Bid quickly or item will, well will set for a long, long, long time.
Gee, another rare specimen.
Yup, the rarest of all AHMs. I got one of these a few years ago for $30. It was in better condition, had its box, had the better ball-bearing motor, and only needed a tune-up. It’s fast and it’s kind of noisy, but it’s a nice runner overall.
I think I’ve seen other auctions from this guy for more AHM/Rivarossi stuff. It was usually $50-$100 more than it was worth.
Somebody obviously thinks it is worth something.
a whole $200 worth of something. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t.
Watch somebody will think it’s worth something too and ahve to have it and will “buy it now” for the whole $200.
Don.
Golly, gosh, only $200, and I sent my Visa to the Dry Cleaners. Darn![:(]
Tom [:D]
This guy’s a piker compared to the intellectual giant that tried to get $5000 for a 40+ year old Athearn SD45.a few years ago.
Andre
But if he actually sold it what would we call him?
The sticker is still on the box, 19.95. I guess because its “vintage” makes it 200.00? [%-)]
He didn’t sell it. So many people publicly laughed at him that he lost it and threatened to sue anyone who doubted the value of his “prize”. He withdrew the engine shortly afterward,
Andre
People are amazing! Not all old stuff is worth big bucks!
1967 version of a coomon AHM loco. Meaning it has the pizza cutter wheels and won’t even run on code 83 track very well. If it even runs - although all the old AHM/Rivarossi locos I ever had all ran great, those few were the Cadillacs to the Tyco Trabants I otherwise had. Guy’s just plain nuts. I love how lal the people doing this seem to claim they know nothign about trains - almost the exact same wording in every one of these silly auctions that gets posted.
Granted I sold an AHM/Pocher Lincoln Funeral Car for $75. With the stick on the box saying I paid $1.99 for it at Two Guys. But I started it at 99 cents, not $50. If peopel bid it up tha thigh, then they are the ones who are nuts, not the seller.
–Randy
I figured it out!
Somebody slipped the decimal point one position to the right.
(Yes, the shipping charge alone is about what this thing is worth.)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with 8-coupled locos with lead trucks or side tanks)
If someone wants $199 for a “rare find”, he should take the original $19.95 priced on sale for $13.95 price sticker off it. This isn’t the “Antique Roadshow”.
I had a guy once call me in answer to an ad I had posted that I would buy trains. He had a bunch of old tyco, cheap end bachman and ahm engines and a few alaska bachmann passanger cars. I told him I would pay him $100.00 for the lot and he yelled at me saying they where worth over $500.00. I told him yeah right, this is 2010 and things look and run much better now. He said he would keep the stuff and get what he wanted on ebay. Good luck buddy.
I love seeing all the “RARE” stuff on ebay. Go a page and you see that item again by 3 different sellers, then see it again a few pages down by 4 other sellers. Yep real rare.
Yikes, I had that exact same loco - with a much better box/packing and sold it on Ebay 5 years ago. I believe I got $25 for it - what a fool I was. I should have kept it and got $200 for it!
The only thing rarefied here is the air.
Just goes to show you what oxygen deprivation can do to a feller…
John
I forgot to mention that if you check out his other offerings there are more “rare” items of similar value
Just proves what I’ve said for years, “stupidity” is our greatest natural resource!! You can educate 'em but you can’t make 'em any smarter. As Ron White says…“you can’t fix stupid”!!!
Mark
Just remember what Dick Cavett (remember him) was fond of saying: “As long as people will accept [crap], it will be profitable to dispense it.”