Reasonable price?

[Lee W]

Not my thing but I was walking passed the local collectable toys/ models and other bits shop today and noticed this in the window!



Not my thing but thought it a bit steep at £65... is it?!

[peterairfix]

I would say about the average price as I a collectables shop where I am his prices can be steep but he does have some rarities also looking on ebay the prices are I would say artificially inflated

[Guest]

Most kits 1/35 seem to be expensive these days looking at prices on the web .

[Lee W]

I cant believe the way the pricing is going on kits today, I suppose due too more detailed kits manufacturers have to compensate for it, still a bit excessive in my eyes.
I get why people sale the rare kits for more but again some take it a bit far!

[Guest]

Don’t forget inflation, which is rather high of late (really? this is the first I heard of that … ) and the fact that modelling is a hobby practiced mainly by a fairly small number of people who do tend to have a reasonable amount of disposable income. This means relatively short production runs (= higher cost per item) but also the opportunity to sell for higher prices than it could.

[Tim Marlow]

Don’t forget inflation, which is rather high of late (really? this is the first I heard of that … ) and the fact that modelling is a hobby practiced mainly by a fairly small number of people who do tend to have a reasonable amount of disposable income. This means relatively short production runs (= higher cost per item) but also the opportunity to sell for higher prices than it could.

Short production runs also maintain sales because the fear of loosing out comes in to play from the punter’s perspective. This, in turn, means the item will stand a higher price than something permanently in a product catalog, rarer being seen as dearer. “It’s a bit dear, but I’d better buy it because I may not be able to get it again……”

[Guest]

25 years ago or so, I was in the then-premier military modelling shop in the Netherlands (De Lancier in Gouda, long gone ) when the owner, Rob de Jong (whose illness and subsequent death are the reason the shop is no longer there), told me that if he got, say, ten or twelve copies of a kit in, he would only place one or two on the shelves and the rest in the back room, to replenish the ones on the shelves when he sold them. This because, as he put it, if people see a stack of the same kit they’ll think, “There are plenty, I’ll get one next time” but with only one or two on the shelf, they think, “Better get it before it’s gone.”