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Originally Posted by N. Eberhard
I will vouch for the fact that Gemini's main revenue source is airline orders, however any business person (inc. those at Gemini) will also agree that 20% (that would be us collectors) is an important chunk of revenue. Which begs the question, would I like to see 20% of my sales disappear? No. OTOH, would it be my death knell? No as well. Would Gemini/Dragon/Herpa, et al, miss any single collector here? Not in the least bit. Many hundreds of collectors have left this hobby for good most of which have been replaced by newer collectors.
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Can we draw a paralell here? GJ and DW. I would imagine that DW is also support in large by airline orders? How could then not be? Herpa too. If you agree with me then you will also agree that the collector business for DW is small and they should not care so much about it.
If that is true then why does the Dragon rep send to me 5 to 6 emails a week and maybe one phone call asking if I would like to buy something? Model kit, die cast, photos of Nick at Night...whatever. They love the collectors.
Norm