Cheekypaul Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Sometimes I find people may be asking a bit too much on eBay when they want to sell something.... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/O-gauge-windmill-with-fully-detailed-interior-/231967788940?hash=item36025b8f8c:g:edcAAOSwLs5XKh0- Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Property prices being what they are these days, I'd say £600 was cheap for an unusual residence requiring updating.....! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted June 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2016 Property prices being what they are these days, I'd say £600 was cheap for an unusual residence requiring updating.....! That's assuming it doesn't fall over first. Perhaps it was built for a Far Twittering layout? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 That's assuming it doesn't fall over first.... Well, it does look like a listed building. Listing to one side, that is.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted June 5, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2016 Looks like something from a discount garden centre. Bit expensive for a bird feeder! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 If you bother to watch the BBC program 'Money for Nothing' firstly you get an idea of the cost of bespoke dare I say it 'craft work' and how much some are willing to pay for what is perceived the 'top end' work. As it happens some of the items do end up being very desirable Looks like something from a discount garden centre. Bit expensive for a bird feeder! No doubt will be entered for the Turner prise at some time. Though photography can be very cruel and it might look far better in the flesh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Does it come with a 7mm scale model of Don Quixote? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 5, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2016 Does it come with a 7mm scale model of Don Quixote? I was going to show my age and say Windy Miller. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted June 5, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2016 Windy's mill always struck me as being very dangerous as the sails came across the door opening. Imagine if he nipped out for something and the wind got up, as there doesn't appear to be another door the thing would self destruct as he wouldn't be able to get in and put the sail brake on! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2016 I believe the term coined by BBC's Bargain Hunt 'Shedware' for something pretty naff made by a bloke in a shed is entirely appropriate here... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 "Took 4 weeks to build." At £599 he will soon be in serious financial trouble. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 I suppose it could be converted into some sort of wind turbine, assuming you can still get a grant for that sort of thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Perhaps he meant 5.99 and simply forgot the decimal point. Certainly looks like its worth 5.99 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgood Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Windy's mill always struck me as being very dangerous as the sails came across the door opening. Imagine if he nipped out for something and the wind got up, …... I image it would certainly put the wind up Windy…….. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted June 13, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 13, 2016 Certainly looks like its with 5.99 as you say decimal point... £0.59 (and that's my final offer, including delivery) Hope the birds like it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeeleyBridge Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Such quality, I bet Allan Downes is quaking in his wellies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrel Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 I'm disappointed to see so many of what appear to be disparaging posts. First, I wouldn't pay anything like the amount asked, but then I'm tight fisted. From what can see it would have taken a long time to build, and in the right setting would probably look ok. It looks to be a construction which would have been maintained over the years by peasant labour as people struggled to make a living in providing food. The apparent list is because of the back being made as a viewing face to see the details inside. It's one of those things that someone things it will fetch a large amount of money to cover the cost of materials and time involved. If people did the same thing with locomotives, the figures would be about the same, and some would possibly be happy to pay, again, not me as I am mean. The windmill would have been better showed in a representative setting, though the question would be would there have been an attendant railway handy? Showing it on a cutting mat does not show it at its best, but this applies to everything. When you look at some of the models and layouts featured on rmweb and elsewhere, if you didn't know it was a model, you would be hard pushed to be sure it wasn't real. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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