Rusty is right, and that applies to me. But my point really is about a dearth of product. There was a little shop, actually two of them, both now closed in a nearby city, where, when you walked in, the shelves were almost bare. When I asked about it, everything was on backorder and overdue. With nothing new to sell, how can anybody make a buck? Every time Apple introduces a new $500 toy there is a line down the street....not sure, but suspect that has something to do with innovation. IF you have
an LHS, have you seen a line down the street anxious to get in? I think that is the
reason LHS's have vanished...nothing new to sell. Maybe the market doesn't exist?
Maybe the days of K-Line and Weaver and Williams all over the shelves so when you
walked in there would be some road name item you had to have, are gone, with a
declining population of interested buyers?
And I have found the weird (to me) train marketing also applies to automobiles. Dodge
Dakota pickups were catalogued for two years as available with V-8's and six speed
manuals. Two years in a row I tried to order one, as a more compact pickup that would take less garage space and still tow a trailer. Order rejected both years, and
none were produced (truck is no longer made, which is what they deserve). Also was
interested, at another time, in a Toyota Solara coupe, catalogued with manual. Tried
to get one..."Oh, that is not sold in this region!". Huh?? (it was in the bleepin' catalogue) I did test drive two, wrong colors, at the dealer in York while there. Guess York is in the "right region". No plans to visit Toyota again. Running into similar problem with Korean makes....one was only offered for two years, and the other apparently has the Toyota problem, as it is impossible to find one with the right configuration to test drive, in this state. (like the Dakota and the Solara, the car I am
driving is not made any more, either, so have to find something else)