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From: Euless,
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Maybe I should get in touch with HRP. GP sucks. They have screwed me over, lost shipments and are generally not well priced. They upfront say they only want to deal with major dealers ordering 10,000 per month. Horizon is just as bad as GP. Does HRP still carry Associated?
Some stuff, I'm pretty sure they are selling off their inventory though, because as a dealer you should know by now that GP has bought out Team Associated, Thunder Tiger and Ace, they are now GP proprietary products and the quality of the new stuff has already started to go downhill, which is too bad, AE was kick butt stuff up untill a few years ago when they sold out to Ace and ace moved everything over seas to a china facility. AE was the only R/c company actually manufacturing cars in the US, everyone else including Traxxas is made over seas in China.
Frankly I haven't ever had a problem with GP, I hate Horizon they are the worst money grubbing Company on the planet, next to walmart  , I don't buy from Horizon unless we have to for the losi fans. Almost all of our product comes from HRP or GP, a little bit from redcat and we've recently started importing chargers, batteries, Helis, tools, tires and rims from over seas, we got our first two pallets the other day.
Neither GP or Horizon care about the dealers, all they are out to do is rip you off and then undercut and sell to the public and ruin your local economy and then everyone in a small town runs around wondering why their economy sucks and why all the stores are charging so much for the product they have (i mean any stores, like the local whatever store). They reason your small town economy sucks is because you keep buying the crap online and eBay or where ever and putting all your money into my economy, that's why my economy is rockin and theirs tons of jobs. Stop buying from NitroRCx or hobby king or whoever and go to the local guy and pay the extra $20 or whatever, the service you'll get is worth the extra $$
A good example would be a kid who came into our shop looking at Redcat Cars, we have our cars in the shop priced at Redcats Map prices, which is more than Ebay (we have bills to pay that joe shmoe screwing your economy doesn't) he said he found it with everything for that same price we had the buggy alone. I said cool go get it, have you ever owned a car before, he said no never, I said cool, go get it then, but if you do your gonna be back here paying us the $25 an hour to help you get it running, where as if you buy it here, we'll help you out for free, you get $175 in free labor when you buy it here. He said no that's ok, so he went home, bought it on ebay came back two weeks later had no idea what he was doing, broke his pullcord, that cost him, $25 bucks and another $25 for us to reset the tune and get it running, then another $45 to break in the engine. Then he went home and ran it, but he didn't know about taping the batteries and he jumped it and the battery popped out and it ran off and cost him $39 in parts and $30 in labor, add it up folks, thats $134 dollars in cost him in less than three weeks. If he had bought it from us to begin with and paid the $40 more it would have saved him $134 dollars, For the $175 in free labor you get, plus we would have told him about taping the batteries and about not pulling the cord out too far and would have helped him start it if he wanted and even helped him break it in for free and tuned it. So all in all we made more than we would have if he had bought the car from us, but he would have spent more time in the hobby enjoying it instead of 4 weeks of hell hating it. He ended up out of the R/C hobby with in 5 weeks, that happens way to much. I know some of you don't have shops near you so that's one thing, but for those that do go in the store and think about helping your economy thrive instead of killing it.
We're so help full and have such a good rep that our customers on a budget will come to us and have us go on hobbyking or xheli or nitroplanes or where ever and order the item they want even though some of the places we can't get dealer accounts and the price is the same for us as it is them, they have us buy it and they are ok that we marked it up $10 or $15, they know the money is going into their economy and helping to keep a hobby shop open when there are so many closing their doors. Think about it next time your sitting there about to order something on Hobbyking or Xheli, maybe go see if your local store will order it for a few dollars more than the price you see if you pay the shipping you are going to have to pay anyway. They may surprise you and it could be a good thing for everyone. Help spur the US economy and your local economy, check with your local stores first.
Anyway I think i rambled enough. I'm not trying to offend anyone or piss anyone off, I'm giving it to you from your local stores perspective so maybe you understand why they are being rude to you when you come in.
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