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- From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
- Subject: Re: Anime model kits
- Message-ID: <RATINOX.92Dec22110658@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:07:55 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: genef@netcom.com's message of 22 Dec 92 08: 58:12 GMT
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- >>>>> On 22 Dec 92 08:58:12 GMT, genef@netcom.com (Gene Fornario) said:
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- Gene> Now you do make a distinction between injection-molded and garage
- Gene> kits. What exactly is a garage kit? Why are they that expensive?
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- A "garage kit" is usually produced by an individual person or small number
- of people in a garage or other home workshop, as opposed to the
- manufacturing plants of Ban-Dai and Hasegawa and the like. Garage kits are
- hand made, and can not be mass produced, thus the higher initial retail
- prices. Garage kits are sometimes popular because a big company won't
- produce a line of a particular model, or the quality/detailing of a
- particular model is really bad.
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- Gene> How much of a mark up from buying the kit in Japan? One store owner
- Gene> blamed our import laws...I can only guess that shipping and
- Gene> commisions add to the cost.
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- It's a combination of import tarriffs, middlemen trying to get as much
- money out of ignorant store owners as possible, and store owners trying to
- get as much money out of ignorant fans as possible. It's pretty much a case
- of sellers charging as much as the market will pay.
-
- --Rat
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