Really? $.25 for ONE used rail joiner, and the style could vary?! That makes them $6.00 for a pack of 24 that you get new for half that price!!!! WTH? What am I missing here? :headspin: http://tiny.cc/phxrjw
Here's another great buy! Unless they're a typo, these cars must be very special! LOL http://tiny.cc/778rjw http://tiny.cc/d38rjw http://tiny.cc/138rjw
Try this on for size! I bought this $8 loco- www.ebay.com/itm/261081651439 It arrived dead as a doornail, won't budge just buzz. Broken parts: BOTH MTL couplers, stirrup busted, Horn, Glue covering pilot, red wire hanging out the side! This guy had the nerve to offer me a $7 refund (keep the $1?), then bugs me for feedback, before ultimately giving me only $5 back for this piece of dreck!! I wpouldn't have paid $1 at a swap meet, let alone $3 + S&H!! So this guy gets AALLLLL bent out of shape that I left him a negative feedback. His first neg, too. I had to do it! The worst ebay transaction I have had in all of my 640+ 100% positive feedbacks!! (621 feedback score, some multiple sells/buys don't count LOL) It's a dang shame some folks just don't know what they're selling, WORSE YET when they refuse to take junk back!! Be careful out there, folks! FUNNY UPDATE: Check seller's recent feedback. I can't stand that kind of game. What a riot!!
With all due respect..... Were you expecting anything else for $8? One blurry photo, no description of the item, low opening bid, and $7 shipping I would have passed. I'd say most people would have, unless they were specifically looking for a tired old unit for parts. I don't know what this "C-7 Excellent" stuff is, but I've yet to see an N scale item the seller didn't rate as "C-7 Excellent". If the unit really was in good shape the opening bid would have been higher, there would have been a real description, and there would have been more bids. I can certainly understand being frustrated with runaround on a return policy, but recall the early days of eBay when all sales were final and there was no obligation of the seller to take anything back...
It was 8 bucks, I spent more than that on Lunch today. No description, no better pictures, its really your fault for not asking more info before bidding. I've spent more on less and chalked it up to a learning experience.
Yep!!..............made my decision, and this latest round of lunacy has helped in the decision-making process. When I get done with what I have going now on "Evil Bay", I am going to retire from that "looney bin", once and for all. I'VE HAD IT!!...........CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. :headspin: It used to be a bit funny, now - it's just sad.
Old LifeLike Diesels EMD, Write it off to experience. Never EVER buy old plastic frame LifeLike diesels!!!! They all have one gory characteristic common to all of them I have ever seen. They all use some gunk or hard grease lubricant on the worm towers inside the mechanism, which hardens and gunks up. Then, when you bought it in '98, it ran surprisingly well for the state of the art at that time, for that price. These items went for $18.99 at Toys R Us. I bought them up and when I noticed the grease, I removed it, re-greased it with Labelle #108. I still have the locos and they run relatively well, not Kato, Atlas, Spectrum, IM, Walthers, Kato or anything today, but acceptable back then. At the time, new locos were not as forthcoming, so these LifeLikes were a viable alternative to run in for of visitors, and especially children of visitors, if you get my drift. I just had two kids so the lower price of these locos was a real boost to the diaper budget!!!!! PS: All I had to do on a diaper run with the wife was to chuck it in the basket at ToysRUs, and went unnoticed...... Down here with the warm tropical weather, that drat white grease tended to bind up the mechanisms quickly. Down here they are considered brightly colored and worthless. You can get these either as freebies with swap meet big $ purchases, or for a buck or two, at most. I just bought an FP40 and dummy for half a buck, cleaned it before testing and it at least runs quietly and smoothly. You can get a used Kato F40 on "the bay" if you hunt, for $50, which is a much better deal. Ken "FloridaBoy" Willaman
I think that as a seller, I have come to respect listing descriptions and accuracy..... I've had great buys form blurry pictures, you know. Of course, the whole issue here isn't how much I spent (I could care less about $15 shipping included), the point is it was really poorly handled by the seller. I only bought the thing for the MTL couplers & shell, of which all 3 were useless and broken. I know I would have handled it differently as a seller, and I have being accused by a seller of being a liar when I email informing them of their glaring omissions/listing errors.... just a bad feel all around. This seller apparently sells trains frequently, which makes it worse! A $1 starting bid doesn't make an item junk...... I see NIB Spectrum steamers start at $0.01 every day! And those hit $100+.
