23rd-Oct-21, 01:20 PM
Cars bought by members in 2021
24th-Oct-21, 04:59 AM
26th-Oct-21, 09:01 AM
Nice find. I haven’t seen one of those for a long time.
Jules
Jules
26th-Oct-21, 09:13 AM
(15th-Sep-21, 06:07 PM)Johnno Wrote: Revoslot Porsche Blue Coral
I got to see this Revo Porsche yesterday on Shenanigans Raceway, a fresh new car that Paul bought. This is a gorgeous livery indeed.
With a price increase throwing another $5 onto the car we would have like to see some upgraded components rather than an increase for nothing just so the manufacturers, distributors and retailers can make more money for nothing.
Take a look at all the high priced cars, the high priced controllers and other tools and consumables of this industry and you could easily hit the $2,000 to $4,000 dollars in the smaller groups, when you take the larger groups into consideration there could be as much as $10,000 in the pit area.
I'd made a decision a few months back now to wind back on buying cars, with the price gouging that has started,
and increased price points have now forced me to immediately stop all further car purchases, included all pre-orders.
Here are a lot of hard core dedicated slotters passing along tens of thousands of dollars helping this industry to thrive to end up just being shafted by greed. I thought I'd never see this happen in this industry, sadly it has.
How can online businesses justify these increases when they don't operate bricks and mortar stores? These online stores shouldn't need to raise their prices like real bricks and mortar stores that have overheads that online stores don't.
This Gouged Greed, leaves me pondering what will become of this industry in attracting new people into this industry, who more than likely will decide that they can't justify the price levels now and move onto other hobbies and industry sectors.
Disheartened and dejected
John, there is no doubt that material and labour costs are shooting up right now. Broadly speaking they are up 20%. The full impact of this has yet to properly filter down the supply chain.
Molded plastic has been cheap for many years. Some of the increases over the last few months have caught me out. It’s worrying.
Jules
26th-Oct-21, 07:20 PM
(26th-Oct-21, 09:13 AM)Pioneer Wrote:(15th-Sep-21, 06:07 PM)Johnno Wrote: Revoslot Porsche Blue Coral
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With a price increase throwing another $5 onto the car we would have like to see some upgraded components rather than an increase for nothing just so the manufacturers, distributors and retailers can make more money for nothing.
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John, there is no doubt that material and labour costs are shooting up right now. Broadly speaking they are up 20%. The full impact of this has yet to properly filter down the supply chain.
Molded plastic has been cheap for many years. Some of the increases over the last few months have caught me out. It’s worrying.
Jules
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for my OP above, it is more specifically the couriers and shipping companies the actual cause for these increases, only found out recently having had the need to deal with FedEx, USPS, Aus. Post and StarTrack no wonder why there's an increase the paperwork has seen a significant increase, compliance changes along with trying to claw back the millions lost first time round lockdown, then we add on all the people working from home increasing the load to the point where systems where at or above capacity.
26th-Oct-21, 07:30 PM
Been a while since I've posted new cars, it's been some time, I've actually been increasing my spare parts items.
NSR Mosler EVO3 Repsol Racing Blue No. 11 NSR0211AW
Sideways SWCAR01H LB-H GT3 Orange Die Cast Grasser Racing #63
Slot.it Alfa Romeo 333 Pocono 2011 No. 5 CA11M
Slot.it-McLaren-M8E
Johnno
NSR Mosler EVO3 Repsol Racing Blue No. 11 NSR0211AW
Sideways SWCAR01H LB-H GT3 Orange Die Cast Grasser Racing #63
Slot.it Alfa Romeo 333 Pocono 2011 No. 5 CA11M
Slot.it-McLaren-M8E
Johnno
30th-Oct-21, 03:17 PM
Well, someone's got to follow that...
Purchased this very afternoon from Osborne's Toy & Model Shop in Rushden High Street!
Remember how it used to work? You know you want to buy something, so you go in a shop, see what they have got, buy something and take it home with you.
Purchased this very afternoon from Osborne's Toy & Model Shop in Rushden High Street!
Remember how it used to work? You know you want to buy something, so you go in a shop, see what they have got, buy something and take it home with you.
I love puttering with gears
1st-Nov-21, 12:06 PM
And as seen by results sheets everywhere, my weapon of choice for any DTM/ITC series needs to be this rather than the Alfa 155...
I love puttering with gears
1st-Nov-21, 12:07 PM
As usual with rally cars, I partly blame Hub for this purchase - it features on his lovely Dutch Trio track. I've been looking for one of these at a sensible price for a while - Phil Smith obliged and no-one else snapped it up before payday.
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