for a disc that 99.5% of the population has exactly zero need for.
Probably could pick up a vintage, new Innova Ram for a 10 bucks.....just about as useless.....not quite, but just about.
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for a disc that 99.5% of the population has exactly zero need for.
Oooor you can just buy a firebird factory second for 11$ and move on with your day.....:|
You need a "rock"
for a disc that 99.5% of the population has exactly zero need for.
Not sure I agree with this completely. I found myself throwing it 4 times last weekend. 3 times to get out of jail and do a 90 degree bend around some trees and once to make throwing the grenade super easy on a crazy hole layout that had me going down a 150 foot sheer drop off down hill over some trees.
It's uses are really limited, but the Tilt does come in handy situationally.
The local disc shop in Albuquerque is shutting down for a month due to lack of supply.
I don't think a month is going to help.
In the case of this local shop in NM, the owner knows what their fixed costs are just to have the shop open for business. If they can't receive enough inventory to cover those costs do they do what they currently are and close indefinitely until things change, or do they increase prices by a couple bucks in order to help offset the lack of volume?
I don't own a disc golf store and would love to hear from someone who does. But I wonder if the issue is:
Contracts with the manufacturers: ie. you can only charge x amount over what we sell them to you for.
or
Competition: if the store raises their prices, what will keep people from going to a 'big box' store (Dick's Sporting Goods, Walmart, etc) or online for their discs?
From what I've seen, I don't think it is the slim profit margins. It is the lack of product. If you are getting a shipment every couple of weeks and you sell that shipment out in a couple of hours, it doesn't really make business sense to turn on the lights and pay someone to sit in front of empty shelves and tell everyone that walks in that you have no idea when/what the next shipment will be.