Bill H. steemtrayn Would you rather they be farther away? Frankly, I don't care where they are. Hearing "Sorry, we're out of this or that, BUT, we can order it" is becoming routine. I can order it myself, and I do, Not in the distant past, Walthers had a phrase YOUR DEALER CAN GET IT FROM WALTHERS . Now we can get it from Walthers ourselves. LHS is being cut out of the equation, and they know it.
steemtrayn Would you rather they be farther away?
Would you rather they be farther away?
Frankly, I don't care where they are. Hearing "Sorry, we're out of this or that, BUT, we can order it" is becoming routine. I can order it myself, and I do,
Not in the distant past, Walthers had a phrase YOUR DEALER CAN GET IT FROM WALTHERS . Now we can get it from Walthers ourselves.
LHS is being cut out of the equation, and they know it.
And I take it that you prefer the LHS disappear?
Sheeesh what a grump-----you would rather spend the minumum of $8.95 on s/h charges to get stuff your LHS can get you technically for free? Oh sure you can do that but you are paying for that service---
Boy are we curmudgeonly---
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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tstage How petty MRRers can get with both other MRRers and non-MRRers. THAT'S what I think will kill the hobby faster than anything. Tom
How petty MRRers can get with both other MRRers and non-MRRers. THAT'S what I think will kill the hobby faster than anything.
Tom
megh---see that with other people as well---lack of civility I think it is called---
And I take it that you prefer the LHS disappear? Sheeesh what a grump-----you would rather spend the minumum of $8.95 on s/h charges to get stuff your LHS can get you technically for free? Oh sure you can do that but you are paying for that service--- Boy are we curmudgeonly---
Disappear? Certainly not! LHS serve the needs of many hobbyists, but I've stopped relying on them for pretty much everything.
Online buying is far more satisfying as it allows shopping everywhere, on my schedule, for exactly what is desired. One needn't wait for the LHS to amass a specific amount of orders before being sent to the supplier, where the item is likely to be on backorder anyway. Meanwhile, via the web, I'll already have the item.
BTW: Do you really believe you pay no S&H using the LHS?
I don't see that as curmudgeon-like at all.
What do I dislike about the hobby?
1. Zinc rot.
2. Small parts (screws, springs, brushes, etc.) that sprout grasshopper legs during a project and leap from the workbench, no matter how carefully you've secured them.
3. Curmudgeons, both online and off.
Also, the fact that my LHS owner has told me that his place hasn't been profitable in years, and that it's just no fun anymore. That store is a lifesaver and a landmark, and I hate to think of a place like that becoming an anachronism.
And yes, I can get many items there (NWSL parts, things in the Micro-Mark catalog, etc.) that are available online for the same price without the shipping costs.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Bill H. And I take it that you prefer the LHS disappear? Sheeesh what a grump-----you would rather spend the minumum of $8.95 on s/h charges to get stuff your LHS can get you technically for free? Oh sure you can do that but you are paying for that service--- Boy are we curmudgeonly--- Disappear? Certainly not! LHS serve the needs of many hobbyists, but I've stopped relying on them for pretty much everything. Online buying is far more satisfying as it allows shopping everywhere, on my schedule, for exactly what is desired. One needn't wait for the LHS to amass a specific amount of orders before being sent to the supplier, where the item is likely to be on backorder anyway. Meanwhile, via the web, I'll already have the item. BTW: Do you really believe you pay no S&H using the LHS? I don't see that as curmudgeon-like at all.
I know I do pay something for that service but it is no where near the $8.95 you pay for the lonely petunia item you get.
My LHS gets the item in a matter of 1 lousy week---and that is without the huge list of things needed--and I still pay less for that item than you do----
Love the hobby in all phases. Dislike the self proclaimed experts who have an opinion and better way (in their opinion) of doing everything, the era modeled, how closely details are observed, in short, those who have a negative opinion of everything and everyone who doesn't enjoy the hobby precisely as the self proclaimed expert does. Unfortunately these people are found in every walk of life. I have had to tolerate them in the "real world", I don't in my "train world".
Bob
I have to agree with a number of other respondents who have mentioned that they dislike the unavailability of small-to-mid sized steam locomotives and too many "Big Boys".
I dislike the prices on everything rocketing ever-skyward.
I dislike having to cut track-- I know that sounds weird, but you asked :-) When you cut a piece of track, its a non-reversible action, and you're either committed to it, or else you've wasted a piece of track, or both. I suspect that many people have that problem but don't know it or won't admit it. And it holds them back, mentally of course, from moving forward with their plans. I think its a function of price versus its latent potential or something, even though there's obviously no denying the fact that you pretty much *have* to cut it to get anywhere...
I guess that's pretty much it for me, everything else I'm generally okay with.
1) Drill bits #'s 70-80
2) The (high) price of everything
3) Murphy's Law with the added corrollary that whatever goes wrong will ultimately painfully remind one of #2 above