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Why UP is being licensing it's trademarks
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by wes454</i> <br /><br />OK so what!? Yes they are charging for the use of thier trademarks...so does everyone else!! <br /> <br />In my humble opinion, we shouldn't be so pissed at UP as we should be at Kato, Athearn and the like that have raised the prices of the UP models! Come on!! $5 more for a UP engine than a non-UP!!!!??? I think the manufacturers could eat the $5. I mean we all know that you can get models at online retailers for WAY less than MSRP...so to me the manufacturers should buck up, and use some of the profits they have made off all the UP models they have sold without paying UP for the trademarks, and the prices should stay the same. <br /> <br />Just my .02 <br />[/quote] <br />They could have gone the other way with this, Kato and others could have raised the price on ALL products, not just UP , say by $2.50 to make up the difference and few would have been the wiser. <br />Model manufacturers are in a tough place. Lost profits equate to less R&D and making of dies. This equate to less new models and lost sales. They are in a tough place here, and I do not blame them for the UP price hike.
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