IS IT ME? or are people crazy

[oldman23]

Hi

I was bumming around Ebay looking for a deal When I ran across this.

Jungle Jim's Tribute car. 1/25th scale plastic model body of a 66 Nova

It's painted Blue, it's Decaled and BMFed. I'm far from an expert painter and detailer

and I consider this car to be a 10. 10 footer that is. When you look at the close ups you

can see the panel lines are garbaged up with paint and the body wasn't finished

real good before paint. The owner says the wheels and tires do not go with the sale.

He never really mentions this is not a complete kit, He lists everything done to it

line by line and in one line He states "This is a plastic body with a resin outlaw hood"

then continues on with the list. He does say in bold " Here's Jungle Jim's 66' Nova Tribute Car"

I looked at the pictures and it's only a body. I emailed the seller to verify this and he said yes he's selling just the body.

As of this time their is 5 hours left and bidding is up to $106.50

Does anyone else think this is a good deal? I don't I think if the seller can live with himself ......Well?

Here check it out youself.

Jungle Jim's Tribute car

Reason for edit....I ran some lines together

Edited April 24, 2009 by oldman23

[jbwelda]

well its possible the bidders dont grasp the concept and think its an entire kit, but i kind of doubt it.

looks like a good clean job with maybe a bit of cleaning up to do (panel lines) but seems at least a few people think its worth that price. doesnt look like a particularly bad deal to me .

[oldman23]

Same here ,, if it was me, I'd expect it to sell for about that,, maybe even another

$50 or so more .

Boy Have I been out of it. If you guys think that's a good deal, I'll make a mental note of that

I'm not cheap I just don't get out much. Thanks for your input it opened my eyes.

[Smart-Resins]

Honestly, I dont think the body is all that horible! No I would not pay over $20 persoanly for it. However, I think you will find that more then likely, the poeple bidding on it is probably looking for a good body to put onto thier 1/24 scale slot cars! That is the reason why you will find many good already painted and decaled bodies only on ebay for sale. There is more market in slot cars in that scale then one might think. A few months ago as I started delving into that side of things, I was astounded by the prices poeple pay for things and to what extent they go too for thier hobby! Jody

[Jairus]

I would not do a painted body for less than $100. Just too much work involved, not to mention responsibility to get it RIGHT!

[Harry P.]

It's impossible to put a specific dollar value on that. It's worth whatever a buyer is willing to pay for it.

Like anything else... the "value" is in the mind of the buyer, and how badly he wants it. Is it a good deal? Impossible to say. What number would make it a "good deal"? Also impossible to pinpoint.

[Jairus]

Harry, if that is the case... can I buy your name? Give you $20 bucks for it?

[oldman23]

Honestly, I dont think the body is all that horible! No I would not pay over $20 persoanly for it. However, I think you will find that more then likely, the poeple bidding on it is probably looking for a good body to put onto thier 1/24 scale slot cars! That is the reason why you will find many good already painted and decaled bodies only on ebay for sale. There is more market in slot cars in that scale then one might think. A few months ago as I started delving into that side of things, I was astounded by the prices poeple pay for things and to what extent they go too for thier hobby! Jody

I don't think the body is horrible I think it could have been polished out a little more but then

I was comparing the price of what it is to show quality cars cars I have seen on this forum.

I do know that I went to buy my grandkids a small HO slot car track but I decided I didn't

want to mortgage my house for it. So I can understand why slot car owners are willing to pay such hi prices.

Not only that but I didn't figure in the cost of the gentleman's time that painted it. Labor has gone up.

I think maybe I shouldn't have been so negative about the car and the price.

Like I said all of have really opened my eyes to things.

Thank You

Ernie

[E St. Kruiser50]

This looks like a pretty good deal to me, and definetly a very nice build.

$$ for the kit, paint, special decals and his labor.

I'd have a reserve on it higher than that.

Never sold anything on eBay, but have sold plenty to collectors, and would never have let anything go for that low price.

Good deal for whoever get's it - dave .

[Guest Davkin]

Back when I was doing custom diecasts for sale I often got over $200 for them and occasionally as much as $300. Many of them were essentially just a "disassemble, strip, repaint, decal and reassemble" deal. I personally thought many of my customers were crazy to pay that kind of money for my custom diecasts but I was happy to take their money for it! It's not a rip-off if the seller is honest and the buyer is willing. Hmm...I should take a look at this custom slot car body market!

David

[Harry P.]

Harry, if that is the case... can I buy your name? Give you $20 bucks for it?

I'll trade you my name for your house...

[Dragline]

I got a nice chunk of change for a JJ Vega body I sold on eBay 5 years ago. I had somehow lost the rest of the kit [where do these things go???] but the body was done and it came out rather sweet. It was complete and clearcoated and two guys from Oshkosh [not sure about that, but it sounds funny] fought over it. Final sale price floored me. I was happy to send it honestly.

That body may be on some guys slot drag car right this moment tearing up the track...

When you speak of a "pure" market, the buyers set the price. It's whatever someones willing to pay. Some people will have no truck with buying, painting and all that, when they can buy it already done by someone who did a great job. Then, they look cool and have a great item that they themselves would never have put the time into. This is why diecasts do well IMO.

Bob F

[59-Desoto]

I think there are a lot of reasons folks will pay those prices , the main one to me is they just aren't able to do that kind of a build and the lack of know how and for others it could be lack of time to build that special model , but what ever the reason it's a matter of who willing to pay the most for your work.

[sak]

Not a terribly bad job, but not worth that amount but all the power to him. I would try to do the same. Sidenote, amazing to me nobody that builds this kit notices or attempts to fix the missing trim behind the quarter glass. This trim should continue and wrap a round the curve in the pillar and connect to the trim above the doors.

Edited April 25, 2009 by sak

[Jeff Johnston]

I'd have not thought to fixed that trim. I think its a nice build. I recently sold a Resin built 68 Muistang GT-CS for almost 200 bucks. I hoped to get the 60 bucks that the resin kit had originally cost. You never knoew what people will pay.

Oh, and that car is way better than my GT CS was.

People want what they want, and in some cases are willing to pay fo rir.

[roadhawg]

Sidenote, amazing to me nobody that builds this kit notices or attempts to fix the missing trim behind the quarter glass. This trim should continue and wrap a round the curve in the pillar and connect to the trim above the doors.

Like THIS........

BTW...this picture also proves that I DO know how to hinge doors! lol!!!!

Anyway.....I think its great! The guy started the bidding at 5 bucks, so it wasn't like he set some outrageous amount on it.

Is it a good deal? Impossible to say. What number would make it a "good deal"? Also impossible to pinpoint.

I think if BOTH parties are happy with the price, it was a good deal.

[chris coller]

Also with all the valid points all of you have made, keep in mind that there are alot of people out there that don't posses the skills to paint like that.