Could you drive over there and get a picture to post on Trainboard? Inquiring minds (and busy bodies) want to know (who the heck that seller is).
All, Here's a mislabeled one.. check out the 3rd, 4th and 7th photo aka last photo! A GP40 Eh? Tom https://www.ebay.com/itm/Minitrix-N...rentrq:00b1be3a1650ac1c87bdba3cfff89f8c|iid:1
As you said Tom, not a GP-40. It's a Model Power (original Atlas?) SD-45 shell on a Minitrix U-28C chassis. Was quite the conversion back in the day. Cheers Steve
Steve, I think the person modified the SD45 using the article by the late Jim Fitzgerald in the JANUARY 1981 issue of model railroader. I think you know the article I am referring to. Tom
All, I know that this is not on ebay however I had a small chuckle here https://www.facebook.com/groups/164...49445298¬if_t=commerce_interesting_product. Tom
All I was scrolling through ebay last night and found these.. https://www.ebay.com/itm/N-scale-Hu...621045?hash=item4b4c0f5775:g:SqkAAOSwyUtbdMrB , https://www.ebay.com/itm/21-Bachman...784022?hash=item2863b95c56:g:uuQAAOSwhlJbcyql And this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/ATLAS-BACH...095917?hash=item2144513ead:g:GQ4AAOSwSlBY1B5e< Had a Nice laugh at this one!! Check out the $$ . Tom
Gee, no sale yet on this atrocious Arnold FA at $29 Plus Shipping. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-N-...LMAAOSwOGFa-jG7:sc:USPSFirstClass!29229!US!-1 …. and not to be overlooked is this Arnold Geep in Soo with loose trucks at $59.99 Plus Shipping. "Not tested, needs repair." Yup. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Arnold-Rap...765555?hash=item286301f933:g:Yy8AAOSw5cNYMcJ3
"These cars are in good condition. There may be one that is missing the front set of wheels." May be? Either they are missing or not. Wishy-washy description at best. Bleh.
All, Though the bidding has ended for this > https://www.ebay.ca/itm/113193142783.. here's another person who can't spell TYCO is spelled TICO. I now find ebay good for a laugh. Tom
Have to Love ebay , whatever one here wants to call it and seeing the exorbitant $$ on some items is always good for a Laugh isn't it ? Tom
I have to think there are people not knowledgeable in the hobby cruising flea markets and picking up model RR stuff on the cheap and trying to sell on Ebay. I know I once picked up 10 PRR passenger cars (Atlas, Lima and Model Power) for $2 each.
.......but it is obvious that you do not understand: these are MIGHTY locomotives...................... I once put an Arnold FA on FeePay, no box, all beat up, for eleven dollars and five dollars postage. It got bid up to just under twenty dollars. What is even more funny is the prices that you can get for JUNQUE. I have put up items for five or ten dollars plus postage; gone just short of coming out and stating that the things were junk and had them bid up to as much as eighty dollars. I am always brutally honest about what I put up there. Conversely, I have put up some nice items for a good price and could not pay anyone to take it. Some of the higher prices for junk are for the parts value, I am sure, but not all of it.
And what's weird is that an eBay posting from one week that yields nothing, then generates wild interest the following week. I often think that some sort of competitive nature arises within some people and bids go to extremes as a result. I too am extremely honest about everything I post for sale. A number of my reviews state that the goods were "better than described". I'd rather sell for less and avoid a dispute after the sale.
I tended to describe my items very thoroughly. Every possible flaw noted. When I stopped selling, almost ten years ago, I had spotless 100% Feedback.
I have had that happen. I list an item and can not pay someone to take it. I get distracted or tied up listing new items. I then notice the item that did not sell. I re-list it just to see what happens and there is a snipe war. I, too, suspect that one or two bids will trigger a competitive spark in people. See the anecdote in response to the next quote. I have gotten that one as well as accusations of being "too" honest. I have one ding out of one hundred fifty, or so. This one came from a guy who bought something that I was selling "AS-IS". I stated about five times in the text of the auction that I was selling it "AS-IS". It was an old RR 2-8-8-2 with which someone had monkeyed before I got it. I had bought it for a project that I eventually decided that I was not going to do. It was locked up when I bought it. I managed to get the mechanism going, again, and, it ran acceptably for what it was. It did lock up, again, but, I managed to fiddle with it and get it going, again. It then sat in its box. Eventually, all of us do purges; I am not exception. I found these things, decided that I was not going to do anything with them, so why not see if I can get something for them? I put the thing up there for thirty five dollars, or so. I stated that it had locked up at least twice of which I was aware. I stated that I had tested it and it ran well before I photographed it, but that I made no guarantees as to what it would or would not do when someone got it and put it onto the track. I mentioned the frame rot that is characteristic of these things and that I had experienced it first hand with two of them. I even mentioned that some people had said that when these mechanisms start to lock up, it is a symptom of impending doom. I added all of that up and stated that because of all of it, I am selling "AS-IS". I paid something like thirty dollars for it, so I figured that I would try thirty five and if it did not get a bite, I could drop the price after three days. The thing had been superseded by a better USRA 2-8-8-2 anyhow. It got one or two early bites, then a snipe war happened in the last hour. This one guy had bid the thing up to just under one hundred thirty dollars and won it. I was non-plussed. He also bought a RR USRA light pacific from me for far more than it was worth. See the above comment about the "competitive". I suspect that someone decided that he wanted this thing and was going to go to any length to make it his. His subsequent disappointment after all of that hype got him really after me. I never could get him to tell me what the problem was, but the messages about something's being amiss came shortly after he got it. I could have pointed to the "AS-IS", but I did try to do something for him. I kept asking him what he waned me to do, He would not tell me, all that he would do was caterwaul about it. Finally, he dinged my feedback. He even commented that "I refused to work it out with him". FeePay would not take off the ding (they used to do that for the first one, as a courtesy). I tried to point out that he was posting false statements and that the communications between me and him were there and that I did try to "work it out" but he would not tell me what he wanted. They would not budge. FeePay contacted me later and asked if I would try to do something for him. I told them that when the ding came off, I would, but as long as the ding stood, I would do nothing for him. His response was to try a hustle and claim that the RR pacific did not show up, which he received before he received the 2-8-8-2. I had the tracking an POD records, so he had to drop that one. What is truly amazing is that you can get all of this positive and your record stays the same. You get one ding and the rating drops markédly and stays dropped for some time, despite the positives' piling onto your overall. One ding makes a mark and it takes a pile of good to erase it. I have had Uber and Lyft drivers tell me similar stories. They have a pile of five stars, they get one one-star or even one four star and the rating takes a real ding and stays dinged for some time after that. It gives substance to the old saw "When I am right, no one remembers; when I am wrong, no one forgets".
