[modeleng] Re: Was: FINGERS wooden boilers and Donington but now the vagaries of ebay
- From: "Dave Beaman" <davebeaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:43:50 +0100
I have picked up some bargains on e-bay, stationary engines that I bought to
restore and sell on. So far I have only sold one that I restored for 100%
profit, the others, I can't bring myself to part with. My fave is the one I
bought for £40, stripped, repainted, ste the valves and now I can blow down
the inlet pipe and it runs! What a bargain.
Items wrongly described, I got a brakevan side lamp for £16.01, we sold on
on the SVR for £55 in the same condition. Bargains are there, you have to
know what your looking for.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Rickard" <the_viffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:02 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Was: FINGERS wooden boilers and Donington but now the
vagaries of ebay
Thanks Alan
The boiler's failure to attract bids is just one of the oddities of ebay.
Last week I offered a model engineering book. I think it is worth about 3.
It sold for 1.50 carriage paid despite another copy from another vendor with
some negative feedback attracting higher bids. This week I am selling
another book of similiar value. Only 2 people are watching it and slugging
out a bidding war (long may it continue!). I offered a boiler recently. It
did not sell at 67. I reoffered it a few days later and it sold for 92. A
few months ago I couldn't sell my Alco gen set for 395 but 2 weeks ago it
sold for 645. It just depends on who is around at the time.
It is by no means impossible to pick up real bargains on ebay: there are
still wrongly described items which many people don't recognise but will buy
when properly described. In the last year I've picked up 5 nice Stuart
engines which have been wrongly described.
Talking of bargains the book I'm offering for 9.99 with no bids really is
one but please don't bid then Mrs P will let me keep it.
My guess is that no one quite knows how much to bid for the boiler. I
anticipate selling it elsewhere for much more and so withdrawing it.
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