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<font face="Arial">Hmmm, Jon, sounds like I might need to drive to
Huntsville once in a while. OTOH, I cna get stuff delivered from
Champana, IL in about the same time. ;-{)</font><br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Phil Spelt, KCRC Emeritus, Secretary
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On 3/18/2014 10:06 AM, Jon Lowe wrote:
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<div><font style="background-color: transparent;"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We are fortunate to have 3 hobby
shops in town, two locally owned, and one a franchise of Hobby Town.
The Hobby Town shop is as others have described, heavy in games, and
not much available for airplanes. </font></div>
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<div>The two locally owned shops are thriving, because they have both
breadth and depth in their inventories. The one I frequent, RC
Hobbies, decided some time back if they can't beat them, join them, and
stocks some HobbyKing items with a small markup. They are heavy into
cars and helis (they have a car track on their property), but stock all
kinds of airplane stuff, and will go out of their way to quickly get
anything they don't have in stock. They stock large numbers of engine
and servo parts and have repair parts for foamy airplanes in quantity
and depth. They know how to fix stuff, and they will make up special
battery packs, etc, if they don't have them on the shelf. They even
stock Central Hobbies carbon fiber pushrods/titanium ends. They know
their customers, and stock what they need, not what a franchise tells
them. Sometime back they asked me what they could stock that we
might need periodically, and they started stocking those items. They
are smart business people, and don't have franchise fees and demands to
deal with.</div>
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<div>The local shop in town caters largely to helis, but stocks other
things as well. They are far enough from me that I don't frequent them.</div>
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<div>I've not been impressed with any Hobby Town I've been in. We
already had one fail in our city, and I was surprised when another
sprang up. I bypass Hobby Town to go to my regular shop, simply
because I know my regular shop will have what I need, and know what I'm
talking about when I ask for something. </div>
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From: Keith Hoard <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:klhoard@hotmail.com"><klhoard@hotmail.com></a><br>
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Sent: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 8:45 am<br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Mac Hodges<br>
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<div dir="ltr">However, 95% of what I just wrote about Hobby Town
DOES NOT apply to Mac Hodges hobby shop. . <br>
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To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Subject: RE: [NSRCA-discussion] Mac Hodges<br>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:44:49 -0500<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Our club leadership is now constantly pleading with us
to do business thru the Hobby Town - if they don't have it (which
usually they don't), they'll order it. Well, that's great but the shop
is a 45 minute drive one-way for me and its the same 2-3 day wait if my
stuff gets shipped to the Hobby Town or to my front door. As for
having the Hobby Town there for "help and advice" . . . all of the kids
that work there are either car or "Magic the Gathering" card game
players . . . so, I don't get much value added with that either. I get
more help posting on the mailing list and sifting thru all the opposing
opinions than driving 45 minutes for a blank stare and "we can get that
in by Friday".<br>
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I'm sorry, but buggy whip manufacturers went out of business when
folks switched to automobiles.<br>
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:35:29 -0500<br>
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Mac Hodges<br>
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I was at a huge Hobby Town USA in the Atlanta area last year…a large as
a grocery store. Even at that, 80% of the floorspace was dedicated to
other hobbies and crafts. The RC section was small and a very small
portion of it dedicated to a limited selection of small electric ARFs.
<div>In a very large market with several active clubs and almost
year-round flying season, this is indicative of the direction of the
market. </div>
<div>The modest local hobby shop in Kansas City that I go to, is
about the same floorspace ratio, but with a super-active hell counter,
and sizable selection of electric ARFs. </div>
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<div>The only things I buy there are glue, carbon fibre, and a few
odds and ends in a pinch. </div>
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<div>John</div>
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<div>On Mar 18, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Keith Hoard <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:klhoard@hotmail.com">klhoard@hotmail.com</a>>
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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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<hr id="ecxstopSpelling">Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:00:26 -0700<br>
From: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mups1953@yahoo.com">mups1953@yahoo.com</a><br>
To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Mac Hodges<br>
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<div style="">Local Hobby shops are hard hit by the way business is
conducted these days.<br>
It's sad.<br>
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<div>Mike Mueller</div>
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<div> F3AUnlimited</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">On Tuesday, March 18,
2014 7:06 AM, Hnycmpsts <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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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