Thought some of you might find this pretty funny!!!
Nah. Now if somebody places an opening bid on that, THEN we have seen everything! I think he is pushing P. T. Barnam’s statement about suckers to the max with that one.
Museum quality ? ? ? does someone know the real original retail price of this joke?? I think I saw one at a train show for $49.95 and the guy said he couldn’t give it away.
There was a guy at the Urbana train show had 6 of them for $20 a piece, still sealed. If this clown gets that for this one, I’ll wish I’d bought him out.
I real sure the seller meant $4.39! Or is there really some one out there who will buy some of my old stuff at stupid prices? Anyway E bay is happy. Imagine the listing fee on $439.00. [oX)]
I ran across that one yesterday, and put it in my watch list. They don’t make those old pancake motors anymore, you know!
I can’t believe what some of the old Tyco stuff is selling for, but this is ridiculous. After seeing a cardboard box sell for $5100, I’ll believe anything. [D)]
He’s kidding, right? Does he really expect anybody to buy that piece of crap?
Are you kidding? The box graphics are “AWESOME,” and it comes in an acrylic case suitable for hanging. What model railroader wouldn’t want this on their wall?
What scares me is that the Lionel collectors were telling us we didn’t know what we were talking about with the $1000 box, and it went for $5100. This guy’s a Tyco collector, so maybe he knows the market. I think I’m in the wrong business…
You never know who will buy it. People will buy any thing on Ebay because it was just on Ebay!
Let the sucker spend their money.
Ive almost seen it all. If the thing actually gets bought for 430 dollars or more THEN ive seen it all.
This is the engine that almost caused me to walk away from HO scale pernamently a LONG time ago.
Sorry, but that doesn’t even come close to the guy who was trying to sell a 1966 Athearn SD-45 for (IIRC) $5,000.
What made the SD-45 episode so funny is that people were trying to talk some sense into the guy and all it did was outrage him. He was even threatening people. For sheer entertainment value, that one probably won’t be beat in my lifetime. [(-D]
Andre
Apparently I am off by a factor of 4. I received an email with a link to the SD-45 thread and the guy was “only” asking $1200. I must have inflated the price because the whole incident was so funny. My bad.
Incidentally, I have a genyoowine Athearn BB F-7 custom painted in the later green and orange. This was done for the Portola RR Museum in the early 80’s. Item is new-in-box. Best offer over $75,000 takes it. Shipping is free. [}:)]
Andre
Good point!
I see these sell on E-Doh! all the time in the $75 range. The locos usually go for $25-$35.
I wish I would have seen that guy selling them for $20 each.
Wasn’t there a guy from Citrus Heights, CA trying to sell a “Handmade Brass” (old Akane) cab-forward for $10,000 about a year ago? Seems I remember something like that.
Wonder if it’s the same guy, LOL?[#oops]
Tom
Well I looked at it, and so far 202 people have looked at it and passed it on by.
I also saw one at a train show not long ago, and the guy was asking $25.00 or best offer
TheK4Kid
Methinks that we must cease thinking like model railroaders, get out of the forum, and begin residency in the real world.
Who would pay 1.2 million smackers for a Duesenberg Model A? Answer: someone with 1.2 million smackers who wanted to own a Duesenberg Model A.
Who, then, would want to pay 439 smackers for a Tyco Chattanooga Choo-Choo still in its original packaging? Answer: someone with 439 smackers who wants to own a Tyco Chattanooga Choo-Choo! still in its original packaging. You and I may well wonder at this guy’s motivation; perhaps - and I am only guessing - this is the train that this individual cut his model railroadng teeth on. Here is his - or her - chance to reestablish memories with the past.
I doubt very seriously if I will ever encounter that 1.2 million smacker Duesenberg on the street; I will also doubt seriously if this 439 smacker Tyco Chattanooga Choo-Choo ever turns a wheel on a rail. And, I will be willing to say, fifty years from now he can put a one in front of todays purchase price AND GET IT which is more than I can say for that recently purchased Athearn Big Boy.
Are you sure that wasn’t 25 cents?
For some reason known only to God, there are actually Tyco collectors out there. I’m not saying this guy will get his asking price, but I wouldn’t bet against it either. In the stock market, it is known as the bigger fool syndrome. A trader will overpay for a stock because he’s betting in a week, a bigger fool will pay even more for it. Makes no sense to me, but it does happen. Now if you don’t mind, I have to get back to waxing my collection of Edsels.
If you think this loco is bad, you didn’t have Tyco slot cars. The shells were flimsy and cracked easily, the racing slicks peeled apart, the pickup shoes & wiring were awful, they had no magnetraction and went a scale mach 3. They were great at launching themselves from curves and smashing against the basement wall, after which they were pretty much useless.
Next to them, the Chattanooga is a masterpiece.
I did, and how well I remember. El Paso, Texas, 1969.