Good news, mine just got here!!
Got mine this morning. Great job LCCA!
While these are no longer available for sale on the LCCA website, it does appear that LCCA folks have already made individual cars available on eBay -- but at oh what a premium... $180 for the helicopter car, $150 for the tanker, and $145 for the bay window caboose. And those are starting bid price-points -- not buy-it-now prices.
I'm in the market for just a tanker, but $150 is way out of line and too rich for my blood. 48 hours ago these were still available on the LCCA website for $339. (And formerly, if you had purchased the loco/calf/mint cars, they were available for even less... down around $269 if I recall correctly.) But now that they're delivered... going for at least $475 for all three? That much appreciation in 48 hours... REALLY???
I hope these sit at those prices for a few auction cycles. Then perhaps they'll be offered by LCCA members at more realistic price-points.
Hey, if they sell at those inflated price-points, so be it. I guess I'm the fool for not ordering my set at $269, then selling off the bay window caboose for more than half that amount. Guess I haven't learned how to play the game after all these years.
I'm just amazed -- but not completely surprised -- that these cars are now being offered at THAT much of a premium in such a short time-frame.
Should be entertaining to watch. If I never get the tanker, no big deal... the world won't end. In that regard, I stopped playing the "collectors" game a very long time ago.
David