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Old 2019.01.04, 12:31 PM   #2
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Number of things play into this. The specific model chosen may have higher licensing costs that are carried in the cost. Also depends on what version your looking at, which electronics it includes. Could also be a less desirable model a shop/Kyosho is simply looking to clear out.

Kyosho often discounts stuff to retailers, it’s up to the retailer to pass that savings on or not. A retailer may be lowering the cost appropriately while other are not or others did not buy at the same low cost thus maintain higher price. Kyosho doesn’t publicly advertise these sales to retailer so it often just looks like some stores have much higher markups, which some really do.

What I’ve always found hilarious is Kyosho MSRP they advertise to retailers suggesting they are providing a much better deal as it’s more often than not grounded in reality or market rate at all but some ‘premium’ branding inflated cost assumption suggesting there retailer pricing is much better than it really is. There are rather small margins on mini-z stuff in general and many have to keep it that way simply to stay competitive.
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