About Us
Main Trading Company- We are a real Brick and Mortar radio store in Paris Texas. We are located about 100 miles northeast of Dallas.
From Humble Beginnings
We Started in 2009 when Richard lost his job in sales due to a stuggling economy. We Started selling on ebay. We would drive to DFW and bring back small pick up loads of surplus and closeouts. Our neighbors were really proud of us when we received our first truckload delivery at our home! In just a few short months the volume got out of hand and our living room and patio looked like a warehouse. We rented a small store front in Beautiful downtown Paris Tx in June of 2009. Times got even tougher when Christine lost her job as a radio announcer. She came on full time as well.
Serving the radio hobbyist community since 2009
Being an avid ham radio operator, Richard thought it would be great to sell some ham radio items in our original store along with the surplus we were carrying at the time. We starting importing many items. We started attending hamfests and buying and selling used gear. We started building a name. Kenwood, Icom, Alinco and Yaesu came on along with many accessory brands over the years.
We moved around to bigger places and smaller places as we have honed and adapted to ever changes market conditions. At one time we were doing almost 30 hamfests a year as we built our brand and our name.
We are still learning, growing and adapting.
We have made many changes while we have been in business. The one constant thing that we learned early on that has not changed is that if we trust God and treat others fairly great things can and do happen
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Thank you for your continued business and support
Update:
In the Summer of 2024 we moved to our current location. This was our warehouse before. We can now have everything under one roof. We downsized our retail store a bit but the storage and warehouse area is much larger. No more runnign back and forth across town to fill orders. As we continue to evolve we hope to be around for years while always striving to serve you better.
It has been quite a ride, Ya'll. We have raised three kids out of our little hamstore. Many great things continu to happen. We are amazed