RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted April 11 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 11 85 sheets of Plastikard are now sitting under my desk. Lovely jubbly :D 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sjcm Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 1 hour ago, DCB said: How on earth is he getting the stuff so cheap. Boxed wagons for £2 to £5 sold for £10 -£15. A class 37 £12.50 sold for £40. Buying well below eBay prices. House clearances? The Yorkshire Auction House on TV gets derisory amount for models IMHO, so maybe that is the answer. Auctions and buy up anything cheap yes, but did he actually pay 2-5 pounds for a wagon individually or is that what he valued it them as part of say a big 300 pounds joblot? he may have even paid less per wagon but needs a "bottom line" figure to work out where to set his profit. He's sold those 3 unboxed Hornby wagons for 12 pounds each and claims they cost 10 pounds total so that's 26 pounds profit, but then he gave the buyer free postage so that's 21/22 profit. then you have his ebay fee's and business overheads. At 12 pounds a wagon they were unlikely to have flown out the door so could have been up for weeks. Worth the effort? perhaps, but a lot of work if you add in his time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 24 minutes ago, Bucoops said: 85 sheets of Plastikard are now sitting under my desk. Lovely jubbly :D But you've nowhere to put your feet now 😄 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 2 hours ago, Sjcm said: yes, but did he actually pay 2-5 pounds for a wagon individually or is that what he valued it them as part of say a big 300 pounds joblot? he may have even paid less per wagon but needs a "bottom line" figure to work out where to set his profit. He's sold those 3 unboxed Hornby wagons for 12 pounds each and claims they cost 10 pounds total so that's 26 pounds profit, but then he gave the buyer free postage so that's 21/22 profit. then you have his ebay fee's and business overheads. At 12 pounds a wagon they were unlikely to have flown out the door so could have been up for weeks. Worth the effort? perhaps, but a lot of work if you add in his time. The trouble is the public look at gross profit, just because the item has sold for double the price may for the private seller mean 50% profit, but for the business seller once all overheads are taken into account (including unsellable and damaged items) after all costs (postage, packing materials, transport costs etc) will be a fraction, then there are NI payments and taxation. Not as rosy as some think 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 11 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 11 2 hours ago, woodenhead said: But you've nowhere to put your feet now 😄 Plenty of material to build a footstool though! Mike. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonesboy Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 5 hours ago, woodenhead said: Aye. It's hard enough to make people happy when you carefully wrap a boxed item and they complain about the number of layers of bubblewrap you've used, but an unboxed item means either purchasing boxes (a cost) or spending time cutting up cardboard to fashion one. If most of your items are loose like that it would be hell. Like I said, the video is of interest, the chap does not appear to be a gouger and whilst his mark up is nearly 50% on many items I get the impression some stuff has gone at a loss and his 50% mark up is not megabucks but like £20-£30 selling price which given the effort he likely expends is probably not a lot of profit. Mind, the tax people will be interested given the new rules Ebay has to follow, so his actual return may soon be even less for the effort put in. He said in a previous video that he files his tax return to include his sales on EBay. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted April 12 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12 On 11/04/2024 at 14:25, woodenhead said: But you've nowhere to put your feet now 😄 It's OK, I have short leggies 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 12 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12 2 hours ago, Bucoops said: It's OK, I have short leggies 😁 Low hipped as my mother used to say! Mike. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus1 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 I've not bought much ralway stuff on eBay, but was after a Bachy green class 20 a couple of years ago. Stroke of luck, someone had a decent undamaged D8000 body on there, so got that for a song. A few days later someone else had a good running chassis on there for not very much! Result, a remarkably cheapEE Type 1 for not very much 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) Couldn't use my arm whilst off sick but, could use a finger (oo-er!)...and bought the train sets i always wanted. Average price was around £30 each. The artwork always did it for me! Edited May 13 by 33C added detail 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) A couple more, again, the art! RS.604 Night Mail is definitely the favourite. Edited May 13 by 33C added photo. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 And a couple more because they were cheap, interesting and the last was my very first Hornby electric train set! Just going to change my trousers.... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 19 I got these for £4.50. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204729461209 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hal Nail Posted May 2 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2 Found someone selling 3 O gauge Dapol 16T minerals for £68 post free today. These are typically nudging £50 with postage and the cheapest I've ever bought previously was £25 about 10 years ago! Had vowed not to buy any more but at that price will flip one and I'll have the other two for virtually nothing. