Here is another weird one. The price isn't that bad, especially from what we usually see on the eBay humor thread, but the title is what gets me on this one. Every item this seller has listed has the price in the title like it is some defining feature of the product. https://www.ebay.com/itm/BROWN-ROUN...223152?hash=item1aad55adf0:g:WH0AAOSwwoRfptDM Who needs the price written out when I can see it a quarter of an inch below in the next line? The big blue button that says 'Buy It Now $12' wasn't enough? Are people searching by price as a keyword? What happened to the 'filter by price' feature eBay has in the toolbar? The seller is 'Top Rated Plus', but the listings read like someone who is putting 'vintage' or 'unique' in the titles just to scalp unsuspecting buyers.
I can't complain about those either. That's probably why the seller is top rated too. It seems like most sellers on eBay overcharge for shipping. I think we have become too used to $10 'expedited' shipping on a $20 freight car, so everyone just does it now.
Gotta love the title on this one. I guess the 100 years of trains before 1947 didn't happen? Apparently the BL2 was one of the first locomotives.
Here I am saving for retirement when all I gotta do is sell a few of these for a big boost. https://www.ebay.com/itm/113694265230?hash=item1a78b4cf8e:g:9cwAAOSwtM9ck-gU
The payment plan shown is almost as much monthly as I'm paying for my new ride... At least mine gets me to work so I can get a paycheck to buy more trains...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265451081296?hash=item3dce1e0e50:g:adMAAOSwXOphrUCp This makes me so angry for some reason. Thank you to his holy graciousness to have the generosity to offer up this 'Christmas Rarity' to the masses. And then he has the audacity to say the 'one little problem' of a missing ladder can be solved by buying a donor Auto Max to steal one from. Yeah, like I just have those laying around. He even says it's 'his loss and your gain' if you buy this car because it's so rare. The whole sob story for this car while charging twice as much as the most recent Athearn run is so pretentious and out-of-touch. $130 dollars for an Athearn RTR car is insane, especially when the car is damaged. It's so obvious that this listing is a cash grab.
Yikes! Tell us what you really think Mr T! But yea I agree its kind of out of hand. Not buying his loss thing.
The Seller must have hit the bottom of his/her inventory barrel. One of the few items remining is an old tube of glue for $2.99 plus Shipping. It should be included with the rare auto rack to affix the even rarer ladder.
Well, I sure blew it! Last week I tossed out an old tube of super glue which had gone bad. Probably worth twenty or thirty bucks on eBay!!! Ha ha ha ha...
I was just looking up HO 4-4-2s on Ebay and it is funny how many Mantua 4-6-0s are listed as 4-4-2s and for big money. People must be mistaking the back driver set with a gap as the trailing truck. Some of these listing are under a seller with trains in there name.
A "ho nice old caboose 1940s 50s jersey central lines brass wheels" at $39.99. "Nice" is in the eye of the Seller.
Here is a nice brass engine ( Or so the seller claims ) looks sorta like a damaged TYCO 2-8-0 to me LOL https://www.ebay.com/itm/304364631209?hash=item46dd8bb4a9:g:bGAAAOSwe-xh~liH
Sent this seller a message some weeks back. Just wanted to be nice and let him know what engine it is.
The description makes next to no sense. He claims it's an 0-6-0 because of the way the tender drive works. It also says there are no missing or broken pieces, meanwhile the entire pilot is sheared off.
Notice how the headlight is angled downward. I am guessing this is for viewing where the pilot beam and front coupler used to be?
You're right @RGW1 , it's Tyco's Chattanooga Choo Choo and is bid elsewhere at $17.50 as of this hour. I recognize it only because we had one running under our family Christmas tree 45+ years ago. https://www.ebay.com/itm/325048600673
