Are today's kits and products overpriced?

I buy online almost very week (literally) and have for decades...I can't remember the last time something I ordered was damaged in shipping...

Manstein's revenge: My only concern is that the shipper handles the package inappropriately, I received a badly damaged Roden Sdkfz. 4/1 about a month ago, and they don't allow returns!

PaperPanzer

I really wanted to post this for a long time now, it has become very irritating, especially one with a fairly limited scale modeling budget.

To give you an example, my local hobby shop has a Ju- 87 Stuka in 1/48th scale by Tamiya for 69.99!  i have seen a lot of kits priced even higher, Trumpeter's 1/35th line can range up to 80- 100 + bucks!

I want to see what you think about this... please write a post.

There's a reason online stores are shutting down brick and mortar shops...