A fool and his money are soon parted on ebay.
If you look at this auction you can see in the photos that this is early HO toy train item…ladders are not molded on, wheels look metal and maybe sprung trucks…maybe this car was only in a set. Just my guess.
User ID Bid Amount Date of bid
stkyfngrs ( 55) US $39.95 Feb-12-06 17:10:10 PST
stkyfngrs ( 55) US $39.95 Feb-12-06 17:08:09 PST
leonardas ( 253) US $38.95 Feb-12-06 17:10:23 PST
hthay ( 28) US $30.00 Feb-09-06 16:19:36 PST
stkyfngrs ( 55) US $30.00 Feb-12-06 17:08:03 PST
cmsgt1 ( 261) US $20.01 Feb-09-06 13:02:55 PST
hthay ( 28) US $20.00 Feb-08-06 19:18:15 PST
bakersibum ( 64) US $15.00 Feb-07-06 05:12:49 PST
hthay ( 28) US $10.00 Feb-08-06 19:18:04 PST
ww2fan846 ( 173) US $5.16 Feb-05-06 17:55:42 PST
icrwo ( 374) US $4.85 Feb-05-06 17:23:23 PST
ww2fan846 ( 173) US $4.66 Feb-05-06 17:55:13 PST
Just maybe a person has disposable income and sees an item they once could not afford or had and lost and decided I can’t take it with me. What the heck, I want it. And just maybe two peolpe see the same item and have the same thought and there goes your bidding war way past the practical price. Phil
Thanks for the link Tomkat, it explains a lot!
Look at the bidders feedback, check out some of the other bargains he’s bought- he pays a lot for empty boxes, $40 for a car is a bargain!
And the other bidders are basically doing the same, one looks like a New Haven collector, the other does old Lionel HO- To each his own!
Now only if it was REALLY Valuable, like old TYCO![:P]
Seems to be a fairly close repro of the real NH scheme - not too bad…
NH Rules.
Actually the old AHM boxcars were not bad castings. And AHM had some unusual paint schemes. I have an Atlantic & Danville boxcar from AHM, and I do not know if anyone else has put out that paint scheme. Back in the 1960s a model railroader named Adolf W Arnold was a passionate fan of the A&D and even had his own newsletter promoting it as a prototype, and I think he badgered AHM into putting it out as a model. I can imagine a serious collector bidding something if that is the car you really want.
A fool and his money soon parted? Well maybe, but another way to put it is that the true value or cost of an item are established by “a willing buyer and a willing seller”
Dave Nelson
There are some people with lots more money than they need. These folks really don’t care what an item costs. Whether and item is too expensive or not is in the eye of the beholder.
The details on the boxcar are not that bad. Individual ladders and springs in the trucks. It is made by Rivarossi, and AHM imported it? Don’t know much about trains from the 60s-80s.
I have seen an HO Trident Israli Mirkava tank go for $70 when it was first released about 2 years ago… you can get one now for $15… I guess that person just wanted to say they were the first to have one.
100 years from now…
on GBay now on your micro-wrist pathological system now!
an AHM New Haven gondola! These are so rare today nobody can find one and I found one!
Bids-2900
price-$2,300,000.00
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the value of an item is a mental thing, old paintings gain value.
AHM is not in the business anymore, you can find the AHM stamp on the underside.
Because you may call something vintage-rare makes a value statement to the bidder. oh well, buy away.
I have 3 AHM boxcars that I aquired from a train show many years ago for about $5 each. They are all in the TP&W road, 40 ft black and yellow paint, made in the late 1960’s in the original boxes. I see these on ebay going for $20 to $30 each some times, but you don’t see one pop up very often. Some people collect them. There are some very old Athearn freight cars I have seen go for well over $40 on ebay if it has the original box. There are allot of different collectors out there.