Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / October 2008

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Because one owner after another keeps going out of business. Of course, I'm
not surprised. My model collection and inventory in my garage dwarfed what
they had in stock. To top that, they wouldn't order anything for you. I
truly do not believe that they had an account with a major distributor.

I have difficulty walking, between old polio problems and now diabetes
rotting away my legs. So, the wife and I stopped by the hobbyshop one day. I
asked her to go in and buy me an OS .25LA. A friend had given me a Diesel
head for that engine and I wanted to try it. A half an hour later she comes
out with a bag that had an OS engine box in it. I think everything is okay
and put the minivan in drive to go home. Then I thought that I had better
check the bag, just to be sure. In the bag was an OS .25FX. I only wanted to
try a Diesel head. Were I going to buy a hot ball bearing engine in that
size range, I'd have paid $14 more and bought the .32. I asked her kindly to
take it back and get the .25LA. Of course, they didn't have the .25LA.
Fortunately they refunded her money. I was ticked, to say the least.

To me, they were taking advantage of a woman that used to be in the hobby,
but had moved on to quilting after twenty years of building and flying. That
was the last time I specifically went to our local hobbyshop. The last time
I drove down that street they were closed and their store space had an
acupuncture salon in the hobbyshop's place. Good riddance.

Ed Cregger