08-29-2011, 03:30 PM
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Ye Olde Rocket Shoppe
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 6,472
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Originally Posted by jadebox
Penn Valley Hobby Center is obviously using Gerry Fortin's site for reference when pricing their Estes kits. I wonder if they've sent him something as a "thank you" like we (YORF) did? :-)
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I used to be able to buy all kinds of OOP rocketry goodies from them at MSRP or less. That was until about 11 or so years ago when Mack Yocum turned them on to eBay and they realized the goldmine they were sitting on. They used to put out a newsletter that had a huge list of OOP rockets on it with pricing. That was before they started on the internet. According to what Mack told me years ago, they have an old barn full of old rocketry items. They are an old time hobby shop, but I'm not sure how they acquired all that stuff. Whether they just over-ordered all the time, or bought out inventory of other shops that were closing up.
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