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[quote user="rrebell"][quote user="Safety Valve"][quote user="davekelly"] <p>Perhaps instead of taxes, we should move to a "pay as you go" system. House being robbed and you need to call 911? "Please enter your credit card number followed by a pound sign in order to be connected to the police department." Could save money at the grocercy store too. Perhaps a discount for food items produced in plants not inspected by fed and state agencies. But i digress.</p><p>I don't think BLI is in trouble. Maybe not doing as good as they thought they would - sure. Fire saling the last of an inventory run does not necessariloy mean there's no profit. There may not be profit in the last T1 sold, but the T1 line as a whole may have done very very well. Cash gathered now through offering some items at below cost may be "cheaper" than obtaining a loan to make more product. There are literrally endless scenariosin which it may make fiscal sense to sell some inventory at less than cost. My ex father in law used to call Wal-mart stupid for seeling motor oil below cost as he stood in line with about $200 of other things that he didn't even need but saw when walking to and from the motor oil aisle. Just a thought.</p><p> </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I have been into a situation where property was burning and people hurt on the interstate and actually recieved a recording asking me to hold for the next availible operator when dailing 911. It's a horrible feeling.</p><p>I think your Ex Father In Law was a victim of silent marketing, stores placing common items way in the back like Milk and eggs and make you walk past lots of appealing items to get there.</p><p>We had a bad walmart problem ourselves for a time too. I think the monthly outflow to walmart was in the hundreds of dollars at times. We did stop the bleeding and only go for specific items written on a peice of paper when we need it.</p><p>Even today it's very difficult to enter a super center and get out of the store with just the specific items stated on the mission objectives.</p><p>It is tough to see items priced below cost makes you wonder if you can some how pick up those items and incorperate them into a business but I think that will be something I rather not visit on this thread.</p><p>[/quote]Its hard to say if something is sold below cost because of rebates to sellers, example when I worked for home depot we were selling an item, first at retail, then discount after discount and as I had a screen that told of cost, one it go below that I asked a higher up why we keep ordering an item we were selling below cost, he said that the $ were store cost but corp was do a big refund cheak for item because of volume, same way as car dealers show you cost but that is only if you sell x # of items, alot different when you move a lot more stuff, big refunds.[/quote]</p><p>Sometimes retailers take a hit or a loss on a sale item to get people inside the store with a carefully trained and deployed sales force hunting down the victims like sharks. I go there to get a box of nails and get peppered with expensive questions like "Sir have you heard about our power tools to go with those nails?" Walking out with just a box of nails on sale is worth it sometimes.</p><p>When I visit a Hobby Shop I see an item and there is the price after a discount. I can decide to buy it, order it or not. No pressure, no worries except availibility.</p><p>If we started to buy engines with rebates like cars... let's not go there. Im thinking 12% interest over 60 months or some such.</p><p>Regardless of who makes HO scale steam, be it BLI or some other company we have yet to hear about in the future, the final test is the ability to pull a proper train up a certain grade in my home. That is what seperates the keepers from those that get resold. I have had it with the crappy trainset steam that cannot do anything years ago and refuse to accept substandard performance today with HO steam.</p>
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