Another professional (?) build on EBay

[iBorg]

I really can't say much about this one......http://www.ebay.com/itm/1948-Anglia-Model-Pro-Built-Truck-Parts-1-24-Junkyard-Vintage-Lot-5/182448046820?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D45701%26meid%3Df08acbe88717400b8e52b0b8613cdc26%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D253063473653

 

[Rob Hall]

the BIN price reflects the 'pro-built' status. 

[Jantrix]

Yeesh.

[cobraman]

If that's pro built I am really good !

[Dodge Driver]

Just a heads up, that seller is a member of this forum.

[vamach1]

100% positive feedback.

Edited July 31, 2017 by vamach1
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[JollySipper]

It's suppose to be a diorama piece............

[Tom Geiger]

the BIN price reflects the 'pro-built' status. 

and the fact that nobody has jumped on it!

[FordRodnKustom]

So what's the problem for 9.99 US? Described as junkyard. No harm, no foul. Diorama or parts.

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

So what's the problem for 9.99 US? Described as junkyard. No harm, no foul. Diorama or parts.

I believe the problem is the "pro built" moniker in the title.

Otherwise, it's not a bad price for a rebuilder...but WHY call something "pro" when it's obviously a hack-job?

Sad thing is, I see real cars come in every day where a client has paid many hundreds or many thousands of $$ for work of a similar caliber...and somebody was proud of it. 

Actual recognizable "professional" quality is a disappearing concept.

Must be the participation-award-effect again.  

Barely mediocre is the new excellent.   

Edited July 31, 2017 by Ace-Garageguy

[FordRodnKustom]

I believe the problem is the "pro built" moniker in the title.

Otherwise, it's not a bad price for a rebuilder...but WHY call something "pro" when it's obviously a hack-job?

Sad thing is, I see real cars come in every day where a client has paid many hundreds or many thousands of $$ for work of a similar caliber...and somebody was proud of it. 

Actual recognizable "professional" quality is a disappearing concept.

Must be the participation-award-effect again.  

Barely mediocre is the new excellent.   

Yes I get that Bill and well said. I just feel that most of us in the hobby are smart enough to look past a word in the title and see exactly what's there and make a decision accordingly. Am I being too generous in this assumption?  Quality is still out there.

[StevenGuthmiller]

Yes I get that Bill and well said. I just feel that most of us in the hobby are smart enough to look past a word in the title and see exactly what's there and make a decision accordingly. Am I being too generous in this assumption?  Quality is still out there.

Yes, and I like to cook, but I would never call myself a "professional chef"

This drives me a little nutty as well.

Just call it what it is, a built kit that needs rebuilding.

When I see these "pro-built" auctions on ebay, it just makes me think that they're trying to pull something over on someone.

That I can't abide.

 

Steve

[Xingu]

It's just another word/phrase that will show up in searches. The more searches your listing ends up in, the better your chance of selling it.

[Tom Geiger]

It's just another word/phrase that will show up in searches. The more searches your listing ends up in, the better your chance of selling it.

Just like model contests that use "NNL" in their title....  

[High octane]

If it's pro-built, how come a number of pieces have fallen off??? I always use 5-Minute Epoxy which is expensive and even wasteful, but my cars stay together, and no need to bring a repair kit when I take models to display at a club meeting or NNL.

[FordRodnKustom]

Yes, and I like to cook, but I would never call myself a "professional chef"

This drives me a little nutty as well.

Just call it what it is, a built kit that needs rebuilding.

When I see these "pro-built" auctions on ebay, it just makes me think that they're trying to pull something over on someone.

That I can't abide.

 

Steve

OK Steve and I like to drive my Cobra in such a way that is way beyond the average inattentive SUV driver but I sure won't consider myself a a Pro driver either.  I get it. In the title is the word "junkyard". To my way of thinking it's obvious  that what's there "needs rebuilding".

[Ace-Garageguy]

It's just another word/phrase that will show up in searches. The more searches your listing ends up in, the better your chance of selling it.

How about cabbage? Hairy? Roofing paper?

Those terms are as relevant to that particular model as "pro", so why not?

[mchook]

I sell everything I build on ebay, I don't keep any of it. I've been building for over 35 years & I wont put the words "pro built" in the title or description. 

[StevenGuthmiller]

I won't beat a dead horse here either, but I really wish that people would use a little bit more common sense & ethics when they sell something.

It's as simple as that.

If I have an item for sale, whether it's a model, a car or a house, My descriptions will always reflect the item that is for sale as exactly as I possibly can.

I would expect that, and I think that anyone that might want to purchase something that I'm selling would deserve it as well.

Nuff said.

 

Steve

[espo]

I have seen people pay more than $9.99 at shows for the remains of a kit such as this. If you need the parts for a project and the price seems right to you than go for it. The parts are worhth what someone is willing to pay for them.

[Daddyfink]

Looks like the guy, or girl, is clearing out some stuff he scored. Just trying to move it along and make money. 

No need to get all twisted up over it. 

[BigTallDad]

Note that the shipping price is higher than the item price.

[Mark]

I've wanted to butcher an Anglia body into a Prefect for a bunch of years.  My older brother once rebuilt a hacked-up (1:1) Seventies build that never ran, into a running/driving car with a rectangular tube chassis and a 455 Buick engine, and then there's the George Montgomery Hurst Gasser Passer that I've wanted to build a model of.  I've fished a bunch of Anglia and Thames panel built-ups from parts boxes at shows, never paid more than a buck apiece for one regardless of how complete it was.  Hardly anyone wants to rebuild one of these things.  At the last outdoor swap meet, I picked up a mint-in-box Skip's Drive-In issue Anglia, five bucks.  I wouldn't bother putting one of these kits on eBay, let alone a built one. 

[Brizio]

At least they did not say "rare"!

[StevenGuthmiller]

At least they did not say "rare"!

I don't know why not.

 

Steve