Tower Hobbies-Price changes..

[RyanSilva]

So earlier today I ordered 6 kits from tower hobbies..and had a coupon for 20$ off! The kits were 11.50 or so regardless of a sale (did not see a sale on kits)

I just checked again..and the price went up to 15.60 for the same kits i ordered earlier! That normal? Ive never seen that before on there site..

[kurth]

I have been a towerhobbies customer for some time and i find my self visiting the site quite often and I can't recall seeing that sort of thing. I have seen prices go up on kits eventually but not on the same day. I ordered some very large ROG ship kits, then checked back later, maybe a month or two later and they had gone up $10 or so. Mabe you ordered early in the day then they updated their databases or something later in the day. Either way, good score! The other time I have seen price fluctuation is when an item is not in stock yet, and the price is listed kinda high, but when it shows up in stock it is a little bit less.

Now if they would just get the 1/12th Jagermeister Porsche in stock I could stop stalking the 1/19th and larger page every day....

So earlier today I ordered 6 kits from tower hobbies..and had a coupon for 20$ off! The kits were 11.50 or so regardless of a sale (did not see a sale on kits)

I just checked again..and the price went up to 15.60 for the same kits i ordered earlier! That normal? Ive never seen that before on there site..

Edited December 2, 2008 by kurth

[Zoom Zoom]

Probably Revell stuff.

Tower is owned by the same people who now own Revell. Revell upped their prices significantly over the past year, and some of the newer models like the Shelby GT500 KR are about $22 retail now, while most lesser Mustangs are $17. The "Shelby" and "Bullitt" versions may be so steep because of the licensing. Tower didn't discount the GT500 KR nearly as much as the lesser models, and it looks like they've adjusted their prices so that they're all discounted to roughly the same percentage.

Revell cut off most all of the low-priced online retailers, they all have to order from distributors now and not direct (thus adding a middleman who is making a cut) and Tower was the only place to find pre-cutoff kinds of discounts. Now that they have eliminated the low-priced competition for Tower, Tower raised it's prices significantly. Brilliant, eh? Oil and shipping went way up, so did kit prices. Now that those prices are dropping, we won't see kit prices drop. Cheap prices at the retail level vanished when Wal Mart quit selling kits.

Honestly, $15-$19 for modern full-detail kits is pretty good. Look at what you get from Fujimi/Tamiya/Aoshima for 2-3 times that amount. There are a ton of simple curbsides by them that are well over $50 apiece now.

[GOTH KUSTOMS]

Thats why I go to place's like DiscountPlasticModels.come, get a grab bag of six models for 45 bucks, thats with shipping, averages out to about 7.58 a model, all 1:24/5 scale, all new kit's, like suv's, car's, truck's, just a grab bag that they pick out, and if you dont like what you get, then you trade, or ebay them, I'm sure the price will go up but till then I'm happy....

Edited December 2, 2008 by unforgiven

[Brendan]

This was not an uncommon thing where I used to work. We would get in a new shipment and the price of that shipment would be higher than the ones we had in stock. So all the prices were changed to the higher price. (Capitalism) It always rather irked that they didn't split the difference. Of course, I had to go out and change all the prices on the old stock.