ORIGINAL: Skyfly0311
Hobby King puts your local RC Retail stores out of business.. enough said..
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High price's, and lack of selection puts hobby shops out of business. Not hobby king.
Honestly went to my LHS the other day with a long ass list I walked out with about 30% of the parts I went for. Honestly 3 months ago when I went last they had probably 300+ bodies in stock(2 of every savage body). Went Tuesday they had probably 100 left, 2 savage bodies, 4-5 buggy bodies, a few misc truggies, traxxas RC bodies, and a pile of TC bodies. Than their RPM shelf was barely stocked, they didn't have any RPM ball ends in stock... Few months ago they had at least 2 of everything from RPM in stock at all times, in every color.
So I went online and ordered $80 more in parts, because I'm not going to bother ordering through them and having to pay an additional 10% more than I can online in addition to $8 in gas to get there and about 10% more in damn taxes where I can pay $10 to have it delivered.
Other hobby shop I used to go to had a extremely wide selection of RC's. They sold the XL-5 Traxxas Rustler, and a HPI firestorm... Seriously thats ALL they carried, and the 2 on the shelf looked like they sat there for a long time. They had a huge banner in the window saying they carried HPI and Traxxas... They didn't even have the parts to fix those 2 RC's... I have no idea how that dude stays open...