I haven’t laughed so hard since that $5000+ genyoowine 1966 Athearn SD45 on eBay.
It’s even funnier than when that small town in Western Australia cited NASA for littering as a result of Skylab falling out of the sky back in '79.
These cars must be his retirement fund. Boy is he in for a surprise when he finds out that these are worth about as much as Enron stock.
Andre - on the road in Holbrook, AZ
I could probably afford it, but that shipping is going to kill me.[swg]
I started off the bidding @ $100.001K. Let’s see how many big-time spenders there are out there who know a good deal when they see one.
I feel lucky. I’m finally gonna win one.
-Crandell
Nope, can’t be worth that anymore. Didn’t you see? He took it OUT of the BOX and let all the factory air out of the box!
Too bad. Coulda been a contender!
Darrell, quiet…for now
I’m guessing (hoping!) this is a mistake, perhaps he meant to list it a $100.00 or ? I’ve saved the auction on My eBay, intend to follow the insanity. Wow at that price one could commission Walthers to make another couple hundred of them and make a killing!
I’m wondering if this is an experiment. It’s not the seller who has pie-in-the sky dreams. The seller is seeing if there is anyone out there foolish enough to swallow this - trying to prove the old adage about fools and money.
George V.
I sent him this message…
"Don’t you have too many zero’s in front of that 1? Did you mean to put $100 dollars?
The train forum in MR is having a good laugh at this 
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Hey, the $200 Stewart F3A and $200 Stewart F3B are still available if your pocketbook doesn;t run quite deep enough for Maersk car! [:D] They’ve been listed for nearly a year now, guess the idiot can’t figure out why no one’s buying. Perhaps the fact that I got an AB set from a different seller for $50 is part of it. Also sealed in original boxes just like the $200 ones.
–Randy
The only reason I can think of for this, unless he just messed up, is that he is doing this just to bring attention to his auctions. After all, he has 4 more of the exact same car listed with a starting bid of $5.
That totally blows the $125 athearn GP9 out of the sky.
What’s even funnier is the guy has 4 more of these listed for $5.00. What makes the other one worth $99,995.00.
And it has to beg the question, how did he come to own so many? I doubt that these were sold at the convention but were there as promotional gifts. Perhaps he was happy to take the few “odds and ends” that were left over at the end of the show. Even if he did pay for them, most folks would be happy with a 100% profit margin as opposed to a 400,000% (too early for math in public)
But hey, if they don’t sell he can run a very nice container train!
Ricky
It’s a gimmick, here’s his answer to the earlier question:
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Don’t you have too many zero’s in front of that 1? Did you mean to put $100 dollars? The train forum in MR is having a good laugh at this |
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Red, It looks like the Ebay sellar is a clever guy and getting the last laugh, while us prats sit around and jaw about it.
What a stupid man, I never search for the HIGHEST price when I search on EBAY.
Well I guess he didn´t want to sell it as a set, wich I would have done. I myself is more willing to bid on sets of cars then having to bid on several and ending up with only one, when I wanted more.
A hundred large and no free shipping???
Man, that’s brutal. Just brutal…
Uh ooo. You called someone stupid. That is grounds to lock this thread. Its against the rules to call anyone names even if you don’t know them. (MTH/Mike Wolf vs. BLI-Hot off the press) thread. [:)]
" The fact of the matter is that
he is technically incompetent and not an entirely successful decision
maker. He is also pathologically competitive, a consummate egotist
and a sore loser."
Not too clever !
He lists in the body
"printed on the mint box. Maersk commissioned Walthers Trains to produce 1,000 of these for the 56th Annual “NTDA FORUM” held in Milwaukee, WI.
September 29th-October 3rd,2001. ( NTDA= National Defense Transportation Association. ) "
When it should actually be " NDTA"
National Defense Transportation Association
NDTA Career Center is the premier electronic recruitment resource for the industry
Sometimes one comes across these things as there may have been a surplus of them at a convention. I’ve got a few ‘promo’ items myself through that avenue. The other is through estates looking to get rid of a deceased’s collection. My favourite? I’ve seen reproductions and fakes of the same things—Arcade cast iron trains/tractors, for example, are popular antique toys. They get reproduced a lot. BTW, fakes come about either as reproductions that get sold as if they are the real thing, or, the piece is ‘counterfeited’ from the start. This latter happens a lot more than what one would think—
LMAO!!!
Gosh!
Only ONE up for bids?
I want a 30 car train or more of these, they’d look great behind my PRR J1 steamer!
Let’s see, that would be three million , plus $208.50 shipping cost!
Well, I’ll just have to keep waiting for a Brinks truck to hit a major pothole, the doors fly open and
ALL the bags too fall off the back! LOL![:D]