stainless track prices dropping
Posted by enginear on Monday, November 24, 2008 6:23 PM

I just went to Ridge road's site because I need to get some track to make a larger radius curve than I have. The prices seem to be lower now with 10' switches below $50 and flex track rails @ 109! This economy showing up already in trains? Joe

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