Hornet Speed Controller,how Much?

[Stu74]

I have just spotted a hornet speed controller listed on ebay with 15 minutes left.It is the old style mechanical speed controller still in the packet and is dated 1999.

It has 10 bids and is currently at 52 quid.This cant be right,are they really that valuable.

It is nunused still in the packet fare enough but 52 quid is crazy.Isnt it???

[zakspeed]

Thats sounds mad - it must be for the later Hornet (super?) as well as the first issue is Black not brown and if i'm being really sad the very first Hornets MSC had a in line fuse as well.

I have loads of those used and some new but if I listed it i'd get 99p ....

[Jonny Retro]

That's bonkers - maybe a couple of people think they're bidding on a whole, new Hornet?

Edit - looked back through my emails & found I paid £6, 18 months ago for a NIP, early 80's vintage Grasshopper MSC (black & complete with fuse) ... & I thought that was expensive at the time

[T. Smith]

I just logged in to my Ebay to see what I've missed in my watching list. That Hornet MSC was in there and I almost choked on my tea when I saw that price. Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to buy a second hand Hornet? Yellow starred Ebay noobs pushing up the price. They get so excited, don't they?

Since the auction is over, here's the link.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...%3D1&_rdc=1

[knotty]

scuse me if im wrong here but isnt that just a standard msc?

[T. Smith]

scuse me if im wrong here but isnt that just a standard msc?

As far as I can tell, you're not wrong, right enough! I bought one of these a little while back to sit in my Boomer refurb, although I'm pretty sure the Boomer and the Hornet both use the black MSC. Maybe the same type used on the Wild One. Whatever the colour, it's labelled Hornet Speed Controller, it looks like all the others, and it's not worth £52.00!

[HunterZero]

That is positively nuts... They're available a lot cheaper than that as a BIN from another well known seller, with vintage bag header... Doesn't even have the black base.

Sometimes, being nuts is neat, but that's just plain crazy...

- James

[Hibernaculum]

Could have been shill bidding?

[OCD]

Could have been shill bidding?

Were my thoughts exactly.

Although I did just have a look at the bidder activity and everything seems on the up & up. Both the '10' and '47' feedback bidders have a diverse bidding pattern and a few wins as well. Not typical of shilling at all really.

-Steve

[TA-Mark]

Wow! I should sell some of the ones I have. Hahaha

Seriously, I have heaps of them, unused, still in the packet from kits. I'd never fit them to a car... ever!

[Stu74]

Definately something fishy going on.What are the chances of getting 2 bidders that stupid.

It is not as if the listing is miss leading either.