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Old 04-05-2005 | 08:57 AM
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Default RE: Ultra stick .40

Jurjevib,
If the airplane shows well and the components are new, people will pay it. When I was spending time behind the counter at my LHS, there wasn't a day that went by, that someone didn't come in and want to have someone assemble their ARF. The store would sell all the components and then add $100 for the average trainer/sport model for assembly. I still get calls from people that I assembled airplanes for wanting me to "build" their airplanes.
The few ARF's that I have owned have always been stripped and recovered. I would take the airplane and hang it at the LHS to show the customers that they all don't have to look alike. I had to stop doing that because customers would want to buy my airplane and would offer outrageous prices to buy it ($300 over cost of components).
The folks answering you here a confident in their assembly and building skills. There are many folks out there who are not, and are more than willing to pay someone to do the work. Its sad but true. You need to get hooked up with your LHS and work together. I can tell you at the LHS I worked at, they really did not want to do assembly and would have prefered to to have an outside source take care of it.