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I've always preached that we should support local shops, but I'm afraid I don't follow my own advice that much. Our LHS has fair choice of items, but everything is full list price. And "full list price" here in Canada usually means the U.S. price plus 70% or so. I pick up a few magazines and some small stuff, but all of my expensive HO and On30 equipment has either been purchased at other shops, or by mail. It's great supporting the LHS, but I figure the $50-100 I save by buying elsewhere is just as good in my pocket as in the LHS's cash register. Several years ago the owner offered our local club a 10% discount on purchases except magazines. Some time later he sent us a note stating the discount was being discontinued because some members were paying with credit cards, and some were not presenting their membership cards when asking for the discount. There was never any mention of paying by cash only, and if he needed cards for the discount all he had to do was say so. We only had about 20 members at the time and some never shopped there anyway, so he removed the discount from a small number. I had purchased a $100.00 engine from him and forgot to ask for the discount, and he never offered it either. He knows I'm in the club - I'm a founder and president. I took his action of removing the hardly used discount as a slap in the face to our 20 year old club, and soured me from doing much business with him. We've operated local train shows for 20 years now and I believe this has helped his business, but he does not seem to appreciate our presence. Many of our members do their shopping at an LHS a hundred miles from here, and you can see why. Bob Boudreau Canada
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