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3 hours ago, Esmedune said:

Or... How about four Wrenn locomotives at £200 each? Just zoom in and look at that detail!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255115337936

Wrenn. 

 

Took on Hornby Dublo 2 rail range after it's production costs had proved more than the original company could cope with, to my mind a questionable business model but what do I know?  Hornby Dublo were fondly regarded and the Hornby brand name was worth purchasing by Lines Bros (Rovex Triang) who are still using it, but the models were, let's be honest, to late 50s/early 60s RTR standards at best, Coronation and A4 pacifics dating back to 1938 well below scale length, all locos featured prominent boiler skirts, flangeless centre drivers, and cabs filled with the ringfield motors.  Wagons retained the HD solid mazak chassis. 

 

Company then released the locos in completely inappropriate liveries, and wagons likewise though to be fair Triang Hornby and Lima were equally guilty of wagon abuse of this sort.  If you fill the cab with the motor, why don't you take the opportunity to get rid of the boiler skirts?  Retail prices were always high and the models were pretty pointless from a modelling point of view and overpriced as train set items; the intended market was always clearly the collectors.  Dapol also took on HD wagons, and have marketed them at much more realistic prices, not to mention replacing the mazak chassis with a plastic version which has it's faults but at least shows daylight where there should be daylight.

 

In short, exactly what it the point of Wrenn from a modelling point of view?  £800 for 4 pacifics is about the normal price for such items from this firm, all of them locos that have been produced more recently by other RTR companies to much higher standards and, even now, at lower prices.  Even 35 years ago, Airfix's plastic Castle ran rings around the Wrenn ex HD diecast loco in every and any respect you can think of, despite the tender drive!

 

Not so much eBay madness as Wrenn insanity.

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r... How about four Wrenn locomotives at £200 each? Just zoom in and look at that detail!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255115337936

This Wrenn loco advert may be even dafter than it looks.

I may be confused but I think the chap selling the Wrenn locos is asking £800.00 each not £800.00 for the lot

I added 3 to my basket as an experiment and the total shows 2440.70 plus 42.70 p&p

 

Regards. Rich.

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1 hour ago, TinTracks said:

r... How about four Wrenn locomotives at £200 each? Just zoom in and look at that detail!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255115337936

This Wrenn loco advert may be even dafter than it looks.

I may be confused but I think the chap selling the Wrenn locos is asking £800.00 each not £800.00 for the lot

I added 3 to my basket as an experiment and the total shows 2440.70 plus 42.70 p&p

 

Regards. Rich.

 

That's how I read it - the other issue is, say two people are daft enough to want one. So they both do a buy it now. And they both message the seller saying they want the same one. Whoops. 

 

Overall, 0/10 for the whole thing.

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5 hours ago, TinTracks said:

r... How about four Wrenn locomotives at £200 each? Just zoom in and look at that detail!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255115337936

This Wrenn loco advert may be even dafter than it looks.

I may be confused but I think the chap selling the Wrenn locos is asking £800.00 each not £800.00 for the lot

I added 3 to my basket as an experiment and the total shows 2440.70 plus 42.70 p&p

 

Regards. Rich.

I wonder if the depicted bottle of wine is any kind of indicator??:drink_mini:

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23 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said:

Courtesy of the 'furrypurryone', no less!xD

That just sounds very wrong...

Maybe it's just me? 

 

I like how "Due to previous problems I no longer ship to the Russian Federation"

History has taught the rest of us not to p### off the Russians...

 

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55 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

That just sounds very wrong...

Maybe it's just me? 

 

I like how "Due to previous problems I no longer ship to the Russian Federation"

History has taught the rest of us not to p### off the Russians...

 

For some unexplained reason, I just had a 'Singing Ringing Tree' flashback! :scared:

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2 hours ago, Joeh260 said:

Hell fire!  I bought a Hornby Dublo Mica on the 'Bay last week for £5 BIN, £9 with the postage, virtually identical to this one which is 20 times the price.  As I replaced the HD chassis the Wrenn's tension locks are not a feature, and the the couplings on the Bachmann chassis I used are better, as are the buffers and wheels.  The Baccy chassis is vastly superior in terms of detail than the old HD mazak with no handbrake levers, which is continued on the Wrenn.  I'll admit the printing is a little better, but not much; certainly not £94.01 better!

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3 hours ago, Joeh260 said:

Who knew?  I have an 8T cattle wagon by wrenn, I now look at it as my retirement plan!

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38 minutes ago, Joeh260 said:

Not quite sure what to say about this one as it’s for a copyright not a model apart from make sure you are sat down before opening the link and looking at the price!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617468112?hash=item2653f738d0:g:Qo4AAOSw2PVf7cy9

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617496047?hash=item2653f7a5ef:g:9i8AAOSwNmVf7c9p

 

And you still only get 300 Nectar points if you buy!

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45 minutes ago, Joeh260 said:

Not quite sure what to say about this one as it’s for a copyright not a model apart from make sure you are sat down before opening the link and looking at the price!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617468112?hash=item2653f738d0:g:Qo4AAOSw2PVf7cy9

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617496047?hash=item2653f7a5ef:g:9i8AAOSwNmVf7c9p

 

I'll have some of what they've been smoking please.

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49 minutes ago, Joeh260 said:

Not quite sure what to say about this one as it’s for a copyright not a model apart from make sure you are sat down before opening the link and looking at the price!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617468112?hash=item2653f738d0:g:Qo4AAOSw2PVf7cy9

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617496047?hash=item2653f7a5ef:g:9i8AAOSwNmVf7c9p

There are so many questions that i don't even know where to start........

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1 hour ago, Joeh260 said:

Not quite sure what to say about this one as it’s for a copyright not a model apart from make sure you are sat down before opening the link and looking at the price!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617468112?hash=item2653f738d0:g:Qo4AAOSw2PVf7cy9

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617496047?hash=item2653f7a5ef:g:9i8AAOSwNmVf7c9p

You think that’s bad, go look at the rest of his stuff! I’m off for a rum and a lay down now

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1 hour ago, Joeh260 said:

Not quite sure what to say about this one as it’s for a copyright not a model apart from make sure you are sat down before opening the link and looking at the price!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617468112?hash=item2653f738d0:g:Qo4AAOSw2PVf7cy9

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617496047?hash=item2653f7a5ef:g:9i8AAOSwNmVf7c9p

 

 

It's interesting that it looks like they chose to take the photos on a stony beach - it all looks like Jetsam so maybe they just found it and are chancing it (well, they are definitely chancing it!).

 

Shame they don't have a best offer, could have some fun with it.

 

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2 hours ago, Joeh260 said:

Not quite sure what to say about this one as it’s for a copyright not a model apart from make sure you are sat down before opening the link and looking at the price!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617468112?hash=item2653f738d0:g:Qo4AAOSw2PVf7cy9

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164617496047?hash=item2653f7a5ef:g:9i8AAOSwNmVf7c9p

I would have loved to see the seller pitch that on "Dragons Den".  That sort of over-valuation wouldn't just get you rejected but probably taken outside for a good kicking.

Consider that to recover the purchase cost, you would need to sell one to about one in every ten thousand people, IN THE WORLD.

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