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Sadly given the current insanity with old motors he'll get that easily. I was looking at 5 untested Triang dmu/emu type motors the other day, 2 obviously had parts missing and that lot went for north of 100 pounds😱 Amazing people will throw that sort of money at what could possibly be someone's burnt out motors. Actually I once got a bargain from gostude. Bid without realizing it was him selling so I was thrown into a panic once I realised, wondering what i'd missed on the listing, but it was indeed a good purchase.😎

I quite liked this listing due to the sellers description. Could be a bargain if you know what they are😉 Linky

After the insert roof for the above loco. Doesn't need to have the pantograpths, just the actual roof with switch. Thanks.

That's very true, but I've sold both a LNER 8F and a LMS 8f and if you gave me the option of a playworn lms one with a wrong box or a mint LNER one as new, well i know what I'd chose. (Mine went for 90+ so someone like Hatton with their reputation and internet presence?). I've sold about 7 well used Hornby dublo 8fs with no box on ebay and the lowest I got was in the mid-30s, so someone got a cracking bargain today.

That's fair comment, but as a business presumably trying to make as big a profit as possible, it would probably make sense to sell the common bad condition item at a reasonable price while not giving away the rarer mint condition item for peanuts

Apart from their search engine giving me a migrane, I'll never get their pricing. They've got a lms wrenn 8f on there, worn paint, wrong box = 76 quid. A wrenn LNER 8f, pristine paintwork, mint in box = 37. Price on ebay 60 plus. EDIT: not anymore. Someone got a bargain😎

Thought I'd give a shout out to this place as I can't find it on here and we're not exactly overflowing with model railway places in East birmingham. I've been using it to pick up supplies like Phoenix paints which is a godsend if you don't want to pay 8 pounds postage for a tin of paint.. They have a decent amount of mainly 2nd hand locomotives but I think they do new as well. 2nd hand prices seem to be roughly eBay prices or thereabouts but of course they're guaranteed working. Lots of supplies, track including N gauge and I gather they do repairs also. Think they're open Wednesday onwards and have a web site. Staff are friendly and helpful so well worth a browse if you're local.

Just fitted one of those ring doorbells for my mum which sends a video if anyone drops off a parcel and doesn't ring the bell. What she found was because she was in during the day, the couriers put a note on their records to dump most of the road's parcels at hers. She doesn't mind, but still a bit of a cheek

My parcel has arrived safely to its buyer, so I guess 3 days including a weekend is not bad at this time of year 👍

I haven't ever lost a parcel with royal mail, or had bad delays to be honest. I always offer 2nd class and if it goes over 20 pounds it gets upgraded at my cost, and likewise 50. I've had delays buying but it's usually down to the seller (claiming they sent it, and obviously haven't bothered for a week) Damage wise, again I package stuff robustly, so never had damage, but again royal mail seem pretty good. I once received an unboxed train wrapped in a sellataped binbag and that got to me unscathed somehow😂

I've done the same as you. After disappearing off the radar since Friday, its now in leeds and on its way to York (yay!)So only 1 and a bit days late so far. I was wondering if I could get them for not bothering to track it😕

Somewhere in Staffordshire virginia, a confused American is wondering why someone sent him 36 capacitors. Sorry😉

Because of the value, ended up sending my item by RM special delivery guaranteed next day* I'm hoping with all the strikes and Christmas posting last week it's now in the eye of the storm and will fly through the system😂😂 luckily it's not going anywhere near Bristol. *not guaranteed at all.

Heh, never tried, but you could be onto something😉

Only brought in this year I think. When you list your item you tick to be included into the global shipping program. Means the customer pays eBay for the shipping. You post it to the eBay shipping hub (mine is in Litchfield about 15miles). Once they get it, you and the customer get all the tracking updates, but basically means once it arrives at the hub, if it gets lost or damaged the customer's beef is with ebay not with you so they can't claim back from you. of course it could go missing on the way to the hub but tracked your usually safe and if I send to the UK and it gets lost or broken then it's my responsibility and at the moment with the mail I prefer the GSP odds😂

GPS. All you need to do is get it to ebay's hub down the road from me. Getting to the customer abroad is their problem, and if it doesn't arrive they refund it not you.

I've got something for sale on eBay that ends tomorrow. Gonna take the hit and send it first class tracked but at the moment I'm praying someone from abroad buys it because then it becomes Ebay's problem😂

If you click on Kirk or mailcoach then there's nothing, but the others they have left up the sub-section picture menus which may mean they intend to use them? Could just be a coincidence and I don't know what it was like before they took over. Also they made a point of mentioning the products they haven't bought so you think they would have mentioned blacksmith maybe?

I could be reading far too much into this but the stuff they don't own like the Kirk and mailcoach products have been totally deleted from the website but the blacksmith products are still on there so y'know...

Yeah, I can't imagine the new owners aren't aware of the back story, so they won't be making any promises they can't keep or re-launching until they know they can supply. The rest will be word of mouth once the stuff gets to the retailers

Dunno. It took a long time for oldcoopercraft to wreck it's reputation with a drip drip effect over the years, and you can still see it on here with other manufacturers, with people gradually becoming aware of problems and new people getting caught out, because with the best will in the world a lot of people don't read these forums. Anyway let's hope the new owners restore its reputation whatever the name

Yeah I suppose it's an argument really about the worth of a failed brand name. I would imagine those people who pay a fortune on eBay will soon cotton onto the fact that a hopefully reliable manufacturer has these kits , and if they manage to reintroduce everything, the eBay prices will go through the floor and then you have to ask do they need the old name and it's negative baggage? My feeling is many people see the name coopercraft and automatically associate it with the old firm despite the "by Cambrian models" bit, and that it will take time for that to change. After all, they have god knows how many years of bad press to reverse.

Hah, good thinking. No I get the original product is valued but it's name has become synonymous with dodgyness. Personally I would have gone with " Definitely Not Coopercraft or anything to do with Paul Dunn injection molded kits and you will receive them. Honest! Ltd", but perhaps they couldn't fit it on the packaging. 😉

Not sure why they bought and are keeping the name really. Can't imagine that name has any positive rep left and you are going to get confusion between this company and the last however clear you make it.