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It's too bad that most LHS's don't get it. Some are full list price all the time. Take it or leave it. Most knowledgeable modelers will leave it. I assume newbies into the hobby and those with more money than brains may pay full list price but I sure won't. Here in Canada it is especially a problem. Our money is worth less than the US dollar, so even out list prices are over the top. I used to assume anything I would have our LHS order from the Walthers catalog would cost me about 50% more than the catalog price, and I was usually right. An item at $10.00 would cost me $15.00 or more. I was really interested in Bachmann's On30 Shay when it first came out, but it's list price of around US $245.00 made me lose interest in ever acquiiring one. I was at the National Narrow Gauge Convention in Denver in 2003 and a dealer was offering them for US$150.00, so I grabbed one. This worked out to around $190.00 in Canadian money, and I was happy!. Last year I visited an out of town area hobby shop, and they had one of these Shays in their display case - for a price of $387.50 Canadian! Add to this our 15% tax and it would have cost around $445.00! Will they ever sell it at that price? Who knows, but I do know that I would not have been even remotely interested. It might just sit there and gather dust for years. Bob Boudreau
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