Hi Ed.K,
I have to agree with you, though my wife might not. <VBG>. Most of my HO
exposure re stock pretty well paid for my "S" collection. May not be as many
pieces, "but they sho' is pretty", and still more than I really need. I was
being very strict with myself, sticking to 1969, now I appear to have some more
modern stuff. I can blame Des Plaines. LOL.
Don MacDougall
UK.
--- In [email protected], Ed Kozlowsky <soldado7264@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> Â
> 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, MaineÂ
>
>
> >________________________________
> >From: Roy <hoffmanroy@...>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 7:33 AM
> >Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Promoting "S" In the Non-"S" Press
> >
> >
> >Â
> >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]
>
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