Sods Law!

[Sandster]

Why is it that whatever vintage model I decide to buy next there is never any for sale at the time? Then, after looking for weeks, the one that finally pops up on ebay isn’t in as good condition that I would want? Of course being impatient and worried about how long it will be before another comes up for sale, I buy it and spend a lot of money replacing parts on it. What happens next is, over the course of the next week or two, another half a dozen of them appear on ebay and they are usually in better condition than the one I got (and sometimes cheaper too).

Is it just me that this happens to? It has just happened with a Holiday Buggy, Clodbuster and a Blackfoot. Ebay seems swamped with these models at the moment.

Sods Law!

[F3ST3R]

What normally happens to me is I tend to periodically search for different models once or twice a month. I then check completed listings and find two or three have sold in great condition for a great price two days before I decided to search and there will be no current listings in the condition/price I'm after.

[Wooders28]

It's the reason I have more than one of each!!

I tell myself i will make a good one out of the two,then sell the other! lol

[z00ter]

yup same issues here, I think its just down to waiting and the Tamiya itch, I don't think patience and Tamiya restoring go that well together lol.

[Grastens]

It happened to me and my search for an Audi Quattro - having been outbid on a mint example by $15, I snapped up a tatty one that arrived right after that auction ended, wondering when I would see one again. Sure enough, auctions kept popping up over the next week...

It happened both when finding a car and the B-parts sprue with the driver, etc., except the latter happened with me buying an incomplete sprue and then complete ones showing up for half the price just days later!

Surprisingly, that is the only time it has happened - I scored good deals on a Lancia Rally and a Striker, two vintage models that I imagine are particularly susceptible to the Sod's Law due to their relative rarity in their original forms (chassis for the first-named are easy with the re-release Frog and Brat).

Edit: Rather embarrassingly, I remember that it happened recently in my rush to snap up a Honda City Turbo

[Scapelnz]

I feel your pain, for me it's the excitement of another project. Your keen to find all the parts you need as soon as possible because in my head these will be the last parts ever available in the world so I must buy them now! lol I to am doing a clod build but because I come from a small country they are very rarely for sale, and freight is a killer as the clods are too expensive to post, so I'm buying all the parts one by one and having them shipped, it's teaching me great patience and control lol And the other thing I've learnt is that we are never going to run out of clod parts!! Lol

[Scapelnz]

Meant to also say in my country (New Zealand, best rugby players in the world) we call it "Murphy's law" :-)

[KEV THE REV]

Murphys law = whatever can go wrong - will go wrong - right?

When I first started collecting Tamiyas and RC in general , the first car that came up for sale I would buy . These days with more patience and self restraint , I will hold out for the right car in the condition I want

[Kevin_Mc]

Correct Kev!