RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted August 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2022 A Hornby job lot? Or only a single wagon which would fetch two quid at a swopmeet or exhibition? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394103892782?hash=item5bc26c2b2e:g:7uoAAOSwGx1inL6r 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 12 hours ago, PeterStiles said: I like(*) this "repair" https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265795862180?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=motLMPpqRsy&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=v6cpl3kbqqi&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY I bet none of you has though to use a Scalextric track support to repair such a fine piece of workmanship as this! (*) In the same way some people like burning things (**) (**) On second thoughts... Is that what the green thing is?? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, cessna152towser said: A Hornby job lot? Or only a single wagon which would fetch two quid at a swopmeet or exhibition? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394103892782?hash=item5bc26c2b2e:g:7uoAAOSwGx1inL6r Condition: (Ab)used... For the connoissueur they are also offering a large collection of Bratz(tm) alleged fashion dolls. For illustrative purposes, several sets look like escapees from a particularly rowdy Hen Night... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394182636822 This lot look even more spaced out... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394182649975 There are a couple of Action Man figures who look as if they have run afoul of the Bratz, and were cast aside as useless. I'll not link to them to spare their blushes... Edited August 1, 2022 by Hroth The horror, the HORROR!!! (oh, and the ushual spelin) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 At last, after months of waiting, I had a chance to get myself one (actually two) of the following - As you can see from the screenshot, despite watching carefully for over a week, working out what I was willing to pay and being quietly confident of winning with that bid, my alarm went off one hour before the end of the auction. I’ve had a lovely day at Cromford Wharf (High Peak Junction), and visiting various other sites along the C&HPR in person … what a b*%#%* that the day ended in frustration when, try as I might, in multiple locations, I could not get eBay to load so I could bid. I even restarted my mobile in the hopes of connecting. Signal absolutely fine, just eBay refusing to let me bid… The winning bid was over £20 less than I was willing to pay for the pair of coaches! Today, for me, that is my personal definition of “eBay Madness” 🤬 Steve S 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted August 1, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2022 13 minutes ago, SteveyDee68 said: At last, after months of waiting, I had a chance to get myself one (actually two) of the following - As you can see from the screenshot, despite watching carefully for over a week, working out what I was willing to pay and being quietly confident of winning with that bid, my alarm went off one hour before the end of the auction. I’ve had a lovely day at Cromford Wharf (High Peak Junction), and visiting various other sites along the C&HPR in person … what a b*%#%* that the day ended in frustration when, try as I might, in multiple locations, I could not get eBay to load so I could bid. I even restarted my mobile in the hopes of connecting. Signal absolutely fine, just eBay refusing to let me bid… The winning bid was over £20 less than I was willing to pay for the pair of coaches! Today, for me, that is my personal definition of “eBay Madness” 🤬 Steve S So why didn't you stick your bid on earlier, for the amount you'd decided you were willing to pay? Here's one for today: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125439683679 - badly re-lettered into a totally fictional livery, and sold untested but 'assumed to be working'... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Someone has actually bid on this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265806598247 Now, if it was a tank car, it could at least be used to model the end result of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Paul H Vigor said: Is that what the green thing is?? And there I was thinking the green thing was a nice set of steps for the little men to get in and out of their house thing 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 5 minutes ago, pH said: Someone has actually bid on this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265806598247 Now, if it was a tank car, it could at least be used to model the end result of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM Whoops! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 On 31/07/2022 at 17:25, Re6/6 said: Also O.T. but maybe interesting to some. Exeter used to dump its sewage slurry at sea until it was made illegal in1998. https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/threads/whatever-happened-to-the-exeter-sludge-vessel.304849/ SS Countess Weir at Exeter Turf Lock. Before she was named 'SS Countess Weir' Well, I guess some of mine went 'down to the sea in ships' - University of Exeter undergrad, 1992-1995! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 3 hours ago, cessna152towser said: A Hornby job lot? Or only a single wagon which would fetch two quid at a swopmeet or exhibition? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394103892782?hash=item5bc26c2b2e:g:7uoAAOSwGx1inL6r Is it the silly season on tank wagons? Here’s an overpriced friend for your job lot… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265184679444? