eBay bidders are notorious for bidding up items like crazy, long before the auction ends, until the great deals are long gone.
I always compare this to some hunters who suffer from "buck fever". A condition most outgrow, but some simply never will.
Yep, that's a good way to put it. Kind of like treating it like a "real" auction too. Most everyone I have talked to that claim to get crazy deals on auction sites say that they track many examples of what they want, pick a price that they will NOT go over...and then they wait until the last few seconds to throw their bid in. Takes a little more effort, but I can see where it would work. I know I have spent more than I wanted before on an item I felt like I HAD to have, only to see something identical a week or so later go for half that or lower. Patience.....
A couple of years ago my girlfriend found a listing for a pair of jeans that was spelled incorrectly. Anyway, she won them for $35.00 (her bid was the only one) and sold them a week later for $385.00
How about some used Microscale decal sheets that cost more than a brand new pack straight from Microscale.... he's got a bunch and the "new" packs run $2 more then MS. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microscale-...812701?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item53f2eb9bdd Are people really dumb enough to buy this stuff without researching it first? Fools and their money are soon parted I guess... Brian
I agree - this is amazingly dumb - or sly weasel-like! He decaled his engine and is selling the leftovers for this price - oh gee whiz - i forgot - its free shipping - wow shipping for this would be about .75 cents - YIKES
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Athearn-FP-...910800?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item4d087d4b50 Not a bad price for an Athearn FP-45....IF it was an Athearn. This is not an Athearn, but an AHM or related cousin.
One would think the "Made in Yugoslavia" on the fuel tank would clue prospective bidders....but probably not! Dave
I did not scroll up enough to catch the "made in Yugoslavia" in the fuel tank photo! Good catch. The sad part? Had I not recently picked an Athearn FP-45 up at a train show - and was well acquainted to what they looked like, I would not have known.
Ah! But it's in an Athearn Box! That makes it Athearn! Right. Had a guy on evilbait trying to sell a Lobaugh 0 scale....Mountain or Mikado....because he bought it in a Lobaugh box. Moron. Caveat Emptor!
I just couldn't keep my mouth shut... http://www.ebay.com/itm/170971445907?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649Really? $123.00? Who would blow that much money on a simple RPS truck with a Trident utility body? And then this one.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/170971427228?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649Almost $200.00...YIKES! I need to start charging a lot more for my custom work.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Champ-decal...132293?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item19d58f7a05 It just never occurred to me to sell my hacked up decal sets on eBay for $8.75 :question:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-RIVAROSS...725360?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item19d7bdd7b0 And I toss these in the trash with regularity.
Interesting ebay find. I don't think the price was outrageous, but it reminds me of what was cool when I had a layout at 9 years old. http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-WRECK-CR...220167?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2ec4fa1847
It's great what you can do with an oven and some old TYCO & Bachmann freight cars, melted freight cars always look realistic to me!!
They do look better than fully intact cars simply stacked. But, $43 plus $8 shipping for throw away Botch and TYCO cars is not anyone's idea of reasonable. Dave
I was just going to say that the melted look doesn't do it for me I can think of a bunch of 9-year olds right now that would go nuts over it though!
