Ben Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 Yea...another EBay rant! I search EBay every day keeping an eye out for good deals and I have noticed, more so lately, that there are a few sellers on there listing van and pickup kits (I'm sure others as well) for 169.99, 199.00, etc. and they NEVER sell! They are constantly relisted, week after week? How stupid are these people? Are they that greedy that they will sit there and fish for suckers until someone is foolish enough to pay that amount?? It's really sad!
chunkypeanutbutter Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 Waiting for impulse sales. Someone comes along, sees a kit of a car they have/had or remembers the kit from when they were young and just HAS to have it. Fools.
Drake69 Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 Sadly, it seems like it's happening even with more mundane kits as well. Case in point.... '74 Roadrunner MPC and Revell '67 Ford Mustang "Bullitt". One mention of a kit being phased out, all of a sudden it's OMG!!!!! LAST ONE!!!!!! MUST BUY IT BEFORE THE POXXY-KLIPSE!!!!!! A STEAL AT $150!!!!!!!! At those prices they can be buried with them when they die. Grrrrr......
Miatatom Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 etc. and they NEVER sell! They are constantly relisted, week after week? How stupid are these people? Makes me wonder the same thing.
Fat Brian Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 I have to agree, one seller has the Truckin' USA van I recently picked up listed for $200. I won mine in an auction for $41 and it was still bagged inside. You really have to do your homework, if you impulse buy you're very likely to over pay. I know the sellers are being kind of predatory but as a buyer if you drop that kind of cash without comparison shopping it's as much your fault as there's.
slusher Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 Yea...another EBay rant! I search EBay every day keeping an eye out for good deals and I have noticed, more so lately, that there are a few sellers on there listing van and pickup kits (I'm sure others as well) for 169.99, 199.00, etc. and they NEVER sell! They are constantly relisted, week after week? How stupid are these people? Are they that greedy that they will sit there and fish for suckers until someone is foolish enough to pay that amount?? It's really sad! I can guess who one of them are. Eventually he will open them and sell them for parts...
vintagercr Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 To quote PT Barnum, "there's a sucker born every minute". Somebody will buy it
christian-w Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 I know, I know. It's the same way in Germany / ebay.de. But better are the sellers, who didn't sell a model kit for e.g. 80 Euros an relist it for 85 Euros (it's the Volvo Australian Truck by Revell) In my point of view, there are a lot of guys out there, who are watching the same model kit again and again to hope, it'll be cheaper and buy it then - or only to watch, what's it worth. Especially in the category of model kits. On the other hand I noticed, that some days the auction starts at one Euro (after a couple of "didn't sell" rounds on ebay), the price mostly easily reaches the price of the wanted "buy it now" price. That's ridiculous....
Darren B Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 I remember when the tijuana taxi and rommels rod original issues were going on there and selling actually close to a hundred dollars and more then revell reissued them I bet the ones that paid anywhere from a hundred to two hundred dollars felt like an idiot.
Mark Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 It's what happens when eBay keeps giving away free listings and relistings, in order to keep an inflated number of items available for sale. In one search that I do every so often, I have been seeing a handful of items that have been relisted, over and over, for the last five or six years.
Ben Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 I can guess who one of them are. Eventually he will open them and sell them for parts... Oh..I know that guy too! 14.99 for two tiny tail lights with 7.00 shipping!?!?! I don't know how the guy sleeps at night!?
JTalmage Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 Probably pretty comfortably on his expensive sheets and pillows bought w/ inflated model car part prices. lol
Joe Handley Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 We're may have to do hospice care with Mom, her Doctor doesn't there's much left he can do.
FordRodnKustom Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 Sure wish there was a way to block a seller or sellers from my search results. Anyone figure a way to do that?
Mr mopar Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 (edited) If you want it bad enough you have to pay the price, but for me its the shipping! when i have to pay $21.00 for shipping and it only cost $8.00 there something wrong with that. Edited April 24, 2015 by Mr mopar
vettecote Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 Maybe it's like I did when I was married. My wife would tell me to list this junk(models)on eBay and get rid of it. So if it was something I didn't want to sell, I would list it way high. Then I would show her it's on there! But for some reason it wasn't selling....hummm, I wonder what could be the problem?...LOL...Joe
Drake69 Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 Alright. I am very slightly perturbed now. I had the MPC '74 Roadrunner SE tin in my hold cart on Amazon for $37.90 waiting for my paycheck to clear so I could go ahead and buy it. The check clears so I switch to Amazon to make my purchase. And the price jumped from $37.90 to $80.85. Yeah. Sure. Choke on that kit there, pal. Bet you are right here on this forum, reading everything we say, jacking up your prices. I don't even have to mention your name, you're the only one selling it at that price. Idiot. Good thing Model Roundup still has it at a decent price.... hah.
Fat Brian Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 I had a seller do that to me after I asked a question about a kit they had listed as Buy it Now. I had just bought a sealed Transtar 4070A for close to $100 and when I opened it the cab was crushed so when I found a good price on a Revell K100 with only one picture I sent a message to the seller asking if the kit was in good condition. She flipped and cussed me out and raised the price on the kit about 20%, needless to say I passed on that one.
chunkypeanutbutter Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 I remember when the tijuana taxi and rommels rod original issues were going on there and selling actually close to a hundred dollars and more then revell reissued them I bet the ones that paid anywhere from a hundred to two hundred dollars felt like an idiot. I remember when I was younger and into modeling, I saw an original issue Tijuana Taxi for sale in an antique shop for like six bucks. Should've gotten it... but, on the other hand, my modeling skills were so atrocious that it would've been destroyed.
chunkypeanutbutter Posted April 24, 2015 Posted April 24, 2015 Package with my Parts Pack engines from eBay got delayed. Why, Postal Service, why?!
southpier Posted April 25, 2015 Posted April 25, 2015 We're may have to do hospice care.... been through that, too. sorry to hear this. good luck and best wishes under the circumstances.
Joe Handley Posted April 25, 2015 Posted April 25, 2015 been through that, too. sorry to hear this. good luck and best wishes under the circumstances. Thanks, the last week or so has been like a ride on NASA's Vomit Comet..........and I really wish the freaking plane would land sometime soon!
Howard Cohen Posted April 25, 2015 Posted April 25, 2015 The same thing happens here on our local internet buying/selling site. I have seen new kits listed at $50 when the store price is $25. I have seen new kits on Amazon at stupid prices, such as Moebius Hudson Hornet for $149 plus $25 shipping. Of course, the kit never sells. Good
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