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*ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 5:45:54 PM   
Zippi



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Status: offline 		Has anyone noticed the prices for ARF's at TH going through the roof ??? I bought the GP Reactor for $169.00 a few weeks ago and then the price dropped to $159.00 and now they are $189.00. A lot of the other ARF's have gone up in price a lot as well.

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 6:10:25 PM   
Kmot



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Status: offline 		It will be interesting to see how it all settles out.

The economy is in a rut right now. Fuel costs have increased the price of everything. Consumers are spending less and less on non-essential things. Retailers are losing money due to lackluster sales. Resteraunts are not crowded anymore. Many retailers are cutting prices, offering discounts and other incentives to get consumers to buy something, anything.

So, if a retailer raises prices then the consumers who are already shy about spending money will shy away further. It seems like economic suicide to me to raise prices on non-essential items right now while people are cutting back so that they can afford things like food, fuel, and rent.

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 6:33:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		EVERYTHING is going up. That's how it is right now. Another thing to consider though is that a lot of Hobbico brands have been on sale until just recently. That doesn't account for every price increase but it explains a little.

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 7:40:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		It doesn't help that over 50cent a gallon goes to state and federal taxes. What ever happened to 6 or so cent on a dollar.

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 7:45:03 PM   
JCINTEXAS


 

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Status: offline 		Zippi quote: "Has anyone noticed the prices for ARF's at TH going through the roof ??? "
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I predicted this a couple of months ago in a post to the RCU Forum.
What's actually happening is the US Dollar is being devalued.
Consumers perceive this as "increased prices".
The Federal Reserve (which is not a government agency) has dropped interest rates and pumped hundreds of billions more dollars into the "money supply" in order to prop-up the financial markets and big mortgage lenders. So there are a lot more dollars chasing the available goods and services which results in higher prices. Imagine you have an ARF model manufacturing business in China. Every month you see the US Dollar losing its purchasing power. So you are, in effect' receiving less and less for the ARFs you are selling to US companies. What do you do about this? You raise your prices to compensate for the cheaper dollars. It's the very same thing with OPEC. No matter what you hear in the news, there is plenty of oil supply. The main reason oil prices are skyrocketing, is because the FED has inflated the money supply and therfore lowered the value of the dollar. Here's the bottom line: If you are thinking of buying an ARF, a radio made in Japan...or anything made in a foreign country...you should buy it now. Buy it as soon as possible. The prices are going to continue skyrocketing. In a year or two, we will look back on now as the "good old days".
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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 7:45:52 PM   
Zippi



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Status: offline 		All true guys. Look for shipping charges from UPS, Fedex, and others to go up as well. May have to start looking closer at the swap meets for a few planes. We are on vacation in Sea Grove Beach in Florida which is between Dustin and Panama City and we have elected to rent bicycles to ride around instead of driving. Kinda cool and saving on a lot of gas. We did have to drive to Margaritaville in Panama City and Fudpuckers in Dustin but other than that we have stayed around the local area. Gas here is $4.12 per gal.

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 9:35:39 PM   
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Status: online 		One can only hope the shipping cost for shipping Chinese stuff here gets so expense that people stop buying it and stop sending our money to China so THEY have less money to run up the cost of oil.

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 9:36:22 PM   
JCINTEXAS


 

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Status: offline 		Higher prices....or lower Dollar?
Here's my post on May 21 in the RCU Forum:
Since I posted this the Venus II has increased in price $30. from $249. to $279.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3993257/anchors_7522618/mpage_28/key_/anchor/tm.htm#7522618

RE: Venus II - 5/21/2008 1:16:09 PM

We are probably seeing the end of cheap chinese imports.
I'm thinking that the prices on ARFs made in China are going to go up much higher than they are now. The US Dollar is losing its value as compared to oil, gold, and foreign currencies. Foreigners who sell their products to customers in the U.S. are, in effect, receiving less and less for their products as the value of the dollar falls. They must raise their prices to compensate for the dollar's decline...just to stay even.
If you're thinking of buying an ARF made in China, my advice is: "Buy it now".

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 10:20:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was considering buying a few arfs but I have changed my mind since they are going up so much. I guess the only good left will be when a model gets discontinued. With the state of the economy that might be quite a lot of them.

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 11:07:19 PM   
kochj



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Status: offline 		Noticed that as well....

Gp is not the only one to recently raise prices.....

H9 raised their Sopwith C. .60 biplane from 250 Up to 275 or something....

I am very glad I purchased many planes that were being disct. from Goldberg and Lanier in there buy out......

Also some of the nice ones that Gp junked as well.


I looked at my son's TF Megatron and thought .... "that would have cost 120$ is made here in the USA...... NOt 39.00$ when made in China.....

China will eventualy become like Japan.....

Guess the planes will have to be moved over to Vietnahm... (spelling?)

The US. needs a resesion... and we need China to keep making it too exspensive to make thngs over there so we don't go bankrupt!.....

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/4/2008 11:35:12 PM   
JCINTEXAS


 

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Status: offline 		kochj quote: "Guess the planes will have to be moved over to Vietnahm... (spelling?)
The US. needs a resesion... and we need China to keep making it too exspensive to make thngs over there so we don't go bankrupt!....."
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Hmmm....let's see.
We fought Germany and Japan....and now we drive German and Japanese Cars.
We fought the Chinese in Korea...and now we buy cars from Korea and China.
I'm just wondering how long it will be before we will be buying cars made in Iraq
and Afghanistan.


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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/5/2008 12:41:15 AM   
MANFRED



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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/5/2008 1:32:46 AM   
Whistling Death


 

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ORIGINAL: MANFRED

Cars from Iraq? Here's what they look like by the way

Hey that looks like the car I drove in highschool.

kochj, I looked at the Sopwith this morning and it was $299.00

JCINTEXAS, Hmm lets see. The last car I bought from Korea or China uh, never.

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RE: *ARF Prices Skyrocketing* - 7/5/2008 6:01:58 AM   
rclement



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ORIGINAL: Kmot

It will be interesting to see how it all settles out.

The economy is in a rut right now. Fuel costs have increased the price of everything. Consumers are spending less and less on non-essential things. Retailers are losing money due to lackluster sales. Resteraunts are not crowded anymore. Many retailers are cutting prices, offering discounts and other incentives to get consumers to buy something, anything.

So, if a retailer raises prices then the consumers who are already shy about spending money will shy away further. It seems like economic suicide to me to raise prices on non-essential items right now while people are cutting back so that they can afford things like food, fuel, and rent.

Ditto.

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