'CHARD Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Hi This guy has gone to new heights with this one! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-OO-Gauge-R2294-BR-4-6-2-Merchant-Navy-Class-Ellerman-Lines/310834647800?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.RVI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20205%26meid%3D4956551600358948657%26pid%3D100033%26prg%3D9064%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D171246362569 Oh THAT is taking the ******* ****. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) Hi I emailed him and got this replay back!. Thanks for your contact and attention, sorry for the confusion, this item is out of stock now, Listing price may be high to avoid more transactions before we get replacement from supplier. We will cancel all the listings if cannot get the replacements in a reasonable time. Welcome to visit our website when its available again. Your understanding in this matter would be highly appreciated! Please let us know if we can be any of your further assistance. Regards - ukpartsdeal So he saying that he has none of theses loco in stock, but will keep the listing up until someone buy's one then he will try to find one on the net to send out!. Darren Thats not how it works - All he is doing is trying to avoid ebay fees by not cancelling the listing. He puts the price up to a level where he expects that no one will buy it, and when he gets them in stock he lowers the price back down to normal, rather than having to re-list. If he ends up unable to get more he will cancel the listing and loses nothing. Its a fairly common practice which regularly gets posted in this section by those not in the know. Edited February 20, 2014 by Titan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted February 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2014 Now I know these go for a fair amount, but this is getting silly... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OO-Hornby-mint-boxed-1st-Great-Western-DCC-fitted-R2812X-class-43-HST-4-coaches-/251454642024?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3a8bdd5768 It's scary that one but when you add up the sale prices of some of the individual items recently then it almost* starts to look like good sense to buy them in one go! *(power cars: £275, buffet car: £200, TGS: £100, 1st-batch Standards £70ea, actually bothering to spend time detailing them to look like the real thing: £Priceless) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) Model battleship for sale! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-TRIANG-Hornby-MINIC-SHIPS-M702-1200-QUEEN-ELIZABETH-BATTLESHIP-MODEL/400662693400?_trksid=p3984.m2206&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D129%26meid%3D4971972358621931302%26pid%3D100052%26prg%3D1108%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D330681002717%26 Lots of 'guff' about the item, but she's not very rare* - I picked one up at a boot sale recently. (Replacement masts would cost more than I paid for her.) * And then, it's not so much the short production period, more the cost of the item new. (I particularly like the "INCREDIBLE" offer of only £1 carriage for additional items - Once you've paid RM's rather high charges for the first item, the rest go free up to 1 kg. Edited February 20, 2014 by Il Grifone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Now I know these go for a fair amount, but this is getting silly... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OO-Hornby-mint-boxed-1st-Great-Western-DCC-fitted-R2812X-class-43-HST-4-coaches-/251454642024?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3a8bdd5768 It's scary that one but when you add up the sale prices of some of the individual items recently then it almost* starts to look like good sense to buy them in one go! *(power cars: £275, buffet car: £200, TGS: £100, 1st-batch Standards £70ea, actually bothering to spend time detailing them to look like the real thing: £Priceless) I would so like one of these, but when we bought our first house this summer I thought I had gone a bit far spending this kind of money on the sofa! Add in the Class 166 I want too and we'd be talking the budget for our next car... Only thing is looking at the models and at the real thing I'm sure the HST power cars are far too light a shade! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) The 'Rockin' Rabbit' is back!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-DUBLO-3-RAIL-DI-No-32087-BR-LOW-SIDE-WAGON-FURNITURE-CONTAINER/301101717454?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D286%26meid%3D4972250978817377950%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D1048%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D141190243469%26As always an exorbitant price from our 'friend' for one of the commonest (and crapoorest) Dublo wagons. Edited February 20, 2014 by Il Grifone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted February 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2014 How much for an A4 (or six)? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Direct-From-Hornby-The-Great-Gathering-Collection-Ltd-Ed-002-Charity-Auction-/171241259461?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item27dec641c5 Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2014 How much for an A4 (or six)? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Direct-From-Hornby-The-Great-Gathering-Collection-Ltd-Ed-002-Charity-Auction-/171241259461?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item27dec641c5 Cheers, Mick hardly madness IMHO -it's for charity. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenton Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 So he saying that he has none of theses loco in stock, but will keep the listing up until someone buy's one then he will try to find one on the net to send out!. Darren Which is in itself another valid reason for reporting the listing. Ebay do not like empty or listings without actual goods to offer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 hardly madness IMHO -it's for charity. Keith Imagine the collectors' faces if The Toy Trust instead gave this to a deserving child to (shudder) play with 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Now this is interesting. As I understand this is the Hachette jobs over again - it's from issue one of a partwork available in your newsagent for £2.99... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
