Toy train operating and collecting

Anyone have any idea what this might be?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-LIONEL-TRAIN-SET-MODEL-27-CIRCA-1927-1935_W0QQitemZ260369390110QQcmdZViewItemQQptZModel_RR_Trains?hash=item260369390110&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A4%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Might be nice if there was a picture.

I have many times seen locomotives mis-identified by folks unfamiliar with toy trains who assumed that the "Lionel O27" on the pickup assembly was the model number.  Perhaps something like that has happened here.

I just got an e-mail from the guy,he's not sure of the model numbers and he has no way of posting a picture. Can't he get a disposable camera from Walmart and have them put the pics on a disc for him?

He's either truly clueless or a really bad scam artist

  IF, it Really does value out at the "Around $12,000" that his "Research" on the internet suggets it is worth, and it is from 1927-35, I would suspect (but I am only guessing) that it likely is a Standard Gauge set. But he has supposedly "Researched" it already but can't list any model #s? He is selling a $10-12,000 set, but can't even BORROW a $100 (or less) digital camera to post pics? I would also question his C-8 Condition rating, without having pics, he doesn't seem to know that much about what he has, how likely is it that his condition rating is accurate?

   Could be one of those who believe that "Old Lionel=A Good Start on Jr's College Fund" which sometimes IS true, but not as often as many people like to think. This sounds like a Good Example of "Caveat Emptor" Buyer Beware. I am curious to see if he gets any bids, maybe from someone with more Dollars than Sense? That is an awful expensive purchase to be sight unseen.

Doug

Plus he's been an Ebayer since Feb 14 of this year, nice long track record!

If all old Lionel is good start on college money I've got enough in the basement to goto Oxford

2 and a half hours left, I've gotten no answers either since the auction first started and I've e-mailed him several times . Like we all thought another scammer or totally clueless!  I wonder if he's watching our reactions on this forum and OGR's (which the moderators shut down) and isn't happy that noones buying it.

just sent him the following question "you state app value $2000 but your asking $10,000 what gives you also stated about 6 days ago you would give model numbers is it that difficult or are you just a rip off artist guess you won't send this to your auction for others to see"

oh i was wrong the $2000 was I guess for the catalog I didn't know a 1935 catalog was worth $2000.00 I've seen them on ebay and they didn't even bring $20.00 let alone $2000.00 lol

Never got a single email from the guy but I did report him to Ebay as possible fraud. Want to give him the benefit of the doubt, he might really be one of those people who think any old train, regardless of condition or the fact at least 2 million of them still survive til today are worth major money. He also may have found out what the set was really worth and is too embarassed to show his face now after claiming it was worth $12,000.00 without really researching it.