Fuel/Buy Local

[Bill Glaze]

Ron:
My feeling is a simple one:  I support the local shop, because if he 
goes out of business, it hurts him, and me as well.  Guess I'm just 
selfish.  Bill Glaze
BTW:  The local shop is a 60 mile round trip from home.  Just had a 
thought:  When I bought that Swallow 90 from you, was I supporting mail 
order, or my LHS?<G>

Bill Glaze

Ron Van Putte wrote:

>
> On Mar 2, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Dan Curtis wrote:
>
>> Supporting local hobby shops,
>>
>> It is always a good idea and practice support your LHS, however we as a
>> pattern community tend to require and use some pattern specific items 
>> that
>> it is just not practical for your LHS to carry.  Some of the items we
>> commonly use in construction they cannot even order.  So we support them
>> when we can and we support other sources when it is necessary.  As 
>> far as
>> fuel, many hobby shops cannot afford to carry much inventory and I 
>> have seen
>> several that really cannot warrant carrying more than a case or two 
>> of 30
>> percent if that.  So getting a group together to by a large quanitiy 
>> of fuel
>> does not really constitute a lack of LHS support, at least in my 
>> view.  The
>> savings on the fuel purchase is more than likely going into the hobby 
>> shops
>> till anyway, at least in my case. :)
>
>
> How about another perspective?  I have a local hobby shop and try to 
> keep prices down so local modelers can afford to buy more to enjoy the 
> hobby.  I live 95 miles from Enterprise, AL and drive there to get 
> fuel at Morgan Fuels, to avoid the shipping/hazard fees.  I go to 
> Morgan about every six weeks and try to stock quantities of the 
> different fuels, such that I get close to running out of all fuels 
> just before going back to Morgan again.  I add a minimal markup.  I 
> try to encourage the locals to buy by the case to keep my incoming 
> cash flow up and to minimize the time I might be out of one or more 
> specific fuels (Heli 30% for example).  Do you have a guess on how 
> many customers buy by the case?  Try three out of about 100 locals.  
> Then add that to the guys who buy their radios from Tower rather that 
> me, even though my prices, including sales tax, end up being very near 
> the same as Tower's price plus shipping.  I call that frustrating.
>
> Ron Van Putte
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Pat Hewitt" <phewitt at farmersagent.com>
>> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>; <discussion at nsrca.org>
>> Sent: March 02, 2005 10:10 AM
>> 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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