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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Fergmiester Well Bob I tend to agree. However there are exceptions to the rule! Take Great Hobbies of Charlottetown ( my customer number is somewhere in the hundreds) they're generating numbers in the tens of thousands now. Point is that Charlottetown is a very small market but they do 90%+ mail order but not trains. If the guy in Digby is to survive he will have to diversify and be willing to keep his margin at a minimum. Fergie [/quote] This is a totally different situation. Great Hobbies is one of the largest mail order shops in Canada for radio controlled airplanes. They have a huge website and catalog. I'd say their success is an exception for a small location, and I'm sure they did not start out big. As far as I know their experiment in carrying model railroading supplies ended some time ago with the departure of one of their staff who was instrumental in getting them into this hobby. I visited the shop several times when I was there on business. Sure it is theoretically possible that a shop in faraway Digby, Nova Scotia could become a large one, but this is a real remote possibility. Bob Boudreau
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