Kev_Lewis Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 This is taking the piss a bit http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Abandoned-00-GAUGE-wagon-with-timber-load-heavily-rusted-and-weathered-/301063217831?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4618c422a7 The growth rings on the stick aren't to scale. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 In the words of Mr McEnroe "You cannot........" http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/abandoned-00-GAUGE-fire-damaged-coach-heavily-rusted-and-weathered-/291047312088?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item43c3c58ad8&nma=true&si=2HCQfTM02oHFGvgJJR6tb38059s%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 heavily rusted and weathered and melted!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted January 9, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2014 But look at his completed listings! It all sells, even if one or two get relisted they go on the 2nd attempt. The prices realised aren't particularly high but several sales a week tots up. However he has to pay for the stuff although no doubt it's mostly pretty cheap. Even if you don't put a value on painting time, photography and computer time it's not a great income stream, but no doubt it is significant enough to keep doing it. Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 9, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2014 This is taking the piss a bit http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Abandoned-00-GAUGE-wagon-with-timber-load-heavily-rusted-and-weathered-/301063217831?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4618c422a7 It proves one of two things, either railway modellers have standards that are too low, or too high, take your pick? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 9, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2014 But look at his completed listings! It all sells, even if one or two get relisted they go on the 2nd attempt. The prices realised aren't particularly high but several sales a week tots up. However he has to pay for the stuff although no doubt it's mostly pretty cheap. Even if you don't put a value on painting time, photography and computer time it's not a great income stream, but no doubt it is significant enough to keep doing it. Pete I quite agree. When this chap first appeared on our radars the madness was perceived to be in offering these for sale. Over time the madness seems to have shifted to the buyers! Maybe he's the only sane one...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 This is taking the piss a bit http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Abandoned-00-GAUGE-wagon-with-timber-load-heavily-rusted-and-weathered-/301063217831?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4618c422a7 Why would an 'abandoned wagon' have a load? and it wouldn't be secured by a couple of loops of jewellry chain around the body anyway. An unfortunate Lima Continental model if I'm not mistaken, and thus actually H0 although the description "00 gauge" is strictly true. I must give a quick spray over and daub some orange paint on some of my old junk.................... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) This is exaggerating, even by Cartmel's standards http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-DUBLO-2-3-RAIL-No-4048-D20-BR-Mk-1-RESTAURANT-CAR-VN-MIB-/300793731722?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4608b41a8a A couple of disfiguring paint scuffs on a very common model in a standard 2 rail box - £25 max. IMHO. There's another one here and it's not scuffed (OK it's a blue box, but who cares? - £70+ for a box is ridiculous) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-DUBLO-D20-RESTAURANT-CAR-MAROON-CREAM-LIVERY-BOXED-VGC-/150712415870?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item231728f67e EDIT - found by chance - no connection with the seller. (There are plenty of others!) It's a slightly short model of a Collett 1920's Composite Restaurant Car and would detail up into quite a nice model. (A similar coach to Hornby's effort - one diagram has flat ends - the other is bow ended.) Edited January 9, 2014 by Il Grifone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I must give a quick spray over and daub some orange paint on some of my old junk.................... Perhaps I'm a sentimental old fool, but I couldn't imagine doing anything so horrible even to my oldest stock which was bought second hand when I was a child! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) He says all his items are scraped ..... As in scraping the bottom of a barrel? ....Maybe he's the only sane one...... ...or cynical as the rest of us. Edited January 9, 2014 by Horsetan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
84A Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-LOCOMOTIVE-TORNADO-SPECIAL-EDITION-R3070-/291054188311?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item43c42e7717 Free post, but somehow I can't see it selling. Any offers? Edited January 9, 2014 by 84A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) Perhaps I'm a sentimental old fool, but I couldn't imagine doing anything so horrible even to my oldest stock which was bought second hand when I was a child! Neither would I - it was intended as a comment on the 'professional hand painting'. (Selling things on eBay is getting too much of a hassle.) Not even these horrors (How to turn a poor model, but 'collectable' into 'fit only for the bin') http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JOUEF-PLAYCRAFT-00-GAUGE-SCRAPYARD-ABANDONED-MAROON-COACH-SEE-LARGE-PICTURES/221340121563?