tower won't ship hpi stuff overseas anymore!

[WillyChang]

Headsup guys.

HPI has managed to convince Tower Hobbies to cease export of HPI stuff. [:0]

Item Note E - Shipping Restricted Item

Cannot ship to the following: Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brunei, Bulgaria, China People's REPUBLIC, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, England, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, South Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Serbia And MONTENEGRO, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Russia, United Arab EMIRATES, Macedonia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovak Republic, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and United Kingdom

[El Mexican]

I sense a strange spike in local prices of HPI products....

[Shodog]

I sense it's more a exclusive distributor rights with those countires. With it's buying power, Tower could easily undercut many small time distributors in those countires.

[Twmaster]

Geez, looks like it would have been easier to list the countries they *can* ship to!

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[DJTheo]

quote:Originally posted by El Mexican

I sense a strange spike in local prices of HPI products....

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Unfortunately they were already much higher here and in every shop I found the same, seems they control their market very well [V][]