From: Alan Lambert Lone Star Flyer Club Arlington, Texas Ed,... another way to look at it is to check out e-bay. Look at American Flyer Trains. According to some of the bidding , thevalue will never go down that low. For the scale stuff tere is not to go by yet. It has not bee around as long and the market is for the old flyer for now. Just an open thought. Alan Lambert
--- On Mon, 2/28/11, John Degnan <[email protected]> wrote: From: John Degnan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: The AF future...... To: [email protected] Date: Monday, February 28, 2011, 6:25 AM On the contrary, Ed... assuming the world as we know it goes on long enough... I believe that day will indeed come. After all, you are referring to a time when AF was still multiple times more popular than it is now (because there was no AM or SHS to compete with it AND because there were more of the older age group still kicking around who grew up with AF). So if you take into consideration that there are increasingly fewer and fewer of these older folks around every year demanding these old "AF collectibles", what do you think is gonna happen to all of these collections that are already owned by individuals once their owner is no longer with us? What is gonna happen to the market when their collection re-enter the market and re-saturate it with even more stuff that is wanted by, since the death of the collection's owner, one LESS collector??? Do you honestly think there are gonna be more and more 'NEW' AF collectors waiting in the wind to buy these collections ALONG WITH the remaining, unsold items still found in stores? No... I have very serious doubts about that. Once the demand is gone (along with those who grew up with it and place so much value in it), you won't be able to GIVE the stuff away. VALUE always has been and always will be based on DEMAND. As a very long time comic book collector, I can tell you that with 100% assuredness. And more volume along with less demand (generally) lowers prices. John Degnan [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 07:49 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: The AF future...... Chris....Don't hold your breath waiting for the ten cent AF car body. I doubt it will ever arrive. I speak as an "S elder" who spent his misguided youth searching for old AF heavyweight cars and spliced them to obtain a longer length. I looked high and low for cheap cars without trucks, couplers, only one good end, scratches, dings, chips, cracks, etc. A good deal for me was something like $15 per car, but most were triple that. And that was back in the days when a buck was really a buck. Eventually, all the loose AF heavyweights seemed to simply disappear long before AM got around to making a new bunch heavyweight cars. Now we can splice AM cars which are even more expensive. Some call that progress. Cheers...Ed L. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
