Reservations about reservations, was Re: Precision Craft CF Cabooses

[NW Modeling List]

I certainly understand the importance of reservations from the 
manufacturer's standpoint.  However, I have some reservations about 
forking over cash before I see the product in question.  Before I go 
spend several hundred dollars (which is still a lot of money to me), I 
want to know that the model is worth it, what the construction and 
detail quality is, and hopefully see a review by a competent and 
impartial (are you listening, Bachmann?) reviewer.

So, companies that ask me to drop a couple hundred bucks in the pot in 
hopes of getting what they promised will have to look elsewhere for the 
funds.  IF they make a good product and IF it reasonably priced and IF 
it is something I need and IF I have the money, then and only them will 
they get my money.

Sorry, just had to rant a bit.  I mean, c'mon!  Did Athearn require 
advance payment on models?  Varney?  English?  Bowser?

Ken Rickman

NW Modeling List wrote:

> I never realized the importance of advanced 

> reservations relative to model production scheduling (at least at 

> Broadway Ltd).  If you look at it from their prospective (as a business) 

> why would you go to the trouble of producing something that has no 

> apparent market.

-- 
Kenneth Rickman - krickman1 at carolina.rr.com
Salisbury, NC

"Once admit that human life can be guided by reason, and all possibility 
of life is annihilated" - Leo Tolstoy