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Bangertl has a pretty good handle on the situatiion "Most of the shops I visit have no sound models or the more expensive trains to sell except for the consignment sales. They simply cannot afford to have them on display for us to look at and then buy from ebay or the internet hobby shop" We consumers are going to get exactly what we want and it won't be available at a local hobby shop. One of the important points missed by most model railroad buyers is that hobby shops are retail businesses, not display warehouses for the internet. You pay full retail for your haircuts, your hamburgers, and your coffee, ....why not for hobby products? Store owners can sell pretty much anything they want as long as it is legal and profitable. How do we intice someone to sell the products we want? We don't do that but telling him to lower his prices and profit margins. He may decide to sell ice cream cones instead of hobby products. Have you ever heard of ice cream shop patrons threatening to buy ice cream cones over the internet? When a hobby shop owner realizes that he or she can make a better living working for wages, that's when another hobby shop will disappear. We are hurting ourselves when we encourage store owners to find better ways to make a living. Breaking even, or even surviving, is not enough these folks. They should be able to generate the same buying power and disposable income that we enjoy. If we don't stop beating them over the head by bragging about the great discount prices we are getting over the internet, then we are encouraging them to throw in the towel. They will be thinking about our attitudes when they are contemplating their balance sheets/income statements.
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