[quote="Pieter"]Ahem. I' m still building them and so is Ray Bean. It's just that I am not as fast as Nick.
I'm sorry to see that you are leaving the ship model market but I do understand the decision.
[quote="Mike@IHP"]
Not leaving it entirely, just wouldn't make any new kits after the CVA-01. I have an investment in the tooling for our existing kits. We'll make runs of existing kits as needed, but I don't see the need for many more of them either, so we can focus on some other projects I have in mind.
I have no idea how we'd sell the kits through anyone other than the distributors we have. And I've been learning of 'agreements' between the big domestic online vendors that are carving up the market between them. That means no competition and fewer products stocked, and one of them can try to sell our Colossus kits for near $100 on eBay because they can. That's a deliberate attempt to kill our product range as I see it. I was wondering why one of them wouldn't even return my inquiries. And this is just the big, well-known domestic vendors. International vendors are just as biased against stocking IHP kits. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about and it started much earlier than that.
But I'd walk away from ships entirely if I could. Even personally, I'm just not interested in buying or building ship kits anymore. The past 30 years of dealing with the ship business as a whole has left a bad taste in my mouth.
Mike Bartel
IHP
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