cessna152towser

53809 is one of the harder models to find. I wanted a 53809 because I have travelled behind the full size prototype in preservation on the East Lancs Railway and the North York Moors Railway. I eventually gave up and bought a 53806 for around £100, which I then re-numbered to 53809.

Good advice. My buyer says he is waiting for the store manager to phone him back and if not he will go and visit them again on Thursday. The default setting on eBay is set to allow click and collect. If I ever sell again on eBay I would change my settings and refuse to send to click and collect addresses.

I had pre-ordered 78047 direct from Hornby when the model was first announced a few years ago as the prototype was a Hawick based engine, but I cancelled all my pre-orders with Hornby after they were unable to fulfil the Captain Tom pre-order. More recent issues with Hornby quality control and steeply rising prices, plus I am getting older, means it is now unlikely that I would buy a Hornby 78xxx.

The PFA is also my personal favourite.

That would appear to be the situation. I have not previously been asked to send to a Click and Collect address. I was unhappy about doing so but then I checked and my eBay settings were at the default position so Click and Collect had been offered as an option at the moment of sale so I felt obliged to accept it. I wrote the eBay code on the parcel label alongside the name of the recipient and I had assumed that covered everything. So far I have heard nothing further from the buyer.

The last show I attended was Glasgow in February 2020. Previously I would have attended 3 or 4 shows per year, including our local show in which I was fully involved in several roles. Due to our club age profile, shortly prior to the pandemic, the local club relinquished our extensive clubrooms in favour of having a small railway room within our local Men's shed and we had already decided 2020 would be the last of our long running annual shows. Events were to prove that 2019 would in fact be the last. My wife is a cancer survivor and I am now 70 so we are still keeping a low profile and I have no plans to attend any model railway shows in the foreseeable future.

I sold an item a job lot of wagons a few weeks ago to a buyer who paid promptly and asked me to send the item to what he said was the click and collect address which he normally used. He asked me to hold the item as he was bidding on other items ending a week later. He then successfully bid for a loco and two more wagons and paid for these as a single order. I sent the items to the Premier Store and notified him once tracked delivery had been confirmed to me. I heard nothing further for almost a week, so assuming the matter was concluded I left positive feedback. In response, he then messaged me to say that the store would not release the parcel without the EPC number. I checked on an eBay help forum and ascertained that the EPC number is the code which eBay give you as part of the buyer's address. Luckily I had the foresight to write this number alongside his name when I sent the parcel. I checked back on my eBay sales to fetch the EPC number for him and found that the two payments had actually attracted different numbers so I gave him both numbers. He has now got back to me that the shop are still refusing to release the parcel as they say these are not the correct numbers. As I understand it from my reading of the eBay forum the store must either release the parcel to the buyer or return it to sender. Has anyone else ever sent anything to a click and collect address and if so is it always such a hassle?

Useful tip, thanks. I have third radius curves and Peco 24" and 36" radius pointwork, with the exception of having to use one Peco setrack second radius curved point to fit the available space. I wondered why one wagon derailed on the curved point. As my layout is U-shaped end to end now I know that all I need to do is ensure the brake wheel is at the leading end of each wagon as they leave my fiddle yard. I won't need to do any hacking.

That looks fabulous. Can just imagine it running across a trestle on the Port Alberni sub. If only. My last ride on the E & N was from Qualicum Beach to Courtenay in March 2011 just a few days before the service ended. It was sad to see the tracks at Johnson Street bridge gone when I returned to the island the following year. Not been back on the beautiful Vancouver Island since 2012 and I doubt whether I will be back. My cousin who hosted me last time at Sooke is married to a native of the Kwakiutl tribe. They are both now in their eighties.

Works both ways. I ordered my 4 GBRf HYAs from Accurascale because I needed a few GBRf wagons for my Hornby 66 731 Captain Tom Moore to haul.

My second pair of HYAs arrived safely this afternoon.

My first two HYAs in action this evening (one minute video) https://www.flickr.com/photos/cessna152towser/51983629382

I received an e-mail with tracking notification on Friday that both my packs were "In Transit" with GLS Ireland. An update came late afternoon Monday that tracking information for the current courier was no longer available and the status reverted to "Order Ready". Presumably this marked the handover from GLS Ireland to Parcel Force, as Parcel Force have been here this morning and already delivered one pack containing two wagons. Haven't ran them yet but from what I have seen these look very well produced and will give much pleasure. Hopefully my other pair of HYAs will arrive tomorrow or later this week.

That explains everything. Here was I wondering why all the AdBlue spills?

I bought an item of rolling stock on eBay buy-it-now at what seemed a good price because although described as new the photo showed missing buffers. The seller wrote asking if I would agree to cancel as the price was wrong and he had already tried to correct it but had been unable to do so. I pointed out there was a binding contract to sell, but as a person who also sells occasionally on eBay I would have no wish to exploit his situation and I agreed to cancel. I got a nice polite reply thanking me for agreeing to cancel and offering to split the difference between the wrong price and the correct price. All very amicably concluded. eBay have now notified me of cancellation of the order on basis that seller cancelled the order, reason given "Buyer requested to cancel". I did not request cancellation, he did and I agreed. I suspect the seller used this reason as he would otherwise have incurred fees and a transaction defect. I would have no wish to receive a black mark for cancelling when the cancellation was no fault of my own and I am minded that If there is any possibility that I would be defected as an unreliable buyer, then I would need to pursue the matter further. eBay forum comments on a similar case suggest that this reason for cancellation is often used by sellers as they have few options and that eBay do not keep track of buyers who withdraw. If this is correct then I would be quite happy just to leave it there. Your thoughts?

