Ebay empty box sold for £63.61

"Dirk Belcher" wrote

Funny that you never rarely hear prices discussed on here that were achieved at some of the specialist toy or even local general auctions, which can often exceed those on eBay.

At the end of the day auctions are the only realistic way of determining the value of any single item and eBay with its international accessibility is probably the most reliable

John.

In message , Steve W writes

That's fine by me. I think that whoever paid over £50 for an empty cardboard box wants his head examined.

In message , Steve W writes

That lets me out, then, as I'm not so little.

"Jane Sullivan" wrote

What even if it increased the value of his unboxed loco from say £100 to £200? That makes some sort of sense to me, although I have to say the whole collectors' market is a little bizarre.

John.

Hang on a mo, you are having a jest, right? You end by saying: "I get awfully tired of people who think it's their right to dictate what should and shouldn't be discussed in public, what one should and shouldn't be allowed to talk about,"

...while a couple of paragraphs above, you have already said: "Which gives every T,D and H the right to opine..." which sounds to me exactly like YOU are dictating what should be allowed....!

Cheers, Steve

In message , John Turner writes

[sorry, John, I was just trolling, as a result of what the writer of the previous message said.]

I dunno about that. You ever tried purchasing Railway Modeller and Readers Wives (combined volume), when there is only one copy left on the shelf?

Undoubtedly a matter of jealousy among the disappointed literati who couldn't stump up the dosh.

We used to have public hangings to give us some real entertainment value and something worth having an opinion about. Now we are reduced to discussing the auction of an empty box.

Times certainly do change!

Cheers, Steve

I see that there is somebody selling a tin of baked beans one bean at a time which should make the seller a nice profit but what sort of nutter buys a baked bean. The same ones who bought a brussel sprout I suppose or are we not allowed to comment on such stupid behaviour.

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Presumably by "stupid" you mean they are not conforming to your expectations? I assume you are not much interested in surrealism? I personally would applaud such people for having the courage to do what they want rather than worry about other people's reactions. Once you start thinking that *anything* is stupid, you have to call into question the mentality of people spend enormous amounts of effort on a model railway. 'Cos toy trains are for kids, right?

Anyway, of course you can comment, you just did! No-one's stopping you, are they? But I would suggest that the comment would be better directed to a forum where an explanation might be proffered, say perhaps on uk.rec.collectors.vegetables, rather than on here where it is just one more part of the urban myth.

BTW, I have a single chilli pepper for sale (£10 o.n.o.) if you are at all interested. I'm told that one can obtain a wonderfully stimulating experience with one of these, with a little imaginative manipulation.

Cheers, Steve

A box which once contained a model of a UK outline steam locomotive by a famous manufacturer and thus of great interest to readers of a uk.rec.models.rail newsgroup.

(kim)

Not really John since this is an *Internet* newsgroup so it is only natural that prices achieved at an internet auction are more likely to be discussed. If this were a printed magazine or local freesheet then the other auction outlets you mentioned are more likely to be reported.

(kim)

Great interest? Well Kim, that's just fantastic. I'm blowing this up to A0 size and pasting it up on my office wall.

Just wait until the next person asks me "what's the attraction of railway modelling, huh?"

I'll just point at that golden text: "A box which once contained a model of a UK outline steam locomotive.....", and then explain how this is really, really, important, and today we are mostly discussing empty boxes....

Cheers, Steve

Probably in a minority of one here but not one of my friends has any interest in model railways. Indeed, a few have a pathological hatred of the subject, but even *they* understand the importance of retaining the original box in which a model comes.

(kim)

Probably in a minority of one here but not one of my friends has any interest in model railways. Indeed, a few have a pathological hatred of the subject, but even *they* understand the importance of retaining the original box in which a model comes.

(kim)

Steve, I agree completely. I'm not saying that what's being talked about is even *worth* talking about, just that if someone wants to do it, whatever runs their flag up the pole, so to speak!!

db.