Hobby shopz are dead for the most part anyways, so why does their lack of supplied stock have to affect the fact that distributors are only supplying kruddy RTR's? (Which a whole bunch of us don't want any part of and not just because we don't get to hook up our own rides in the hobby that it is, but the other fact that most of the Electrics that are so kindly supplied will not get used by the novice and up crowd.) Yeah I understand that it's all about supply and demand but i just don't see Access'(A.K.A Mr. Know it all because I have a bunch of posts and stuff!!, lol.) made up numbers being of any reality to the fact that Manufacturer's(Not all of them by any means) as usual are taking the cheap, cost effective way out by putting profit margins ahead of what the customer's really want. And as we all know if the customer isn't happy then the company probably isn't happy in the long run either. There need's to be a balance between RTR's and Kit's because as we all know both types are used and will continue to be used by all of us and many others in the future. And so I believe it is an important balance (at least if i was in charge of running the company) between 'this' and 'that' all the way down to the smallest R/C category that needs to supply or produce not just one or the other of what the extremer want's(Kit-RTR, Brushless-Brushed, Deans connectors-TRX Connectors, Electric-Nitro, 1/10-1/8 etc. etc.) but what they both want. This type of business model, I'm quite sure, would be successful and at the same time leave the fat CEO at the top of the food chain happy since his/her pockets are full of either money or a pocket full of dough nuts. And in the end the customers are happy, which then takes on the trickle effect and makes everyone happy.