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 I am being really boring in that I cannot find anything I fancy at a price I think is worthwhile. Neither am I selling much. In the back of my mind is wanting a Springside 4-6-0, but the ones that come up are far too expensive. Plus I am building/finishing off two locos and have a third waiting to be started 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Picked up a couple of bargains last week - a part built 4MT chassis with Romford wheels for less than what the wheels & axles themselves are going for on eBay, (I only wanted the wheels & axles anyway) & then a rather nice kit built Ivatt 64xxx for under GBP50, including postage. Mark 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 (edited) Post duplicated as the ship system lost the internet connection whilst my post was transmitting... 🤔 Mark Edited May 6 by MarkC 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6 Last month at the toy fair in Rayleigh I paid £3 for what I thought was a bag of plastic kit coach parts. When I got home a closer examination revealed that it was a Southern Pride kit for a four coach class 411 EMU. As far as I could see the kit was complete. Also with the kit was the header card for a Kirk Maunsell brake third. The toy fair is every month and the last one was yesterday, the same trader had the actual kit that the header card came from on his stall for £1, header card and kit are now reunited. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6 6 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Last month at the toy fair in Rayleigh I paid £3 for what I thought was a bag of plastic kit coach parts. When I got home a closer examination revealed that it was a Southern Pride kit for a four coach class 411 EMU. As far as I could see the kit was complete. Also with the kit was the header card for a Kirk Maunsell brake third. The toy fair is every month and the last one was yesterday, the same trader had the actual kit that the header card came from on his stall for £1, header card and kit are now reunited. Everything comes to he who waits! Mike. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Richard_A Posted May 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14 A craftsman Models Class 120 kit for £18, yes please. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-BOAF Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 (edited) I've just purchased a Hornby Collectors Club Terrier from Ebay. Its in transit and not arrived yet, but seller has already listed another (which I'm taking as a good sign in that they obviously have multiples in stock, and are not just trying to flog their own model as new). https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116185071561?epid=7065552348&itmmeta=01HY9VZQ9KP7B5VCCS1674QK5B&hash=item1b0d2b7fc9:g:TQIAAOSwAttmJpUz&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0BqzqW1f9TB%2Fti0IZa%2BlRhdItVwtUpx5kbvjxhruz7k6fjfIU%2BkZ3hwVI2phwtLfNBnZuI0CLiegzQwRG1jZzkEv0UooYWNxq6x72poWuzaW2gkTKP3pzEl%2FW6wdtcecIHrdJVn%2FUHh76NMuvlFYWLIWfmKz82%2BOt6eO8j08ZB7r2KTnCw0hMzqvnI9ydIrKOnY6%2BwMzaYMBFX1tD28m69NcS9J8x2yOZKyP7VJAQZBFEu01%2Bp%2Fe29KSwnNvENrB3cGrbci51WxFxtCAnbWq8FI%3D|tkp%3ABFBM8PT-u_Jj However I won my auction at around £60, so significantly under the purchase price of this model, which is great as I saved myself membership costs plus RRP price of a Terrier!. However I'm just wondering why anyone would be offloading such new stock as so low a price/setting reserve so low. Should I be worried? I seldom buy railway items on ebay... Edited May 20 by G-BOAF 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 20 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 20 4 hours ago, G-BOAF said: I've just purchased a Hornby Collectors Club Terrier from Ebay. Its in transit and not arrived yet, but seller has already listed another (which I'm taking as a good sign in that they obviously have multiples in stock, and are not just trying to flog their own model as new). https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116185071561?epid=7065552348&itmmeta=01HY9VZQ9KP7B5VCCS1674QK5B&hash=item1b0d2b7fc9:g:TQIAAOSwAttmJpUz&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0BqzqW1f9TB%2Fti0IZa%2BlRhdItVwtUpx5kbvjxhruz7k6fjfIU%2BkZ3hwVI2phwtLfNBnZuI0CLiegzQwRG1jZzkEv0UooYWNxq6x72poWuzaW2gkTKP3pzEl%2FW6wdtcecIHrdJVn%2FUHh76NMuvlFYWLIWfmKz82%2BOt6eO8j08ZB7r2KTnCw0hMzqvnI9ydIrKOnY6%2BwMzaYMBFX1tD28m69NcS9J8x2yOZKyP7VJAQZBFEu01%2Bp%2Fe29KSwnNvENrB3cGrbci51WxFxtCAnbWq8FI%3D|tkp%3ABFBM8PT-u_Jj However I won my auction at around £60, so significantly under the purchase price of this model, which is great as I saved myself membership costs plus RRP price of a Terrier!. However I'm just wondering why anyone would be offloading such new stock as so low a price/setting reserve so low. Should I be worried? I seldom buy railway items on ebay... I have bought various Collectors Club items from model shops in the past, and they had numbers of them, I think the manufacturer decides on the shelf life of a CC edition and then unloads them as a job lot. I don't think there's anything untoward going on. Mike. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 20 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20 3 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: I have bought various Collectors Club items from model shops in the past, and they had numbers of them, I think the manufacturer decides on the shelf life of a CC edition and then unloads them as a job lot. I don't think there's anything untoward going on. Mike. He (or she) is based in Rainham Essex, not that far from me. The only model shop in the vicinity is Roneo models which is temporarily closed due to the death of the owner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 3 hours ago, PhilJ W said: The only model shop in the vicinity is Roneo models which is temporarily closed due to the death of the owner. Temporary! When do you anticipate this second coming ? 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus1 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 (edited) I've put my AG Thomas privateowner wagons book vol 3 on Ebay at the moment. coming soon, a part-built Kitmaster Garret, Triang SR 2-car EMU in boxes, good runner, 2 LNER quad-at sets (Kirk kits I think) and lots more, Selling some stuff from a late friend's estate. Edited May 21 by roythebus1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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