I've always wondered why they can set a price and admit to knowing nothing, at the same time. Seems kind of like dropping a brick on your foot, knowing it hurts, then dropping a brick on the other foot to be certain it really does hurt.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-HO-...292?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d2e95e934 Good Lord. Three hunnert clams. BUT! You get a Chatanooga Choo Choo! You get a NH caboose on a Seaboard flatcar..and missing couplers to boot! You get more cabooses than anyone will ever need! You get an F unit! A throw-away Tyco power pack! A handful of track! Some LifeLike cars! Look at the last photo, with a broken (zamac rot?) cast frame epoxied to a floor...and the trucks held in with whacking big Phillips head screws! A plastic LifeLike Docksider! A MARX power pack! Hurry! Last box like that I saw at a show was twenty bucks and it was still there when the show was over! Styrofoam Tunnels! Oh, those are so RARE and VINTAGE!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-TYC...873?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4c357f69 Hunnert thirty of junk. If you look close, you'll see three diseasemal power trucks....but nothing to put them under. ANOTHER throw-away TYCO pack. More track for the last one posted.....and the killer: "I don't know a lot about these items"
Deal of this century! http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Train-an...157?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf43d61a5 Free Shipping! NEW Botchman loco (how long will it run?) That GP-40-ish is worth half...no, wait...quarter......ah, shoot...tenth the asking price! Used and new...special SF boxcar with missing door and guides. Heck, the couplers have to be worth seventy bucks!
Lots of luck at fifty grand with no engines or rolling stock. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-HO-S...373?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4f4fdd65
Twenty grand. http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-TRAIN-SE...579?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f3afbb32b If you go to this gallery, you will see the highest priced Kilduff is 1/10 the evilbait asking: http://stores.ebay.com/John-Kilduff-Fine-Art/_i.html?rt=nc&_pgn=2&_ipg=48 Dave
This is about 3&1/2 hours from where I live. Trying to think of any name, but nobody comes into mind. They'll be lucky to get one percent of that asking price. Selling layouts is a tough chore.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BROKEN-Riva...847?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51cf8f4c37 I know what this is. I have one. By the time you repower it, find the PILOT TRUCK to make it the 2-8-0 noted on the tender, pilot and deck, stack, whatever else......you're buried. BIN at $50 plus shipping. Mine has a new tender floor to replace the rotted Zamac, NWSL gearbox, Menzies Machine Shop (vintage!) driveshaft kit, runs better than they ever did new, and I couldn't get fifty bucks for it....and it has the PILOT TRUCK!
I managed to rescue an old locomotive years ago probably in as bad a shape as this, but I for it for free out of a friends scrap box.
I've rescued a lot...all free. I wanted to save an old Athearn blue box GN GP7/9 shell with end steps all broken to heck and begone. I got a SF shell, no cab, no extras or railings for free, sectioned the ends in. The Riv shown is free and free shipping. I'd have paid a buck at a swap meet for it for parts. The big problem that kills those is the Zamac tender floor/frame. The motor mounts in the tender, with a reduction gearbox, the lower half of which IS the frame (you can see the "box" in the photos underneath). When it goes, there is no saving it. I built up a new brass frame with bolsters and centre sill, mounted a flat side Sagami can which I had (new), then got a NWSL gear box as the original is VERY highly geared (kept the shaft RPM low), balanced the driveshaft with proper short setscrews, but geez, the loco and shell were complete. Figured parts and labour a whole lot more than the asking for the junker shown. I did it because I bought it new in oh, 1965 or so, and wanted to see if I could fix it. Dave
evilbait humour...half zero scale: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Selling-two...095?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e9d4c5827 No kidding. In [TABLE] [TR] [TD] [h=2] Toys & Hobbies Model Railroads & Trains HO Scale Buildings, Structures Other [/h][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] You, too, can buy a house in Ica, Peru for only ninety eight grand.....apparently no half zero railroad included. Sorry. Dave
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Caretree-Tr...219?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33a1f703bb Same place, heckuva deal at $2700...again, no half zero trains seem to be included.....
Holy Bat Droppings! Ultra rare metal MDC/Roundhouse boxcar...only $3.95 shipping. Sorry, everytime I look at the price my eyes start jittering and I can't quite read it.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-HO-...282?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43dae3163a Wrong box must be what makes it so cheap, right? Dave
Why is it there are so many typos on evilbait....and so many items looking for a sucker? This is becoming an attitudinal deficiency. Can't spell, can't take decent photos, can't list it in the correct area, can't figure out what it's really worth....and on and on, ad infinitum nauseum.
Does the educational concept Common Core ring a bell? All you have to do is be close. Correct answers are optional. Jim:closedmouth:
Close in the old days counted in horseshoes and hand grenades. Now Nuclear Warheads count, but not common sense. You need to be better than "close"...oh, wait...if you aren't, you'll get some activist group to lobby for a minimum wage for burger flippers HIGHER than a PFC getting his butt shot in Iraq. So, close might count there....
