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Article #20Re: First test shots of Eureka Models HO 620/720 2 car diesel
From: Greg Rudd
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 08:59
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 08:59
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Craig Warton wrote: > Greg, > > No, it possibly is not a good thing competition wise, but why exactly > would you fork out the money to produce a model, and then sell it to > someone at 2/3 of the price purely so they can sell it to someone who > could have brought it from you in the first place? > > Of course, if you feel the urge to be the salvation of hobby shops every > where then you are welcome to produce something and sell through them. I > routinely buy models from Martin Finney, David Geen, High Level and > several others in the UK and most of them do not sell to trade.... is that > really such a problem? > > Regards, > > Craig Warton It is a *problem* if you belive in capitalism. Which I take it that you do. In case you haven't noticed , that in the last 10 years a number of large monopolies ie electricity,transport and other industries have been broken up to promote *competition* but yet we have been seeing the reverse in the last 10 years in the model railway industry. It does seem strange that we all demand competition in all other other markets except the model railway industry.
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X-Google-Thread: ff544,72aa8abe5ddd7d8a X-Google-Thread: f77ac,72aa8abe5ddd7d8a X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,b520f3aa6a3f3344,start X-Google-Thread: 104613,b520f3aa6a3f3344,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff544,gidf77ac,gid10df0c,gid104613,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!news.xtra.co.nz!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.usyd.edu.au!not-for-mail From: Greg Rudd <grudd@usyd.edu.au> Newsgroups: aus.rail.models,rec.models.railroad,aus.politics,aus.flame Subject: Re: First test shots of Eureka Models HO 620/720 2 car diesel Followup-To: aus.rail.models,rec.models.railroad,aus.politics,aus.flame Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 18:59:39 +1000 Organization: The University of Sydney, Australia Lines: 29 Message-ID: <d54qag$q82$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au> References: <4274C0F2.9020905@cia.com.au> <dBF8MVTOCPdCFAZ9@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk> <4275A4D9.8010109@cia.com.au> <d54hr2$mp5$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au> <4275e443$0$27857$61c65585@un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: esu-5.ucc.usyd.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au 1115024528 26882 129.78.65.8 (2 May 2005 09:02:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.usyd.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 May 2005 09:02:08 GMT User-Agent: KNode/0.9.0