I get so wound up by people making accusations of price fixing and why isn’t an item £30 cheaper because that’s how much I can grey import it so on and so fourth. This people quite obviously has no business sense what so ever. If you take into account how much it costs to stock a shop, pay staff, business rates, employers and employs contributions etc etc. then they must make some profit, what the point in doing it for nothing, which some people seem to think you should. Shop stock is dead money until someone takes it off the shelves and buys it, even more so if there is Bank Business Rate interest to pay on it.

I think these people need to take account of what happens if retailers are not around any more. Not just Model shops but all retailers. There will be no popping down the shop to buy some accessories, some fuel etc and no after sales service, if they are not there.

So I believe we should support this industry wherever we can. I sure some retailers are better than others and costs are more expensive in some shops than others, but what does it matter when we collectively spend thousands on out hobby and a large percentage of fliers just pile there aircraft in anyway…

As for rip off Britain, I lived in Belgium for a while and their tax and NI rate is a total of 50%. Their VAT is set at 21%. But there fuel is cheaper and you can buy a cheap turkey at Christmas. Point is, its all relative. I guess the exception is U.S.A. where every thing is cheap, but they are destroying the planet keeping it like that….

I like my adrenaline 1 and I am sure if I loose it then I will replace it with and adrenaline 2. Keep up the work Ali and YT you have support of 99.99% of us….

Cheers

Kris