Re: C&S Brass, Any Scale, Listed on eBay

Posted by Todd A Ferguson on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Brass-Any-Scale-Listed-on-eBay-tp12787p16064.html

Jim,  it’s not that the models are necessary rarer or more valuable in 2020 than they were in 1990; your dollar is just worth much less and has less buying power.  I have a number of those PBL late 1990s to say 2004 models and they are nice but to some extent not still worth what I paid for them new.  I believe Bill also hurt the value of the K27s when he did the hybrid ones that were half the cost.  That upset some people...  Many of the locomotives I have are 1 of 10 or 1 of 12 as specific versions and paint jobs.  The issue for me becomes if I ever did sell any the odds of getting the same version back in many cases would be very slim.  So, I will likely die with them.  But the same holds true for some models I bought in HO in the mid 1980s.  In many cases if one is patient you can buy S/Sn3 structure models on the used market for quite a bit less than when new.  But some also fetch a premium too.  It’s an interesting market.

I had an interesting discussion with Bill about the brass market in the late 1990s.  He was starting to work with Boo Rim and was frustrated that Samhongsa had stopped building models and become a big in the auto parts supply I believe.  It was a changing market and I was impressed that Bill had come up with his third, third, third payment plan to fund new projects.  That worked very well I thought.

This also holds me back from going further into On3 C&S as finding the locomotives I would want could take a while...  Plus I have a lot of Sn3 already in place...

Todd