your biggest waste of money.

[mr_lister999.]

Whats you biggest waste of money? I did think that 95 pounds for a NIB Ford Ranger body that had blackfoot windows and the chrome parts taken off the tree and missing decals was my most expensive buy for what i got. Not really a waste of money but too much for what it was i feel. Well, with the prices recently not bad really

[netsmithUK]

Last November I bought a Mantaray for about £60.00 including deliver, since added a £20.00 body shell, another £10.on decals another £10.00 on new chassis then a bunch of other bits and bobs. To get it to nearly new condition. And now I have a car I don't really like which is probably worth about £65.00

the words 'money pit' spring to mind.

[loopjuice]

Well, you wanna sell the Ray ?

[Shodog]

I think the worst buy was a tamtech 962 a couple of years ago. It looked okay in the pictures. The body was demolished. It also had a lot of little packages of parts. The ending bid was for $91.00 and with shipping came to about $100. This was really before the popularity of the mini_z so prices on tamtech stuff was fairly high. When I got the car, I found that there wasn't even enough parts to complete the car. The end bell was off the motor and missing a brush. The CPR unit only works in forward. All the new parts were the useless one like 3 porsche bumppers and the front steering block pins. Nothing really usefull.

Jim

[sandmann]

Just bought a Taisan GT2 for about 100Euros complete with RC and ESC which looked truly fine on the pic - clean black body. Well - the body was painted with a waterproof felt tip pen - great idea! The esc was glued to the chassis with CA glue and it had cheap **** wheels instead of the original ones. I think you have to loose sometimes to appreciate the real bargains you get on the other hand.

[mr_lister999.]

It does seem to even itself out i suppose. Sometimes you get more than expected and other times not. Luck of the draw really. Anyway, you have to spend your money on something...

[DJTheo]

Recently bought a new built Renault Alpine for $140, didn't even have kitbox and manual, what got into me???

http://www.vintagetamiyarc.com/

[acprc]

Hi.....

I had the same problem as you chris with my "money pit" Manta Ray. Finally swapped it for a non running Juggernaut 2.

Adam

[netsmithUK]

now the sort of deal i'd go for...

[Zeemax]

At Tamiya XR311 bought without a picture for 70 quid

Was a complete mess in pieces loads of parts missing in other words was total C##P

Sold for (90 quid a few months later

[twisty]

I totally wrote off a 1/5 electric Lauterbacher in under 5 mins,it wasn`t mine at the time.OH DEAR. only cost me £500

[Stefan(2)]

Thats easy!

the first time i ever clicked on a link called www.tamiyaclub.com ..

You can see the results in my showroom []

Or more kit related..

Getting mad on rockets.. buying a heap of stuff for it, finding out one little bit was missing , there still in the original packing now

Buying a used/project brat ..  Actually, not a single bit is undamaged or useble again!

Buying a surpose to be decent 1/14 mercedes 1838 , local pickup.. had not slept in 30 hours so went there, payed for the thing and got home & to bed. What a scrapheap ... [:'(]  still looking for bits for the thing to rebuild it!

Djtheo, saw the alpine to... WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING !!!

Stefan

 

[netsmithUK]

I paid about £100 for the most clapped out MantaRay a few years back (although the price reflects the mad buy anything with tamiya on it times) It was junk, everything about it was rubbish and virtually a right off. Looking back at the photos it was there to see, no scam just an early case of bidding "ok i'll go just one more pound" madness! - can't bring myself to look at them any more.

Chris

[jerrywasaracecardriver]

My worst deal was a used vanquish out of Australia. It looked fantastic in pictures, and was described as in great shape or something like that. When it arrived, every plastic piece was either broke, cracked, or severly chipped, bent or otherwize damaged. I had to tear it apart, and use the mechanical bits for an avante restoration. I tossed all the plastic. Really, that was a long time ago. That lesson taught me to look for new built, and stay away from used unless I really need a heap of parts!

