I'm in a unique situation here that I know what stefen is talking about shipping. I know this because my 2 Brother-in-laws run a shipping import/export company.
as for the price of tires,
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Search/D...erm=grp&CatId=
A set of foam tires for my NT18 cost $10 for the whole set! They make a whole lot less of those than they do with the bigger ones.
A full set(4 tires) of Foam tires for 1/10 I feel the price should be $25 or less.
Even at that, if that were the cost, at the Roar Nationals next month, if you figure 100 racers with 4 sets of tires for the week (small estimat), thats $10,000 in tires alone. That works out to about $6.25 each.
But I love numbers so much, I will give the Stated price of $18.99 and $19.99 a box, that works out to $15,592 or an average of $9.75 a tire!
Does this sound Crazy?!
If you look at the work that goes into a hotwheel car and they can sell it at the price of .89cents, if Walmart were to get into selling tires, They would be about $4.00 a set!