I know the what people told me mark up parts when I sell them but when I increased the price of my trucks due to a cost increase some people yelled bloody murder when I had cut my margin. With the roves I would have to charge $11 each and that is at a lower margin than things have been in the past. I'm not into this to make money as it's a hobby with no stockholders but I do need to pay the bills. Do you think people will buy them?
Thanks,
Ken
I really wonder if there is much of a market for O scale passenger car kits. I have the 2 completed cars, 2 ready to be painted, plus parts for 4 more. I bought several ALW kits from P&D Hobbies 5 or so years ago. Those kits were 20 plus years old when I bought them. That's a long time to hold onto stock that apparently was never in high demand. If there were built up cars commercially available I would rather go that route as the kits take a long time to build, however, I doubt there is enough demand for these type of PS cars for someone like Golden Gate Depot to build them.
Besides the problem of a questionable amount of demand, there is the problem of additional detailing parts. Like I said earlier the supply of these are drying up. Decals are another problem. Before Champ went out of business I bought many sets of C&O passenger car decals so I have enough for my builds. Even then I had to have LBR Enterprises print up car name decals for me as the old Champ sets were gone. Microscale has pretty much quit doing O scale decals. The question is if you sell kits, will the buyer be able to find any additional parts and decals he may need.
If it was me, I would seriously question investing many thousands of dollars to bring these kits on the market without having a really good idea of what the demand would be. Kit building is becoming a lost art except amongst a few of us diehards.
By the way, I think $11 is a great price for the roof. if I needed one for a project I would have no problem with shelling out $11.
Ken