EMD, I wonder if it was the guy in Hemet, CA that tried to skunk me a couple of months ago with a Life-Like set of ATSF Erie Built A&B set which I eventually paid $140.00 for. The listing declared "LIKE LIKE SANTA FE ERIE BUILT NEW IN THE BOX AB SET A MUST FOR ANY SANTA FE MODELER". Got them unpacked and they were in terrible shape. Neither unit ran at all and just buzzed and grinder a bit with heavy ozone smell. "New in the Box" my foot! Promptly contacted the seller and had an debate back and forth for a week about the units condition with him insisting they were new and working when they were shipped. I knew he was lying through his teeth but I never accused him of anything and kept my comments civil and reasonable. Just kept giving him the benefit of the doubt even suggesting that he accidentally sent me the wrong set. Eventually he resorted to essentially stating, 'You bought them, now you're stuck with them'. After giving him every opportunity to accept them back I filed a claim with eBay. To my shock it was resolved within 24hrs with a full refund from eBay back to my PP account that day! I'm convinced that the detailed exchanges back and forth was a deciding factor. Nowhere did eBay's materiel state I had to send them back, but after a terse request from him to send the units back to him it seemed the right thing to do, after all they were junk anyways. I too am a seller, and try very hard to be up front about all of my descriptions and shipping fees. But at the same time I've been burned as a buyer before. Occasionally, it works out for the better. But the system will only be as good as the quality of people it attracts.
In the fifteen plus years I have been a member there, I can say there have always been some duds. However, it seems to me there are quite a few more problems, percentage-wise, than in earlier days. At least from my experience. YMMV.
Wow, here's a doozy. I HOPE it was a listing mistake but there are two others at the same price. Atlas 90 ton hopper for $257.00 !? http://www.ebay.com/itm/N-scale-hop...076114?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c2acbaf92 :wideeyes: Mike
I'm thinking they might have dropped the decimal point. Can't say the same for this one though. Even when it's not extreme, it's extreme.
The seller has an obligation to correctly list items for sale. If not, he deserves negative feedback, especially if he is hostile in his E Mail. What did he expect, flowers, good feedback and 5 star DSR's? I'm sure if he had been humble and tried to work it out, we would have never heard about this poor excuse for an E Bayer.
Probably a typo. The seller's other listings are more reasonable, like $7.00 for other Clinchfield hoppers.
I'm nominating this one because of the sellers comments, not just the price.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/eSPee-N-Sca...585361?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1e71f03091 I have a couple of these kits. They are definitely not superior in quality to the Deluxe Innovations version, or especially to the Alan Curtis/N scale kits version. (The seller also mentions a Kato version which does not actually exist.) This is not to in any way insult the late John Coots who produced these kits way before anyone else did this prototype and before the internet made it easier to research such things and get it right. But the NSN kits are off from the prototype in some serious ways that the AC kits and DI models are not. In particular, the design of the articulated joints is not correct and results in the cars riding too high. Also the horizontal bolsters at the ends of the cars are too narrow. You could buy these and produce a good model if you are willing to overlook the defects, but they are not worth $80-100!! You can get the N Scale Kits version, which is similar quality but more faithful to the prototype, for $54. I bought the two kits I have for $30 each several years ago, BEFORE Deluxe produced their version. I should have bought the AC models, didn't know about them at the time. I've never finished the kit I started because I wanted to redo the way the joints are done and have never managed to put in the time to solve that problem. PS, if anyone wants the second kit I have I'll sell it for $15 plus shipping. PM me. It has the SP decals, same as the one in the eBay listing.
Erroneous eBay search results Pete, If your comment is still in reference to this seller, JE- VINTAGE ATLAS CONNECTOR CUSTOM-LINE #205 MIP #14313 .... http://www.ebay.com/itm/370622916335 ...... He listed about 125,000 items in the past 12 months and has only 490 feedbacks (405 detailed seller feedbacks). eBay and PayPal are clipping him for about $2400 a month. Unless he's finding all these items in a dumpster, he'd earn more money working for McDonalds picking up trash in their parking lot.
I messaged him asking where he got the price of $50 for the selectors...no reply, imagine that. But he sold one?!? Guess its true, someone will be foolish to buy it.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bachmann-73...683998?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item27c9484fde Three available. Free shipping. I would hope so......
