Paul H Vigor Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 17 hours ago, MrWolf said: He's probably a relative of the bloke down the road who tells you that he knows a bloke who knows this other bloke whose brother is in the SAS..... The urbandictionary has some alternative explanations of 'SAS'! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 On 01/02/2022 at 20:52, PhilJ W said: neither lit or flashing Sounds like the Brecon Beacons! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmacc Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 On 01/02/2022 at 23:59, Esmedune said: Less ebay madness, more ebay eccentric. Who doesn't love the selection of photos posted with each listing by 2Ktechnologies? The shop, the van, the cat, the missus from 1963... It warms the cockles ;-) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361362929067 The winter scenes are a bit random but posting images of their shop is actually quite clever as it’s an expansive place with a good stock. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 It's actually a good bit of publicity and shows customers that they are buying from a proper retailer. My late friend used to do the same thing with his antique business. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted February 4, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2022 9 hours ago, MrWolf said: It's actually a good bit of publicity and shows customers that they are buying from a proper retailer. My late friend used to do the same thing with his antique business. How old was his business? What did he sell? 1 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 5 hours ago, Bucoops said: How old was his business? What did he sell? Objet d'art? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 5 hours ago, Bucoops said: How old was his business? What did he sell? It wasn't overpriced model trains that's for sure! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted February 4, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2022 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FLEISCHMANN-1339-BOX-END-LABEL-for-FS-CLASS-E-428-ELECTRIC-LOCOMOTIVE-ob-/144397776630?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 Please, please, please, someone tell me he's not trying to sell a piece of cardboard with a sticker on it for best part of 30 quid?! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 38 minutes ago, 5944 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FLEISCHMANN-1339-BOX-END-LABEL-for-FS-CLASS-E-428-ELECTRIC-LOCOMOTIVE-ob-/144397776630?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 Please, please, please, someone tell me he's not trying to sell a piece of cardboard with a sticker on it for best part of 30 quid?! Why ever not? They've all heard of people using ebay for this ... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334302499073?hash=item4dd5fb5101:g:52YAAOSwrl9dD5KA Apparently there's one born every minute. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davepallant Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 This Hornby set must be quite rare...... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333850347893?hash=item4dbb080975:g:73MAAOSwjZFdwsD1 Must be very heavy for that postage as well. If you think it is a mistake then have a look in their shop at the other rare items they are selling. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2022 15 hours ago, 5944 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FLEISCHMANN-1339-BOX-END-LABEL-for-FS-CLASS-E-428-ELECTRIC-LOCOMOTIVE-ob-/144397776630?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 Please, please, please, someone tell me he's not trying to sell a piece of cardboard with a sticker on it for best part of 30 quid?! Ok, I'll tell you he's not trying to sell a piece of cardboard with a sticker on it for the best part of 30 beer vouchers. There, now, do you feel better? I'll tell you I've just won the lotto, sorted out the Middle East problem, cured the common cold, and am devastatingly handsome with a marvellous personality as well if you like, and it will be just as true... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 7 hours ago, davepallant said: This Hornby set must be quite rare...... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333850347893?hash=item4dbb080975:g:73MAAOSwjZFdwsD1 Must be very heavy for that postage as well. If you think it is a mistake then have a look in their shop at the other rare items they are selling. Some lovely bling bling trainers too. Reminds me of the phrase "The worst that money can buy". Proof if it were ever needed, that some people have far too much money. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 11 minutes ago, The Johnster said: I'll tell you I've just won the lotto Funny you should say that. The BBC reported that it was a Brit who who the jackpot on the Euromillions yesterday. As it happens I won the Euromillions yesterday - all of £7.80! 17 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Some lovely bling bling trainers too. Reminds me of the phrase "The worst that money can buy". Proof if it were ever needed, that some people have far too much money. Or evidence that some people have dirty money that they are in the process of laundering. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Michael Hodgson said: Or evidence that some people have dirty money that they are in the process of laundering. There's a lot more of that goes on than most people would believe. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 3 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: As it happens I won the Euromillions yesterday - all of £7.80! Are you accepting begging letters?? 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 33 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: Are you accepting begging letters?? Can't buy stamps for many replies from that prize! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurch Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 21 hours ago, 5944 said: Please, please, please, someone tell me he's not trying to sell a piece of cardboard with a sticker on it for best part of 30 quid?! At least you get the actual box for that, absolute bargain really. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Nice scam. What's the betting that someone drunk / in a hurry thought they were buying the actual item and when they asked for a refund, the seller has closed his account? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurch Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Loads of people all over social media complaining about the obvious scams that they'd fallen for, when perfectly sober. People just don't read anything. Scammers market! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 4 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: Can't buy stamps for many replies from that prize! How about a small island in the Caribbean?? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284640697436?hash=item4245e85c5c:g:XPsAAOSw99Zh~rzb So: "Kit built" or not kit built? That is the question! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 48 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284640697436?hash=item4245e85c5c:g:XPsAAOSw99Zh~rzb So: "Kit built" or not kit built? That is the question! Perhaps the vendor was advised by Gostude? I don't think Triang did CQD Pullmans.... Perhaps "kit buit" refers to bolting (replacement?) bogies onto the coaches? 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted February 5, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2022 30 minutes ago, Hroth said: Perhaps the vendor was advised by Gostude? I don't think Triang did CQD Pullmans.... Perhaps "kit buit" refers to bolting (replacement?) bogies onto the coaches? Nah, if they'd been advised by Gostude they'd be asking a lot more for them 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2022 (edited) 19 minutes ago, rab said: Nah, if they'd been advised by Gostude they'd be asking a lot more for them Not to mention 'r@re'! Good to know that they are from a serious modeller rather than a facetious one, though. but this presumably means that he/she was a modeller who was also serious, as opposed to one who did any serious modelling, even facetiously... The use of the English language by those mendacious chisellers trying to hoodwink potential buyers into parting with their hard-earned beer vouchers by creating misleading impressions of the items advertised (and no doubt claiming that they were making genuine mistakes or acting in good, but misled, faith, when they described them) is interesting, or would be in a world where 'interesting' meant 'bl**dy appalling to those of us who have any regard or respect for the language as a means of precise communication'. R@re is a classic, intended to infer or impute that the item is rare to increase the potential assessment of it's value by potential customers who are unwary enough to be taken in by such jiggerypokery, but meaningless, not a word, and the perp cannot be brought to account in any legal sense for it. My advice; there's one born every minute, don't let it be you, refuse to buy from these people who have proved by their use of this sort of tactic that they are amoral and mendactious, caveat emptor. Edited February 5, 2022 by The Johnster 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold teaky Posted February 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2022 2 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284640697436?hash=item4245e85c5c:g:XPsAAOSw99Zh~rzb So: "Kit built" or not kit built? That is the question! Ditto a couple of his other items. The teak coaches can't be anything other than Hornby (although there might be one oddity in there) and you can even read "Hornby Dublo" in the Pullman brakes photo. Funny how he knows the buildings are Hornby. "purchased from a serious enthusiast" - presumably someone enthusiastic for another hobby rather than railway modelling. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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