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Ebay Activity is Through the Roof!

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Posted by GP025 on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 8:17 PM

 I look for specific items related to GN, NP, and SP&S, there might be a few more items than usual, but nothing significant. 

  I have actually tapered off my browsing of the bay as the last few items I "won" were just not quite up to my standards. In fact the last item wasn't even what I bid on, and even though the seller said he was correcting it, it never came to be, but I did make it work though. (It was a frame and body of an Atlas yellow box received instead of an Atlas Classic frame, the same I asked y'all about in a thread). For the most part though, I almost prefer to order online from a B&M store or other online retailer, even direct from a manufacturer, even if the price is a little steeper. 

  My last brass item through the bay turned out good, but I also have limited myself to the folks out of FL for those items as well lately. 

Kev 

  

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, June 18, 2020 8:06 AM

GP025
My last brass item through the bay turned out good, but I also have limited myself to the folks out of FL for those items as well lately.

I stopped buying brass on eBay about a year ago when two packages in a row were packaged terribly. Luckily the locomotives were not damaged.

At Brasstrains Dot Com (the outfit in Florida), they really do a 100% perfect job of packaging their models for shipment.

Also, in my experiences with them, they are completely honest and accurate with the item descriptions.

-Kevin

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Posted by rrebell on Thursday, June 18, 2020 10:17 AM

Bought a bunch of brass through the years and never a problem with shipping but then I never bought one without original box, no preferrence, just worked out that way. Like I said before, latest accusition were MTH hopper cars, they came in box as shipped from china so no problems.

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Posted by Doughless on Monday, July 13, 2020 4:16 PM

Update to the OP.

I have noticed that activity has slowed as usual through the summer months, but prices seem awfully high.  I look frequently since I still covet a few items that pop up from time to time, but lots of rather mundane stuff is getting bid up pretty high.  BIN prices from retailers is crazy.

- Douglas

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, July 13, 2020 5:53 PM

Doughless
BIN prices from retailers is crazy.

The Buy It Now prices for some Model Master paints are insane. I should have invested!

-Kevin

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 13, 2020 6:40 PM

I agree with Kevin on the Brasstrains folks, top notch service and packaging.  Never an issue.  

 

Also, Hon3 Blackstone prices are through the roof.  I really wish people would refuse to buy stuff at massively over inflated prices.  At this point, its cheaper to buy Brass, even with re-motoring and installing DCC and sound.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, August 6, 2020 10:32 PM

Ebay activity seems to have declined rapidly in the last couple of weeks.

I have a saved search that I look at every day. It usually has 200-300 listings per day that mee the search criteria.

It has dropped to about 50 per day this week.

-Kevin

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