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Modelling => Trackwork => Topic started by: Tom Haythornthwaite on January 11, 2014, 19:07

Title: Beer
Post by: Tom Haythornthwaite on January 11, 2014, 19:07
How do the prices at the Peco shop in Beer, Devon, compare to the High Street or on-line dealers?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: rod335 on January 11, 2014, 19:18
Probably the most expensive you will find as their retail outlet has a strict policy of only selling at recommended retail price, even to personal shoppers. The word 'discount' is met with contemptuous dismissal!

Rod
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Tom Haythornthwaite on January 12, 2014, 05:19
Aha, thanks!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Allscales on February 01, 2015, 18:03
On the other hand, they do have almost everything in the catalogue! So could be worth it as a backstop if you're not too far away...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: John Atkinson on February 01, 2015, 22:52
In fairness to Peco, they'd soon have problems with retailers (who are their principal immediate customers) were they to be undercutting them from their own shop. In my experience few retailers charge the full SRP but small businesses often don't have much scope to offer large discounts and most of us are pleased if we have a local model shop that invests in holding a good range of stock. Obviously the more mainstream and higher volume items carry more scope. Pecorama has much to offer the visitor and I agree that the shop itself plays a useful function by allowing the modeller to inspect the whole range. John