[Haze28]

I Own a Hobby Store, Box sales make up the majority of instore sales, but the minority of the profit.

I grew up going to a hobby store here in michigan that the guy that owned it would only be 5-10 over cost on boxes, that was before the internet.

Now with Dave and Adams and the blowouts of the world its hard for stores to compete with them, I try to be 5-20 over cost depending on the box, and the majority of time we are within 5-10 of Dave and Adams and Blowout.

But on a side note its very very hard to compete with those guys when they decide to dump a product, I at the end of the day will sell for cost to dump, but will not go below cost to dump.

It is a very fine line. By the way we are a Hobby Store in Allen Park Michigan, I actually have a hard time keeping wax in the store because of the competitiveness of our pricing and the lack of hobby stores around us.

It's great that you keep your prices within 5-10 bucks of the online guys. If the shops near me did that I would buy from them every time just because of convenience. I'd rather have it now than have to wait for it to be shipped to me plus giving business to the local guys. But the product its flying off the shelf at a mind boggling rate here even at the high prices they have so they have no reason to drop the prices a little. They can't keep products like Bowman, Museum Collection, Tribute, Tier 1, and all that stuff in stock. I wonder what would happen if these older local guys ever found out they are getting the high hard one from the LCS?