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 4 minutes ago, 40152 said: Is it the silly season on tank wagons? Here’s an overpriced friend for your job lot… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265184679444? Maybe they meant to type in £2.00 not £20.00. I hope. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 4 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Maybe they meant to type in £2.00 not £20.00. I hope. Whilst admiring your optimism, the same seller either has a twitchy typing finger or a thirst for punters’ hard-earned that, I hope, remains unslaked… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265103674489?hash=item3db9690c79:g:MFwAAOSwuAFgX8At ☹️ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 51 minutes ago, Nick C said: So why didn't you stick your bid on earlier, for the amount you'd decided you were willing to pay? Well, today’s trip was a little impromptu after I saw that the weather was changing (and I am looking my after various dogs for the rest of the summer!) and I did think I would bid a little earlier than I normally do … but in the rush to get out, forgot! The final part of the journey (the last half mile or so) was also “traumatic” as my satnav took me to the wrong side of the valley for the High Peak Junction visitor centre car park, and then swapping to Google maps took me on an exciting road trip around the hills and dales of the Peak District as it tried to circumvent a closed road (the direct route there!) … result? I totally forgot about bidding until the alarm reminded me! Normally, I admit I bid what I am willing to pay in the last minute, in the hopes not to be outbid/sniped! In this instance, I had planned to bid an hour before the auction ended. My own fault - but nevertheless *so* frustrated!! 😆 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 20 minutes ago, 40152 said: Whilst admiring your optimism, the same seller either has a twitchy typing finger or a thirst for punters’ hard-earned that, I hope, remains unslaked… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265103674489?hash=item3db9690c79:g:MFwAAOSwuAFgX8At ☹️ Or you could pay a couple of quid more and get three... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385025907484 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 33 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Maybe they meant to type in £2.00 not £20.00. I hope. Perhaps it's supposed to represent the recent hike in fuel prices? 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 38 minutes ago, 40152 said: Whilst admiring your optimism, the same seller either has a twitchy typing finger or a thirst for punters’ hard-earned that, I hope, remains unslaked… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265103674489?hash=item3db9690c79:g:MFwAAOSwuAFgX8At ☹️ Sorry about that, I was experimenting with not being cynical, it doesn't suit me and made the memsahib think she'd been sucked into The invasion of the body snatchers.... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 15 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: Perhaps it's supposed to represent the recent hike in fuel prices? I suspect that a good number of eBay sellers have dropped a huge amount of acid and then binge watched Scouting for toys... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363928659188?hash=item54bbd6a4f4:g:ZTIAAOSwPgdi57uO It would appear that something hideous happened to one of the cylinders and that particular set of motion?? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 1, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2022 Usable in one direction only on a BLT... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 4 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: Well, I guess some of mine went 'down to the sea in ships' - University of Exeter undergrad, 1992-1995! But did it ask for a Tall Ship? 😜 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 4 hours ago, MarkC said: But did it ask for a Tall Ship? 😜 One hopes that it's not overcast too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted August 2, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2022 Just because it says Airfix on the box that doesn't make it 'kit-built'! Not only did the S&DJR 4Fs never appear in blue, but only some of the very early locos and the little one-off tanks had brass domes and chimney caps. Red coupling rods?? Small brass numbers would be nice. The lazy painter couldn't even be bothered to separate the S from the D and the J from the R. All for a least twice the going rate (EBAYwise) for one of these. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374070254222?hash=item5718531a8e:g:g10AAOSw9OZie63q 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Hroth said: One hopes that it's not overcast too! Indeed so - might make steering tricky... 🙃 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted August 2, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2022 32 minutes ago, phil_sutters said: Just because it says Airfix on the box that doesn't make it 'kit-built'! Not only did the S&DJR 4Fs never appear in blue, but only some of the very early locos and the little one-off tanks had brass domes and chimney caps. Red coupling rods?? Small brass numbers would be nice. The lazy painter couldn't even be bothered to separate the S from the D and the J from the R. All for a least twice the going rate (EBAYwise) for one of these. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374070254222?hash=item5718531a8e:g:g10AAOSw9OZie63q Well it's Gosturd init! Kit built is his listing trademark. As for the price, there's sensible and there's Gostude! 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 There are three certainties in life - Death, Taxes and absurd eBay prices/descriptions by Go$tude (aka Gosturd) HOURS OF FUN! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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