talisman56 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 WARNING.....!!! You may have heard about someone buying a Laptop on Ebay....only to find that they had actually bought a PHOTO of a laptop! Someone is doing it for Model Railways! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/photo-of-model-railway-coach-E153E-full-brake-/351313743238?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item51cbee4d86 The listing does clearly state PHOTO, but the very limited description, coupled with the "click" impulse on seeing the illustration may well laed someone into buying this.... The question is, why would you want to buy a photo of a coach, when you could buy loads in a catalogue or Model Railway Magazine? There is also another from the same seller...a Pullman Coach PHOTO...(of an old HO LIMA Model!) ...and we thought selling empty boxes was a high point in eBay madness... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 30801 Posted February 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2015 ...and we thought selling empty boxes was a high point in eBay madness... Really? Think harder. I'm off to find someone selling a photo of an empty box.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Really? Think harder. I'm off to find someone selling a photo of an empty box.... Pfft. I'll shortly be listing a printout of a screenshot of an auction selling a photo of an empty box. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) WARNING.....!!! You may have heard about someone buying a Laptop on Ebay....only to find that they had actually bought a PHOTO of a laptop! Someone is doing it for Model Railways! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/photo-of-model-railway-coach-E153E-full-brake-/351313743238?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item51cbee4d86 The listing does clearly state PHOTO, but the very limited description, coupled with the "click" impulse on seeing the illustration may well laed someone into buying this.... The question is, why would you want to buy a photo of a coach, when you could buy loads in a catalogue or Model Railway Magazine? There is also another from the same seller...a Pullman Coach PHOTO...(of an old HO LIMA Model!) Ah hah!! Now it has me wondering hast how much a photo of a photo of a Hornby Exeter could command - I could become a millionaire Edited February 16, 2015 by Ian Abel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted February 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2015 .... only if you have an Exeter to take a photo of. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) .... only if you have an Exeter to take a photo of. Nah, to plagiarize poorly Blazing Saddles, "we don't need no stinking model..." - why bother with that trivial problem, just "borrow" the photo from the Hornby web page or other "location"...that's the "eBay madness way after all" means more profit from the PHOTO sale too!!! Edited February 16, 2015 by Ian Abel 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 You are too hard on poor Gwen. She does offer free postage on the photo. It's the strange landscape in the background that disturbs me and why has she taken a photo of the photo with the original lying on her bath mat. Not keen on the blue colour any way. Bernard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 You are too hard on poor Gwen. She does offer free postage on the photo. It's the strange landscape in the background that disturbs me and why has she taken a photo of the photo with the original lying on her bath mat. Not keen on the blue colour any way. Bernard You could cut out the carriage from the picture, paste it onto a background of your choice and sell it on as a "Handcrafted Original KIT BUILT! RARE!!!". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 16, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Trouble is some overseas suppliers bump up the value for insurance thinking they're doing you a favour, not realising it puts the 'value' of the item bought much higher. I got caught by this once. Nowadays I ask them to make sure the price is same as the value. I can understand buying from overseas based sellers might get VAT added. Someone based in the UK and selling in pounds and adding postage in pounds, with the prices the same as the others in the Amazon Marketplace who ship from the UK, should have a very obvious warning that they are shipping from the US and you are likely to get hammered. At the time there was no warning whatsoever (there is something on the site now) and when I complained to Amazon they said as it was Marketplace it wasn't their responsibility and to get in touch with the seller who basically said "tough" it says shipped from US - case closed. N.B. the items I bought were UK manufactured and I could not see the logic (apart from blatant profiteering by making them seem the same price as their competitors) of sending the items to the US and re-importing them! Keith Edited February 16, 2015 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I can understand buying from overseas based sellers might get VAT added. Someone based in the UK and selling in pounds and adding postage in pounds, with the prices the same as the others in the Amazon Marketplace who ship from the UK, should have a very obvious warning that they are shipping from the US and you are likely to get hammered. At the time there was no warning whatsoever (there is something on the site now) and when I complained to Amazon they said as it was Marketplace it wasn't their responsibility and to get in touch with the seller who basically said "tough" it says shipped from US - case closed. Keith Yeah, Amazon seem to have their own interpretation of the UK 'Sale of Goods act' too, we've just had a fight with them regarding a manufacturing fault on a guitar which came to light after 2 months, contacted the marketplace seller - not interested and became most abusive and accusing when we pressed for something to be done and Amazon Claims said sorry you should have claimed within 14 Days of purchase, yeah right. We looked it up and with manufacturing faults it is 6 months so buxxer Amazon we'll be closing the account so they won't ever again need to pay our part of their tax...... LOL. Now going through our card company. Should have supported our local music shop.... not some shyster in Dumfermline selling from his house. Dave Franks Amazon, another 'too big' company. