Lionel is typical of so many companies today. Manufacturing in so many categories is run by so many marketing, MBA, and accounting types that do not know a screw driver from a drill press. or metal from plastic. or if it is not in the computer it does not exist.
Or Christmas is a rock music pumped up Santa. John Armstrong ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 5:12 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: U33C - Can we make our comments constructive ? If we all are resigned to the scale market not growing, and if we talk negatively, and especially if we write negative emails like this to a large audience, possibly including Lionel managers, we may succeed in keeping it about 1 in 10. I would hope we would encourage Lionel to offer items that would have more direct appeal to the scalers. Ed's response was constructive. It was intended to reflect that the UCC3 loco as offered may not give a true gauge to Lionel of the scale market with so much of the cost being electronics that most scalers cannot use on their layouts.. A better test of the scale market would be to off the U33C with and without the TMCC/Legacy stuff as well as with a choice of wheels. I think Lionel's mikado, if it had been offered with scale wheels, and without TMCC, would have been a good seller to the scale market. It was a quality product, and though expensive, was much cheaper than buying brass. And it would have been at least some cheaper without the TMCC. Just my opinion. - Earl Henry, Nashville In a message dated 12/26/2011 3:47:04 P.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I think the answer to this conundrum is implicit in Ed's response in terms of the S scale market. From Lionel's point of view, there simply isn't one. Our numbers are too small for Lionel to bother with. Let's remember that the USRA locomotives were never produced with scale wheels either. Ron Bashista once told me that scale locos represent 1 in 10 of his sales. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6744 (20111226) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6744 (20111226) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
