Mellow,
Thanks for your comments.
However, I offered no discussions as to "asking prices". People here aren't primarily concerned with the asking prices at which they don't buy, but with the actual purchase prices, that they have to pay. Selling prices, not just asking prices, are at an all time high.
People asked the question as to why prices are so high. I gave factual reasons for it. I'm sorry you don't like the answers.
I didn't solely blame the new gizmo items for the high prices. Please re-read the very first reason I listed.
Moreover, I didn't tell anybody to leave the hobby. If you like paying higher and higher prices for more and more gizmos and details, then that is great! But then that leaves little room to complain about the high cost of anything. (Every time a new Lionel or other catalog comes out, we see postings about how shockingly high the new prices are. And then, . . . people just buy.)
Do you seriously think that if folks stopped paying the higher and higher prices for the new gizmo items, and all other items for that matter, that the cost of those items wouldn't start to fall in a mere 90 days?
I just bought a new Williams 44 ton scale diesel, for $149, after refusing to pay the higher listed prices of $229 to $249 for six months. If everybody was calmer and waited longer before knee jerk buying and paying higher prices, then all of the prices would come down, dramatically.
Mannyrock
