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Haven't posted here in a while, but something that recently amused...

www.ebay.com.au...41944338ee

To recap: This was originally listed for $2800. I wrote to the seller suggesting this was way above the usual rate. He sent back some abuse that suggested he had a serious screw loose. And promptly doubled the price to $5000.

Many months later it has dropped to $1400, and now has this...

"I am downsizing my large Kyosho and Tamiya collection. Kyosho Japan and japanese collectors have bought 1/2 of my collection. Have 3 of these turbo scorpions left and this is the best one."

I find it difficult to believe that Kyosho Japan would have purchased anything from someone in Australia, when NIB Turbo Scorpions can be bought on Yahoo Japan at a rate of about one per month, for two-thirds this price.

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Are you kidding me!

Cheers Vincenzo

they are made in black diamond. that is a bling bling hop up.

50€ for 5 cars, hot shot, frog, avante, hornet and a grasshopper
more on delivery

amazing deal Waterbok

1:100 scale coffee can cars?

not that small, but all with remote.

wow 130€ for a swb willy and 156€ for a nice wheeler

waterbok wrote:

wow 130€ for a swb willy and 156€ for a nice wheeler
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That's well below average for the SWB & TBH I can't really see why - I can see it doesn't have the MSC resistors & I'm suspicious about whether the mechanism box has any, umm, mechanisms in it I know the seller says they have done some work on it but it general it looks in fairly original un-buggered about with condition. That's important to me, I'd rather fix up a total shed with original damage than redo someone elses half-arsed work.

Your post was the first I've seen of this car - despite having an international search set up & getting daily emails; it's no good the seller saying "International bidders are welcome" if the listing is invisible to them - and that will be down to the seller excluding specific postal regions, rather than just not adding international post options. Still, 28 bids including a few snipes is a healthy enough, so I guess it just falls within the "normal" randomness of eBay final values.



The Wheeler though - I'm wondering if that's just the usual effect that re-releases have on the original versions (to summarise my theories: re-releases have little to no effect on NIB & very good originals, some on good ones, but a really punitive effect of the value of poor & average cars). That wheeler looks good & reasonably complete on first inspection, then you start to notice the issues - badly painted details in suspiciously fresh looking paint, the very clean metalwork on the chassis not matching the wear on the tyres, the missing resistor pack & driver, the new motor, servo & battery, the broken bumper, the stupid antenna, the seller sating the radio gear and speed control are missing ... you get the idea, and it starts to look a lot like you could have a modern version of the car from the same money that no-one has buggered about with.

Again, this one didn't appear in my searches, but 13 bids is a reasonable level of interest so maybe that's all it was worth. Although that argument would perhaps hold more weight if I hadn't come to two different conclusions based on similar data



Take look at this Wheeler for example, this is now up for sale for the 2nd time, and a couple of months ago I think that would have been snapped up at that price, even if it's not to my taste (I wouldn't have just sprayed over the damage to the left headlight & missing left bonnet vent for instance, and I'd have come up with some sort of theme for the paint/decals, and I'd like to have seen it with headlights, front bumper, splitter & bracket, etc) ... Now it looks like an awful lot of money compared to a re-re kit




edit 21apr15 - sold, "best offer accepted" - so no idea of what it actually went for.

Nice prices. Jokes on me!

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www.ebay.com/it...1436.l2649

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