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<font face="Arial">Ron, my experience as a store-front hobby shop owner</font>
is that Horizon is pretty good to work with, GP treats modest shops
like ours (yet, we did over $900K/year in the good times) like dirt.
When we went belly-up, we paid GP only about $0.75 on the dollar --
some revenge, anyway...<br>
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On 3/18/2014 9:52 AM, Ronald Van Putte wrote:
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type="cite"><base href="x-msg://192/">The local storefront hobby shop
here just closed its doors and my little garage operation is the only
shop in town. Yet, I still cannot get Great Planes or Horizon to make
me a dealer for them. This despite the consistent proof that
storefronts cannot make it here in my town. It's frustrating for me
and my customers.
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<div>Ron Van Putte</div>
<div>Shalimar Hobbies</div>
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<div>On Mar 18, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Keith Hoard wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Our local Hobby Town is downsizing, probably a first
step towards going away. Only a small part of their business is now
airplane / helo - mostly Eflight and stuff like that.<br>
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Mac Hodges<br>
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Hobby shops are hard hit by the way business is conducted these days.<br>
It's sad.<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">On Tuesday, March 18,
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<div>I didn't know he closed his hobby shop. That's too bad. It was
just one of the many perks when flying at his field.</div>
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<div class="ecxyiv0373079290MsoNormal">Has anybody got a good phone
number and/or email address for Mac Hodges. Previous numbers he used
for his hobby shop are no good now that the shop is closed.</div>
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<div class="ecxyiv0373079290MsoNormal">thanks</div>
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