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2nd Batch Greenlight and also last Batch
Rayz-HWC replied to Chia Joon Chai's topic in Other Hobbies
In my opinion your price is most competitive among other diecast brands and most times even lower than retail for regular customers Problem lies with the collectors - who mostly purchase what they collect, so when you bring in a whole case of mixture of other castings (which may not attract most of the regular collectors) it goes stagnant. Most know local flavours are still prone towards tuners/imports...castings/cars they see on the road or from Magazines. Unfamiliar castings like Chevys, Thunderbolt, Fairlane, Pontiac etc doesn't jive with some customers collection at home. Worse is the fact - the collectors believe these castings - won't bring any 'added' incentives ($$$) when they want to 'let go' in future, or will have a hard time looking for members/collectors who actually appreciate these castings...so it just grow dust/webs on display, or pass down to their 3 yr child - eventually with missing doors, side-mirrors etc...even harder to dispose. Again to throw spice into the wound - some collectors don't bother at all - cos reason being they already seeing it merchandised at certain retailer locally recently. In their mind "who cares" blablabla....neglecting the issue that with Mr Chia - he can managed to bring in 'exclusive' ones, other than the basic you see in retail. How much discount can you get from retail - only during sales period. If Mr Chia is feeling this 'crisis' - imagine the retailers, but then again Mr Chia is solo, unlike retailers who throw prices at anytime. In some point I'm on Mr Chia's side - why even bother to bring in just for these handful of un-apprecaitive collectors - just to please them? Disappointment. Shameful. The frustration (order but decline later, worse no reply or whatsoever) Best solution...as Mr Chia has suggested - this will be the last batch! But on the plus side - plenty of us are still very interested in the Maistos/Jadas ....transporters, but still back to reality - collectors do 'pick' only what they want to purchase. Mentality = hard nut to crack -
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