>>In hindsight, did the company address the ed. size and amt. of releases too late?<<

If you mean, did HL attempt to correct their oversizing too late, then yes I think they did. They misjudged the market and went to 9500 and 10,000 too quickly and they stayed at the higher edition size far too long. (And compounded problems by making GLOWS virtually indistiquishable from LEs.) I believe they'll find out that the 6500 and 8000 edition sizes are also too large and these too will exceed demand. Far better to err on the side of a too small edition size. But that assumes we're dealing with Collectibles.

The problem may compound itself. If more models must go through a smaller number of dealers it is unlikely this will do anything to increase sales. If sales fall off so will dealers - as Kaiz' may be witnessing. Fewer dealers may mean fewer new collectors.

8,000 people/families must each spend $82 (over $650,000 total) just to retire Old Point Comfort. Are there 8,000 people/families in the world who have the spare $82 and want that lighthouse model? How long will it take dealers to spend approximately $2.5 mllion dollars to buy up just the edition sizes for the models announced for 2000?

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