Homewood toy and hobby

[Jebb]

Do they just put in blind orders for a bunch of generic discs or what? It seems they always get in large shipments of semi-decent drivers and putters but there's never a ROC or hardly ever any mid-range discs to be found there. What gives?

["Tiger"]

they don't know what disc golf is. We don't have any true dealers here with the exception of tom. So unless you're ordering from him or online, I wouldn't suggest going there. Discs are also carried at Dicks, Academy Sports and Outdoors and the occasional gas station. Its all the same story though, a bunch of generic stuff thats good for first time players who don't understand the true variety of disc selection

[Jebb]

Maybe they just need a pro to go in and have a chat about what makes a good selection?

[Parkntwoputt]

Unfortunately that probably wouldn't help, however it is a good idea.

I don't know if you ever managed retail or been involved in the purchasing of merchandise, but a store with a selection such as Homewood Toy and Hobby, (a wide selection of many items, totally opposite of Wal-Mart). They often pay premium prices for their merchandise and there for sell it for higher prices then elsewhere. They cannot charge a standard keystone markup or more because then their prices would probably be sky high. And no one would shop there. As you can figure out, they probably have pretty low profit margins.

So how does this relate to disc golf? Well they just contact the company sales reps for discraft and innova and order bulk quantities of their cheap stuff and the stuff that does not move that fast. Vendors like Tom are picky with what they want from the manufacturers, so Innova and Discraft unload all the crud to places like Homewood Toy and Hobby.

Everyone in the business knows this, even HTB knows this indirectly. However, they do not have the inside knowledge of what is popular and what is not. But if they were told, and tried to order the popular stuff, they would find it would be priced slightly higher (or recieve smaller discounts) if Innova/Discraft operates like a normal company with pricing policy. I bet you can get 500 DX Cheetas for cheaper then you can get 500 DX Wraiths. (See Supply and Demand Theory in Economics 101).

However, I found a few gems at HTB. I found two first run Z-Buzzz's and got them for less than $30 after tax. Since they were more expensive $18 to start, none of the regular HTB customers bought them, and chose the DX discs instead which were cheaper. Well after over 2 years on the shelf, and not selling, eventually HTB lowered the prices on these discs, and viola I walked in.

I hope you enjoyed the Econ Lesson.

[drdisc]

Jeeb, I'll be out this weekend with the mobile pro shop.
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[Jebb]

Strangely enough this weekend I'll be venturing out to the course at AUM to give it a try. Is it decent?

I talked to you once several months ago, you gave me some good disc purchasing advice but now that I know what I want I'll find you again one weekend. What day/times do you typically hang around? Still in the white minivan?

["Tiger"]

he's always in the the white minivan :cool:

[drdisc]

AUM is set up, in short, long, short etc. It should be easy if there is no wind.
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[Jebb]

AUM is set up, in short, long, short etc. It should be easy if there is no wind.
I finally made it out to the AUM course and played it 2x this weekend. Very nice, almost completely open course with holes you'd think are easy - until you realize the strong wind never stops blowing out there :mad:

Anyhow, shot +5 both days but this was with a ton of 'practice tee offs' on several holes the first round :D Oh yeah, got 2 new players hooked too.