Good one Pete....Welcome to the limited run lottery, where you may or may not get what you ordered and \or it may not work, or you may or may not be forced to ship it back after may or may not experiencing repetitive missed delivery dates or it may or may not be a limited run. Round and round she goes, where the buck stops er..nobody knows.
I lost count of how many similar threads there are with one or more of these outcomes. It's a fundamental shift in how the toy train business is run as a defacto standard that is geared toward collectors in the sense that they are expensive, complicated and as they say, may or not be a limited run. There was a columnist at another similar publication who was similarly irked. He named three or four so called limited editions that were not limited runs at Lionel due to the fact they were obviously re-run so Scott is not the only one who finds this sort of shell game irritating.
To me running the same item by parsing details is saying in effect, this is not a limited or exclusive run because the so and so is absent in the reproduction, is really stretching the meaning of exclusive or more accurately what constitutes limited or exclusive as this is not charity donation when you are talking a significant number of over one thousand dollars. I cannot help but think of the other thread on the late Thomas Kincaid where the value of a limited edition was so contentious, folks sued the guy. And so it goes. Not exactly a good portent for folks who believed what they read as a matter of trust issue, now or in the future