I admire his optimism. 1) The Hornby version in this livery was a poor seller even at a fraction of the price as it was based on a one-off experimental livery. 2) Two power cars, yet one has no exhaust pipes on the corridor end, a Lima mistake which Hornby later rectified. 3) I couldn't find any pictures of the "storage boxes shown" to which the description refers.

Thanks Andy, this is most informative. Please accept my apology for having missed your comment on the other thread answering these points. I had mistakenly assumed your post there was in reply to the one by Hayfield so I had glossed over it without assimilating its contents.

Already posted under eBay topics a few days ago but may also be of some relevance here. I sold a job lot of five Hornby wagons on eBay.uk to the highest bidder who happens to be based in Germany. I had listed them as country of manufacture unknown as they were a mix of four made in UK and one made in China and explained this in the detailed description. Sale price to highest bidder was 26.08 plus 3.20 domestic postage, but I see that the buyer has to pay 13.06 postage (presumably an add on for shipping by eBay from their English GSP base to Germany) plus 9.20 import charges which I assume relates to the Chinese product as items manufactured in UK should go into EU tariff free under the withdrawal agreement. I am committed to GSP as I do not have the buyer's address in Germany so posted the items to eBay GSP address. My stepdaughter will be here on a short holiday from Germany next week and I am thinking it would have been far cheaper for the buyer if I could have sent the items back to Germany in her luggage so she could have posted them in Germany. It seems sad that eBay GSP charges for the buyer are so high! Having read this thread I presume eBay charges include collection of German Mehrwertsteuer, even though for a sale within UK no VAT would be involved (other than the VAT which I pay to eBay on their fees) as I am a private seller.

A trusted seller whom we have bought from before and who provided a copy of his post office receipt for the parcel which confirms tracking number, house number and postcode. He has offered free replacement.

Had a new experience with Royal Mail. Wife bought medicinal lotions costing in excess of one hundred pounds through mail order. Seller sent package by signed for mail and has proof of posting to our address here in Scotland. Tracking showed item as delivered but we did not receive it. Post Office investigation shows item was delivered to an address in Blackpool Lancashire "in accordance with the label which was on the parcel". Seller says he hand wrote our address on parcel and had no customer in Blackpool. Post Office clerk told sender he is unlikely to succeed with a claim as the item has been delivered. It seems to me, either someone else's label got accidentally stuck over our address (a long shot) or there is a corrupt individual in some sorting office re-addressing random parcels to his own or a friend's address in hope of hooking something of value. Can anybody think of another explanation? Has this happened to anyone else here? Apart from the financial loss it worries me as a regular seller on eBay that model trains which I sell could be misdirected.

Browsing my 1972 Hornby catalogue this evening a quote from the inside front cover:- "Tri-ang Hornby trains provide fun that lasts. Their strength will absorb playroom knocks and ensure the trains will still be running years from now. Only the finest materials are used in their construction and prototypes underego a rigorous programme of developing and testing before new models are put into production. Rolling stock and accessories are carefully checked before despatch from the factory and locomotives are triple tested. Tri-ang Hornby is your guarantee of value for money". Exactly as they said, the trains will still be running years from now, I have many locos, coaches and wagons which are shown in this catalogue and still run smoothly fifty years later. It is sad how quality control has declined with more recent models.

I sold a job lot of five Hornby wagons this morning on eBay.uk to a German buyer. Listed as country of manufacture unknown as they were a mix of four made in UK and one made in China. Sale price to highest bidder was 26.08 plus 3.20 domestic postage but I see that the buyer has to pay 13.06 postage (presumably an add on for shipping by eBay from their English GSP base to Germany) plus 9.20 import charges which I assume relates to the Chinese product as items manufactured in UK should go into EU tariff free under the withdrawal agreement. I am committed to GSP as I do not have the buyer's address in Germany so posted the items this afternoon. My stepdaughter will be here on a short holiday from Germany next week and I am thinking it would have been far cheaper for the buyer if I could have sent the items back to Germany in her luggage so she could have posted them in Germany. It seems sad that eBay GSP charges for the buyer are so high!

Just had the same problem today. Took my Dapol 121 out for its first run in several weeks and it would only run in one direction. Took it apart and the problem is the flexible coupling on the leading bogie has become chewed up such that the drive shaft on that end is only intermittently able to turn the gears at that end. It is hardly out of its 12 month warranty, being bought in July 2020 and scarcely had a chance to become properly run-in.

In the past Modellbahn Union had some sort of tie in with Dapol. Just had a look at their website this morning and I see they currently advertise some Accurascale wagons. Maybe they could be persuaded to take on other 00 brands?

A brand new Hornby 66 arrived here yesterday. The DB Cargo Delivering for Key Workers from the 2021 catalogue which at the time I thought would be nice to have, but only decided to buy when it came up on the Bargain Hunters thread recently as heavily discounted at Kernow. One of the airdams was already broken inside the box. The loco initially ran hesitantly and kept stalling. Examination showed around half the pickups were not in contact with the wheels. After tweaking the pick-ups and fitting a replacement airdam which I happened to have as a spare from a different purchase, I am now happy with the loco and it doesn't need to go back. However, should I need to do such work on a brand new loco before it is fit for use?