hayfield Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 On 02/08/2022 at 11:33, PeterStiles said: I'm beginning to wonder if we can build some sort of trigger that's run whenever Gostude posts something new onto EBay, that automatically posts a link to this topic. Think of all the time and effort we'd save if we didn't have to link on here manually... We could randomly add some "really at that price?" style comments and probably save ourselves a lot of effort in any given month. If someone stupidly buys from them (I once bought an item which was miss described and finally got a full refund) is one thing, But what annoys me is when I search for say DJH kits, I get a whole host of items which are even not described as from DJH still appearing in the search, presumably as this and other names are included in the listing it annoys me. I assume he is a trader and thus subject to trades description ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HExpressD Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 19 hours ago, 40152 said: Tell me this isn’t a tenner for what is effectively a bit of ripped up scotchbrite pad… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393910399823?hash=item5bb6e3b34f:g:M94AAOSwvzZh-pNn …or perhaps the perceived value comes from the thing on the top? I got legitimately better stuff than in one of their (then) £8 mystery boxes. I find it both confusing and bonkers that they have this listed for a tenner. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted August 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2022 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: No problems with that carp, a fine specimen. The Squeeze is Polish, and has introduced me to carp for xmas dinner which is the custom in several central European countries. The carp we have is imported frozen; they are farmed and cornfed, but the tradition that she grew up with was for a wild carp to be caught by her father, and kept in the bath for a week or so so that it could be cornfed for the taste, and taken out and killed on xmas morning. It's then gutted, stuffed, and roasted. It's not bad, and I'm not a big fan of turkey anyway, bit bland. Christmas morning, rather than Christmas eve? maybe a regional variation, but where Mrs C comes from the main celebratory meal is eaten on the evening of the 24th. Which means we can combine the two, and have a Polish meal on the 24th and a British one on the 25th... 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 And like both cultures, indigestion on the 26th? Always dreaded the boxing day feeling! I remember visiting grandparents and elderly relatives as a child, which resulted in being full of Christmas pudding, English and German Christmas cake, you were bouncing off the ceiling by new year... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted August 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2022 20 hours ago, Hroth said: Seconded! How about this carp? Sometimes some carp is better than other carp.... Depends on the scale I suppose. :) 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, rab said: Depends on the scale I suppose. :) I'm fed up to the gills with jokes like that. Mike. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 10 hours ago, teaky said: Nick C posted his response whilst I was typing but I'll post this anyway. If the seller sets a Reserve price it will always be above the Start Price. For example, an auction listing could start at £10 but the seller doesn't want to part with the item for less than £50 so they set a Reserve of £50. In the example you quoted above there is an effective reserve of £100 but the seller hasn't paid an additional fee for a Reserve price. You will not be able to bid 1p as the first bid has to be £100 or more. On a Buy-It-Now or auction listing where there is the option of making a Best Offer the seller can also specify a price below which offers will not be accepted. This minimum offer price is not visible to potential buyers (for obvious reasons) but saves the seller from dealing with offers that are too low and the system rejects these offers automatically. The idea of a Reserve price seems a little dated these days but still crops up. There is an extra fee for setting a Reserve price and the seller has to balance this additional cost against the higher fee for a higher start price. I suppose it might draw some people into bidding for an item with, say, a 99p start price but there is little difference between a 99p start price with a £100 Reserve and an item with a £100 start price and no Reserve other than the fact that the Reserve is not known until someone puts in a bid that is higher. At present, there is no longer a sliding scale of listing fees, dependant on the start price. It was this way some years ago though. 🙂 The minimum reserve price that can be set with the paid for reserve is, I believe, still £50.00. So, if you see a listing with a paid for reserve, the lowest price would be £50.00. Anything less, will be below the reserve...🤷🏼♀️ 🐉🙋🏼♀️ 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2022 7 hours ago, Nick C said: Christmas morning, rather than Christmas eve? maybe a regional variation, but where Mrs C comes from the main celebratory meal is eaten on the evening of the 24th. Which means we can combine the two, and have a Polish meal on the 24th and a British one on the 25th... Just asked her and that is what she used to do as well, xmas eve big carp meal followed by midnight mass. We have it on xmas day apparently in respect for my traditions. And we've missed the last 2 years, what with covid and all. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hal Nail Posted August 6, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 6, 2022 On 03/08/2022 at 22:37, The Johnster said: We have it on xmas day apparently in respect for my traditions. My understanding is that in certain parts, if you are naughty, santa just leaves you a lump of coal instead of presents. You might want to slip this into the conversation next time you need to model a load. 