"I LOVE THAT MEGA-SCALE T⁴ *** MODEL, BUT HOW CAN I POSSIBLY AFFORD IT ...

                               "I LOVE THAT MEGA-SCALE T⁴***
                        MODEL,  BUT HOW CAN I POSSIBLY AFFORD IT ...

... especially in this economy ? I saw it for sale on an on-line forum, but the seller wants $23,000 for it and I don't have that much cash, nor could I justify spending it even if I did have it!"

[The same complaint is valid for a giant scale live steam locomotive, but I'm restricting this discussion to focus our goals on acquiring electrically-powered Mega-Scale T⁴ models .]

In response to that question, let me ask you another question :

How many cars do you think General Motors would sell if it displayed the beautiful new Chevrolet Impala in an ad that ran only in Car and Driver magazine, quoted its purchase price at $39,000, and expected the full purchase price in cash at the time of sale ?

If you consider all the aspects of that question in the previous paragraph and considered them from a business viewpoint, you'd realize pretty quickly that the Systems Approach would insist that it's a Marketing Issue, and a solvable one !

Not many people outside the Plutocracy go down to the local shopping district with a spare $39,000 in their pocket, after having read the latest Car and Driver, with the intention of stopping in at their local Chevrolet dealer, plunking down that money, and driving off in their latest model ? We'd all still be walking or driving horse carriages .

If you couldn't do that for an automobile right out of the dealer's inventory, how much less possible would the purchase of a house be ?

Finally, how immeasurably less possible would be the purchase of a coveted, but unnecessary, "toy"? What can we -- the folks encouraging the growth of this hobby -- do to solve this problem?

We're going to suggest some solutions that just might have that Mega-Scale T⁴ streetcar model leaping off the seller's shelves and running through your special work tomorrow. Sound impossible? Stay tuned for solutions to this seemingly insoluble problem in tomorrow's BLOG .

NOTE : The solutions will apply to small and large manufacturers, start-up builders, retailers, and garage-based craftsmen, also .



*** T⁴ : Traction, trams, transit, and trolleys