Rule292 posted:The Yoder cars were sellouts at $329 and routinely fetch <>$400 in the aftermarket. Somebody must be buying them.
True, but it's not me buying them,
I have 2 All-Nation cars and 2 more that I scratchbuilt and that's probably 3 too many.
As the MMW reservations prove, there are a decent group of people are willing to pay for quality.
How many people are in a "decent"?
As nothing has yet to be delivered from MMW, no one realy knows for sure just what they are really buying other than an article of faith.
I'd love to believe that kits would be the salvation of the "well detailed O scale freight car dilemma" but that has not proven true in this scale. Moderately priced accurate model kits like the Intermountain cars languish at a meager $20 and even the San Juan kits (top notch scale models) are easily found under their original cost.
Couple for reasons for that condition; there's a glut of kits and a decline in kit builders with an increase in instant gratification "modelers". Glen G. made a kit for the ventilated car ( that's the 3rd option for such a car); I wonder how many were ever sold and how many were even built.
The original attempt at semi-scale Sunset freight cars did not sell well. They were somewhat accurate but not as well detailed as their peers which may have hurt them. "We want brass with $100 plastic car prices with $400 Pac Limited detail" is certainly one of the (flawed) thought processes that goes on in the scale.
Idon't remember those cars at all; seems a dubious decision. Yes, there is that mind set, too. That's the flock of little birds flying around going Cheap! Cheap! Cheap! But you do know that they also want $100 plastic cars for $10, too,
Given the stink when any new model comes out and we all start picking out it's flaws, I still believe that is a much bigger issue than price alone that hinders things like an O scale SU boxcar.
All too true; now wait for the MMW cars to arrive and see what happens,
Sadly, a lot of research and prototyping and design work for not a lot of return.
Not a business that I would ever consider being in, 
