Whats Your local Hobby Shop Lacking

[jrbernier]

Well, my LHS is nothing! W have no LHS any more, and the closest one is 45 miles away(combination hardware/off-road vehicle/train shop). About 75 miles away is a very complete hobby shop, but everything is MSRP and service is non-existant.

Jim

[n2mopac]

Well, I'm not trying to be critical, because I live in a small town (pop 35K) and I feel fortunate to have any hobby shop at all. The shop we have now is a great place to order anything and a good place to see what is plentiful in HO scale (for beginners, kids, etc.). Being an N scaler, they carry very little I can use off the shelf, but they do have flex track in N scale and a few staple type necessities. None the less, it is good to have a place where I can go ask my questions and just hang out with other modelers for a while.

Ron

[mustanggt]

My LHS has basically everything. Except for vehicles, like cars by busch, herpa, and wiking. But they do have practically an entire aisle filled with athearn trucks.

[Anonymous]

My local hobby shop is lacking a shop. The nearest one is about 100 miles away.

[SpaceMouse]

Mine has only EZ track (well a little Atlas) Their prices are out of touch with reality--$179 for a FA2/FB2 unit I bought for $49. They have no ballast, figures, or parts. And the biggest lack of all, no knowledge of model railroading.

[cwclark]

mine has everything ....except lower prices!

[MAbruce]

"Not enoghf product - lacking material - slacking on inventory"

These all seem to be the same thing to me. Makes for a heavily skewed poll. Having product selection blues with your LHS??

My biggest issue is always price.

[IRONROOSTER]

My LHS doesn't stock enough S scale - in fact he doesn't stock any. The other three wihin easy driving distance have none except for some KLine cars at one.

Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

Customer service.

It's hard to get them to order things that aren't in stock. They tend to "forget" to order or "haven't gotten around to it yet".

New items are often ordered in singles and if you aren't there when it's unpacked then you'll never see them.

Roger

[simon1966]

My LHS is very well stocked with rolling stock, locos and structures. Plus all the basic construction needs track, cork etc. They do not carry any paints, but this is a decision they have made because it has a shelf life and they don't want to get stuck with things that become un-saleable. However, they order in any thing you need and you get a 20% discount off list in most cases, so I can't complain.

[Anonymous]

my L.H.S does not alot of chioce of products to pick out and and buy

[Anonymous]

Not enoghf product. We need more enoghfs!

[Anonymous]

The only thing my LHS doesn't keep in stock that I wi***hey would are the Poly Scale acrylics. Still, they will order them so its no that bad. I use them when I build structures. They are easy to use and I am familiar with them.

[METRO]

My LHS, and probably the hobby shop of everyone in the Milwaukee area, is Walther's Terminal Hobby Shop. You can check their stock anytime you want, everything anyone buys from the Walthers catalogue or website comes from there. It's great, railroad heaven (as long as you don't need something made by Athearn.)

Now when I lived in Brookfield WI (a suburb of Milwaukee) for a year it was a different story, the LHS out there, a Hobbytown USA store, seemed more interested in stocking model building kits and fantasy role playing games than trains. While I've got nothing against either of those hobbies, I did feel kind of envious as I picked through their 20 Athearn freight cars and saw the wall full of airplane kits and the displays full of dragons and sci-fi tanks, most maked with a "rare new product" sticker. They did have a great sale on all train stock every March though, but again it was hard to find anything I could use in that.

~METRO

[ac4400fan]

Hi Everyone!
As were going into the summer season, just wondering if your seeing a lack in inventory at your loco H.S do 2 summer?[?]