Who are the leading online retailers?

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Hi,

I’m wondering if someone in this forum community might be able to help with some questions I have. I am a WP Carey School of Business student at ASU and I

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What is the purpose of this study?

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Are you looking specifically at the U.S. retail market or is it a world wide study?

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And are you looking for professional wx equipment users, or hobby users - which is most of the members here?

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I am graduating in may and this research is for a final business plan.

My focus of interest is the US market with regard to enthusiasts, so yes hobbyists.

The only sites I have come across so far are:

Can you think or name any others?

I appreciate the help.

Thanks.

CuriousStudent

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I don’t believe I have ever seen twister mentioned on here. I usually buy from either ambientweather or provantage.

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I would have to say that I also have never seen thetwistergroup.com (or don’t remember) ever really being mentioned.

The top two US based usually mentioned are ambientweather.com and provantage.com both of which I have done business with.

-Bob

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I don’t see any weather equipment on thetwistergroup.com :roll:

Mark

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Well after that last post I had to look and while I know i have never visited thetwistergroup.com before if you type in weather in their search box there are weather stations shown…

-Bob

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There’s also WeatherBuffs.com and not forgetting HobbyBoards. :wink:

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Niche vendors addressing the weather enthusiast market would include:

Weather Display of course
http://www.weather-display.com/index.php

Boltek makes and sells lightning detectors:
http://www.boltek.com/stormtracker.html

Astrogenic sells 3rd party software for above:
http://www.astrogenic.com/

Aninoquisi also sells 3rd party Boltek software:
http://aninoquisi.com/lightning2000.htm

Gibson Ridge sells personal radar display software:
http://www.grlevelx.com/

Storm Alert is the main competitor to Gibson Ridge:
http://www.interwarn.com/

Allison House is a data aggregator and sells data feeds for the two above radar applications:

Digital Atmosphere sells a custom weather chart / forecasting application:

WX Sim sells an atmospheric modeling application: