Chuck K posted:3. I also talked to Doug about MTH direct selling the flat car with trailer for $35 via Ebay, and he was not happy to say the least. Pretty rotten way to treat your dealers who have stock sitting on their shelves.
Yeah, it sucks. But the reality of it is, there aren't that many S dealers to p*ss off, compared to O Gauge dealers.
An LHS I deal with doesn't carry S be it Lionel or MTH, but will is willing to order it, even with MTH requiring him to buy two freight cars of each one ordered. (He carries a lot of MTH O.) In other words, when I bought my two scale-wheeled IC piggyback flats, he had to take two more for stock. They hung around the store forever, I think he finally sold them on ebay.
Fortunately, he doesn't have to buy two MTH S locomotives for every one ordered...
Needless to say, seeing his S clientele can be counted on one hand minus two fingers, I'm not going to burden him with getting stuck with any more hard to move stock.
Rusty
