palallin posted:I don't buy the argument that production costs here would be 2 or 3 or 4 times the costs in China: when the production moved FROM here TO China, prices rose; they didn't fall.
Don’t be naive. Prices didn’t fall after the shift to China because Lionel increased its profit margin by reducing production costs. But the cost of production in China is rising sharply and that is pushing the price up as well.