This morning on Amazon they had a Kato EMD SD70ACe with the Savannah and Atlanta road name listed for $4875.36 and it had "free" shipping.
There are always people trying to sell things for more than they are worth, it is called buisness, supply and demand.
One of my favorite threads in a wargames forum I used to frequent was about the silliest things found on eBay or Amazon.
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Certainly, most of these were being sold by people that had no idea about the hobby that the items were for. The funniest were when sellers used hyperbole to make the items seem like they had much more worth than was actual.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Price dropped on Amazon to $213.33. Huge discount. Better order several at this reduced price.
Paul D
N scale Washita and Santa Fe RailroadSouthern Oklahoma circa late 70's
Sometimes those eBay and Amazon 3rd party sellers use algorithms for their pricing that set their price for an item to be a certain percentage over the highest current price, so their item becomes the new highest price. Some unsuspecting customers automatically assume because it's the highest price, it must be the best, so they buy it without checking to see if there are any lower cost options. It's then happened where two or three sellers' algorithms get stuck in a loop which compounds the price plus model, and the end result is an item with an obscenely unrealistic sell price. Then a bunch of people on the internet laugh about it.
My favorite part about that list price is the 36 cents at the end. No sense short-changing yourself by rounding down ...
Dave Nelson
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Snapper-2026-Shear-Pin-Kit-for-Snowthrower/153211525783?epid=1511980391&hash=item23ac1e5a97:g:vaEAAOSwIDJbu-CV:rk:1:pf:0
Dave
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