$75 cars? Will they sell?

[basementcalling]

Really? Street price on the new run of Atlas trash flats with containers is $74.99. $51.99 discount price listed at a dealer some on here are now familiar with that usually has low prices. Containers alone run $18.99 at the discount price, so $33 is the price of the 89 foot flat if my math is correct.

Will our market support this price for these types of cars? I thought $45 was getting up there for retail on the articulated auto racks, but $75 for a re run of existing tooling? Although the trash containers sold out PDQ, a number of roads on the trash flats are lingering in discount land on several websites, still available despite reductions in price to the $14-$19 range.

I'm very curious to find out if Paul Graf can shed some light on the factors that went into the pricing of the new run of trash flats. A couple other new runs posted for reservations with the same dealer, and they did not see the same increase in prices.

[John]

Doesn't surprise me ..

This is $140 msrp .. 110 street

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Have you seen the price of Porsche race brakes lately? Ouch!

[w neal]

"There is a great deal I would LIKE to say..."

I fear for the future of this hobby.

Got in himmel!

[dem34]

Little out of my price range, even if its a common car in my area. I'll stick to my fleet of 40' and 50' boxcars for everything.

[peteski]

I heard that the cars were cast from gold to maximize their weight for better tracking. 

[MK]

I heard that the cars were cast from gold to maximize their weight for better tracking. 

Well gold wheels should never tarnish or oxidize.  Hurray!  No more wheel cleaning!    

[learmoia]

Price increase is likely due to increased factory costs and maybe some anticipated T word costs..

If people are willing to pay it.......

~Ian

[spookshow]

If prices keep ramping up to this degree, perhaps it will eventually become cost effective to relocate manufacturing back to the US. I am more than a bit dubious about supporting an antogonistic communist regime with my purchases

-Mark

[thomasjmdavis]

Well, the flatcars are 27.95 MSRP.  One assumes the other $47 is for the containers. 
Except, apparently, it isn't.  They have sets of 4 trash containers listed at pre-order MSRP of $26.95  https://shop.atlasrr.com/c-657-n148.aspx

So, from what I can see on their page, if you order the flats and containers separately, the total is 54.90 MSRP. 

I am actually wondering if maybe the numbers were transposed, and the 74.95 is supposed to be 47.95.  except people paid the higher price (???)

I must be missing something.  I did just get a flu shot, and I am therefore a little under the weather....

[thomasjmdavis]

tOops. sorry, I see the 27.95 (trash flats with no load) I noted above are listed as "in stock" as opposed to pre-order, so would be an earlier run.  But still...

[bbussey]

The earlier runs would have cost close to that if they were offered as the combined item.

[wes_sutton]

Instead of whingeing about prices, why don't people tell us how they would go about making them cheaper.

And if you know how to make things cheaper here;s your chance to put Atlas (and others) out of business.

Go-on, entertain us, I love a good laugh.

[mu26aeh]

I watch Exactrail bulkhead flats and LBF 60' excess height boxcars go north of $60, so theirs people out that that will pay it.

[Point353]

Street price on the new run of Atlas trash flats with containers is $74.99. $51.99 discount price listed at a dealer some on here are now familiar with that usually has low prices.

MSRP of $56.95 at this dealer: https://www.fiferhobby.com/atlas-trainman-plus-85-trash-flat-car-with-msw-containers/