The crazy world of EBAY!

[jamesconnolly]

The world has gone mad - someone on eBay is bidding £237 on a Churchill ARV - hope they realise it's a just a model and not a particularly well built or painted one at that!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132702991903 ... 1758.m4704

[Gaz045]

Wow! Have a look at some of the other items too........( Must show the missus the ' investment potential' of my stuff!)

[jamesconnolly]

Yeah looked at more of the items - the same bidder looks like he is paying £1000 for 20 odd vehicles?? - at those prices, I could buy a villa abroad with my collection.

[Panzer21]

Assuming he's actually going to pay.....this sort of thing is not uncommon.
Value is what you are willing to pay.

I remember at the height of the "Old school wargaming" fashion someone put on some old plastic Spencer Smith figures belonging to his father. He started with a low initial bid price. It went up...and up...and up into the hundreds for 50 fairly basic painted old crude figures.
Next lot reached a grand, same punter. Before long the seller listed a set of 50 at £1000 "buy it now". I thought "nobody is that daft....surely?" Same punter bought them.

He must have spent 3 grand or more on a couple of hundred figures.

I like Spencer Smiths and have an on going project. BUT they are very crude figures that require a particular approach to make them look half way decent. One of the main attractions is they were very very cheap! Now they are no longer made in plastic, the price has gone up. In some cases they have turned brittle, yet some people buy them simply because they were in The Wargame by Charles Grant.

No explaining people.

Neil

[jamesconnolly]

Almost every vehicle from the seller is £50 now. This must be a piss-take £50 for a bren carrier!!

[mausmann]

Maybe the buyer and seller are related....

[desertraider]

it's classic testosterone guys just hate getting beat, great for sellers no way on earth is it worth that