Why Not?
04-22-2010 | 10:42 AM
#28
RE: Why Not?
According to my LHS, kits just don't sell. He has kits on the shelf that have been sitting there for 5 years. And he says he hardly makes any profit on kits. He counts on kit builders to buy other things from him that are profitable. I don't think there is any conspiracy on the part of manufacturers. They are just responding to the market.
I wonder if modelers who want to build could band together and pre-order kits. Maybe if a manufacturer had an order for a few hundred kits they would make a production run. Of course, that would take planning and patience on our part. We might have to place our order and pay a year in advance.
I wonder if modelers who want to build could band together and pre-order kits. Maybe if a manufacturer had an order for a few hundred kits they would make a production run. Of course, that would take planning and patience on our part. We might have to place our order and pay a year in advance.
04-22-2010 | 11:24 AM
#29
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RE: Why Not?
ORIGINAL: MikeL
You're getting too old and out of touch if you believe any of that, Ed. Stop listening to what certain folks would have you believe, and start getting involved. You'll find many, many young people that are exactly what you say they're not. And many who are. Same as was the case with your generation, and each and every generation before that.
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ORIGINAL: NM2K
Once upon a time, ordinary Americans felt that they had a prosperous future ahead of them. Ingenuity was valued and rewarded in the workplace. Young'uns were encouraged to use their head and their hands. Alas, no more. There are no jobs that pay excellent wages for folks that use their hands as well as their heads. No one will buy their products, saying that they are shoddily built and too expensive. Usually without checking to see if this is true before buying something from China or something with a Japanese name. Then they wonder why their kids can't leave home...
Once upon a time, ordinary Americans felt that they had a prosperous future ahead of them. Ingenuity was valued and rewarded in the workplace. Young'uns were encouraged to use their head and their hands. Alas, no more. There are no jobs that pay excellent wages for folks that use their hands as well as their heads. No one will buy their products, saying that they are shoddily built and too expensive. Usually without checking to see if this is true before buying something from China or something with a Japanese name. Then they wonder why their kids can't leave home...
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So, rather than debating what I said, you attack/criticize me instead.
The jobs that I am referring to are non college education jobs that pay over $50k per annum. Outside of a few automotive jobs in unionized factories, where do you find such work?
Where does one find a job where the male can support the family in reasonable style without the female being required to work? It used to be that way in this country, you know. It is NOT this way today.
You are saying that all is okay. I'm saying that your politicians sold you and your kids down the creek and that we should restore the tariffs and work/labor laws to what they were when Americans had the best standard of living on Earth, other than those tiny countries that depended on US defense dollars to give them a slightly higher standard of living.
Ed Cregger
