MrWolf Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 48 minutes ago, leopardml2341 said: It was the price that astounded me. The price didn't surprise me that much. Say roughly £10 for the original model Inc post. £10 for the extra parts Inc post. You're going to want a minimum of £10 per hour for the labour to do the conversion, then £4 to post it out. Then you need your mark up for profit. It stacks up very quickly. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted September 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2020 On 24/09/2020 at 17:40, leopardml2341 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Oxford-ambulance-1-76-oo-gauge-with-working-emergency-lights/164351125404?hash=item264417279c:g:I0wAAOSwevReyl9N Really? If you repeatedly tap quickly on the second and third photos you can see how the lights work. Can you tell that I’m not getting out a lot at the moment? 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 On 24/09/2020 at 17:40, leopardml2341 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Oxford-ambulance-1-76-oo-gauge-with-working-emergency-lights/164351125404?hash=item264417279c:g:I0wAAOSwevReyl9N Really? Yes, that's about what Kytes Lights sell them for https://www.kyteslights.com/index.php?cPath=38&osCsid=s1lreqcmpkfqubspr6hut0rbbh The big part of the cost will be the time involved in doing the conversion. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy WD Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 5 hours ago, BoD said: If you repeatedly tap quickly on the second and third photos you can see how the lights work. Can you tell that I’m not getting out a lot at the moment? I did the same thing 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted September 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, rab said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EFE-N-Gauge-Class-17-Clayton-BR-Blue/233724447775?hash=item366b100c1f:g:nDwAAOSwTyxfbPTq Not sure if this qualifies as madness, but seems a bit strange to be selling what must have been a brand new model after only one hour's running ive been guilty of buying the wrong thing, or being disappointed with a purchase or just plain carried away and bought too many before now.. if an ebay £1 sale happened at the same time i’ll pass it on pdq to recover what ive paid. Edited September 25, 2020 by adb968008 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hal Nail Posted September 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 27, 2020 On 25/09/2020 at 09:46, rab said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EFE-N-Gauge-Class-17-Clayton-BR-Blue/233724447775?hash=item366b100c1f:g:nDwAAOSwTyxfbPTq Not sure if this qualifies as madness, but seems a bit strange to be selling what must have been a brand new model after only one hour's running At least it is correctly listed as used. 99% of ebay sellers would call that brand new. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted September 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 27, 2020 It states that it was run in for one hour; not quite the same as using it for an hour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 6 hours ago, Hal Nail said: At least it is correctly listed as used. 99% of ebay sellers would call that brand new. But not 99% of buyers !!!! Anything I sell. if unused or still in a sealed packet I describe it as s/h, I am not a retailer and if I buy something new and sell it its second hand, even though it may be unused 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Is this madness? Certainly sold for an eye-watering sum..... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heljan-OO-Gauge-Brush-Hawker-Siddeley-HS4000-Kestrel-Locomotive-Limited-Edition-/284019599979?hash=item4220e32a6b%3Ag%3AkB4AAOSwEkxfaOBG&autorefresh=true&nma=true&si=WZh5%2B5ye59NgG2G6B9LVR2GsgF0%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted September 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2020 51 minutes ago, leopardml2341 said: Is this madness? Certainly sold for an eye-watering sum..... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heljan-OO-Gauge-Brush-Hawker-Siddeley-HS4000-Kestrel-Locomotive-Limited-Edition-/284019599979?hash=item4220e32a6b%3Ag%3AkB4AAOSwEkxfaOBG&autorefresh=true&nma=true&si=WZh5%2B5ye59NgG2G6B9LVR2GsgF0%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Crikey. If Falcon starts going a similar way I'm in the money! Mike. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Question is, do I keep my Kestrel........? 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 On 25/09/2020 at 09:38, leopardml2341 said: It was the price that astounded me. I've converted a variety of road vehicles and reckon on about an hour minimum per light/pair of lights, once you've drilled, mounted, wired, chosen the right brightness, and fixed any light bleed. That's why I don't sell them commercially, nobody could afford them. 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 30, 2020 On 19/09/2020 at 10:38, Bucoops said: I've said it before and I'll say it again - Ebay auctions should be looked at as 7 days of viewing (or however long it's listed for) and a few seconds of getting your bid in right at the end. If you put bids in early you are "showing your hand" and potentially costing yourself money. I never bid before the last 10 seconds. It's not underhand, it's just how ebay works. I really don't care whether or not somebody outbids me. I stick in an offer as to how much I'm prepared to pay for it including p&p. If somebody is prepared to pay more than me, then fair enough. It's not life or death is it? 