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 17, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 17, 2015 Careful what you say about Scotsmen selling from their house Dave!!! Mike. not some shyster in Dumfermline selling from his house. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 17, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2015 Not really "madness" more a case of "strange". Pity folks don't do any research before posting things Then again it IS on the eBay US site and in the HO scale/Hornby area - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hornby-OO-HO-Gauge-0-6-0-Jinty-Locomotive-Coal-Car-Triang-England-Nice-/281565900093?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item418ea2ad3d Seems a tank engine may need a "coal car" in the imagination of a US model railroad store <sigh> So what happened to his other sale, the one for the loco sans tender? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Careful what you say about Scotsmen selling from their house Dave!!! Mike. not some shyster in Dumfermline selling from his house. Yeah Mike but I'm not on Amazon Marketplace pretending to be a retailer. I've now found out he's a failed company director.... Dave Franks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soony Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 There I was, quietly trawling through Ebay for some J94's , when this popped up... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sexy-Nude-Girl-Model-Photo-Stockings-Female-Wife-Busty-1-Butt-BIG-Boobs-Lady-J94-/301524884445?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4634489bdd Wasn't a Dapol or Hornby , so I skipped it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Yeah Mike but I'm not on Amazon Marketplace pretending to be a retailer. I've now found out he's a failed company director.... Dave Franks. Go to Dumfermline and insert said guitar sideways! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soony Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Paradise for someone>>>> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Approx-23-Tri-ang-Hornby-Hornby-Rovex-empty-boxes-mainly-wagons-/271773851964?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f46fbe13c and NO BIDS.. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodmin Bob Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 There I was, quietly trawling through Ebay for some J94's , when this popped up... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sexy-Nude-Girl-Model-Photo-Stockings-Female-Wife-Busty-1-Butt-BIG-Boobs-Lady-J94-/301524884445?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4634489bdd Wasn't a Dapol or Hornby , so I skipped it... I got a similar response when I was searching for a nice set of buffers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 17, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2015 There I was, quietly trawling through Ebay for some J94's , when this popped up... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sexy-Nude-Girl-Model-Photo-Stockings-Female-Wife-Busty-1-Butt-BIG-Boobs-Lady-J94-/301524884445?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4634489bdd Wasn't a Dapol or Hornby , so I skipped it... I had a browse through to see if he had any other locomotives on offer, some were very steamy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/set-of-5-scale-railway-model-trains-/261776561711?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cf319562f set of 5 scale railway model trains?????????? in Finescale:- Edited February 18, 2015 by andytrains Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I had a browse through to see if he had any other locomotives on offer, some were very steamy. I thought selling that sort of thing was against eBay rules. 831 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/set-of-5-scale-railway-model-trains-/261776561711?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cf319562f set of 5 scale railway model trains?????????? in Finescale:- May be we should all email them to ask what motor is fitted, what couplings, are they DCC, etc. etc. Or even as they are in the finescale section are they OO, EM or P4. Now that would confuse them.... Dave. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 18, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 18, 2015 There I was, quietly trawling through Ebay for some J94's , when this popped up... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sexy-Nude-Girl-Model-Photo-Stockings-Female-Wife-Busty-1-Butt-BIG-Boobs-Lady-J94-/301524884445?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4634489bdd Wasn't a Dapol or Hornby , so I skipped it... Gives new meaning to 'Click to enlarge'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Paradise for someone>>>> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Approx-23-Tri-ang-Hornby-Hornby-Rovex-empty-boxes-mainly-wagons-/271773851964?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f46fbe13c and NO BIDS.. The boxes sold in the end....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Still time to grab a real bargain.... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231478831836?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/set-of-5-scale-railway-model-trains-/261776561711?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cf319562f set of 5 scale railway model trains?????????? in Finescale:- Grab the bargain while you can - there are two free extra sets of wheels on the 'Schools' class... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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