Anyone interested in a rusted out 1923 Jordan Model A Ford sedan? Here's one ready for the layout and ONLY $5,512.99! Guy claims he's sold 26 so far. I asked him if the price was correct and he said it was and that they were rare!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Scale-1923-Jordan-Models-Model-A-Ford-Sedan-Rusted-out/391411854961?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
PT Barnum was right! I think this may have hit the ceiling for assinine prices on feebay!
oldline1
Dreamer. Sounds like he has reality and modeling mixed up.
Wonder if he'll get any bids?
Have fun,
Richard
This is surprisingly common, and for good reason. Often, when an item runs out or is low in stock, but the ebay seller doesn't feel like removing the listing (then relisting when stock returns), he just simply raises the price to an astronomical price.
This could be for other reasons besides low stock... I've done it myself when I went on vacation for a few days...
Other times, the seller is actually crazy.
But considering most of his other products are reasonably priced, I think the latter is more likely...
notice how the crazy priced ones often say "last one/1 remaining" in his listings.
Charles
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Trainman440This is surprisingly common, and for good reason. Often, when an item runs out or is low in stock, but the ebay seller doesn't feel like removing the listing (then relisting when stock returns), he just simply raises the price to an astronomical price.
I've seen this happen on Amazon, too.
I'm often shopping for out-of-print books. Talk about markup! If I'm patient — which I always am — I usually find what I've been looking for at a very reasonable cost.
Regards, Ed
To the best of my knowledge of Jordan's vehicles, he produced 10 Ford vehicles, and not one of them was a 1923 model.
The Ford body shown in the ebay link is that of a 1928 Ford Model A sedan, and while its body may have rust-coloured paint daubed onto it, that's definitely not what anyone would call rusted-out - rusted-out means areas which no longer exist...they've rusted away. At best, the paint might represent surface rust, but doesn't even do that very well.
As far as the price is concerned, the $5512.99 figure, when reduced to HO scale, as is the carbody, the price comes out to $63.37.I realise that the value of Jordan's Miniatures increased when he passed away, but even that figue is too high for only a part of a vehicle.
If there's anybody out there contemplating that as a purchase, I have several, not rusted out, that I will let go - each at half the ebay seller's listed price...
Wayne
At my last, pre-Covid train show I found someone selling some Jordan kits.
Jordan_6 by Edmund, on Flickr
While examining the one with the $5 sticker the seller said "Would you go $20?" I hesitated, just long enough apparently, "thats $20 for the whole bunch" he continued.
I stopped hesitating.
Let's see, $20 initial investment. Today's "market price" they could fetch $33,077.94 after holding them for ten months? Wait 'til Wall Street hears about THIS investment opportunity! (Shhh, keep it quiet)
Cheers, Ed
All the previous sales were for $12.99 each. I think the double "5" on the beginning of the price was either a typo or a way to hold the auction without making any sales.
There used to be an idiot on eBay that would hold auctions by listing a single HO scale rail joiner for $10.00. This irritated people like me that search mostly by "newly listed" to troll for bargains. Sometimes there would be pages of $10.00 rail joiners for sale.
The wargame forums used to have a thread about the funniest things found on ebay. Some were truly hilarious when someone who knows nothing about wargaming tries to list a wargaming item.
I think an ebay item thread on here would violate a forum rule.
-Keviun
Living the dream.
Wait a minute, the 1923 Jordan's had aluminium bodys. Can't rust.
Ok, I just looked it up, late '20's went to steel bodys. Could rust.
I use to play in one, a four door, it was up on blocks, red velor (?) seats in the rear, flip up middle seats between the front and rear seats, even a little silver vase in the rear for a flower, leather covered roof. We could always out run the cops.
Opps, my mistake. I see it's not a Jordan in 1:1 scale. It's the Jordan that made HO cars, trucks, buss, buggys, wagons and livestock in plastic.
Well, it IS supposedly custom hand made by professional craftsmen, and he thought that was important enough to emphasize that he put that in the listing two different grammatical constructions.
And I suppose it's certainly rare in N scale ... you scoffers didn't consider that, did you? ... and it's 'not designed for childern to play with'.
It's a rare model of something that didn't exist - there was no Model A Ford in 1923, the Model A came out in 1927.
