Question: Is there a model train version/equivalent of RCU anywhere out there? Specifically buying/selling/trading used train stuff.
Thanks.
UPbid.net is starting to gain some ground. It is still small however. There are no listing fees.
If you model HO, check out the HOYARDSALE group on Yahoo. There's one for N scale (NScaleYardSale), and probably other scales as well.
Nelson
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I'll third the HO Yardsale Yahoo group. It's great! You can post items you want to buy too.I've seen a bunch of other train auction sites, but when you click the item it takes you to E-Scam.
ho yardsale should be avoided like the plague . they are the most anal , picky bunch of people i have ever came across . RON
http://www.railbid.com/index.php
Here is another one called Railbid. I just found it and bought a GP7 Operating Manual for a reasonable price.
Now this is really useful stuff ! Thanks to all for posting these links.
j610ho yardsale should be avoided like the plague . they are the most anal , picky bunch of people i have ever came across.
I've not experienced that. I have a separate Yahoo email set up that receives all the new postings. If there's something up for sale the interests me, I contact the seller off-list and the deal is done. Easy peasy. I hardly ever go to the actual group site in Yahoo.
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I am on N scale Yard sale and think its great...Lots of nice folks and you can find almost anything you might need..It seems to be growing every day too...Jerry
SteamFreak If you model HO, check out the HOYARDSALE group on Yahoo. There's one for N scale (NScaleYardSale), and probably other scales as well.
Hoyardsale seems like a good alternative to EThing, BUT, be careful how you sign up - I got 20something e-mails from them this AM!!!!
I am almost fed up with eBay. Fee, after fee. I sold a engine last night for $130, and they took out $10, and Paypal took out $5.00. I understand they have to take something out, but hey I guess they have to make money. "That they are!!!!"
I am trying the hoyardsale. I have a car on that website now. See what I can get for it. At least its fee free. Also like someone said, you might wanna get another email just for that website. You do get quite a bit of emails.
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For those of you that are not happy with the Yahoo Group emails you receive, it is a very straight forward process to turn that off. IIRC, you need to access your Yahoo preferences for that particular group and change your email notifications to read that you will access the web site on your own (or words to that effect, my job blocks Yahoo access so I can't "see" the exact wording right now. :-) ) Then you can just go to the site and check new messages on your own without all the spam to your inbox.
For what its worth, I have bought 7 items so far off HO Yard Sale, and have been TOTALLY satisfied. With NO fees! Do your due diligence as you would with buying or selling items through the classifieds or whatever and you'll be happy.
Joe
j610 ho yardsale should be avoided like the plague . they are the most anal , picky bunch of people i have ever came across . RON
MMM--most people that I know who have used this site seemed to have no problems. So, what happened witchoo? Explain please---
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Although I am a member of the HO Yardsale I don't hang out there much. To find things you almost have to be on line a few times /day. The search feature is not the best and doing searches can be trying sometimes. I did inquire about a couple of items once only to find out they had been sold several days errlier. apparantly the sellers can not take down the posting after an item has sold. Not a big problem though. If somehow we could all get everyone to agree on one site/format it would be a big help. As I mentioned in an earlier post I do list some items on UPBID.net. it is the same format as Ebay but there are no listing fees and a small seller fee. Others like some of the other sites out there. As long as there is indecision amongst us about which site or format to use ebay will continue to flourish.
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lvanhenHoyardsale seems like a good alternative to EThing, BUT, be careful how you sign up - I got 20something e-mails from them this AM!!!!
Twenty? That's nothing. What can I tell you; it's a healthy group! I have all of that going to my Yahoo email account, and I just go through it and delete whatever isn't of interest to me. You can select the digest option in your group preferences, which will send you a single daily digest of all of the day's postings. I was using that option in the beginning, but I was missing out on too many good deals, so I switched to individual emails.
I think the moderator does a good job of managing what could easily become an unwieldy situation, since the membership is quickly approaching 2500. When I joined in late '07 it was only about 800.
Interesting that the hoyardsale moderator sent an email that said they'd had a sudden surge of 27 new members. Coincidence with this thread?....
This forum gets a lot of traffic...
I just changed the email notification to "let mee look" instead of "notify me" I guess I didn't pay attention when signing up With all us new members, it may beat the Ething!! As for Craigs list, never found much in trains there - a lot of bad publicity about it now.
Great info - Thanks everyone!
I'm waiting for Bergie to chime in on this thread with an update to the possible classified section on this forum he said "might" be a possibility in the future.
...or at the very list a links section where useful sites like these could be easily accessed.
Well I signed up for HO Yard, Sold some items on Ebay for 80 - 12 to pay for them, to me, that's a pretty high mark up.
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GIJoe For what its worth, I have bought 7 items so far off HO Yard Sale, and have been TOTALLY satisfied. With NO fees! Do your due diligence as you would with buying or selling items through the classifieds or whatever and you'll be happy. Joe
I have also purchased from this site, with great satisfaction. At least you can negotiate with the selling parties in some cases. I also read the posts on the website and find it extremely easy. You can see a whole page of items at once and pick and choose what to read. I have yet to list items for sale, but if I did, it would be on HOYardsale.
Len S.
How about your LHS or swapmeets. There are also discounters such as TrainWorld and Discount Trains and Online Trains
Now there's one more alternative. Larry at HOSeeker finally got his auction site launched. For a long time the auction link on his site took you nowhere. There isn't much up for sale yet, but we could change that.
http://www.hoseeker.org/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi
If--and when--I decide to return to HO-Scale after a quarter century in N-Scale I'm going to see if I can find a dealer somewhere who will buy my N-Scale equipment lock-stock-and barrel at a reasonable price I'm not prepared to give it away; on the other hand I'd like to be done with it. I don't want my equipment dribbling out the door which is what you get on ebay so I'm not going there for a mass sale.
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http://www.gomotorbids.com/index1.cfm
Here is another sourceI have found to be good.