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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

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