$123.18 must be price of the day

[ScaleCraft]

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Upchuck Central.

No center sill (and maybe this prototype didn't have one), end steps missing (see the place they WERE), tin sides, fetching paint job, I am particularly fond of the baggage door on one side re-glued to the OUTSIDE of the car side. Special. Custom! And the other one is half falling out.

Those porthole ends gotta be worth something. They are not the same height left to right, probably used eyelets, a drill bit, and glue.
I forget who made those red couplers that the uncoupling pin never stayed where you want it. I have a bag of them...junk.

Opinion. Yeah, I know, Trainz rules!

[De Bruin]

We got a very similar pair of these Walthers MU's about a month or so ago from them for the same starting price, same paint, different lettering scheme (finish wise this one wears the "Tichy" scheme) and oh yes the combine was powered and it runs well, albeit one of those noisy vertical open face truck units Walthers sold for their Doodlebugs, MU's, Interurbans kits. At the time they had two other lots of LI passenger cars, one five car set in the silver and blue MTA scheme, and three in Tuscan lettered for LI. Both were coach. combine and parlor sets though and not these MU's which don't really show up that often either. I would have liked to have met the builder to find out he used for road power as I'm a big fan of the Long Island.
Again this sudden jump in their pricing, while this one appears to have a slightly better finish quality (baggage door notwithstanding) than mine, it's certainly not worth double the price.

[E7]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-O-Scale-Long-Island-Combine-Car-1901-2-Rail/392823865849
Upchuck Central.

No center sill (and maybe this prototype didn't have one), end steps missing (see the place they WERE), tin sides, fetching paint job, I am particularly fond of the baggage door on one side re-glued to the OUTSIDE of the car side. Special. Custom! And the other one is half falling out.

Those porthole ends gotta be worth something. They are not the same height left to right, probably used eyelets, a drill bit, and glue.
I forget who made those red couplers that the uncoupling pin never stayed where you want it. I have a bag of them...junk.

Opinion. Yeah, I know, Trainz rules!

Picky, picky, picky!

[ScaleCraft]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If the great Burning Housefly and Burner thinks it's okay for Trainz to charge this (notice NO bidding..just pays me my monies now!) then I suppose it's okay for me to be..picky, picky, picky!

Like on the SC thread....I KNOW what it is, have a bunch, that one is too much once you add shipping, for all the work you need to do to make it presentable. I know that, too, as I have had to do mine.
i even have one, Virginian, that was an extended side version...and assembled backwards. Seriously.
Bulged sides to the inside, supports for side grabs on wrong end.

I have one I'll get back to one day...new in the box kit...one side smooth, one extended. Gonna build it that way and letter different on each side.

[bob turner]

You made me look. I don't understand your last post - you actually have one of these hideous baggage coaches in your collection?

If by Burner you mean me - I may be left-leaning, but I believe strongly in the free market for non essentials like toy trains. There is, in my opinion, nothing wrong with asking for ten times what something is intrinsically worth, or even ten times actual market value. Nobody is forcing a purchase.

I also believe in the individual right to pay too much. These two freedoms are almost as valuable to me as the right of free speech.

Again, I think Trainz is now doing consignment stuff. Price is set by the consignor.

[ScaleCraft]

BobtURNER.
Oh, they have the right. No question. I have the right to poke them and point out the idiocy.
If the consignor sets price, howintheheck does everything come up $123.18? Unless he's over 102 and it's his birthdate.

[bob turner]

. . . and Burner thinks it's okay for Trainz to charge this . . .

One could infer from this that you disapprove. Glad to hear that is not true.

Weird prices can arise from adding a percentage to a round number. Also they can arise from strange ideas about not choosing round numbers - up to the consignor. And finally, they can arise if the consignor is not in the US, and the exchange rate is fractional.

[ScaleCraft]

. . . and Burner thinks it's okay for Trainz to charge this . . .

One could infer from this that you disapprove. Glad to hear that is not true.

Weird prices can arise from adding a percentage to a round number. Also they can arise from strange ideas about not choosing round numbers - up to the consignor. And finally, they can arise if the consignor is not in the US, and the exchange rate is fractional.

Nonononono! Not disapproving or picking on you. Stating what it looks like you've said, and they do have the "right". Gotta say, though, Trainz (or, sellmytrains.com) has certainly contributed to the traffic on MTJ!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

If by Burner you mean me - I may be left-leaning, but I believe strongly in the free market for non essentials like toy trains. There is, in my opinion, nothing wrong with asking for ten times what something is intrinsically worth, or even ten times actual market value. Nobody is forcing a purchase.

I also believe in the individual right to pay too much. These two freedoms are almost as valuable to me as the right of free speech.

Yes, agree; no one is making anyone actually pay any of these prices for anything - that's choice and market. Everyone has the right to not buy any of it.

[Chris Webster]

I would have liked to have met the builder to find out he used for road power as I'm a big fan of the Long Island.

A high hood C420 on hi-ad trucks...

Dave, I presume that the $123.18 was calculated by a Trainz algorithm and that whoever programmed the algorithm it didn't think to include a roundup function.

[ScaleCraft]

I would have liked to have met the builder to find out he used for road power as I'm a big fan of the Long Island.

A high hood C420 on hi-ad trucks...

Dave, I presume that the $123.18 was calculated by a Trainz algorithm and that whoever programmed the algorithm it didn't think to include a roundup function.

Maybe. Possibly. Yet, to assign that number to powered units, tin passenger cars (unpowered) and cardstock one, with no regard to actual visible damage...odd.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I would have liked to have met the builder to find out he used for road power as I'm a big fan of the Long Island.

A high hood C420 on hi-ad trucks...

Dave, I presume that the $123.18 was calculated by a Trainz algorithm and that whoever programmed the algorithm it didn't think to include a roundup function.

Maybe. Possibly. Yet, to assign that number to powered units, tin passenger cars (unpowered) and cardstock one, with no regard to actual visible damage...odd.

They've got odd numbers attaced to all sorts of listings, none of which make very good sense.

[De Bruin]

A high hood C420 on hi-ad trucks....

Now you're talking, but not an easy model to find, especially with the hi-ad trucks, think Oriental's had the AAR B's
I think most LI modelers that I've seen opt for the Alco RS2, RS1, MP-15's and GP-38's,
though you could do the CPA-20's and 24's with the AHM shells and those CLW power kits,
the Lionel H16-44's are nice but have that split pilot.

Dave, I presume that the $123.18 was calculated by a Trainz algorithm and that whoever programmed the algorithm it didn't think to include a roundup function.

Innovative low tech pricing? or maybe just to move it out the door…… apparently not quite a failure either altogether as some of them have sold.

[ScaleCraft]

auto-adjust pricing! Maybe they read MTJ!
Same car, same road number, same baggage door glued to the outside, now only $119.37!
Buy it now! even cheaper!

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[robert.]

Safe to say " whatever their business model is.It work" Otherwise they would be belly up.