Jim R. posted: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 it 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.
*sigh* Yes, of course the Big Corporations' greed is completely responsible for all our woes. How silly of me to suggest that economic reality has anything to do with it.
Other companies have shown that it is possible to return/retain domestic production with reasonable prices--heck, Lionel is doing some of that themselves.
