eBay Watch

[Robert Davies]

What the?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160922281024

[BosKonay]

?!!?!??!?

[Glenderg]

Ah yes, the rarely seen "go faster 12 inch white stripe" livery.

[MOGUL]

Isn't it terrible we the lack of RTR irish locos means we have to use badly resprayed british stock...................oh wait, its not 1980 anymore:)

[Warbonnet]

What a waste of a good chopper, and confirms his madness with a stupid price.

[BosKonay]

They look so lively in rail freight livery. Shame

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

What the?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160922281024

 

 

=))=))=))

[Garfield]

 

Still, not so long ago a bidding war would've broken out for it!

[burnthebox]

Not to worry lads, as the ad do's say, May not post to Ireland, so there won't be any bidding war from over here

[heirflick]

dont think there will be many takers here anyway!

[gm171 kk]

Lovely set of MIR bubble wagons for sale.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rake-of-4-Model-Irish-Railways-MIR-Cement-Bubbles-/121018000004?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1c2d3c2284&_uhb=1

[WRENNEIRE]

Picked these up on the Bay recently

Been hoovering around for them for a long time

Saw them catalogued in Ramseys a good few years ago but I had never seen them in the flesh

Off to their new home with my other Irish N Gauge bits in a Billy press!

 

[Kirley]

Irish Pub Building - take a European building and stick a sign “Irish Pub” and hey – you’ve got an Irish building. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350644478069&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

[Glenderg]

It's too small for 00. Perhaps n gauge?

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

It's too small for 00. Perhaps n gauge?

 

 

How long will it be till you have oo scale beer taps with real beer flowing out

[Tarabuses]

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290813280833&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:IE:1123

 

Vontage Irish set (as per description)

 

It seems to have attracted a lot of interest.

[WRENNEIRE]

After Lima had some success with their N Gauge models in the late 60's early 70' they decided to enter the British OO market

However their scale was HO and they produced HO models from about '73

They did not look correct when compared to similar British outline models and they decided to manufacture in OO

This was completed by '77 so as can be seen there was a small 4 year window when these models were produced.

The Irish company Toys International and in particular its General manager John Byrne was approached by the Wrenn brothers with a view to becoming the Irish agent for Lima and in '74 they met at the Nuremburg Toy Fair. John Byrne brought up the subject of Irish liveries as there was now for the first time an Irish agent.

Christmas '74 saw the introduction of the HO Supertrain set, the real one had just been launched by CIE the previous year.

So historically this is the first Irish outline set that was available to buy RTR

Incidentally John Byrne later moved to Hornby and was also responsible for the Hymek sets.

A very collectable set for any serious Irish collector.

[Robert Davies]

I suspect I may be missing the point here:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160925289973

 

Compare with:

 

http://www.themodelshop.ie/station-building/44-252pd.html

 

?

 

-Rob

[BosKonay]

Same chappy has a bunch of stuff for sale, all equally overpriced.

[WRENNEIRE]

Missed another bargain

Must be more vigilant

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281025324240?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

[Robert Davies]

Missed another bargain

Must be more vigilant

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281025324240?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

 

Should have been pretty decent, Chris Dyer was the seller.

[WRENNEIRE]

Robert

This was a bad attempt at train humour

Sorry:SORRY:

[Robert Davies]

Sorry! Calling me slow can be an understatement at times...

 

I missed that train

 

No worries Dave!

 

-Rob

[Weshty]

Go on Dave, update Wikipedia, it could do with a bit of local colour:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_(models)

[Weshty]

Lovely set of MIR bubble wagons for sale.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rake-of-4-Model-Irish-Railways-MIR-Cement-Bubbles-/121018000004?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1c2d3c2284&_uhb=1

 

I was tempted, but just a little heavily weathered for my liking.

[WRENNEIRE]

Go on Dave, update Wikipedia, it could do with a bit of local colour:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_(models)

All my bluffing will be called now Des, Thanks a bunch

But how did Wiki miss out on the name Lima itself?

Lavarazione Italia Metalli ed Affini, The Italian Metalwork Production SOMETHING?

[Robert Davies]

Affini = related, allied...

 

I suppose it would come out something like "Italian Metal and Allied Processing"

 

- Sometimes if you translate the words, you lose the actual meaning.

 

 

-Rob

[BosKonay]

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290822046499&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:IE:1123

 

Relisted.

[WRENNEIRE]

I watched the end of this auction, a couple of bids were retracted and there was one bidder in particular who bid first on the set and retracted last

He also bid on another item this seller had listed

The second bid retraction was from a bidder that I have seen retract on Irish items in the past

Puts a huge bid in to see what the highest bid is and if its too much he retracts, complains about postage being too high etc.

Where are the eBay Polis when you want them?

[Robert Davies]

I watched the end of this auction, a couple of bids were retracted and there was one bidder in particular who bid first on the set and retracted last

He also bid on another item this seller had listed

The second bid retraction was from a bidder that I have seen retract on Irish items in the past

Puts a huge bid in to see what the highest bid is and if its too much he retracts, complains about postage being too high etc.

Where are the eBay Polis when you want them?

 

Unless it's provably illegal, ebay don't seem to care any more.

 

Going back to this particular auction, a bid retraction after eight days and 'entered wrong amount' as the reason is just plain wrong - clearly as WrennEire says, it was just to flush out either the reserve or the other highest bidder - unfortunately for the seller there were at least two false bidders playing this 'game'.

 

-Rob

[gm171 kk]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-Murphy-Models-DCC-Ready-OO-Irish-IE-Livery-Class-181-Chassis-Only-/170948631195?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item27cd551a9b&_uhb=1

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-Murphy-Models-DCC-Ready-OO-Irish-IE-Livery-Class-141-No-146-Body-Only-/170948633996?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item27cd55258c&_uhb=17

Who wants to buy a class 181 in two halves?

[BosKonay]

Boggles the mind!

[Warbonnet]

In the UK a lot of people sell a loco in bits on Ebay, they tend to make more than selling the loco complete. I'm guessing this is what that fella is at. Spare parts are few and far between from UK outline manufacturers.

[Garfield]

O gauge NCC Jinty: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Darstaed-Jinty-NCC-Black-Irish-Railways-MINT-O-B-ACE-HORNBY-BASSETT-LOWKE-/300827609801?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item460ab90ac9#ht_870wt_1037

[BosKonay]

Wow - what a little stunner!