Price Reductions on Jeep Cherokee RTR and Kit

[JatoTheRipper]

It looks like the SCX10 RTR and Jeep Cherokee kit have gotten permanent price reductions. Noice! The email I received didn't mention a sale or anything. It just said price reduction so I believe these are permanent, but I've been wrong before.

Price decreases are always welcome.

Kit: $329.99 - https://www.horizonhobby.com/1-10-sc...152018_SURFACE

Cherokee RTR: $369.99 - https://www.horizonhobby.com/1-10-sc...152018_SURFACE

[soze]

How much was it reduced? $20? For some reason I thought the kit was already $330. I could be mistaken though.

EDIT: Ok, they were originally $350. Back when Tower allowed coupons on Axial it was around $330.

[Crawler Cads]

Limited time perhaps?
Curious as this may tempt buyers away from the builders kit as you'll be getting quite a bit more.
Perhaps not, need to do the maths!
My potential easy decision on the next rig has now gotten complicated

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[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by soze

How much was it reduced? $20? For some reason I thought the kit was already $330. I could be mistaken though.

EDIT: Ok, they were originally $350. Back when Tower allowed coupons on Axial it was around $330.

I believe it's a $30 discount on each - kit was $359.99 and RTR was $399.99 if I remember correctly.

Originally Posted by Crawler Cads

Limited time perhaps?
Curious as this may tempt buyers away from the builders kit as you'll be getting quite a bit more.
Perhaps not, need to do the maths!
My potential easy decision on the next rig has now gotten complicated

None of the other models (Blazer, Deadbolt, Honcho and Wrangler Unlimited) seem to be affected. They are probably just looking to move more of these older versions.

There's an outside chance that this is a sale to clean out all of the Cherokee kits and RTRs in order to push people towards the Raw Builder's Kit or one of the other RTRs.

[odomandr]

Horizon trying to bring down the price points in a move to combat the Traxxas exclusive offer.........speculation. But the vaterra prices came down too

[soze]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

I believe it's a $30 discount on each - kit was $359.99 and RTR was $399.99 if I remember correctly.

Nah, I think it was $349.99, going off RPP (was this price since 2016) and Powerhobby.

Unless of course this is a second drop from an originally even higher price.


RPP has the RTR at 389.99 (in 2016... they had the RTR for $409.99)

[Crawler Cads]

On the face of it this looks to be about £70 reduction here in the UK, that's without shopping around and based on horizon shipping here.
That's a significant drop.

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[Crawler Cads]

Lol, taxes and delivery make it £350.
Damn it.

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[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by soze

How much was it reduced? $20? For some reason I thought the kit was already $330. I could be mistaken though.

EDIT: Ok, they were originally $350. Back when Tower allowed coupons on Axial it was around $330.

According to Big Squid the RTR was $409 and the kit was $349. Tack $0.99 to the end of each of those for the real starting price I believe. So it appears this is not the first price drop at least on the RTR.

[Col_Sanders]

Either ditching the XJ RTR or standardizing it with the new housings and trans seems like it would make sense to simplify production, but Axial was always pretty weird about selling different configurations.

Originally Posted by Crawler Cads

Limited time perhaps?
Curious as this may tempt buyers away from the builders kit as you'll be getting quite a bit more.
Perhaps not, need to do the maths!
My potential easy decision on the next rig has now gotten complicated

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Nah...Unless you're a hardcore XJ guy, you'll most likely end up ditching the huge thin and fragile body, shovels for bumpers, and tires anyway so no sense in paying for all that.

IIRC the RTR was $409 or $419 when it came out but the price dropped to ~$389 a while back. Somewhere around the time the TRX-4 came out?