<div dir="ltr"><div>I heard their plan was to move to a different location, but the rents were incredibly expensive, so that didn't fly. If you have been keeping track at the real estate here in the DFW metroplex during the past 5 to 8 years, you will have noticed the Californian Exodus has made our real estate prices sky rocket to the smithereens.<br><br></div><div>Buying them out sounds like a fun thing to consider but something tells me it would not have been cost effective. Of course going to the middle of nowhere would had always be an option and then the question would have been, would we have driven there to see what was new?</div><div><br></div><div>I will miss them for sure, but I am afraid this is just the normal course of the electronics/surplus world evolution. Maybe the next great thing will be an auction place?<br></div><div><br></div><div>JIQ<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:23 PM Keith Seymour via DPRGlist <<a href="mailto:dprglist@lists.dprg.org">dprglist@lists.dprg.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I was on the side that thought buying them out would be great but I bet they are losing the space.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 22:06 Scott Sumner via DPRGlist <<a href="mailto:dprglist@lists.dprg.org" target="_blank">dprglist@lists.dprg.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Invest and buy them out? Keep it open?<div><br></div><div>Scott</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 10:03 PM David Anderson via DPRGlist <<a href="mailto:dprglist@lists.dprg.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">dprglist@lists.dprg.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Yep. All my robots are built from
Tanner's parts. First Mike's Hobby, then this.<br>
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