Fair Price for a Rivarossi Allegheny

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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What seems to be a fair price???Ihave seen anywhere from $340 to $1200 might as well buy a BLI…[:)]

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I have this three year old “Beast from the East”. It had a MSP of $585.00 back than.
Ball park, $400.00 if you can find a new one. Trainworld did have them early spring for $345.00

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i would wait to see if hornby reintroduce it.
i am still trying to find out if it is on their reintroduction list for this year. made in china it could be much cheaper.

Peter

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I am telling myself they will have another run, and will either offer undecorated or Virginian. And then I will be forced to get one.

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they are going to re-release the big boy. i have started a new topiic for that.

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Thanks for all the replies to my question. I think I might wait to see if Lionel may come out with one as well. I feel in love with the challenger they offer in the HO scale. Does anyone like what Lionel has done lately?

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Lionel will not be releasing anymore HO products, ineednot. They just pulled out of the HO market. It’s to bad, their stuff was good, even if it required tweaking to run good.

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340 is a good price. any less is a steal [:)]

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So you’re the one who out bid me! LOL

Hopefully Hornby will be really nice and rerelease it. Maybe if we all write and ask them to rerelease it, it would help.

Although I’m sure most sellers intentions are pure, I’m a little dicey about paying greater than MSRP on something you have no idea about the running condition. Add to that the fact that Riv. is in transition now, what does that mean for the warranty work? Anyone?

I guess what I’m saying is you better be prepaired to dough out more money for a repair shop if you can’t do that work yourself. (Hence forth why I stopped at $325…that and my budget won’t go any further!)

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i am sure rivarossi would honour the warenty on the new re-release and i am sure some spares will become available for the earlier one in time but i doubt they will repair it.

Peter

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[quote]
QUOTE: Originally posted by DigitalGriffin

As of now, you have to ask the distributor such as Walthers as to domestic warranty exchange
since there is NO Riv authorizied/free domestic repairs.

I received that exchange(12 months) assurance directly from Walthers when I bot my FEF-3s.

Once beyond 12 months is the question going forward and NOBODY has that answer.
The FEF-3 carries a 24 month repair warranty but then that would have to go to Italy for free
service and it costs $21.00 to ship it.

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I let the allegheny go and bought two Lionel Challengers one in gray with yellow and the other black…which is coal feed.

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Let the tweeking begin!

Seriously, let us know how the units YOU recieve run. I regret getting mine.

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I consider 350- the max for a Alley. Obviously if someone rereleased the engine (BLI… hint hint…) I will be willing to push my pennies towards 500- but it will be a major purchase and frightfully expensive. For the money I would ask for QSI and DCC .