I wonder if he'll take $900 http://www.ebay.com/itm/KATO-N-Gaug...586963?hash=item3f82fd6fd3:g:2DsAAOSw7GRZGR7y
For that price they had better be illustrated by Rembrandt. Or Dali. Though assembly instructions illustrated by Dali would probably be just a bit frustrating. They would be very cool, but not very helpful. I guess they're charging extra because it was designed to be fashionable. Don't know how to break it to them, but it already went out of style.
A $900 bid won't take it. Auctions always get sniped under the last minute. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Surely this is a yen to dollar conversion misunderstanding. Otherwise, it's a jaw dropper of a bolder than gold try for the skies in pricing.
I don't think its a yen to dollar error. That would make it 101301.01 yen (kind of a strange number). I wonder how much it would be to just rent a floor in the building instead of buying it...
No, thanks. Model railroad real estate is much like real real estate in that respect. The most important thing is location, location, location!
This one isn't exactly a model train; it's some rollercoaster play set, but the cars for it are an actual train, instead of roller coaster cars. It isn't really that outrageous, but it just screams Chinese rip off. The box art says "It's an adventurous and Exciting roller coaster, Its turning over and over in the space would bring us the ture Feeling of taking it." The capitals letters in the middle of that hodge-podge of a sentence are like that on the box, as well as the word "ture." Another picture shows the train with the words "handsome appearance" written on the side of the nose. That way, the people who think it looks ugly know they are wrong. The pricing isn't too bad, but it just seems low quality; not to mention the weird translations. I'm not too "ture" that I would want to ride this train. http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Speed-Roller-Coaster-Bullet-Train-Toy-Building-Set/162596377563?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid=555018&algo=PL.SIM&ao=2&asc=41375&meid=b23b14575c5b456e8d24677abeb44c69&pid=100005&rk=4&rkt=6&sd=401211192992
I tried to deal with this guy once and it was a joke. His auction said "or best offer," so I made a "best offer." He declined it and increased the already "optimistic" price significantly. Here's another good example of a bad example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kato-106-03...928282?hash=item41cc16eb1a:g:f9gAAOSwWhRZgtoc
Since they are not powered, you have to tear them like any other rolling stock. Of course, sort of defeats the purpose of an RDC
I don't think he's confused about how a dummy can run on either DC or DCC. I think he's confused about how a dummy can run at all. But I think the seller is a dummy, and I'm betting he has no trouble taking the money and running!
Not really -- it is the company that is making the non-powered versions available https://www.con-cor.com/website/product/n-budd-rdc-1-dummy-amtrak/
Even though it says non-powered, the one I looked at said "These units Con-Cor's older "Heritage Series" production first introduced in the late 1970's by Con-Cor, they run only on DC trackage, and converting to "DCC" would be very difficult as the motor uses the frame for power pickup." and "Features: smooth running with skewing armature motor" If I were to miss the non powered in the description, but non powered does run...no sit on DC and DCC tracks equally well.
I can't see why Sellers persist with this sort of activity, other than perhaps they don't have anything else to do with their time.
Some years ago I thinned some of my Lionel on eBay using the auction process with no Buy It Now option. Every day I'd get notifications from "Buyers" informing me that they'd buy at [insert stupidly low price here] if I'd add a Buy It Now option. I never bit. I guess this is part of their game. I even had one snarky "Buyer" notify me that my item information was lacking or incorrect, which was total B.S.. His hope was that I was ill-informed and would chop the price to meet his dishonest and reduced appraisal. It's a shame that eBay hucksters lurk in the shadows to sometimes spoil the process. To set the record straight though, all of my winning Bidders were good people with prompt payments and were well satisfied with their purchases.