[MAD ANDY]

christ the manta ray is getting a bashing, but i have to say that my first ebay buy was a manta ray too.....i brought it 36 + shipping no radios, looked ok in the picture, (one picture..)

lol. but when it arrived the other side u couldnt see, was held together with duck tape and tie wraps, both the other side wheels were hanging off...lol

the motor and plastic mount had been glues to the rear gear box......ouch

the msc was melted

i did get alloy front and rear shock mount tho......

bad bad buy

 

andy

[Hibernaculum]

Dollars. I've wasted a few.

I too have a Manta Ray story. Bought one from a local pawn shop franchise here one day known as 'Cash Converters'. I walked in not expecting to find any old Tamiyas, and saw a poor old Manta Ray sitting there with tyres so bald they looked like squash balls. It was just the chassis - no body - and had clearly been thrashed to death. I took pity on it, and paid $40.

Not realising back then that other newer cars were using the Manta Ray, I walked into a hobby store expecting parts to be hard to come by. I walked out with about 6 parts trees. And by this point the whole thing had cost me as much as a NIB Manta Ray kit. However eBay didn't exist yet, and the Manta Ray had been discontinued, so I still believed I had done an OK, if not especially cheap, thing.

In the end, and being a perfectionist, I eventually built the whole car from new parts, many of which were ultimately found on eBay. It probably cost me AU$350 (i.e., roughly US$275), car alone.

My second story is worse. As a kid, my only RC had been a 1/10th scale Tandy Jeep. I had already bought a NIB example of this old car on eBay, to relive those childhood memories. Then one day on eBay, I saw another jeep that looked just like it, only a different colour. Being a completist, I decided to bid for this one too...and ended up fighting with another bidder, and paying over AU$100 for it.

But when it arrived, it turned out to be this Jeep that someone else also has in their showroom, which is more like 1/20th scale and really a tiny little baby toy when compared with my old Tandy Jeep (or most other Tandy cars) which was at least Digital Proportional. As it turned out, the photo in the eBay auction had made the toy jeep look a lot bigger than it really was [:|], whilst the auction description had been totally innaccurate and had exaggerated what the car was like and what it could do.

To add insult to injury, the person I had outbid had already contacted me about it (before my package had arrived) and offered to buy it (he too had been fooled by the ad), but I had refused! And to add further insult, this tiny Jeep was actually broken when it arrived.

In reality, it was worth about $2. Yet had cost me over $100.

cheers,

H.

[Clinehobbies]

A couple of 1/12th cars on ebay with bodies. Got into a little bidding war.... And just hit the BIN button....Both cars arrive mising parts and have bodies with the wheel arches hacked up and one of them is painted on the outside, various parts missing on chassis...Not as described. I am the one that got reved up and hit the BIN button....Doh!!!!!!

[Guest joelvardy]

bad buys well not realy a bad buy a bloke on ebay still owns a big shop

 

was ages a go maby 1 1/2 year sawa persing full op form hong kong bye bye  £500

 

never saw the kit  was so exited  and still have all of the battle system and 4ch radio in origanal box!!!

 

I personaly was F****D off but thats life

[Stefan(2)]

Exept ever typing www.tamiyaclub.com   i have 2 real -bad- money pits,

First one, a recently bought King Hauler.. I am to stiff headed to part it out & and forget about it,

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.a...56&sid=1546

But.. in basic, needed about EVERYTHING new.. not only to replace damaged bits, a scratched chrome bumper is something you can expect.. but.. so many missing -special- nuts & bolts that it is getting close to a bad joke!

The second one, bought in a rush (had no time to check it out proper) , A 1838LS Mercedes.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.a...63&sid=1546

The -story- in the showroom could be entertaining if you don't have to paypal loads of cash to part-dealers

But, to be fair.. i find these projects more entertaining/rewarding then new-build rigs you can buy, there -done- already.  (but usually, in the end... cheaper )

Stefan

 

[smallman28]

My biggest waste wasn't an auction but it was the Hi-lux I got a while ago.

I never really got into and regretted buying it,luckiliy given what it is it was easy to sell on again!