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| Subject: | Law of Diminishing Returns? |  |
| Date: | Sep 22, 2005 |
| From: | Tim Streeter | |
I'm not a learned student of economics, but I would think there is some point where
a) the market is saturated by X number of versions of Tigers/Shermans/251s from Y number of manufacturers, adversely affecting the financial well-being of the manufacturers and/or their commitment to the market;
b) modelers get burned out on buying a "great-but-not-perfect" kit that replaces an older "good-but-not-perfect" kit in their collection, only for the newer kit to be replaced months down the road by a "greater-but-still-not-perfect" kit; add to this, of course, the aftermarket fixes for each of the kits;
c) aftermarket manufacturers (presumably a low-margin trade) get burned on styrene versions of their resin kits (how would a well-done Academy M5 or M8 affect TMD?);
d) the industry implodes when our wives and girlfriends superglue our eyelids shut and our fingers together when they total up how much potential jewelry is sitting in Tamiya and DML and Gunze and Cromwell boxes on the shelves.
Tim |
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