Well its the same old Sunday evening, searching around on Ebay, online hobby retailers, and general searching the web. Well I decided to go to Amazon.com and check out some new books, and did a search on “Athearn HO”. Had over 2000 hits. Seems they are selling parts, RTR, BB kits, and other items. They have a ton of parts it seems like, retail price though.
I noticed that the other day. I was surprised to see almost all the hobby shops(the big ones at least) had things on Amazon. Even Walthers.
Aren’t these places just selling through Amazon? Amazon is more or less making their stuff available to the public, assume Walthers and Horizon do the shipping from their sites.
A lot of things on amazon theese days seem to be just using amazon a a broker of sorts, they ship it from their place, and amazon get a part of the money.