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I thought this was bad news a couple days ago, but upon further reflection, there may be a silver lining in this cloud. <br />If it is true that Horizon only sells to honest-to-goodness, retail-storefront hobby shops, then the guys working out of their garage or basement with a lap top and a phone line will not be getting Athearn products anymore. The people who have been buying deeply-discounted Athearn from the garage types, or at the swap meets, will have to start getting their Athearn products from a real hobby shop. <br />Of course, the hobby stores have to charge more than the web dealers and mail-order places charge, since running a legitimate retail hobby shop costs way more than setting up a clandestine wholesale buying club for your buddies in your basement. Some people will whine about that, but they will have to grow up. <br />Bottom line: if you want a hobby shop to be there for you when you need them, and to bring new blood into the hobby, then you should be willing to pay a retail price that allows your hobby shop to stay in business. Buying an expensive loco from an online discounter, and then going to the hobby shop for the couplers, is trying to have your cake and eat it, too. Keeping Athearn products in bona fide retail hobby stores may help the hobby stores survive, which is in every railroad modeler's best interests, whether he has the foresight to see that or not.
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