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HobbiCo / Great Planes / Tower Hobbies

calcagno45 said:
Well, I’ll agree on a flat federal sales tax if we’re trashing the income tax systems. But that’ll never happen.
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We have ZERO income tax state level here. All user or fees now sales tax is the last one left that isn’t totally wasted
And Amazon does have a center in FL so we pay whatever tax wheee that buildings zip code is

Hang up and Drive
 
skinnyj said:
It's not a cash grab, really. States with existing sales taxes are starting enforce what had been owed to them all along. Technically, when one makes a purchase outside of their home state that has a sales tax, the end user is supposed to pay a "use tax", which is essentially the sales tax. Because no one actually does that, now states are going to collect at the point of sale.

One upside to this is that it can level the playing field for local merchants.
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When they use my tax money to improve roads, improve schools, and provide necessary services, then I understand why they collect it. When they (California) use my tax money for grotesque social services that allows lazy people to stay on welfare, then it is 'cash grab'.

And honestly, I say 'improve schools' just because I think they are necessary, but I think people should get two kids for free and then taxed $5000 per year for every child they have in addition to those first two kids. Why should I have to pay more taxes because you don't know how to use a condom?

mikemcE said:
You missed the point, it all adds up, sales tax, shipping, merchant fees collected by banks.
Corporate profits can be manipulated , sales tax keeps many of us working, as state employees need the impact fees and sales taxes collected .
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This is called "creative accounting". Most businesses would go under if they played strictly by the rules.
 
We're way off topic now. Taxes could be a topic all their own so let's reign this back in on topic.

I was on Axial's site this morning and saw that they link to Horizon's Service Center.
 
Being that Horizon owns the Spektrum brand, I imagine that factored into Futaba deciding to handle their own US distribution and service. Either Horizon didn't want to distribute a competing brand or Futaba didn't want to be sold alongside Spektrum, possibly...

Then again, Horizon chose to distribute AE, so this was likely Futaba's decision.
 
skinnyj said:
Being that Horizon owns the Spektrum brand, I imagine that factored into Futaba deciding to handle their own US distribution and service. Either Horizon didn't want to distribute a competing brand or Futaba didn't want to be sold alongside Spektrum, possibly...

Then again, Horizon chose to distribute AE, so this was likely Futaba's decision.
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Unless I missed something, the only Futaba press release was regarding their service/repair and had nothing to do with distribution.
 
skinnyj said:
Being that Horizon owns the Spektrum brand, I imagine that factored into Futaba deciding to handle their own US distribution and service. Either Horizon didn't want to distribute a competing brand or Futaba didn't want to be sold alongside Spektrum, possibly...

Then again, Horizon chose to distribute AE, so this was likely Futaba's decision.
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Horizon distributes a lot of its competition.
 
Tower's site is down for me at the present moment. In all my years I can't remember this every happening to their website. I'm guessing lots of updates are coming to the site.
 
JatoTheRipper said:
Tower's site is down for me at the present moment. In all my years I can't remember this every happening to their website. I'm guessing lots of updates are coming to the site.
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I don't know... this doesn't seem right. It's kind of odd that they don't have any active/passive setup in place if they were indeed doing upgrades.

Usually when performing large site upgrades you'd run it on a separate environment without public accessibility for testing and then cut-over the traffic routing from the old environment to the new when UAT passes.
 
soze said:
I don't know... this doesn't seem right. It's kind of odd that they don't have any active/passive setup in place if they were indeed doing upgrades.

Usually when performing large site upgrades you'd run it on a separate environment without public accessibility for testing and then cut-over the traffic routing from the old environment to the new when UAT passes.
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Good point. I'm not an IT guy, but what you're saying makes sense and it's probably the same reason I've never seen Tower down in the past.

It's still down as of 11:47AM EST.
 
The site is still down as of 5:25PM EST.

I can do a trace to the server and it is listening on ports 80 and 443, so there is a webserver there listening. It looks like the site has been pulled down.
 
soze said:
I don't know... this doesn't seem right. It's kind of odd that they don't have any active/passive setup in place if they were indeed doing upgrades.

Usually when performing large site upgrades you'd run it on a separate environment without public accessibility for testing and then cut-over the traffic routing from the old environment to the new when UAT passes.
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Usually the first thing a company does when getting acquired by another company is ditch the IT team. (along with HR, accounting, etc) - I'm sure there's a ton of loose ends getting sorted out.
 
They posted on Facebook a while ago saying that they are working on the website issues.
 
Tower's site is back up. They unified some pricing. Parts that were on clearance on Tower are back up to full price.
 
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