Ebay prices

That's the way I've always interpreted this rule. In this instance, if I were Larry I'd be inclined to file a complaint against the seller for his rude response :-)

Andy

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"Railfan" wrote

My friends won't send forces, or money to me.

Aren't you going to give credit to the author of the satire version?

I did. I got a form letter saying they'd investigated and didn't find enough evidence to do anything.

But I've heard nothing about the complaint he supposedly filed against me :-).

I don't think I should post his name, but since nobody on this group is likely to overpay for low end plastic kits I doubt we'll get stung by him.

And if you're still curious, just peruse the HO structures listing on Ebay for ridiculous prices from a vendor with lots of positive feedback. So much I wondered if he'd been selling to himself :-).

I don't know who it was, it came on an e-mail joke list I subscribe to. It's "Joke a Day"

but there was no attribution as to who wrote it. All I have!

BB in Canada

Does anyone think Ebay gives a rat's about complaints like this?!

You are an idiot.

And you are a....Ratheburne!

..and speaking of ebay prices. get a load of this, already closed but:

If no longer on ebay to check, it was an EMPTY Lionel box for a separately sold platform for the milk car in 1955. It went for over $5,000.00...yes, 5 thousand $$$..

Ray Hobin NMRA Life # 1735; TCA # HR-78-12540; ARHS # 2421 Durham, NC [Where tobacco was king; now The City of Medicine]

PT Barnum was right.

Ahh, Ratty, still a one-trick pony. A reassuring element of stable instability in these stressful times.

There's the pot calling the kettle black.

Just the other day I paid $10 for a MINT unbuilt varney streamlined combine (kit PS-3, the ones with the printed celluloid sides) that dates from about

1950. (The seller said there were no trucks, but there WERE, the "delux" ones, Varney's emd blomberg sideframes with brass 33" wheels, which sold separately).

When I get it built, I can probably get more than my money back by selling the box it came in.

PING to Ray. Remember a few years ago you sold me that plastic Hobbytown RS-3? I could probably make a profit selling THAT box too.

It's a crazy world we live in.

Don

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Yup..sure do...think you got it for about $9..$6 plus $3 s&h. Still recall couldn't get a buyer at 2 local train shows but one guy ever picked it up and said "Hobbytown"...must be a new outfit." :)

Ray H.

Well, obviously it was worth every cent, it was "ultra-rare"... :-)

I think this is the reason many people have a jaundiced view of Lionel collectors - what sort of person would spend over $5,000 on an empty box?

No blood no foul. I agree that the seller absolutely has the right to respond, but the starter of the thread has the right to voice an opinion ~in private~. There is no interference, or as a lawyer would say "no one has been harmed". You have to prove harm at least, among other things.

I would say though that emailing the guy is beyond a waste of time. One would be quite busy mailing everyone who started train auctions too high! A nerve was struck for sure.

Greg

"Mark Newton" wrote

Maybe the same collector who paid more than $35,000 for a cardboard Lionel Display sign just about two years ago to this day?

This is chump change to some people.

The size of my gut is no concern of yours, sirrah. Be off to your native nether regions.

Wrong: the theory of the efficiency of the marketplace depends on informed buyers and sellers. Otherwise extraneous BS becomes a large factor, like idiots buying Hummeroids which are never driven off the road (and overwhelmingly poorly driven on the street) to achieve feelings of power and satisfactions of passive aggression they can't otherwise have.

A society that bases its ethos on the marketplace has a responsibility to ensure information is equally available to buyers as to sellers. Cheney's in court these days for skipping that responsibility as an officer of such a society.

Because he enjoys a parody?

I was snickering as I read it.

Fact remains. They've still found nada.

Jay CNS&M North Shore Line - "First and fastest"