Last week I posted a bit of frustration about my Halloween F19 order not being fulfilled. I'm a huge fan of the whimsical trains e.g Halloween, Christmas, AEC, Area 51 to name a few. So not being able to acquire a limited production engine had me just a bit disappointed. Special thanks to Mario Trains for being able to provide me the opportunity to purchase the engine! It will be here later this week!!!
Sunrise Special
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That's great, I see train world is charging over msrp for them $1599.
@tom21pa posted:That's great, I see train world is charging over msrp for them $1599.
Yeah I noticed that...just a bit too much for me to justify. When I looked they had 21 in stock! That's alot of inventory!!! But.. Its their business and they get to charge what they want...that doesn't mean people don't notice and will take that into consideration for future purchases. 
BTW Mario's Trains price was $1164 with free shipping!
Regards,
Sunrise
Id like one. But really don't need one, def not paying over MSRP for one.
I received mine a couple days ago,I bought it from Nicholas Smith Trains.It was $1280 including shipping,maybe because it was their last one.Either way not too bad,$80 over the pre-order price minus the shipping.I don't get the whole Train World situation,I mean,how did they get so many of them when everyone else it seems received so few of them?Then they seem to have squirreled them away until everyone else was out of them to price gouge?By the way,they're doing the same with the NKP Limited Berkshires too!I am glad was able to get a hold of one for $1529,also from NST and again it was their last one!
Chris
@CRed posted:...I don't get the whole Train World situation,I mean,how did they get so many of them when everyone else it seems received so few of them?....
They pre-order and pay for them and sell them on speculation. They take the risk of tying up their cash vs. selling. Up to the seller the price and length of time they hold on to items. That is what all businesses had to do 30 years ago and before.
@VHubbard posted:They pre-order and pay for them and sell them on speculation. They take the risk of tying up their cash vs. selling. Up to the seller the price and length of time they hold on to items. That is what all businesses had to do 30 years ago and before.
Even so,I imagine they paid the same amount for them as everyone else did correct?If so then why the price gouging?If they were just worried about having their money tied up in stock why not sell them at $1169.99(or even MSRP) like most everyone else did because I would think they'd sell a lot faster at that price rather than $1599.99.And that doesn't explain why they raised the prices for their NKP Limited Berkshire #777 to $1799.99 overnight after selling them for $1599.99 the past week or so.Still...smells fishy to me.
Chris
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