Re: eBay bids on RC stuff

I thought that I was the only one doing that. I just bought a Thermic 72
on Ebay. Will outfit for RC and hopefully have it the air this Summer.

JakeInHartsel

On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:22:39 -0700, fubar1 wrote:

Well, its us older guys trying to re-capture our youth by buying up these
old kits from our childhoods that we are never going to build in our dotage.
I have several Lil Wizard and Baby Ringmaster kits that I bought on Ebay. I
remember mowing lawns to get the $10 or so the kits cost back in the 60's
along with the dope, paint, glue and silkspan to build it.
Paid something like $30 for one of em a year ago because it is still
shrink-wrapped.
Old fool etc....



"High Plains Thumper" <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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fubar1 wrote:
Sam wrote...

Maybe it's because the dollar is so low overseas, but if
anyone is watching rc gear auctions on eBay, it's unreal the
prices that things are going for. In many cases, if not all,
I can buy brand new through TowerHobbies, cheaper and with
the Tower Hobbies service and warranties. It's stupid what
people are bidding for stuff on eBay.

A lot of people don't do any research on what they are bidding
on. I have seen people bid better than $100 over what they
would pay for the same item if they bought it from one of the
online hobby houses.

I always tell friends and such that have never used Ebay that
they need to know: What the item should cost. If they could
get the item for less at some store. If its unavailable
anywhere else, what that item is really worth to them. And,
lastly, CHECK THE SELLER'S FEEDBACK RATING.

I bought some nostalgia era engines for nostalgia planes for a reasonable
cost. They were a 1/4 of what I would have paid for a new engine from
Tower.

All have like new compression, just needed a little clean-up. But then,
one needs to know what they are looking for.

Kits OTOH have been going recently for ridiculous prices. I bought some
nostalgia kits, 60's vintage stuff several years ago for a reasonable
price. Now, people have gone nuts, I saw a kit like a Sterling Mini-Mambo
go for over $100, not bad for $7 back in the mid 1970's. A Competition
Models B-70 profile scale free flight for .049 went for close to $80. In
the mid '60s, the kit was several bucks, all *** balsa.

One can buy the plan from AMA and build from scratch cheaper.

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HPT
Quando omni flunkus moritati
(If all else fails, play dead)
- "Red" Green
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