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Received my Garden Railways mag today. Couple of interesting notes. 1. No mention of Team Largescale???? in St Aubin's pages What happned? did they hear, see, the comments, posts that were critical of the partnership? Who knows? Makes you wonder?? 2. My suspicions were confirmed today in the St. Aubin's ad Aristocraft and Bridgeworks (more to follow) are introducing" Map" regulations page 71 (lead off page of St. Aubins site) where Aristo is now compelling retailers to follow a minimum pricing standard!!" Only on advertised price not selling price" Heard the rumor couple of months ago through a retailer. So now Aristo tells retailers what thye're advertised price is? Kind of takes away the competitive edge doesn't it! And it reeks of a kind of "price fixing. Read the full details as I guess they can get around the map rules doesn't apply to only advertised prices, so they can determine and circumvent the ruling by other than advertised price!!!! So I guess the only way to get a good price is if you are "special " to the retailer, one of the chosen few, and the rest of us just have to hope we are getting the best price right? Opinions, comments???? Ran into this years ago in the business i operated. The big boys got the best price and us little guy's were left out in the cold as far as being competitive with the "big boy's"
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