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My LHS started doing business by mail order as well as in store within the last 3 years or so. I buy from LHS, online and also eBay. Buying online is a simple case of economics - it costs me around £14 to drive to my LHS and back when I count diesel and parking costs, while online stores charge around £4 for S&H. I do enjoy visiting my LHS - in fact I'm planning to go over there on Monday on the hunt for more LGB equipment (spending birthday money...), but due to time and cost I can't get over there all that often. Worth bearing in mind is that a good LHS should/might be able to offer two things - free advice (which many online stores are unable to offer), and discounts for regular customers (have saved a fair bit of cash over the years thanks to being a regular)! <br /> <br />eBay I mainly use to buy discontinued equipment - I have a growing collection of models in the old Mainline range which went out of production in the early '80s, I find eBay safe enough so long as you follow the usual cautions such as only buying from sellers with good feedback. I also only bid on items with decent photos of the item. You do have to watch postage charges, some sellers seem determined to make a profit on these as well as the items so lower-cost items are often not good value this way. Certainly where freight cars are concerned I'm looking out for the occasional lot of five or so that comes up.
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