GGG posted:I am not whining, just point out, but again, Lionel walked away from this, but for some reason there is still a high demand, which means profit margin to make money??.
George,
I didn't make the comment about you. I was observing the same thing -- people want the product but they don't want to pay, seemingly. I have observed a similar thing happen with automobile enthusiasts. They will, for example, clamor for their favorite carmaker to make a 5 speed high performance station wagon, to take one niche example. And yet, when the car is offered, it doesn't sell enough copies to make the continued business justification worthwhile. So you would think, from the loud "whining" of enthusiasts that Acura, for example, would have sold a ton of those TSX wagons they offered a few years ago. Same thing with the BMW 5 series wagons. Yet, they get discontinued because the business case for them isn't strong outside of a few small, albeit loud, pockets of the support on enthusiast forums.
All of these cases support the notion that it is dangerous to attempt to draw credible conclusions from anecdotal evidence posted on Internet forums. It is what it is.
