Originally Posted by
mrrabbit
Shops in my area lately have been getting Sapim 14g's in bags of 500 for .19 apiece...and then turning around and selling them for 1.00 to 2.00 apiece depending upon the shop...
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Where, pray tell, are these shop getting these spokes?
Are they buying long and cutting down, or are they stocking thousands and thousands of spokes? If they are able to provide small quantities of any size on demand, then I'd say that's worth a premium price.
I know that to buy boxes of specific-length DT 2.0 spokes from a distributor, then selling at $1 is pretty much a loss leader.