It seems that everything that I have bought recently has been at lower than expected costs. Not just on Ebay either, but even my LHS has had very good sales lately. I’ve found items at 50% less than some of the best online dealers.
Maybe I’m just getting lucky? Or perhaps this is a VERY good trend…
Dumping old stock clearing the warehouses for additional ships from China I say…
Maybe stores are moving old stock out to make room for the Christmas season?
I ordered some things from Walthers not too long ago and a lot of it was on sale. Enough was on sale that I saved paying the shipping charge plus saved some more above that. (That was off of their regular retail prices) But I think that is just some stores trying to get your business back since everything went up. But - - - Gas prices are coming down.
Where? where?
What? what?
Not on what I have been drooling over anyway.
It could be because people haven’t been buying due to cost of gas,
could be due to lower cost of gas,
could be moving out old merchandise,
could be the train fairies just are being nice for once- I will look under my pillow tomorrow!!!
It’s just you…
Summer is a slow time for this hobby. Hopefully, your LHS really is just clearing out old merchandise to make room for newer stock, but it may be that he’s got to pay bills, and he’s willing to take a smaller profit, or even a loss, just to raise some money. Hopefully, that’s not the case.
We just had a “sales tax holiday” here in Massachusetts. The Governor’s usual 5% add-on was waived. I didn’t need anything, but I went to my LHS and picked up a couple of Walthers traffic lights (on sale) just because there was no sales tax. Business, by the way, was booming. Lots of happy people walking out the door with big-ticket items - engines, DCC systems, decoders and so on.
it could be that gas is $3.47 where I live!
(sorry, had to throw that out there!)
If you have been out and about shopping these days, there are deals galore on just about everything. Take a walk through the mall–sale signs everywhere. Restaurants are coming out with all kinds of value menus, as well. It’s all about cash flow. “A fast nickel always beats a slow dime.”
John Timm
I don’t know where all you folks live. The only sales where I live are going out of business sales.[sigh]
I just recieved my Walthers flyer for August and there seems to be more for sale, but the prices seem higher to me.