Tower Hobbies vs. OmniModels?
09-08-2007, 11:57 PM
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Tower Hobbies vs. OmniModels?
This is something that has made me wonder for sometime now, and i wonder if there is any real difference in these two site?
http://www.towerhobbies.com/
vs
http://www.omnimodels.com/index.html
for example
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/listings/cat-c.html
vs
http://www3.omnimodels.com/listings/cat-c.html
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0093p?&C=CBF
vs
http://www3.omnimodels.com/cgi-bin/woi0093p?&C=CBF
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...I=LXRYP0**&P=0
vs
http://www3.omnimodels.com/cgi-bin/w...I=HPID67**&P=0
See what I'm saying almost 99% the same. so are they part of tower, or what?
http://www.towerhobbies.com/
vs
http://www.omnimodels.com/index.html
for example
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/listings/cat-c.html
vs
http://www3.omnimodels.com/listings/cat-c.html
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0093p?&C=CBF
vs
http://www3.omnimodels.com/cgi-bin/woi0093p?&C=CBF
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...I=LXRYP0**&P=0
vs
http://www3.omnimodels.com/cgi-bin/w...I=HPID67**&P=0
See what I'm saying almost 99% the same. so are they part of tower, or what?
09-09-2007, 10:03 AM
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RE: Tower Hobbies vs. OmniModels?
the only thing i was thinking was that, its towers other warehouse? but tower already has 2, so y 3? unless tower is test the franchise market, and omni is the guys name, so i wonder?
09-09-2007, 10:14 AM
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RE: Tower Hobbies vs. OmniModels?
I'm thinking more like the franchise idea, just another way for tower to sell it's stuff, I'd be willing to bet that everything they sell comes from the tower warehouses, and that omnis store is just an office that handles orders. I work in a comercial print shop, and we ship for a lot of different print brokers, and thier name is always on the shipping labels, so thier customers don't even know we exist.
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RE: Tower Hobbies vs. OmniModels?
ORIGINAL: []TEX[]
They have many sites:
The Futaba wedsite has all their tech notes for example. Tower Hobbies is owned by Great Planes Distributors which is the biggest RC distributor in the US.
http://www.gpmd.com/
Here is a list of GP exclusive products, it may surprise you:
Aquacraft, Carl Goldberg Products, Coverite, DuraPlane, DuraTrax, Dynaflite, Electrifly, Flight Power, FlyZone, Fuji Engines, Futaba, Globee, Great Planes Model Manufacturing, Heli-Max, Hobbico, iWaver, Kontronik, O.S. Engines, O'Donnel Racing, Real Flight, Revell, SuperTigre, Team Checkpoint and Top Flite.
They are also the main route for tech support for many products.
Another large distributor is Horizon Hobbies, then it starts to trickle down from there.
They have many sites:
The Futaba wedsite has all their tech notes for example. Tower Hobbies is owned by Great Planes Distributors which is the biggest RC distributor in the US.
http://www.gpmd.com/
Here is a list of GP exclusive products, it may surprise you:
Aquacraft, Carl Goldberg Products, Coverite, DuraPlane, DuraTrax, Dynaflite, Electrifly, Flight Power, FlyZone, Fuji Engines, Futaba, Globee, Great Planes Model Manufacturing, Heli-Max, Hobbico, iWaver, Kontronik, O.S. Engines, O'Donnel Racing, Real Flight, Revell, SuperTigre, Team Checkpoint and Top Flite.
They are also the main route for tech support for many products.
Another large distributor is Horizon Hobbies, then it starts to trickle down from there.
09-09-2007, 10:57 AM
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RE: Tower Hobbies vs. OmniModels?
Champaign , Ill seems to be the hotbed of RC and hobbies, models, ect. even amoung competitors. I was told that OMni and Tower use the same warehouse. Check stock and you'll see. It is probably same company.
09-09-2007, 11:45 AM
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RE: Tower Hobbies vs. OmniModels?
i was thinking that, cause when tower is out, there out.
kyosho use to be part of great planes, but the branched off, to now be with losi and horizon. Cause tower use to be a huge replacement warehouse for kyosho.
kyosho use to be part of great planes, but the branched off, to now be with losi and horizon. Cause tower use to be a huge replacement warehouse for kyosho.
