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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by rockythegoat highiron: i'm the guilty one in re the "boycotting kadee" issue. actually, i'm not boycotting kadee, so much as, i will only use their specialty couplers for odd situations, due to my comment in my previous post. is kadee an excellent company? Yes. did they develop an excellent automatic coupler for us to use as opposed to the "horn-hook" one? Undoubtedly. did they reduce prices only once competition hit the streets? looks like it to me in my experience. whereas the cost of a pack of #5's may have gone up, i'm pretty sure that it wasn't until the competitors hit the market, that they began to repackage into special deals such as the "super pack" and "bulk pack." if they were around prior, i never saw them listed in any catalog or on the hook at the LHS. i am NOT a kadee basher. it just felt to me, that the only reason the hobbyist got a break on the #5 coupler price, was due to competition. personally, i just didn't like how this particular instance. [2c] like i said before, its a free market. they can charge what they want, when they want. i can also spend my money, where i want, when i want. [/quote] Hmm. I can live with this I did not realize until you posted that Kaydee did NOT offer bulk packs of 10 couplers or 20 Couplers until AFTER McHenry and others started competing back in the mid 90's You either bought them by the two pair or you went home emptyhanded back in the day. I now can see where the changes came on thanks for your post. It helped both of us already.[^]
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