Originally Posted by Raman

@ Disaster999 - This has nothing to do with the TRF line ..

The prices from reseller in Japan and Hong Kong are too competitive for the likes of Tamiya EU and Tamiya USA. For this reason, Tamiya Japan is pressuring its dealers in the far east to either raise prices or not ship to EU and USA.

Banzai's entire Tamiya catalog was yanked about a month ago and now is showing sold out and RCMart and Stella are both showing out of stock on a lot of items. Banzai actually went through this a year ago and Tamiya forced them to reduce their discount by 10 basis points. It seems that was not enough, so now they are even pressing harder.