Originally Posted by
burnside
You mean $20 as the original ws 249. Local hobby shops still show 150 so I wonder if this is a before Christmas freight hike or online only thing? I doubt it will ever come down from the site but I wonder if hobby shops will stay at the original price. Traxxas has sometimes had slightly higher prices online.
Yep, my math was off.
My assumption is Traxxas raised the price because they feel they priced it too low. They undercut Associated by $10. If that other number is what I think it is, there was absolutely no reason to raise the price, unless something is coming that they see, but we haven't yet.