To brighten up your weeken, I just saw this listed on eBay. Item # 360046668566.
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1 ATHEARN 90601 X2F COUPLER 1 CENT SHIPPING |
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You are bidding on ONE X2F horn hook coupler. Yes ONE. Starting bid is only $3.69.
Of course, shipping is only a penny and it is new. I’d better get my bid in before it’s too late, since those lying around here are all used.
Is the seller’s name Barnum, by chance?
Tell him you need a few more closeup views from different angles before you can assess its condition. [:-,]
[(-D]Some people will bid on anything![(-D]
If that sells well I may have to put up that boxfull I have in the closet.[(-D]
I’m hoping that this seller is trying to be funny. He does warn us:
UNINSURED SHIPPING IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
If you dont like the auction, then dont bid on it. No need to waste forum space with this waste of time…
David B
C’mon Dave…
I’m sure there are a ton of folks on these forums saying “You know what I need to finish this project? A single horn hook coupler!”
Whoa. I thought this was kind of funny, which the OP said was the intent! [:)]
I see lots of discussion even about things like the weather in other threads…trackside diner etc.
Actually, good point. Maybe the “crazy eBay” posts would be more appropriate over the diner, since that’s the purely social thread.
I was a one-time participant in the diner. Being a meteorologist I appreciated the weather banter. The thing I never could quite get my head around was the imaginary waitress(es?).
Dave,
On the one hand I can see your point; that a lot of these threads tend to degenerate into long-winded tirades about the pros and cons of buying on eBay.
On the other hand, there is an obvious corollary to your principle as stated above:
If you don’t like the subject of the thread, then don’t read it. Let others waste their time as they choose.
A horn hook coupler?
1?
For 3 50?
Am I reading right?
[(-D] HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA I should start selling mine!
It doesn’t seem like a waste of time; it’s MR related and I needed a good laugh.
I just lost money! [:O] I threw away 7 pairs yesterday I found in my “junk” jar!! [sigh]
Man,I gotta be more aware of what I am pitching into the trash.
I checked what other idems this person had listed and there are several one idem listings.And no bids yet. lol
slow train Ed
No! Don’t everyone start putting your horn-hooks on eBay! You’ll flood the market, and we’ll have a melt-down of the global horn-hook market. X2F futures will tank! The presidential candidates will jump on the bandwagon, all pretending to know something about model railroading. Niel and Bergie will show up on CNN to explain to the baffled pundits just what’s going on.
Remember, it’s about supply and demand. Right now, demand is low, and it’s already in decline. If we simultaneously boost supply, we will invert the D/S ratio with the obvious consequences. Yeah, I’ve got a box of X2F’s, like many of us. Some are even new. But, I’m going to “take one for the hobby” and hold on to them, even though they will not be worth much for a long, long time to come.
No, stick with Kadee. The right coupler for your portfolio. The right coupler for your future.
I for one do not mind such posts, the intent is shown right in the subject. Don’t read it if it offends you!
Speaking of selling horn hooks, many years ago on some other forum someone mentioned selling a bunch on eBay, and this gave me the idea to try too. Like most modelers, I had been saving them for no particular reason and estimated I had around 500 of them. I placed them on my flatbed scanner and made a photo for the auction. Sold them for around $12.00! Someones’ trash is someone elses’ treasure!
now some rivet counter’s may puke, but since Fred’s Locomotive (and car) Repair Shop is a functional model shop soo to have a model build of it, there will be several scrap gons of old horn hooks on a scrap track once I start my conversions. I for one am hangign on to mine. however, if I think that the gons are almost perfect but they need just one more to be right, $3.50 with 1 cent shipping will be perfect!![:P]
Talking about ebay, a Weston figue just sold fo over $45.00 plus shipping. By the way anyone know what happened to them?
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If you want to control the forum content, start your own forum.
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Tracklayer
