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18 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Unless you're a Sheffield based box - shifter/2nd hand seller?

 

Mike.

 

 I blame the air/water in Sheffield......

 

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On 25/10/2019 at 17:16, Mattc6911 said:

 

 

I think its to do with Ebay searches,  you put in revolution- it comes up. You put in Hattons- it comes up, you put in  Bachmann - it comes up, albeit much further down in the listings

Yeah, its a kind of scamming/mass marketing ploy. I loathe it, it just wastes time for the customer but the seller will benefit from more people seeing their not-Hattons, not-Bachmann and not-Hornby models. The annoying thing is, it works. Someone will see it on their Bachmann list and bid. eBay will never police such methods because it increases trade, and obviously their cut.

My tactic when I see a seller doing this is I whack them onto my blacklist, wave bye-bye and go elsewhere. For me they cease to exist and I happily know I've saved myself wasted time in the future.

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On 27/10/2019 at 18:05, Tony Davis said:

It did sell though, are they really that sought after (it would seem so). Why though? That is a lot of  money.

Plus a very reasonable £15 postage. Most curious.

You could buy 10, yes TEN very good 00 gauge locos for £1800. Or have FOUR brass kits professionally built, painted and lined for you.

As they say, life is strange.

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Maybe I'm missing something:

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-ADVANCED-PASSENGER-TRAIN-APT-LARGE-JOB-LOT-OF-PARTS-AND-SPARES/303378611673?hash=item46a2c63dd9:g:sHUAAOSw25Vd2C1t

 

But how can one make 5 complete sets with only 3 power cars, and that's before you consider the asking price :)

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13 hours ago, leopardml2341 said:

Maybe I'm missing something:

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-ADVANCED-PASSENGER-TRAIN-APT-LARGE-JOB-LOT-OF-PARTS-AND-SPARES/303378611673?hash=item46a2c63dd9:g:sHUAAOSw25Vd2C1t

 

But how can one make 5 complete sets with only 3 power cars, and that's before you consider the asking price :)

 

If you look at the pictures, there are 8 other power cars in bits.

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16 hours ago, leopardml2341 said:

Maybe I'm missing something:

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-ADVANCED-PASSENGER-TRAIN-APT-LARGE-JOB-LOT-OF-PARTS-AND-SPARES/303378611673?hash=item46a2c63dd9:g:sHUAAOSw25Vd2C1t

 

But how can one make 5 complete sets with only 3 power cars, and that's before you consider the asking price :)

 

Maybe it will appear in the subforum called 'Good buy from eBay'! They are difficult to get vehicles to bash into correct vehicles, as only sold as a 5 car set.

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8 hours ago, John M Upton said:

 

That seems a bit expensive just to paint strip it and repaint it into BR black livery.

Isn't there a cheaper way of doing it?

 

Mike.

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On 26/11/2019 at 20:26, kernowtim said:

Rare 1948 Hornby cattle truck?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F323987866497

Would be rare in 1948, as they Only made 22,000 for train sets 1990-93.

http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_details.asp?itemid=814

twenty five nicker for a bit of old decaying plastic. we truly are in La La land

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Ah, could this be the reason for the madness?

 

These were sold exclusive at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden.

 

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London Transport Museum has taken a keen interest in Bachmann’s new model developments and as appropriate rolling stock as used by Transport for London and its predecessors has become available in model form, the Museum has commissioned relevant limited edition models.

London Underground, the oldest metro system in the world, celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2013 at the same time as a large fleet of new S Stock Underground trains were being built for service on Metropolitan, District, Hammersmith & City and Circle lines. London Transport Museum and Bachmann seized the opportunity to produce the first ever ‘ready to run’ fine scale model Underground train and worked together to produce a very high quality 1:76 (OO) scale S Stock model utilising Bachmann’s technical expertise.

 

https://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/models/Bachmann#show=5

 

 

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3 hours ago, AlexHolt said:

Yes they were exclusive to London Transport Museum. But its still mad that they are now over £1300 and rising. Then consider you need two of them to actually make a set.  

 

Now showing as £195 with 3 days to go.  There must have been a “correction” in the bidding.

 

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8 minutes ago, Metr0Land said:

I might offer £5.55 or at a push £6.00.

 

I do quite like the Christmas wagons, I have no idea why I just do.

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3 hours ago, Darius43 said:

 

Now showing as £195 with 3 days to go.  There must have been a “correction” in the bidding.

 

Darius

 

Yes, perhaps eBay has got a bidding-bot detector?

 

But the remaining bits still looks strange  - it looks like the same account has bidded the same amount eight times?
 

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0***4(138)£195.00  10 Dec 2019 at 6:56:34AM GMT

0***4(138)£195.00  10 Dec 2019 at 6:56:22AM GMT

0***4(138)£195.00  8 Dec 2019 at 8:48:36PM GMT

0***4(138)£195.00  8 Dec 2019 at 8:48:07PM GMT

0***4(138)£195.00  8 Dec 2019 at 8:47:12PM GMT

0***4(138)£195.00  8 Dec 2019 at 1:54:05PM GMT

0***4(138)£195.00  6 Dec 2019 at 7:16:38PM GMT

0***4(138)£195.00  6 Dec 2019 at 7:11:30PM GMT

 

 

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