Well said Sir, I stopped buying new models over two years ago and started buying a lot more second hand one's at shows and my local shop.
£19.95 for a Box van, That's the price on the Bachmann site is a joke, A guards Van at £27.95, When Oxford Rail sold theirs at just over £13.00?.
I was at a show last year and a Young lad with his Dad where looking on one of the stands, When his Dad saw how much was being asked, i head him say, "I am not paying that much for that, Lets go to the toy shop in town i get you something from there".
Don't get me wrong i am not asking for the models to be rock bottom prices, But prices that are not in cloud cuckoo land, If we want to bring new modelers in and not end up with a niche market things have to change.
Even my local shop is not ordering any new model in, unless you pre order it, He just can not sell them for the price that are being asked anymore.
My other model shop now only sells mostly second hand stuff and is doing well, again due to crazy new prices.