Tamiya price hike

[tomhugill]

I've come across this, looks fairly ominous as the tamiya MSRP on the RC tanks is astronomical.

I'm not sure if it will affect the likes of the aaf museum and axels modellbau, but doesn't look great!

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[silversurfer1947]

Price fixing (Resale Price Maintenance) is illegal in the UK and, I think, in the EU. Last year a company in the UK was fined £2.7 million for restricting a retailer's right to set its own on-line prices. Quite where that sits with manufacturers refusing to supply retailers if they discount I am not sure.

[tomhugill]

Price fixing (Resale Price Maintenance) is illegal in the UK and, I think, in the EU. Last year a company in the UK was fined £2.7 million for restricting a retailer's right to set its own on-line prices. Quite where that sits with manufacturers refusing to supply retailers if they discount I am not sure.

Intent to price fix? What ever it is it stinks from my point of view. Maybe tamiya have finally cottoned on people aren't buying from there web site because it's so overpriced and are trying to bring other prices inline with it?

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[Rad_Schuhart]

Jesus Christ...

[HERMAN BIX]

I bet the folks at Taigen just pissed in their pants with joy and went out & bought new Bentley's

[Raminator]

Imposing minimum resale prices is illegal under Australian consumer protection law.

Even if this goes unchallenged in the civilised world (I'm sure it's perfectly legal under the non-existent American consumer law) I don't think most people's brand loyalty will extend to the exorbitant prices some of Tamiya's products (read: R/C tanks) will command. Let's see how long it takes before the MSRP drops.

[Soeren]

Discounts hurt the brand? That is a ridiculous statement. People in all areas of the world are agreeing on the top quality of Tamiya kits. But people tend to be put off by the high prices.
It will not only be Taigen, but also Trumpeter, takom, Meng etc. But maybe this will lead to an overall price increase in the hobby.

[B_Man]

It sounds very similar to the way Apple sets the prices of their things. I'm not sure what it's like in the rest of the world but you never see big discounts on current generation iPhones and the like in Australia and when retailers have big sales there is always some fine print in the advertising that says it excludes Apple products.
I'm not a lawyer and have no idea about the legality but ultimately the market will decide.

[AlwynTurner]

I see this as a huge incentive for everyone to go out and buy a 3d printer. Think about it, even including the cost of the printer you would still have change after building your first tank compared to the cost of a Tamiya kit, and the second tank is so cheap it's a steal! With designs being posted on the forum then there is no excuse, you don't even have to learn the cad software, but you will get great benefit if you do as you can then design your own tanks.

Just a thought

Alwyn

[Rad_Schuhart]

I see this as a huge incentive for everyone to go out and buy a 3d printer. Think about it, even including the cost of the printer you would still have change after building your first tank compared to the cost of a Tamiya kit, and the second tank is so cheap it's a steal! With designs being posted on the forum then there is no excuse, you don't even have to learn the cad software, but you will get great benefit if you do as you can then design your own tanks.

Just a thought

Alwyn

This will be the future... But for now, most of the home printers print with a horrible grain look. When we will be able to print with the shapeways quality (and Im sure we will, and soon) will be the customer´s revenge.

Im not wasting not even one euro more in tamiya stuff. I had a bunch of bad experiences with the quality. A lot of more bad experiences getting spare parts and now this.

For me, they can go to ruin.