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted August 6, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2022 17 minutes ago, Hal Nail said: My understanding is that in certain parts, if you are naughty, santa just leaves you a lump of coal instead of presents. You might want to slip this into the conversation next time you need to model a load. Good point - if every volunteer at a railway is naughty, they might get enough for a day worth of steaming? 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Bucoops said: Good point - if every volunteer at a railway is naughty, they might get enough for a day worth of steaming? We are approaching a time when the young folks will say: 'Coal? What is coal??' 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 6, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2022 2 hours ago, Hal Nail said: My understanding is that in certain parts, if you are naughty, santa just leaves you a lump of coal instead of presents. You might want to slip this into the conversation next time you need to model a load. I have very little faith in santa. I'm still waiting for my Scalextric from 1966; I was good and everything, but it never turned up! I'm ok for coal, Tomparryharry, who owns two Andrew Barclays at Blaenavon, gave me enough to last the rest of my modelling career a couple of years ago. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 (edited) 11 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: We are approaching a time when the young folks will say: 'Coal? What is coal??' I've had some experience of this, working on Steam Railways... "Mummy, what's that?" A small child in a family group seeing the coal fire in the booking hall... "What's that?" Older children on a school trip to the Railway, seeing us clearing up some spilled coal after a loco had had its bunker refilled... They thought that we were winding them up, about "rock that burns"! And these were from literally years ago now.🤷🏼♀️ 🐉🙋🏼♀️ Edited August 6, 2022 by Ruffnut Thorston Typi 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 Remember all of those bits you’ve got left over from Metcalfe kits? You’re sitting on a potential goldmine: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224400219652?hash=item343f4b9e04:g:3DMAAOSwDe1gXL75 !! 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted August 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 9, 2022 Described as "new" too which is stretching a point beyond its elastic limit. 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 They're the sort of bits left over if you are making buildings for a period layout, all that lower case signage is more typical of the 1970s and later. £14 seems a lot when you might only want one or two and I'm pretty sure that such things are available new for a lot less. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 12 minutes ago, MrWolf said: They're the sort of bits left over if you are making buildings for a period layout, all that lower case signage is more typical of the 1970s and later. £14 seems a lot when you might only want one or two and I'm pretty sure that such things are available new for a lot less. Agreed, plus with the easy availability of fonts and the most basic of word processing skills, just make your own? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted August 10, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2022 May have some signs of cosmetic wear… Usual understatement from Rails’ describer of second hand items. “Comprehensively broken” might be more apt. Cheers Darius 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Darius43 said: May have some signs of cosmetic wear… Usual understatement from Rails’ describer of second hand items. “Comprehensively broken” might be more apt. Cheers Darius Very good boxed condition! (Box is actually a replacement) Very good condition, apart from the smashed front bogie, driveshafts and missing wheels, or the scratched off decals, I've probably missed other bits. An absolute bargain at a gnats under £100. Are spares available? If so it's probably not an economic repair. I'd like to know what if anything they paid for it! PS, although a modeller of things Great Western, I'd quite like a Shay locomotive. Just not that one. Edited August 10, 2022 by MrWolf 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 23 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Very good boxed condition! (Box is actually a replacement) Very good condition, apart from the smashed front bogie, driveshafts and missing wheels, or the scratched off decals, I've probably missed other bits. An absolute bargain at a gnats under £100. Are spares available? If so it's probably not an economic repair. I'd like to know what if anything they paid for it! PS, although a modeller of things Great Western, I'd quite like a Shay locomotive. Just not that one. Sounds like the start of a joke: "My loco has no wheels! ..." 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted August 10, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2022 1 minute ago, Paul H Vigor said: Sounds like the start of a joke: "My loco has no wheels! ..." How does it smell? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 44 minutes ago, Darius43 said: How does it smell? Like Barry Scrapyard! (not his real name...) 2 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 44 minutes ago, Darius43 said: How does it smell? Simply awful! 🥸 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 10, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10, 2022 2 hours ago, Darius43 said: How does it smell? Shaymeful. Mike. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted August 10, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 10, 2022 7 hours ago, Darius43 said: May have some signs of cosmetic wear… Usual understatement from Rails’ describer of second hand items. “Comprehensively broken” might be more apt. Cheers Darius That's a typical Bachmann Shay lunching it's own undergubbins after a few hours of running. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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