Beer

[Tom Haythornthwaite]

How do the prices at the Peco shop in Beer, Devon, compare to the High Street or on-line dealers?

[rod335]

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

[Tom Haythornthwaite]

Aha, thanks!

[Allscales]

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...

[John Atkinson]

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