American Excellence, Fighting for the Collector?

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American Excellence, Fighting for the Collector?

Post by [KRAFTIG] » Sat Jun 24, 2017 9:12 am

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American Excellence, Fighting for the Collector?

Our site sponsor is in a bit of a pickle with the North American heads of GT Spirit. As the article states there is pressure to increase pricing north to align to suggested retail ($99.95US to $139.95). The only miss, the increase doesn’t correlate to the European pricing when comparing both. Thumbs up to American Excellence on taking a stance. What are your thoughts folks?

On a lighter note the team at American Excellence is offering 20% of their entire lineup until June 30th

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Re: American Excellence, Fighting for the Collector?

Post by F80pilot » Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:28 am

Any company that takes advantage of the American market is no company I will buy from again.

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Re: American Excellence, Fighting for the Collector?

Post by Model Maniac » Fri Oct 19, 2018 9:29 am

I had a feeling time would prove Klaus’ story to be bunk. The latest two offerings on the American Excellence site for GT Spirit are at $169.95. They’ve lost me as a customer.

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Re: American Excellence, Fighting for the Collector?

Post by [KRAFTIG] » Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:19 am

Model Maniac wrote:I had a feeling time would prove Klaus’ story to be bunk. The latest two offerings on the American Excellence site for GT Spirit are at $169.95. They’ve lost me as a customer.
Price are supposed to go down not up! :scratchhead:

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Re: American Excellence, Fighting for the Collector?

Post by JamesonsViggen » Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:29 am

Yeah, AE's pricing on GTS and Otto are terrible. I will not pay $120 USD for a car that has retail of $59 Euros. Instead I have 2-3 eBay sellers I buy from weekly. I have been winning new Otto and GTS cars from them for $40-80 USD depending on luck. AE also has the worst pricing on Autoarts. For example their sale prices on Autoart 997 GT2/RS 3.8-4.0 is still 2-3x the sale price of CK. Oddly, prices on cars like BOS are more than fair at $119-129 USD.

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Re: American Excellence, Fighting for the Collector?

Post by Model Maniac » Fri Oct 19, 2018 11:13 am

JamesonsViggen wrote: Oddly, prices on cars like BOS are more than fair at $119-129 USD.
If I'm not mistaken, Klaus owns BoS. That would explain that.

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