For someone like me who doesn't socialize, the great motivator to change has been ebay. I had a lifetime of HO stuff and really wanted a change. I dabbled in On2 and O standard gauge for 20 years, but never made the untimate commitment. One day I discovered ebay. Now keep in mind I'm not particularly well off. I've never owned lots of expensive locomotives or anything else, but I am a modeler, and a pretty good one after all the years of practice I've had. When I started selling off my HO stuff, I didn't need to worry about not getting my investment back, it was more that I wanted to get something for all the work I had put in. I listed things at very low prices to start the ball rolling and because I thought it would be fun to give someone a bargain, and they began to sell, and I mean SELL! Before I knew it, I was listing, packing, shipping, and selling more. Some of the prices I was getting were ridiculous. I still remember an HO hearse I sold to a guy from Brazil for $60 that I paid $3 for. The reason I'm writing this is to say that "I have too much invested in HO" simply translates into, "well then it won't cost you anything to switch to S, just transfer one asset into another! When I realized O wasn't going to work for me, Guess what? all those assets went through ebay and were invested in S. I know some folks have very expensive tastes. But it's a whole lot easier to sell a $10 item for $30, than it is to sell a $1500 item for $1200, especially if you're affraid you'll get cheated. This wasn't a well thought out financial plan, its pure serendipity.
Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine >________________________________ >From: Roy <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 7:33 AM >Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Promoting "S" In the Non-"S" Press > > > >Actually we do manage to get the message out that there is more to S than AF. >It's like a runner who clears the first hurdle. Then you run up against other >hurdles higher than the first one. >"If I had to start over, it would be in S, but I have too much invested in HO". >or "Their isn't much available in S". > >The only answer is that we need people new to the hobby to choose S. >OK, now how do we do that? Good luck with problems like hobby shop exposure, >lack of train sets, etc. > >Other that that we'll have to be satisfied with the occasional convert just >like it's been for the entire history of S scale. > >BTW, it's interesting how we segwayed from an SGMR to renaming the NASG, etc. > >Roy Hoffman > >royhoffman.com/pwrr > > > > > [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/
