Re: Hobby Heaven out of business

russ wrote:

On Jul 31, 1:43 pm, Count DeMoney <Ronnie...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 31, 8:59 am, "Ray S. & Nayda Katzaman" <rs...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

And who do we have to thank for this event?

Ray
Austin, TX
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Count DeMoney wrote:
They are out of business as on Aug 1, 07 (:<

I would imagine the sale of Revell / Monogram to Hobbico probably had
a lot to do with this. I don't we are going to see much more than
diecast coming from the new owners.

Guys/gals, I have been out of things for a while here. Can someone
explain why Revell/Monogram being sold would cause Hobby Heaven to go
out of business, please?

And Revell/Monogram has been sold? Dang. Wish I could afford to go
shopping to stock up, but I am not even working at this time. sigh.

Thanks,
Russ

As I understand it, the outfit that bought R-M has a large distribution
system of their own. They decided against selling to outfits that do
not have a bricks&mortar store. Hobby Heaven had deals with the
companies in which he could order stuff at wholesale prices direct from
the factories. This enabled him to offer kits cheaper than list.
That's all been cancelled now which kills the lower prices.

Hobbico says they're trying to support the local hobby shop against
mailorder sales but there isn't much of a hobby shop in this county.
I relied on mailorder to get some of those things that will never show
up here.

To add to the misery the 'people' at RC/Ertl have pretty much dropped
the "AMT" kits out of production. There wasn't much new coming from
them anyway. Most of their product is the usual kits that have been
around for years. Most of us in the hobby for any time have all the car
kits that we wanted.

OTOH, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Modelhaus will one day release
a '65 Chrysler 300 in resin. It'll still be a fifth of the cost of the
old plastic kit.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
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