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D19803%26meid%3D3996347834565971687%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D8916%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D291047312088%26 Edited January 9, 2014 by Il Grifone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) Neither would I - it was intended as a comment on the professional hand painting. Selling things on eBay is getting too much of a hassle. I'd taken your post as a bit tongue in cheek! What I meant was I could not brig myself to destroy something in that manner, I would prefer to give it away to a youngster starting out if I wanted to get rid of it at all - in fact I rather like the retro-ness of it! As I said I was and am very sentimental. While friends built model aircraft and then packed them with illicit bangers bought on French exchanges mine were hung with fine cotton from my bedroom ceiling and only removed when I went away to join the Army - I believe they are now in the eaves wrapped in cotton wool. As for boys who deliberately ripped bits of their Action Men... Edited January 9, 2014 by C&WR 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel_H Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) Today's little gem is a NSE Bachmann Collectors Club 2-EPB. Currently at £160. I wish I'd bought one at the time now... (for myself, not to profit from). It's irritating as they did 'hang around' before the last ones sold. It's a fickle world http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=231131651917&ssPageName=ADME:B:ONA:GB:3160 Edited January 9, 2014 by Mel_H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I got one at the time because I thought I might model that era then found I have absolutely no use for it other than as a collectors item. I would happily sell it to you at cost but I live in Canada - by the time the freight has been paid you might as well buy one from eBay. Unless you are a commercial outfit, overseas postage these days has become prohibitive... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Looking at the picture which popped up the uninitiated might think this was for four of them at this price. Crumbs, I knew the buffet cars were expensive but this takes the biscuit! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 9, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2014 Neither would I - it was intended as a comment on the 'professional hand painting'. (Selling things on eBay is getting too much of a hassle.) Not even these horrors (How to turn a poor model, but 'collectable' into 'fit only for the bin') http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JOUEF-PLAYCRAFT-00-GAUGE-SCRAPYARD-ABANDONED-MAROON-COACH-SEE-LARGE-PICTURES/221340121563?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D19803%26meid%3D3996347834565971687%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D8916%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D291047312088%26 ALL QUESTIONS WELCOME How tempting is that? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 ALL QUESTIONS WELCOME How tempting is that? Mike. Red rag to a bull there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Couldn't resist guys, sorry. I'll advise if and when I get a reply. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
84A Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 A pound shy of three hundred notes for a door wedge: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-A4-number-4498-Sir-Nigel-Gresley-blue-mint-limited-edition-R2688-/301064387480?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4618d5fb98 Ouch! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
84A Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-LMS-4-6-2-PRINCESS-CORONATION-LOCO-/131031875854?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1e821bc10e £79.99 for the full loco, or http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-COMPLETE-RUNNING-CHASSIS-FOR-CORONATION-CLASS-/130971249435?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1e7e7eab1b http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-COMPLETE-BODY-FOR-CORONATION-CLASS-/130971248168?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1e7e7ea628 £114.98 for the body and tender. How does that work??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 It seems that if you put the words, "Limited Edition" into the equation, even if the item is sh!te then it trebles or quadruples the price. What happened to modelling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2014 Not madness, just something I stumbled on which seems to be a new kind of business model. Good luck to him if it takes off. They're a lot better looking than some of the landfill we see on here. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/aitchtee51/m.html?item=291054762252&pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item43c437390c&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Neither would I - it was intended as a comment on the 'professional hand painting'. (Selling things on eBay is getting too much of a hassle.) Not even these horrors (How to turn a poor model, but 'collectable' into 'fit only for the bin') http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JOUEF-PLAYCRAFT-00-GAUGE-SCRAPYARD-ABANDONED-MAROON-COACH-SEE-LARGE-PICTURES/221340121563?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D19803%26meid%3D3996347834565971687%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D8916%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D291047312088%26 Quite ironic that it has the words "Keep Off" - doubtless many people will be doing just that.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 (edited) Not madness, just something I stumbled on which seems to be a new kind of business model. Good luck to him if it takes off. They're a lot better looking than some of the landfill we see on here. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/aitchtee51/m.html?item=291054762252&pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item43c437390c&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 It's a ghost train! Will he sell little Scooby Doos and a ride operator shaking his fist saying, "I'd have got away with it if it hadn't been for you pesky kids"? Edited January 10, 2014 by C&WR 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2014 (edited) I don't know if this is madness or not, it's certainly an 'interesting' business model. Both these Seacows were listed for 1 day only, a week before Xmas and didn't sell. After an interval they've gone back on, but again for one day. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R6287C-Mainline-YGB-Seacow-factory-weathered-/221351960880?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item33899ae130 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R6287C-Mainline-YGB-Seacow-fctory-weathered-boxed-/221351956784?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item33899ad130 Edited January 10, 2014 by Metr0Land Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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