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I also stopped buying at the local train shop here in northern Virginia due to the owners greed. The store has always charged close to full retail but I still did thousands of dollars worth of business a year there, just to support the shop. Could have saved 30% or better off almost everything I bought there by calling MB Klein's. Anyway, I pre ordered two Atlas engines at the shop last year. The policy there is that pre-orders must be paid in full before the items arrive at the store or you don't get the BIG 15% discount he offers on pre-orders. Well, I forgot. The engines came in and I picked them up and went to pay. They were rung up at full price and I asked what about the discount. I was reminded that they hadn't been paid for in full so I was going to have to pay full price. I said "come on man, you're kidding right" and the owner relented and gave me the discount, but not without making a very big deal over it and telling me it was the last time he'd be that nice to me. Well, this shop has been steadily losing business over the last couple of years due to dwindling stock, narrow selection, hell he even wasn't stocking magazines....and here he is telling on of his best customers-me- to pretty much take a walk, and I have. His loss, my gain as I'm doing all my business with MB Kleins now. Some of you might say he was just sticking to company policy but I see it differently, I thought I'd earned some consideration by being a good customer for several years but I guess I hadn't. This guy can't can't see the forest for the bottom line.[V][V][:(!]
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