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I saw a PRR 4-4-4-4 Duplex in one of the boxes in the photo. Was it a BLI or Bowser? Or even a painted brass? I read his wording and am somewhat confused and eyesore from reading so many different values and sentences. Reminds me faintly of some scam email like a Nigeria that was also full of such sentences. Alot of the cars in the boxes were probably older models like state cars and other things, I could not access the photos for editing or other processing that might enable me to get a better look. The more I think about it, 8,000 dollars is NOT the value of that stuff. He claims to have more stuff that is not in the pictures. But if you read the winding and scenic description he says there is a dremel tool and few other things near the end. I see boxes that might hold the brass. The seller apparently visited some brass sites and researched some prices. Im tending to think they are retail prices and might not reflect the actual value or condition. I will also have to say the initial value fee on ebay might be a monster, I recall paying some small percentage of a listing price and again on the closing value if the auction was successful. He stated that he does not want to go thru and inventory everything for a variety of reasons. Well Im pretty sure that there might be some railroading friends who may be around to help sort and inventory the collection. I sorted and inventoried about 400 peices of my own collection at one time several years ago and it only took a few days at most. I wi***he seller best of luck, but am inclined to say "No" because there are probably more to this story than apparent. He stated that he had "Large" layouts in his life and there are rather few of them in the hobby? Perhaps he might be able or eager to provide more information on his past large layouts. Finally the entire tone of the auction makes me think that the man is "tired" of these items and wants em gone. The careful stacking indicates he was a dealer I have seen so many trains stacked this way in various shows... havent you? I can go on but most of the responders have already echoed my other sentiments. So... there it is.. 8,000 dollars is too much and weighted down by the lack of motivation or desire to be very complete in detail and inventory. And then he talks about escrow. At some length too. I dont understand escrow and think that he might have been burned in the past. Why do I get the feeling he wants his money in his hand BEFORE one item is moved out? I think that his 90 day storage is very generous but you would think that there is some kind of much more limited time frame to complete the sale, transfer the funds and get the items OUT of there (What was it? 4 weeks?) especially if a buyer has paid a very large amount of money. (Hey the moving truck is CHEEP with that dollar figure) Im sorry for a lengthly posting. Just dont have a good feeling about this particular sale.
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