ANd if he's sold 26 of them at that price, I'll eat one. Seriously. I suspect it is what was mentioned -0 common tactic to keep the item int he eBay store when out of stock, just crank the price up but leave the listing, then reset the price once back in stock. He's sold other weathers N scale models for a more reasonable $15.99, which is probably the price he sold those 26 Model A's for.
--Randy
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I still have a few Jordan kits unopened sitting around. I should sell them to him at half his price, he can brush-paint on some rust, and sell them for his full price.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
PC101Oops, my mistake. I see it's not a Jordan in 1:1 scale.
Think of it not as the Jordan Playboy, but the Hugh Hefner at 87 Playboy.
Somewhere really, really west of Laramie... gone west, that is.
Now there IS a weathered old Model A on RyPN for about $5500 ... perhaps on eBay by now ... with a '31 Model A engine, hood and radiator. (It was converted to a railbus with the somewhat interesting, and unexplained, gauge of 27") Would make an interesting model, but it's full scale. (Has the stainless 'car' radiator shroud, too!)
At least the shipping cost is reasonable...
Rust...... It's a good thing !
OvermodWell, it IS supposedly custom hand made by professional craftsmen, and he thought that was important enough to emphasize that he put that in the listing two different grammatical constructions.
Well, Jordan Jackson should then have been credited with the "hand made" portion of that description for creating the parts, and only the assembly of the parts to "professional craftsmen". I noticed that there's no accreditation for the apparently non-professional painter, though...perhaps best to avoid any embellishment there.
It's odd that there's no reference in the ad blurb to the "professional craftsman" who created that price, though...at least that guy (or gal) has chutzpah.
OvermodSomewhere really, really west of Laramie... gone west, that is.
Didn't Mechanix Illustrated have a similar 'anecdotal' style in analyzing and solving automotive problems? Who had the article about how to solve 'dieseling' with a strategic piece of cardboard over the air-cleaner horn in the late '60s? This in the era where the Wankel and then the Rolamite could be touted as the next utterly game-changing innovation for The Fuuuuture!
OvermodDidn't Mechanix Illustrated have a similar 'anecdotal' style in analyzing and solving automotive problems? Who had the article about how to solve 'dieseling' with a strategic piece of cardboard over the air-cleaner horn in the late '60s?
I'm pretty sure I learned to read as a toddler from these magazines as oppose to the namby-pamby little readers of the late 1960s...And to bring it back to Jordon Minitature vehicles - I wonder if the rumors I heard at the last Springfield Amherst Railroad Hobby show in January are true that the tooling for those models was destroyed - if so what a shame, as they really were nicelly molded. (I also wonder if there will be 2021 Amherst Hobby show - the website says the show is on for 30-31 January 2021, but I guess we will see).BTW, if you read some of the additional material on that Model Garage link I posted above, one article is from the last writer of the Model Garage column (he can claim it as among other storys he wrote the 1970 christmas story where the now retired Gus come back to visit the garage and settles a dispute). Anyway, the reason he gave for the column being dropped was not that the column was unpopular - it was always in the top readers favorite features - but that thoses readers were not the ones wantede by the new media group owners of Popular Science. Hmm, don't target the articles to the audience, target the audience to the advertisers. Reminds me of the 'Rural Purge' at CBS where they dumped Green Acres, Belevery Hillbillies, Hee-Haw and other such shows. Of course, the shows that replaced the rural humor did become classics in their own right (Mary Tyler Moore, All in the Family, Bob Newhart, M*A*S*H, etc.) that I liked watching as well.
I heard the same rumor - that the Jordan tooling was destroyed by the family. That seems so dog-in-manger that I can hardly believe it, but sometimes famlies have odd notions of how best to honor the memory of the deceased.
I was looking at Jordan kits at the Madison WI train show last February -- MY last preCovid train show -- and someone scooped up the whole collection. Could we have been at the same show.
Knowing what I know now I should have bought up every can of DullCote I saw. DullCote has become as rare as hen's teeth, for reasons not clear (gloss or matte) to me. It is on sale at Walthers but they have no information as to when they'll get a shipment!
Dave Nelson
dknelsonI heard the same rumor - that the Jordan tooling was destroyed by the family.
DullCote has become as rare as hen's teeth, for reasons not clear (gloss or matte) to me.