[Darren Boyle]

To be fair to both the shops you mention, Kyosho stuff is the hardest to price up by far of any of the trade suppliers, for one "FDL" have no "RRP" prices to go by, for two, being based in France, when their orders arrive they have "NO VAT" on them included in our invoices. "Some" shops just add their mark up and go from there, but you do have to allow for the VAT also, since when you "sell" the parts you then pay VAT to HMRC so you still pay 20% on these type of goods.

Other huge factors are that since the 4th of Jan this year VAT rose from 17.5% to 20% this led to at least 2.5% going on top of all old prices, plus also FDL issued a new "2011" price list at this time and due to many reasons (including a very poor exchange rate with the Japanese Yen at present) many, many Kyosho parts have gone up by between 15 and 30% on prices we had in late 2010 (trhis is not juts Kyosho some other companies have had rises too, but the Kyosho ones were amongst the steepest to be honest). Any shop with stock they had from pre-2011 will be at much cheaper prices........

I am sure that JE wont be ripping you (or anyone else) off, they probably have just done their sums right and have "fresh" stock brought in at 2011 prices. You could probably find 20 items they are cheaper on than most and vice versa between any shops that you compare......

As an example we still have the slipper pads in stock from late last year, our price "at present" on them is just £8.75, but they will go up when new stock is required.............