Swissrail

His choice of photography is utterly baffling! He appears not to understand that the idea of the picture is to illustrate the item for sale, not just give the punters a pretty picture for the sake of it.

I did the same: "Do you have a picture of the loco you are actually selling? The picture on your listing is of a real, full size, narrow gauge loco with a human being in it".

What on earth is that supposed to be? Has that seller never actually seen rust before? The description is hilarious..."how many random words can I use to describe this pile of excrement? Let's see..." Vintage Scrapyard Abandoned Rusted Disused and one he forgot... CRAP.

Are they too lazy to even clean the thing before listing it?

I messaged him earlier this morning... "£199.50? What planet are you living on? It's a Lima van for heaven's sake! Not rare. Not even a very good model and certainly not worth more than twenty quid!" ...and hey presto! It's now just under twenty quid. It clearly shows how much of a mendacious chiseller he really is when, after being called out on his avarice, he unhesitatingly drops the price by a factor of ten!

I messaged the seller about that fact as I couldn't really believe my eyes. Also put him right as regards the origin of the model. He got back to me... "Thanks for letting us know about the incorrect pricing, could you send us a link if you have please? We will adjust the price accordingly Regards" So he just made a stab at the price rather than researching it?

Message from the British Pedants' Society... it's mendacity. Sits on naughty step. 😜

That guy is an utter chancer. With a selling policy like that, he should be kicked off Ebay. He won't be though. EDIT: I couldn't resist asking him for a photo of the item rather than just the box and I got the same reply, virtually word for word, that NHY 581 got. I responded that it was not on to refuse to photograph items and expect people to buy them on trust with no returns accepted. His response, and it's a cracker, straight out of the Arthur Daley school of salesmanship was, "What a sad and distrustful approach to life you have. Thankfully, 2,300 happy Ebay buyers (and growing), disagree with you." Just because 2,300 mugs have been daft enough to take you at face value, chummy, doesn't make you trustworthy.

With a modern phone camera, it's almost impossible to get it wrong so I suspect the latter.

That's the front offside wing of a dawg!

Steampunk = wrecked. You've got to hand it to that seller. He's got cohonas trying to present that as anything but a write-off!

The Welsh Hills...where men are men and sheep are worried.

Here's an outrageously optimistic Japanese seller... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155450400161?hash=item243190dda1:g:5kwAAOSwHalkDcEX&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAwLca27O2nuqzDto0nLiMoYQyFncStX9oKD9I7ouxcFZrJRCPT4vwXc%2FRSHsWVjEVO61xo8D0xBuu4BtsXz4HrIghEcpMiohyegOKdpV%2F0RxGsz8gindFmdt5CyDB4jd799hRb8VbP9oaJtW8OUaOhy2DMaQmvTzQEQOhfSwWT5FWENchUnynUxouduymtQz%2FPOoK5X8UjO4I4eH%2FXdZbHG5VERmSaSCd66pWL2R%2FShGWaYVBYxIklgBxuBz%2FuejTwg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6jvlvLbYQ Available almost anywhere else for about £25-£30. What he's expecting would get me TWO far-better-than-Liliput LS Models coaches of the same type. And then you've got the import duty and postage from Japan to contend with. Good grief, it might even buy me three LS Models coaches by the time all that's been added!

The description says: "a perfect addition to any model railway layout" Errr, how exactly??

The light steel restaurant is back on. Steve at Railtec sent me the replacement transfers and so progress could continue: I put the body onto its chassis temporarily just to photograph it more easily. The lettering is now correctly placed on the bodysides but as to the inscriptions, it turns out that when originally built, these coaches only had French and German titles on both sides. In 1959 it was decided to include Italian so one of the French inscriptions was removed and replaced with the 'CARROZZA RISTORANTE' lettering as seen above. The handrails are the supplied Liliput ones and they are overscale but I fitted them anyway because filling in the holes and redrilling would have ruined the paint job. Since this car has had more than its fair share of delays in its conversion I swallowed my instincts and decided not to let perfection get in the way of the good. They're not massively obvious as they are painted green and blend in quite well. If I'd been modelling this car in red however, the handrails would have had to be changed since, being yellow by this stage they would have stood out like a sore thumb. I've also made a discovery that I can spray Winsor & Newton satin varnish straight from the jar with the compressor set to 28psi. Diluting it was never easy since the water content sometimes caused it to blob. This way it goes on really nicely and produces a lovely finish. I use my older Badger 155 for this job as it has a 0.6mm needle as opposed to my Harder & Steenbeck's 0.4mm and 0.2mm needles. They're just too fine to allow the undiluted varnish to pass. The 0.6mm Badger needle works really well and gives a bigger spray pattern which is ideal for varnishing.

I can't say it would ever occur to me to go through the hassle of creating an Ebay listing for that!

That was what I thought when I saw its clearly unpainted grey plastic roof.

In fairness he does say it's got Class 40 sound but surely better to have no sound rather than the wrong sound? A Deltic sounding like that would drive me nuts. It might, at a pinch, be okay for the kiddies who aren't old enough to have been around to hear the glorious racket a Deltic actually made. Deafening, magnificent and not to be substituted by the sound of an English Electric 16SVT MkII under any circumstances!

That's why I don't go in for lighting except for, at a pinch, factory fitted head and tail lights. It just looks awful when everything flares like burning magnesium!

At least this one isn't "a great addition to your collection".

Here's another bobbin rastard.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374489154347?hash=item57314b032b:g:8V4AAOSwQeJj2TYO&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4NZra0%2B1JLWX85X%2BEKN1N8XDC1txta8eScelZRKH46DmkXMZBFxsOPVFzBHm5k%2BKc4Mim5KqEB3QiRg%2BYIo3pELumj82r2k54sEaXqCfgZxuvSV9p%2FI2GLllHA7omBh9IOlN0AkfhrFXu5ZHSFNsnIlWhQGS5v4GI7kzZ2KcPN2BzN%2BqAI0ZDHgruzZ6I0PznXsF8dn6TkdDiXybbITlsz8RcmrujGUJfaxre6ClrVz%2BZI%2BeXE0%2BOyTQl9v1%2FmenthKpzB%2Fl%2Fb%2FBU2ZOwEWfXjYWbzeijJc8s5eulqBJR4Jp|tkp%3ABFBMwPqS89hh £124.20 for two HOm four wheeled coaches? I think not good sir!

According to the listing it's in both London and Serbia. I'd ask him to charge the London postage as Serbia will be silly money.

As opposed to what happened to me recently. Package left on the doorstep at 10 am when I wasn't in. Me texted at 4pm (still away from the house) to say it had been delivered successfully AND SIGNED FOR BY ME! Fortunately the parcel wasn't nicked, although it was my argument that it easily could have been, when I complained to DHL to call the driver a bazy lastard and liar for pretending he'd done his job but then not bothering to walk thirty feet to deliver it to my neighbour. Result was the usual platitudinous guff about "having a word" with the driver, extra training, blah, blah, blah. Did they do any of that? I'd bet my pension they didn't bother their ar$e$.

Of course it's a model...built at 12 inches to the foot scale!

He's still barking at the moon and will be until that pile of carp comes down to fifty quid. EDIT: Actually, to judge by this seller's avatar and description, it's a woman selling her grandfather's old dross and she hasn't a clue what it is or what it's worth.