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Still wouldn’t buy them for less than £25. The original wheels are perfectly acceptable for me. If you need to put extra weight and run them empty, a small lead weight will suffice. Most people run them loaded anyway...

I've found that a lot of people prefer to pay more if it's on Ebay and somehow have a reticence to go direct to the websites that sell it.
Nuts I know and doubly irritating as I find myself packing and sending off products that could have been just bought direct from my website so I now add the ebay commision charge on top.

John

Interestingly, I get a link to Peter Binnie's listing for the same (new) item beneath that listing. I'd hope anyone with any sense would follow it. .
Rik

So do I Rik. That must mean I have some sense then, because after seeing it this on eBay. I am ordering three for almost the same money as the person selling one used....

Think this person as any chance of selling this.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154014524224?ul_noapp=true



Think they may have put the decimal point in the wrong place...

FWLR wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:07 am Think this person as any chance of selling this.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154014524224?ul_noapp=true



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Think they may have put the decimal point in the wrong place...

This wagon has been on Ebay for years, literally. I think at one point it used to be £50!

TheChestnutLine wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:49 pm

FWLR wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:07 am Think this person as any chance of selling this.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154014524224?ul_noapp=true



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Think they may have put the decimal point in the wrong place...

This wagon has been on Ebay for years, literally. I think at one point it used to be £50!

I ALMOST want to buy it just so that I don't have to see it every time I have a look on Ebay...

...and by 'almost', I mean 'Not at all'.

It's the same person who is selling that Binnie tipper at £25 + p&p...

I've come to realise with 16mm on ebay that unless you're virtually giving it away for a bit of fun and to do a total stranger a financial favour you're wasting your time, other scales like 009 and 7mm command and get reasonable prices. Then at the other end of the scale is that Archangel wagon which I've been watching has been up for about a year, hasn't a hope he may as well chuck it on the fire. Some people get the idea that because it's 'special' it's worth a lot of money there's that guy who always has his gauge 1 [ I think] locos photographed on his front garden wall at too high prices and some of them have literally been on for about 5 years.

John

You are correct John about the prices being too high. I have said before about prices anywhere you buy them, apart from the major manufactures who make the locos and I mean only the locos, the rest expect us to buy their wares at prices the majority can't afford. It then our hobby goes the way of being elitist and far too much for new people who have seen a garden railway line hoping to try and do something themselves. Yes there is the smaller guys out there who make very good MDF and other material locos and rolling stock, I have bought them myself and still do.

But for those people on eBay who think that we will pay those silly prices they are asking well, they are in dream land....

I’ve noticed that some Peco SM32 track on eBay is only described as ‘O gauge’ so won’t come up in an ‘SM32 track‘ search...worth hunting around.

This guy is at it again.......
Now I am not too sure if they are being sold by the manufactures near this price and he does of them advertised as "Used". But is this too much for these...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154046807348?ul_noapp=true

If they were at that price for a buy it now maybe I would disagree with you, but as it is the starting price I think that's a bit steep. I wouldn't mind those bits at £500 as it would get you well on the way to building Talyllyn.
John

You haven't answered my question really. I did say do they "manufacture near this price". I am not that well up really on such things. It is just that he as advertised things before on there and asked really high prices....

Some of the prices realised by the Abbott collection recently blew my mind, especially given that it was listed with a private auctioneer who adds ~25% in fees on top of the hammer price.

Granted, proceeds were going to the Welshpool & Llanfair railway, so maybe people felt generous in light of the good cause, but still, my pockets weren't deep enough at those prices.

My pockets aren't deep enough full stop......

Still I do try and give to heritage lines what I can, especially the Vale of Rheidol Railway, even if it's only a couple of pounds.There is a seller or there used to be on eBay that if you bought from them, some proceeds went to the railway.

This is mental, somebody has got a wagon kit for sale a one12models ffestiniog wagon

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203091322487

The photos are very informative especially the last one....
John

It's had 9 bids though....

Were, are One12 a producer or supplier...

No idea but if I could see it I might have bid myself!
John