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 I see our friend Gostude is at it again, this time with a secondhand Silver Fox Bulleid 1-Co-Co-1 diesel running on a Mainline chassis for sale at £20 more than a brand new, guaranteed, high-spec Kernow special edition RTR that simply makes his auction item look like a "Railroad" model! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold pheaton Posted October 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2020 10 hours ago, 96701 said: I really don't care whether or not somebody outbids me. I stick in an offer as to how much I'm prepared to pay for it including p&p. If somebody is prepared to pay more than me, then fair enough. It's not life or death is it? what like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-limited-edition-class-47-406-Rail-Riders-InterCity-31-650P/174456044462?hash=item289e63fbae:g:~VsAAOSwiKpfcbtf looks like a bit of shill bidding going on there! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 2 minutes ago, pheaton said: what like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-limited-edition-class-47-406-Rail-Riders-InterCity-31-650P/174456044462?hash=item289e63fbae:g:~VsAAOSwiKpfcbtf looks like a bit of shill bidding going on there! Crikey - bids going in seconds apart from the same bidder?! How does that even work?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold pheaton Posted October 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2020 1 minute ago, SteveyDee68 said: Crikey - bids going in seconds apart from the same bidder?! How does that even work?! if you turn on automatic bids, you can see that some bids are going in at 1 second apart....its likely the eBay auto bidder or an external auto bidder......but ive never seen that many bids that early in an model auction....its completely pointless.... my guess is....it was listed at 99p by mistake...by the time seller realised someone had bid....and the price couldn't be revised.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyman7 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 52 minutes ago, pheaton said: if you turn on automatic bids, you can see that some bids are going in at 1 second apart....its likely the eBay auto bidder or an external auto bidder......but ive never seen that many bids that early in an model auction....its completely pointless.... my guess is....it was listed at 99p by mistake...by the time seller realised someone had bid....and the price couldn't be revised.... On the contrary, confident sellers of desireable items know that the 99p start price is the way to auction an item. It is a well known psychological technique that draws bidders in, just like real life auctions with no reserve and a low start. I have lost count of the times I have won an item as the only bidder because the nervous seller starts it at what they actually want to sell it for, when an identical item started at 99p reaches a higher finishing price. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2020 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-Model-Railway-Small-Joblot-Of-5-Pkts-of-Fuse-Wire-In-N-Or-Ho-Gauge-By/124364542377?hash=item1cf4b451a9:g:qUoAAOSw0GlfdwBZ&redirect=mobile I can understand these perhaps being a collectors item, by virtue of the name on the packs, but I'm struggling to find the specific link to N and OO gauge??? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2020 1 minute ago, rab said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-Model-Railway-Small-Joblot-Of-5-Pkts-of-Fuse-Wire-In-N-Or-Ho-Gauge-By/124364542377?hash=item1cf4b451a9:g:qUoAAOSw0GlfdwBZ&redirect=mobile I can understand these perhaps being a collectors item, by virtue of the name on the packs, but I'm struggling to find the specific link to N and OO gauge??? Obvious innit? Different sized wire for varying buffer beam pipework! Mike. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2020 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/N-Gauge-Graham-Farish-371-629-GWR-Railcar-20-and-21-in-GWR-chocolate-cream-wit/114439485576?redirect=mobile Have Rocket Railways bern reading the comments on RMWeb about their pricing, or am I missing something on this one. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2020 1 hour ago, rab said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/N-Gauge-Graham-Farish-371-629-GWR-Railcar-20-and-21-in-GWR-chocolate-cream-wit/114439485576?redirect=mobile Have Rocket Railways bern reading the comments on RMWeb about their pricing, or am I missing something on this one. A quick trawl through his now considerable listing shows fairly realistic prices (at least compared with what we've seen before). Some individual wagons a bit optimistic as are the 2 Hornby Dublo 'Deltics'. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lofty1966 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Or available brand new direct from Dart Castings for 12 quid 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2020 3 hours ago, lofty1966 said: Or available brand new direct from Dart Castings for 12 quid ... but without the thrill of the chase? 3 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliverSR Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 I know the Bachman S Stock is getting pricey but this looks pretty fishy to me. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193696493872 OliverSR 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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