I have no personal investment in the particular items you're talking about, but
your intimation that the ebay ad is misleading causes me to respond.
All PRS kits are the last of their kind. That statement is perfectly true.
Second, I don't know how anyone knows what Des Plaines Hobbies is offering at
any price. It's nice you live near the place, but for the rest of us???? If
Des Plaines Hobbies would send an email to the folks on this list as you
suggest, he wouldn't have to sell the cars for $17.95. Someone would actually
know what he has.
I would never buy anything from an ebay seller who has his start bid as the
price he expects to get. You are right about that. It shows that all he cares
about is making money and he's affraid he'll have to sell for a dime less than
what he wants.
Selling on ebay is almost a game. You never really know what your going to get
for something, and you never know when you're going to walk away with a
bargain. That makes it fun.
Ed Kozlowsky
Sanford, Maine
--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Thomas Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Thomas Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} New eBay rules, count me out.
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 3:36 PM
Just a suggestion:
What I am about to suggest often occurs anyway, but here goes:
Why not just offer whatever you want to sell on this list first? You might get
less for the item, but on the other hand neither do you have to pay anyone a
user fee. In an example of supreme irony within the last six weeks, I noticed
someone selling PRS refrigerator and box cars, claiming them to be the last of
the line.
First, the claim is incorrect: The cars will come out again but assembled.
Second--and here is the irony--Des Plaines Hobbies was offering kit versions of
most of the cars listed by the seller for $17.95 plus postage. I happened to
drop someone off at O' Hare Field and made the customary pilgrimage to DPH and
purchased two I really wanted, the Dubuque white refrigerator car and the FEC
"Sppedway to America's Playground" box car. The seller wanted better than Forty
per car. Didn't P. T. Barnum say, "There's one born every minute"?
Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com on behalf of Bob Werre
Sent: Thu 8/21/2008 1:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} New eBay rules, count me out.
I have both sold and bought on ebay for a couple of years. We used to
favor personal checks but sometimes it took weeks to get them in house.
Then if we didn't know the individual we had to wait for clearance, thus
stuff sat here for weeks. I sold some photo equipment for a friend to a
fellow in Canada. The equipment was fairly heavy (way beyond normal
mail weight) and required two boxes. We used Fed Ex ground. There is a
fair amount of paperwork to fill out and one box made it just fine. The
larger, heavier bounced back here twice before we got 'mad'. In the end
Fed Ex wanted an extra $60 something dollars. I wonder how and if Pay
Pal would have delt with that situation.
We have since accepted the PayPal thing as a very good move as sometimes
the money is in the bank and the order is in the mail in a day or two.
Not a bad thing for the most part, but it does cut into the gross amount.
My personal peeve is sellers who mark the shipping up way above what it
costs. It's almost like a government deal!
Bob Werre
>
>
> Rusty (J. Rustermier) wrote:
>
> > I just received an email from eBay
> > informing me that beginning in
> > October I will no longer be able
> > to accept checks or money orders for
> > items. I am suppose to start using,
> > Paypal, credit cards, etc. I think
> > there may be a way around this little
> > dilemia , I'll have to give it a try.
>
> I don't doubt that this move is being made in order to increase eBay's
> income, since they own PayPal. On the other hand, I'm guessing that
> it's eBay's only way to ensure that they get paid after the sale goes
> down.
>
> JR Hill
>
>
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