Horsetan Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Not railway related but it proves the benefit of reading the auction properly... My wife wanted a USB hub so I found one on Ebay, starting price 1p and £4.99 postage. So I put £1 max bid on but nobody else was interested and thus I was the winner of a USB hub for a fiver. Happy with that. Except it's not actually "a" USB hub I've bought. It was a job lot of brand new in packaging twenty six USB hubs for 1p plus P&P........ Do I foresee a pop-up eBay shop to get rid of the excess? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Do I foresee a pop-up eBay shop to get rid of the excess? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Mange tout, Rodders. Mange tout.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodmin Bob Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Untitled-1.jpg USB Hubbly Jubbly! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanders Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Hornby Green Southern Coach, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-green-sr-southern-coach-as-pic-/192040420534?hash=item2cb68044b6:g:3w0AAOSw-0xYPeKl Oh lord, is that a Jouef "Class 29"? My eyes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanders Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 It was a job lot of brand new in packaging twenty six USB hubs for 1p plus P&P. So, and I'm sure you've already considered this; those will not be the highest quality items ever. If they're recognisably branded, they're almost certainly fake. If they're powered, I'd think twice before plugging them in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 4, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2016 So, and I'm sure you've already considered this; those will not be the highest quality items ever. If they're recognisably branded, they're almost certainly fake. If they're powered, I'd think twice before plugging them in. http://www.bigclive.com/ A good place to start for such things I find. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 http://www.bigclive.com/ A good place to start for such things I find. Mike. Looks interesting, but I'd stay well clear of the conversion of mains tungsten fairy lights to LED. Chuck 'em out Recycle them and buy new. They are so cheap, it's not worth the risk and hassle. (You can get a mains 'belt' even through a 100kohm resistor (guess how I know!). The USB hubs are probably OK. I doubt they are externally powered at that price, even from China. Avoid the cheap memory sticks however. The one I tried corrupted the data stored on it (I had the same problem with a hard disk caddy and, no, I didn't unplug either of them 'hot') and they can come with nasty viruses preinstalled. The data recovery program I tried was only partially successful. Luckily there was nothing really important stored on them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 This just caught my eye: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Model-Railway-Building-items-Slide-covers-make-great-window-frames-10-of-/182342638722?hash=item2a7477dc82:g:WdcAAOSwA3dYHFx1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 4, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2016 This just caught my eye: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Model-Railway-Building-items-Slide-covers-make-great-window-frames-10-of-/182342638722?hash=item2a7477dc82:g:WdcAAOSwA3dYHFx1 Just when you think you've seen it all. Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanders Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 http://www.bigclive.com/ A good place to start for such things I find. Mike. Precisely who I was thinking of when I posted that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 So, and I'm sure you've already considered this; those will not be the highest quality items ever. If they're recognisably branded, they're almost certainly fake. If they're powered, I'd think twice before plugging them in. A good opportunity to re-share this video of someone who really shouldn't still be alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pmfr5CGDKY Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith George Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 On Ebay at the moment a Hornby model of 34092 City of Wells in rebuilt form described as new and never been on a track. What have I missed,? Surely 34092 was never rebuilt.? Keith. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted December 4, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2016 On Ebay at the moment a Hornby model of 34092 City of Wells in rebuilt form described as new and never been on a track. What have I missed,? Surely 34092 was never rebuilt.? Keith. Link here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-34092-BR-4-6-2-City-Of-Wells-West-Country-Class-/112218091333?hash=item1a20b82f45:g:P1AAAOSwux5YOuqq Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 4, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2016 A good opportunity to re-share this video of someone who really shouldn't still be alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pmfr5CGDKY A relative of Reg Prescott presumably? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith George Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Link here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-34092-BR-4-6-2-City-Of-Wells-West-Country-Class-/112218091333?hash=item1a20b82f45:g:P1AAAOSwux5YOuqq Some one paid a £110 pounds for it. !! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Some one paid a £110 pounds for it. !! There's the real madness! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Some one paid £110 for it. !! http://youtu.be/UWUhk_pdSeE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted December 6, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2016 Looks like another seller who's going to be disappointed - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-large-collection-/192011638238?hash=item2cb4c915de:g:nw0AAOSw-YVXlKpx £750 and he can only be bothered to post one picture the wrong way round. Plus "economy" delivery is £100 but the description says "collection only"! And registered as a business seller too .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted December 6, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2016 What a plonker! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium JDW Posted December 7, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2016 Looks like another seller who's going to be disappointed - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-large-collection-/192011638238?hash=item2cb4c915de:g:nw0AAOSw-YVXlKpx £750 and he can only be bothered to post one picture the wrong way round. Plus "economy" delivery is £100 but the description says "collection only"! And registered as a business seller too .... For £750... where's the rest of the collection?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 7, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2016 Probably to be expected from a junk dealer and clueless to boot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 (edited) So we have a pair of common and relatively worthless Hornby locomotives and a tank wagon and a load of what could easily be empty boxes... (not suggesting this is the case but.....) For £750! The £100 delivery is probably to get around eBay's rules and regulations - they are not keen on "Collection only". The same seller also has this "Large (sic) vintage train collection" for £400. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/large-vintage-train-collection/192011638674?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D38661%26meid%3Ddecfcc3bd416415d9ddaf1359ded83bd%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D192011638238 'Worth' at most half that, assuming the closed boxes do actually contain what it says on the lid. (The Dublo box is probably 'worth' more than its contents though - a Dublo signal box can be picked up for a few pounds.) Edited December 7, 2016 by Il Grifone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted December 7, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2016 And what about the Hornby coach in the Wrenn box! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Probably to be expected from a junk dealer and clueless to boot. Clueless about Geography too: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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