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[quote user="Paul3"] Bob, I don't think BLI/PCM is paying for the tooling with pre-order cash.  I have pre-ordered the BLI NH I-5, and they haven't asked for a penny.Personally, I don't see anything wrong with what BLI/PCM is doing WRT pre-orders.  The brass market has been that way for years, and I haven't seen any backlash against them.  What gives?  So they ask you to pre-order.  Big deal.  As long as you can cancel it or send it back at no charge once you get it, why should it matter?Paul A. Cutler III ************ Weather Or No Go New Haven ************[/quote]It matters when the Hobby Shop cannot get them at a good price. FDT blows em out the day they get to the release with a price so low it's almost totally bypassing the Distribution/Hobby Shop system. With that going on, why bother pre-ordering? It will show up on Ebay, FDT or outlet direct at some point after release.My two hobby shops will take my pre-order but as I stated before I prefer to buy the product that is availible and sometimes that is with someone else like Proto, Athearn or Atlas etc... they produce products "On-time" within a few weeks of thier announcement ETA without fanfare. I dont see these other manufactors issuing meters to count pre-orders to a pre-determined Minimum number needed to produce the durn thing.
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