Harry P.

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No time to build lately... the pixels have taken over my life!

Where have you been???!!!

I like the black, too! Looking pretty cool so far... BTW... I like the large photos instead of the thumbnails.

Sell your models for as much as you can... that's how the free market works. You determine a price that you think is fair, and the buying public will decide whether or not they agree. As far as someone buying a pre-painted model from you and entering it in a contest as their own work... that's not your problem! It's the problem of the person who entered the model as his own work. Once your model is sold, your responsibility as to what happens next is over, and whatever happens from then on is the buyer's responsibility.

Have you ever seen John Lennon's RR? Now there's a paint job you should try!

Do you have an original "butcher" cover? That one would be worth a few bucks...

So... are you going to buy the remastered set? Pretty pricey...

If you add up the numbers in 2012 you get 5 (2+0+1+2=5). If you add up the letters in "Barack Obama" you get 11. If you add up the letters in "Nancy Pelosi" you also get 11. Now add 5+11+11 and you get 27, which is the exact number of days left before a health care reform bill gets passed. Oooooooooh, scary, huh kids?

I don't have any photos of the actual car anymore, but this one is pretty much just like it, except my interior was dark blue and it had plain old steel wheels. But the body color is the same. This one is a '66, mine was a '67. The only difference between the two years was that on the '66 the inner lights were turn signals, while on the '67 they were the high beams and the turn signals went to the bumper... I got it when it was 10 years old and had over 100,000 miles on it. I drove it for a few years and finally sold it and bought a Nova SS.

That has to be the biggest load of BS I've read recently... Is that what this thread is all about? I admit I had no idea what was being talked about here. I can't believe that rational people are taking some ancient "prediction" as reality! Do you all know how many "doomsdays" have already come and gone with absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happening?

I didn't say that the Mayans said the world would end. I was asking WHO said the world would end, and someone answered "the Mayans." BTW... their calendar stops at 2012, but they stopped long before that!

So, what are they... like the 20th group who have said the world was going to end? :lol:

So who says the world will end in 2012???

Who says 2012 will be the end of the world?

Ok, obviously I'm missing something here. What is so special about 2012?

You can't be serious??!! Star Trek? Seriously??? Uh, that's a lame old TV show and a series of sci-fi movies. They have nothing to do with reality. As long as human beings in 2012 are still who and what they are now, absolutely nothing will have changed. We haven't learned to get along for the past 2,000 years. What would change in just three more years?

I have no problem with anyone making a pile of dough off hydrogen. In fact, I applaud it. That's how capitalism and the free market are supposed to work. But the fundamental difference between an oil-based transportation industry and a hydrogen-based one is this: In an oil-based system, the supply is limited. It only exists in certain areas, only exists in certain finite quantities, and is under the direct control of a relative handful of big companies and OPEC, who basically decide how much oil will ultimately be available on the open market. The vast majority of people are under the control of a small but powerful minority who have the "keys" to the system. With hydrogen, the supply is limitless and available to anyone with the know-how and the financing to market it. The fact that hydrogen can't be controlled by any one group means that competition will be in play. There won't just be a handful of "Big Hydrogen" companies, there could not be a hydrogen OPEC... no cartel that "owns" the hydrogen supplies, because the supply is limitless and available to all. That's the real beauty of hydrogen power.

But there's a fundamental difference. It takes a big company with huge amounts of money to find, extract, refine and distribute oil. Oil only exists in certain places, and those places are all already owned or leased by the big companies. You couldn't go into an oil field, for example, sink "Andy's well" and start pumping oil. The oil companies would never let you do that. But hydrogen is available in limitless supplies to anyone. Oil companies don't own the "hydrogen fields"...

No matter what you do, you have no control over who ultimately buys. Yes, it's true that someone may buy the model and just turn around and re-sell it... there's nothing a seller can do to stop that. But if your aim is really to do buyers a favor and give them a fair shot at buying the model at a reasonable price, you'd sell for a low "buy it now" price instead of offering them up at auction. Even though you can't control who ultimately buys, at least you can control how much the model sells for if you sell at a "buy it now" price instead of having people run up the bidding. My point is, you're not doing anybody a favor by listing the model at one cent. Listing the model at one cent doesn't do a darn thing as far as making the model available at a low price for a potential buyer, because you can't control where the selling price will ultimately end up. The opening price is irrelevant, it's the final (winning) bid that matters. If your intention is truly to sell at a reasonable price, then why aren't you putting them up for sale at a fixed price here on emodelcars???

I've been a big supporter of hydrogen power for as long as I've known about it. It makes so much sense... unlimited fuel supply, zero emissions. The only reason we don't have them on a large scale already is that the oil companies are using whatever influence they have in Washington (and that's plenty!) to keep it from going full speed ahead. But they can't stop progress forever. It's just a trickle now, but as more people become aware of the technology and the benefits, it will pick up steam regardless of whether Big Oil wants it to happen or not. Might not happen in our lifetime, but hydrogen powered cars will be the next big evolutionary step in mechanized transportation. BTW... they are running natural gas powered taxis in Phoenix. Natural gas isn't "free" but it's very plentiful here in the US. Maybe natural gas powered cars will be a transitional step between gas and hydrogen power. You never know. The point is, there are so many possibilities out there, and we don't have to keep relying on the crazies of the world to sell us their oil. I've said it before... if our government was free to "do the right thing" it would be pushing hard for these alt-fuel technologies, which are real, and they work. They're not some sort of pie-in-the-sky fantasy... the technology exists now! But as we all know, there are many forces at work in D.C., and they mostly work on behalf of their own interest, not the interest of the people.

Like Bill said, the opening price doesn't matter, it's where the auction ends up that counts... and you have no control over that. If you really want to make people happy, list the models at a low "Buy it Now" price.

Yeah, "forced" was clearly the wrong word. Should have said "encouraged" or "allowed." You got me there. But the bottom line is still that the whole mess couldn't have happened without the government allowing it to happen.

But it was the government who made it possible for the lenders to do what they did. In the past, lender's greed was kept in check by strict federal regulations. For a long time lenders weren't even allowed to offer adjustable-rate loans, let alone adjustable rate loans to people who clearly weren't qualified. When the industry was deregulated all hell broke loose. There are clearly some cases when government intervention is a bad thing (trying to run the car companies, for example) and when government intervention is a good thing (keeping the financial industry legitimate).