LGB Limited edition - IIm scale Steam Rotary snow plough/plow
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David1226
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playmofire
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It's known as "simple maths", you just alter the currency sign in the front. When we first started to go to Malta, we noticed that the prices in M and S in Valetta were the same as those for M and S in the UK,, the only difference being that the latter had a £ sign and the Malta stuff a lire sign. But the exchange rate meant that the Maltese price should have been about 20% less! Needless to say, we bought stuff in the UK for our friends in Malta and took it out to them.
Zerogee
Clencher's Bogleman
Mike D's going to have to be a very, very, VERY Good Boy to get bought one of those......
Jon.
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He is not 'that' good!Mike D's going to have to be a very, very, VERY Good Boy to get bought one of those......
Jon.
Would you dare put that much model out into UK wet, soggy snow??
Something you knock-up out of an old battery-drill, and a Bachmann reefer, then yes..
Yes I would because it is "Fur drinnen und draussen"!Would you dare put that much model out into UK wet, soggy snow??
Something you knock-up out of an old battery-drill, and a Bachmann reefer, then yes..
I'm as good as I get!!!
tac foley
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Would you dare put that much model out into UK wet, soggy snow??
Something you knock-up out of an old battery-drill, and a Bachmann reefer, then yes..
Well I have to admit that I go plow-snowing with my live-steam Shay when the snow needs clearing off my raised track, and my £5 plow/plough that I call 'Maid of Bitz', but I opine that it's way more robust than this beautiful and no-doubt fragile scale model. It's best off where we see it in the movie - in a nice glass cabinet being admired by the Great Unwashed.
tac, one of the great Unwashed.
Neil Robinson
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Maybe £4300 inc 20% vat and $4300 excluding sales tax.
AustrianNG
Director of my railway
A superb model indeed, if I bought one it would have actual snow plough duties once or twice a year on the Linz Gstadt Bahn.
As for the price comparison of £ vs $ it's all about the middle men - presumably Hobbycraft are still the "Mr 10%" middle men in the UK.
If I bought one it would be direct from Germany (see below) where you can buy it for 3,465 euros or £3,200 or thereabouts - so massive mark up by GRS. Tut tut.
https://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_fro...C0.H0.Xlgb+26605.TRS0&_nkw=lgb+26605&_sacat=0
As for the price comparison of £ vs $ it's all about the middle men - presumably Hobbycraft are still the "Mr 10%" middle men in the UK.
If I bought one it would be direct from Germany (see below) where you can buy it for 3,465 euros or £3,200 or thereabouts - so massive mark up by GRS. Tut tut.
https://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_fro...C0.H0.Xlgb+26605.TRS0&_nkw=lgb+26605&_sacat=0
tac foley
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I don't know abour Euros as I don't spend any time in Europe, but I DO spend a lot of time in the US of A and Canada.
Today's US dollar XR is a tad over $1.40 to the pound, so if it was a straight one-for-one exchange it would be ~£3056.00. VAT on that would amount to £611.22.
That gives a total so far of £3667.37.
GRS have to get their stock from the man in the middle, who has to pay the initial ex-factory price and transportation costs, AND has to make a few bob to keep the weans fed. GRS also have a fine store to maintain, staff to pay, and a living to make, rather than exercise in model train philanthopoy, much as we'd like it to be different.
The US price is the store price, and if I bought it in most states I'd have to pay some kind of sales tax [Which varies from state to state], but that would not amount to very much at all. Oregon, where we live for part of the year, has no sales tax.
So buying one in Germany - where the darn thing was made anyhow - is STILL your best bet. Note that the German price includes THEIR version of VAT, called Mehrwertsteuer, @ 20%...
Can we expect to see one on your track?
tac
Today's US dollar XR is a tad over $1.40 to the pound, so if it was a straight one-for-one exchange it would be ~£3056.00. VAT on that would amount to £611.22.
That gives a total so far of £3667.37.
GRS have to get their stock from the man in the middle, who has to pay the initial ex-factory price and transportation costs, AND has to make a few bob to keep the weans fed. GRS also have a fine store to maintain, staff to pay, and a living to make, rather than exercise in model train philanthopoy, much as we'd like it to be different.
The US price is the store price, and if I bought it in most states I'd have to pay some kind of sales tax [Which varies from state to state], but that would not amount to very much at all. Oregon, where we live for part of the year, has no sales tax.
So buying one in Germany - where the darn thing was made anyhow - is STILL your best bet. Note that the German price includes THEIR version of VAT, called Mehrwertsteuer, @ 20%...
Can we expect to see one on your track?
tac
AustrianNG
Director of my railway
Maybe, the wallet is still in pain after buying the Garratt......
