Fuel/Buy Local

[Marty King]

Both Mark and Dan have valid points. I know as a AMA
club president that we have been buying fuel for years
in bulk and breaking it down and selling it to
members. We, like many other clubs, do this directly
from manufactures and bypass the LHS anyway. 

We do support our LHS's in other ways and they support
us as well. I even ran a satalite location in my
basement for a LHS for years. I can tell you that with
freight, hazmat charges, let alone the extra for
storing flamible materials in the store, most LHS's
around here only carry fuel as a service for customers
who need the odd gallon or a fresh newbie to get him
started.

I think all of us owe cudos to Powermaster for
allowing us to buy this way and Mark for handling it.
Before I joined the NSRCA I bought powermaster direct
and had it shipped. I would buy 2 cases at a time and
the freight was almost worth a case of fuel! 

Thanks Mark!

Marty


--- "Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com> wrote:

> It's a VERY valid Point.  I'll reply since I'm the
> one who's organized
> this. 
> 
> Originally, when we put this together, it was a
> local "club" fuel
> purchase, and it DID go through the local hobby
> shop.  They assisted me
> in orchestrating it BY PowerMasters request that we
> support a store.
> The shop got a small piece of the profits along with
> the ability to
> stock their store at a discounted price even to
> them.
> 
> Since then...it has morphed a little.  That hobby
> shop has since closed,
> and we have been unable to get another shop to pick
> up the mantel.  At
> least in our area (Cleveland) there are NO shops
> that stock or carry PM
> fuels.  So we have continued to do an annual one
> time purchase.  
> 
> I'm not sure why local shops don't carry this fuel
> save that being from
> Texas...the shipping is punitive compared to a more
> local manufacturer
> to remain unnamed.   I personally have continued to
> solicit local shops
> to help facilitate this and carry the brand, to no
> avail.  Pricing is an
> issue...it's a more expensive fuel than the local
> brand.  
> 
> There's an argument to say that we saturate the
> local market, but in
> reality, it's mostly some competition guys all
> buying 4,6 even 15 cases
> in one case (Bob you know who you are!)  I've
> actually lost a lot of my
> local club flyers because they don't want to "over"
> buy, but if they run
> out...there's no shop to buy more at.
> 
> Does that explain some of it??
> 
> -Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org
> [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
> On Behalf Of Pat Hewitt
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:11 AM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org; discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: Fuel/Buy Local
> 
> Just my thoughts. I am a local business man in the
> mid-west and I have a
> problem when people DO NOT support their local hobby
> shops. Our clubs
> never
> have a problem going to them and asking for there
> help so why not
> support
> them, yes I know you can save 20/30% but again where
> will we be  without
> their
> help or better yet with out their shops to shop in.
> ( I AM NOT A HOBBY
> SHOP
> OWNER )
> 
> 
> Thanks for letting me have my thoughts vented.
> 
> 
> Pat Hewitt
> Paola, Kansas
> 
> 
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: 05:29 AM CST, 03/02/2005
> From: "Jeff Hughes" <jeffghughes at comcast.net>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Subject: Fuel
> 
> DId I miss the Fuel pre-buy at the Toledo show?
> 
> 
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Marty King

NSRCA 2551 D-4
AMA 9945 LM, CD
President, AMA Chartered Club #3812


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