valeofyork Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Now this is interesting. As I understand this is the Hachette jobs over again - it's from issue one of a partwork available in your newsagent for £2.99... What's the betting there will be few or no diesels / electrics?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bernard Lamb Posted February 21, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2014 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Show-Me-the-Way-to-go-Home-The-Story-of-Medloc-1945-1955-Maggie-Hurst-and-Chri-/191059378249?pt=Fiction&hash=item2c7c06c049 Well it is fairly old. It is quite rare. However a few minutes search will provide contact details for one of the authors. Follow these up and he will be able to supply you with a brand new copy of the book. How much you ask? £6 Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catkins Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 On certain other train-related forums, the question 'would you?' would have been asked by now, but of course nobody on here is that crude! I would.!!! Sorry to revisit this one, but there is something to be said for experience . . . . You would have hoped that a major seller of model trains would have noticed that the carriages aren't the right ones! http://www.ehattons.com/72588/Hornby_R2612_LN_HST_Inter_city_125_GNER_4_car_pack_Pre_owned_Like_new/StockDetail.aspx They have changed the listing, but it's still sold anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveb860 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Model battleship for sale! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-TRIANG-Hornby-MINIC-SHIPS-M702-1200-QUEEN-ELIZABETH-BATTLESHIP-MODEL/400662693400?_trksid=p3984.m2206&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D129%26meid%3D4971972358621931302%26pid%3D100052%26prg%3D1108%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D330681002717%26 Lots of 'guff' about the item, but she's not very rare* - I picked one up at a boot sale recently. (Replacement masts would cost more than I paid for her.) * And then, it's not so much the short production period, more the cost of the item new. (I particularly like the "INCREDIBLE" offer of only £1 carriage for additional items - Once you've paid RM's rather high charges for the first item, the rest go free up to 1 kg. Forgive me if I am wrong, but don't battleships carry guns??!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MarkC Posted February 21, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2014 Forgive me if I am wrong, but don't battleships carry guns??!! A minor detail... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45568 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 One for the signal fiends amongst us!!! http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/EARLY-ENGLAND-METAL-TOY-MODEL-WAY-SIGNAL-WHITE-BLACK-RED-AND-GREEN-/221379252092?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item338b3b4f7c Cheers, Peter C. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) One for the signal fiends amongst us!!! http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/EARLY-ENGLAND-METAL-TOY-MODEL-WAY-SIGNAL-WHITE-BLACK-RED-AND-GREEN-/221379252092?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item338b3b4f7c Cheers, Peter C. Crescent signals like this cost a couple of quid or so here! (The gantries are a bit more, but they are quite rare - original high price and mazak pest.) Edited February 22, 2014 by Il Grifone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Just when you thought prices couldn't get any more ridiculous... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPERB-RARE-BOXED-BECKMANN-TT-DR-LIVERY-0-6-0-CLASS-BR-89-6-TANK-No-89-603-/400661492291 Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Just when you thought prices couldn't get any more ridiculous...http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPERB-RARE-BOXED-BECKMANN-TT-DR-LIVERY-0-6-0-CLASS-BR-89-6-TANK-No-89-603-/400661492291CheersDavid That probably means he doesn't actually have it.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Crescent signals like this cost a couple of quid or so here! (The gantries are a bit more, but they are quite rare - original high price and mazak pest.) Would I be right to think that the upper quadrant Crescent signals are later than the lower Quadrant Crescent Signals? The signal posts on the earlier ones do indeed crumble and snap easily from that Mazak Pest! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) Would I be right to think that the upper quadrant Crescent signals are later than the lower Quadrant Crescent Signals? The signal posts on the earlier ones do indeed crumble and snap easily from that Mazak Pest! I'll try again as my reply was auto saved into cyberspace! I'm not sure on this one. I can remember seeing them in a local shop in Bristol in the fifties, but can only recall the lower quadrant type in the proper colours or Crescent's odd red stripe on white arm variant. Single home and distant and both together on a single mast, 2 and 3 way junctions and the gantry. This latter was rather useless with four dolls with a home and a distant for each direction - I never could work out quite what it was intended to do! There must have been the upper quadrant type, but I don't recall them, but then they were a strange 'foreign' thing used by inferior railways. My local station (Clifton Down - now seriously vandalised! ) had a Midland example of lower quadrant, which folded back on itself in a peculiar manner. In addition to the signals there was a footbridge of almost identical design to the Dublo one (though the steps could be positioned at different angles) in green and a series of metal farm figures and animals, the figures being a little too big for 00, though the animals were OK. I used a couple of the cows to weight an Airfix cattle wagon. Edited February 22, 2014 by Il Grifone 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2014 They also made a rather small water tower, barely enough to fill the toilet tank on a Mk.1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HornbyA3Fan Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Can someone explain to me why anything FGW has very prices nearly all of the time. Just amazes me how high the prices can be. I understand that they are sought after these days, but well out of my league in terms of affordability. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) They also made a rather small water tower, barely enough to fill the toilet tank on a Mk.1. It must be the one I have - painted grey, but without any maker's name. It's about the same size as the Tri-ang TT one, which is small even for this scale. There are probably other items, but catalogues/info. seem scarce. The farm figures I remember are:- Farmer and wife and a 'landgirl' (as they used to be described) all generously dimensioned for 00. Horse, cows standing and lying, calf, goat. sheep and pig (with trough). The normal colour for all these (except the goat and sheep which are grey - can't remember the pig pink?) is basically a reddish brown. EDIT I've started a new topic on these in the appropriate thread. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/82739-figures-and-other-accessories/ Edited February 23, 2014 by Il Grifone 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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