[djjeffhall]

Jim,
Thanks for understanding my "logic".

Taking my post from above a (half) step further, I don't see all these birds being purchased at museums either. Museums would account for "casual" sales and account for all the sales, if the true market was so small. You see the bird, head out through the gift shop and go, "Oh look, neato!" and out goes another Lancaster. (For example, I've got more than one dinosaur model just by going through the Natural History Museum here in Los Angeles.)

However, another recent thread seems to indicate that museums are a PRIME market that is virtaully untapped by the diecast market. That would indicate to me that folks are walking into shops, or ordering from the internet. (I can't think of any other place to go outside of Tuesday Mornings?)

Also, since I've mentioned Tuesday Mornings, I would think that the way Corgi's FLY out the door their indicates there are a ton of collectors unaccounted for. Otherwise, who is buying up all the Tuesday Morning stock?

There are 7 or 8 TM shops in my immediate area (50 mile radius more or less?) and all the Corgis in all those Tuesday Monrings are gone within a week of the stock dropping. Unless there is one person with a warehouse full of birds and tanks, a lot of different people are buying these planes/tanks. Since we have a fairly wide range of persons, geographically, here on the forum and everyone reports the same things, that would indicate there are many avid collectors gathering up the Corgi's.

Getting those folks on this forum is another matter entirely. I collected for at least a year before I "discovered" the old model hanger forum. I surmise that many folks either don't know about the forum or don't care. That is there choice of course, but would indicate that we are the vocal few, they are the silent majority.