Story time

[stulec52]

I'd like to hear some stories about E-Bay that you have, mostly about lucky deals you've had, stuff you bought without a pic and turned out to be amazing, or at least better than you hoped.

We ALL know about Seans Sand Scorcher super buy, stuff like that.

I think we need to hear good stories to give us all hope that it could happen to anyone of us, one day.......

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Stu in Scotland

[DJTheo]

Somehow I am more lucky with the on roads...

Nice eBay deals:

2-3 times driven Porsche 935, not even completed body, complete with box $75 BuyItNow

mint complete Porsche 934 chassis again $75 (incorrect description)

New built Porsche 934 $350 BIN, not that cheap but if you consider how much the one right now already has gone...

Last week a very nice original painted Frog with RC and charger $48 (misspelled, lucky noone from you noticed

http://www.vintagetamiyarc.com/

[robysoldtamiya]

Well I'll try to remember some of them:

2 NIB mounty windshields $50 both

3 mounty decals sheets $25 each

NIB SS chrome tree $25

12 used complete Blazer tires all in good conditions $50

2 hilux/blazer gearboxes no motor (1 full ballbearings) $75

nib SS radiobox $85 BIN

Roby

PS Theo, I came before you on that 935 but didn't want to buy it !

[jacolouw]

Well I have done no deals on the bay as of yet because of my lacoation (South Africa) but I had quite a few good deals locally

My First hilux swopped for a rc I paid $200 for

Second Hilux $100

Third Hilux $80

Ford XLT $80

First SS $35

Second SS $10 but sold again

Third and fourth SS $75

Grey Areomax, Mercedes, and flatbed trailer $300 (All full kit)

Pruple Aeromax and Globeliner $250

Rough Rider chassis $25

Mountaineer First one $200

A NIB Hilux bodykit - Id rather not say (yet)

A painted Hilux "NIB" bodykit - also rather not say (yet)

The large parts lot - very little

Of all the things I Lost - I miss my Mind the most

[sandmann]

- Honda CRV, complete with RC - 65 Euros

- Porsche 959, complete with RC and ESC - 60 Euros

- TA02 with Technigold - 20 Euros

- Blazing Star NIB with ESC, 4 sets of ball bearings and lots of additional stuff for 45 Euros

Greatest miss:

- NIB Porsche 959 shell for 10 Euro buy me now - missed by 1 minute

[SJoerD]

Well, I got my new built Renault Mk.22 F-2 (+manual, no box) for €100.

And I've now got a great deal on the following items:

• Mini Cooper M-01
  
• butchered Sand Rover to strip parts from
  
• Datsun 280ZX (RM Mk.2), missing nearly everyting with ruined body (some wanted to make a moster truck of it or something?!?!)
  
• Nice (no re-relaese) Ferrari 312 T3, missing some parts but I think I got those
  
• a used Bear Hawk
  
• a used Super Hornet
  
• some weird home-made car, useless to me, will be sold
  
• a strange but funny go-kart model, a keeper!
  
• a lot of HotShot bits, maybe enough to built a whole car from (but I don't think so... )
  
• a Subaru Brat body (used)
  
• 2 old transmitters
  
• and some parts that need indentification, I have no idea what these are (some are Hotshot)
  
• the Sand Rover, the Mini, the Super Hornet, the Bear Hawk and the HotShot came with a manual
  

I now this is a difficult question, especially when you've never seen them, but what is this whole pile of RC stuff worth? Maybe a minimum and maximum, I want to know what it's worth before I tell you, I'm a bit scared I payed to much . And I had to travel to the other side of the country to get them (Holland seems very big when you live in the north-west and you've got to go all the way south east.... This cost me another €50 (a Land Rover Defender isn;t the most 'economical' car.... ) This trip instantly doubled the amount of kilometers it ever travelled...

I've also got to check my local paper, all Bruisers seem to come from there... I wish you all good luck, because I just can get a good deal here (maybe I'm not looking that hard... ) The only thing I see are TL-01's for way to much money. Even saw a Ferrari 360 like mine for €350 !!! (I paid far less for it NIB) Hope to get a SS and a 3-speed soon, it's these models I really want now.

Cheers,

Sjoerd

I love Sand Scorchers, but I don't have one... Please help this poor collector...id=size1>

[DJTheo]

A picture of the stuff would be helpfull as prices are highly dependent of the condition

http://www.vintagetamiyarc.com/

[J3cubfan]

I have had mixed dealings.

* brought a pajero for $75 back in Jan. It look like it was sanded with 30 grit sand paper. Oh well, live and learn.

* Brought a falcon under the pretense of Tamiya 1941 Ford and it was in suprisingly good shape for $29 found a Falcon body set in Japan for on $20. Once I get this it will almost new.

JOhn