Comments on: Denver Train Show Report http://www.buildingmodeltrains.com/denver-train-show-report/ Examples and stories of building model trains. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:01:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Scott http://www.buildingmodeltrains.com/denver-train-show-report/#comment-5 Scott Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:29:00 +0000 http://www.buildingmodeltrains.com/?p=9#comment-5 I'm with you on the train shows. Too many times you see something you'd like, and they are way above the ebay "water level." That and they are usually unwilling to negotiate. The two biggest defenses the dealers have against ebay is the instant get (i.e. you buy it and it's yours, in your hand with no shipping) and the visual/tactile sense of the item that you can't get from a picture. Until they get that, people will only pay so much of a premium for those two things, and meanwhile like you said, they truck around their tired old inventory for ages.<br/><br/>And yeah, Erin needs to give up more of the basement for trains :) I’m with you on the train shows. Too many times you see something you’d like, and they are way above the ebay “water level.” That and they are usually unwilling to negotiate. The two biggest defenses the dealers have against ebay is the instant get (i.e. you buy it and it’s yours, in your hand with no shipping) and the visual/tactile sense of the item that you can’t get from a picture. Until they get that, people will only pay so much of a premium for those two things, and meanwhile like you said, they truck around their tired old inventory for ages.

And yeah, Erin needs to give up more of the basement for trains :)

]]> By: Erin_Quinn http://www.buildingmodeltrains.com/denver-train-show-report/#comment-4 Erin_Quinn Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:59:00 +0000 http://www.buildingmodeltrains.com/?p=9#comment-4 You didn't tell them what you bought! You didn’t tell them what you bought!

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