EBay madness

[wollastonblue]

Never mind a Blue Pullman anyone fancy a Red one?

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hornby-LMS-Pullman-Intercity-125-HST-Very-Unusual-/110542671059?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item19bcdb4cd3

[deltic56]

This really does add something out of the ordinary to a layout - I can't imagine there are many more (if any) out there.

 

I shouldn`t think there are any more out there. Still somebody will buy it and think it is a good deal.

[Chris116]

Never mind a Blue Pullman anyone fancy a Red one?

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hornby-LMS-Pullman-Intercity-125-HST-Very-Unusual-/110542671059?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item19bcdb4cd3

It shows as "Reserve Not Met" which means it is a minimum of £50 to buy the set as ebay will not allow a reserve under £50 as far as I know. I think I will pass on this one thank you!

 

Chris

[muddys-blues]

Never mind a Blue Pullman anyone fancy a Red one?

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...=item19bcdb4cd3

 

 

To quote the classic saying of time on ebay "would look good on any exhibition layout"

[slow8dirty]

To quote the classic saying of time on ebay "would look good on any exhibition layout"

The title says it all, "very unusual,". As are the thought processes that led to its creation

[Colin_McLeod]

Its not that bad if the coaches were mark 3s in LMS maroon to match.

[RedgateModels]

Now my Son loves his Star Wars Lego, but not this much

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330440576229&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

[John M Upton]

Now my Son loves his Star Wars Lego, but not this much

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330440576229&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 

Some Lego is now fetching utterly ridiculous sums on Ebay including well OTT prices for sets still available in the shops. Star Wars Lego in particular seems to attract the over enthusiastic full of wallet.

[Jenny Emily]

Now 25? Now that's what I call a chancer, more like. I buy these albums on LP in mint condition from record shops around the country for usually the princely sum of between £1 and £3. For information, Now 25 is not rare on vinyl at all - but we already knew that, didn't we?

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...=item563d044a20

[doctor quinn]

Shades of Lard's Vinyl Vault on the Mark & Lard Show

 

Nick

[Oldddudders]

Ah, look at the seller name. SMCtoys aka the late (and very much NOT missed) Southampton Model Centre who shut up their real shop (if you could call it that, they used to shut on a Saturday including the day when the model show was in town!!) and now concentrate on flogging well overpriced Lima tat on Ebay. They also list a lot of the other annual wagons as well and upwards of thirty notes a piece, avoid these cowboys like the plague!!

I remember them! They had double-page ads in RM/CM, seeking to buy surplus trains in any known configuration of scale/prototype etc. So in 1998 I rang 'em, offering some US HO. Yes, we'll buy it, quoth he. So I travelled from deep Kent to the Solent (yes it was free, yes it was 1st Class, yes I was staff) and was offered less than £1 per vehicle for quite nice US freight cars. Natch, common sense said take the money, and I did, but hearing that they have moved into this line of legal but marginally-moral vending is no surprise. Wotever, their measly £47 for 52 freight cars helped me finance my move into Digitrax DCC, which I have never regretted.

[M Graff]

I remember them! They had double-page ads in RM/CM, seeking to buy surplus trains in any known configuration of scale/prototype etc. So in 1998 I rang 'em, offering some US HO. Yes, we'll buy it, quoth he. So I travelled from deep Kent to the Solent (yes it was free, yes it was 1st Class, yes I was staff) and was offered less than £1 per vehicle for quite nice US freight cars. Natch, common sense said take the money, and I did, but hearing that they have moved into this line of legal but marginally-moral vending is no surprise. Wotever, their measly £47 for 52 freight cars helped me finance my move into Digitrax DCC, which I have never regretted.

 

Did you feel tender sitting down after that? I know I would have. B)

[Geoff Endacott]

How about this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-mm-kit-built-signal-lswr-lner-gwr-weathered-detailed-/220622829378?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item335e253742 one?

 

I have never seen a signal like that before!

 

Geoff Endacott

[Horsetan]

How about this http://cgi.ebay.co.u...=item335e253742 one?

 

I have never seen a signal like that before!

 

Quote from auction text:

 

"....iterms sent sighed for...."

Yes, and I imagine there'll be a lot of (exasperated or puzzled) sighing once a buyer takes delivery of that little gem

[The Stationmaster]

How about this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-mm-kit-built-signal-lswr-lner-gwr-weathered-detailed-/220622829378?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item335e253742 one?

 

I have never seen a signal like that before!

 

Geoff Endacott

 

I notice it says 'used' where 'abused' might be more appropriate. Maybe it was built by a Frenchman as it is the practice (at least in some parts of France) to have the 'distant' above the stop signal - a superb example of French logic in action (and it does make a sort of sense if you think about it).

[Oldddudders]

I think this item is apeing colour light signals, where the red is always placed lowest to be closest to the driver's eyeline. So 'tis said, anyway. The fact that this is two signals on the same post is obviously a concept too far for the vendor.

[Colin_McLeod]

Punctuation is certainly a step too far for this vendor.

[John_Hughes]

And he wants a fiver to start bidding for it! Still, when Phineas Barnum claimed that there was one born every minute, he seriously underestimated the supply!

['CHARD]

Punctuation is certainly a step too far for this vendor.

 

i noticed that two

[Colin_McLeod]

i noticed that two

 

too

 

Sorry. I could not resist

[Steve K]

i noticed that two

your so funy!

[96701]

your so funy!

 

you're

 

Sorry, couldn't resist

[Etched Pixels]

I think I may have to nominate 130399089416 as ebay at its finest.

 

£150 quid for some white metal blobs, for a kit that was infamous and which I've never seen in constructed form and I suspect never has been succesfully built. The fact it comes with six end noses and seven sets of underfranes (six I can see eiight I can but seven) is a bit worrying too

 

Alan

['CHARD]

I'm afraid that this item has ended, and the successful bidder was based in Denmark

I think I may have to nominate 130399089416 as ebay at its finest.

 

£150 quid for some white metal blobs, for a kit that was infamous and which I've never seen in constructed form and I suspect never has been succesfully built. The fact it comes with six end noses and seven sets of underfranes (six I can see eiight I can but seven) is a bit worrying too

 

Alan

 

eight

 

sorry I couldn't resist!

 

(If you can't beat 'em, join 'em)

[Steve K]

eight

 

sorry I couldn't resist!

 

(If you can't beat 'em, join 'em)

Argh! Now stop it! We've both had a go at "ironic" spelling mistakes, and now I don't know whether the people who corrected us were being ironic or not.

 

For my part, can I just say that, while I won't have a go at anyone's spelling (or typing) on here, anyone selling on Ebay ought to at least make an effort at spelling the descriptions on their items correctly. While it's highly amusing to spot the odd "Horny" engine, it wears a bit thin when yet another seller seems to think that "guage" is a real word, or that there/their/they're are basically the same... how poor must folk be that they can't afford a spellchecker?