EBay Now Very Expensive For 1/32 Model Stuff?!

[Woody V]

It's 15% now.

Yea, it sucks when they lop that much off your $50 kit, but try that when you sell a something like a watch or camera for the going price of $3,000 and they take $450 and you wind up with $2,550! 

[Out2gtcha]

20 hours ago, Woody V said:

It's 15% now.

Yea, it sucks when they lop that much off your $50 kit, but try that when you sell a something like a watch or camera for the going price of $3,000 and they take $450 and you wind up with $2,550! 

 

 

Try it when you sell a muscle car for $22,000 and they swipe nearly $3,300

[ScoobyDoo]

I wish I thought of eBay first, I’d be rich.

[thierry laurent]

A guy is currently selling a small Isradecal decal set for 80$ notwithstanding the p&p! 

 

Some people are either overoptimistic,  stupid, naive or greedy! I don't know but there is a problem somewhere!

[DONG]

12 hours ago, thierry laurent said:

A guy is currently selling a small Isradecal decal set for 80$ notwithstanding the p&p! 

 

Some people are either overoptimistic,  stupid, naive or greedy! I don't know but there is a problem somewhere!

 

Yep and there's a 1/32 Academy F-18D from Poland for $1800 Canadian plus postage.

 

 

Don

[DeanKB]

I just had an offer from the £249 Eduard 1/32 P-40 "seller", giving me the chance to buy it at the reduced price of......£225.

 

Amazingly enough, I declined his lunatic offer. 

 

These people are just delusional. It's the old Hasegawa P-40N kit, with 2 small PE sheets, plus resin wheels & exhaust, and "artwork" aimed firmly at the teenage boy market - which is ironic, as teenage boys don't tend to spend megabucks on kits.

 

Amazingly, there's another seller listing the exact same kit at £249.95 (plus £8.95 postage), so it's catching.

 

Somebody in the US is "selling" the old Hasegawa P-40N WARHAWK '15,000th ANNIVERSARY' kit for $219.99, plus $30 shipping - and if it enters the UK, it'll get clobbered with an additional 20% VAT bill.

 

 

[DeanKB]

On 3/31/2023 at 8:34 AM, ade rowlands said:

 

Funnily enough I saw that one yesterday when looking to see if there were any around after recalling it came with all the parts to build pretty much any of the Hasegawa P-40 series. 

Whilst on the subject of eBay madness though I once had listed a Tamiya 1/48 F-14A and a raft of extra bits and pieces and listed it with a very reasonable Buy it Now price just to get it sold and create room in the stash for something else that will likely never be built but lo and behold 3 people got involved in a bidding war and I watched as the item sent sailing past the Buy it now price and sold for almost twice as much as one of the clowns could have had it for. I have since had similar happen but not to that extent.

 

The collapse of y bunt Gymreig hasn't helped. The English take our water, eat our Welsh cakes, fill our beaches during school holidays, and even beat us at rugby!

 

Then again, we get sent more money than we raise in taxes, so it's not all bad.

 

(It's a joke! I'm one eighth English, but the amputation waiting list is long)

[DeanKB]

On 4/4/2023 at 5:17 PM, Out2gtcha said:

 

 

Try it when you sell a muscle car for $22,000 and they swipe nearly $3,300

When you put it like that, $3,300 is a lot of money!

 

EBay UK charge £15 to list a car, then only 1% of the final selling price, to a maximum of £45.

 

Did you actually end up paying EBay $3,000 to sell your car?

 

 

[Out2gtcha]

13 minutes ago, DeanKB said:

When you put it like that, $3,300 is a lot of money!

 

EBay UK charge £15 to list a car, then only 1% of the final selling price, to a maximum of £45.

 

Did you actually end up paying EBay $3,000 to sell your car?

 

 

 

 

I have sold several vehicles via E-Bay, and all were before the most recent 15% increase. I paid a percentage of the final cost of the car which was in the 6% - 12% IIRC. I cant remember off hand.

I continue to go the E-Bay route as it seems to cast the widest net for that sort of thing. 

[DeanKB]

9 minutes ago, Out2gtcha said:

 

 

I have sold several vehicles via E-Bay, and all were before the most recent 15% increase. I paid a percentage of the final cost of the car which was in the 6% - 12% IIRC. I cant remember off hand.

I continue to go the E-Bay route as it seems to cast the widest net for that sort of thing. 

I'm shocked the US EBay charges a LOT more to sell cars than the UK version, I've generally found US pricing to be cheaper than UK's, even allowing for 20% VAT.

 

Might perhaps have something to do with the UK's small size & used car market? There are lots of ways to sell used cars in the UK and high demand, so EBay wouldn't get many customers - if any - if they charged 15%. Sites like Autotrader list cars very cheaply, and the UK is small enough to sell cars nationwide, with 70 odd million people in a country roughly a third the size of Texas.

 

 

[Out2gtcha]

You may very well be right Dean.  I know it casts a wide net, so higher charges are occasionally offset by the higher price garnered on E-Bay.  It really seems you have to get the right person for the right vehicle.

 

I sold my Jeep Rubicon on E-bay for within about $2300 of what I paid for it almost 8 years and 70,000 miles earlier. 

[DeanKB]

17 minutes ago, Out2gtcha said:

You may very well be right Dean.  I know it casts a wide net, so higher charges are occasionally offset by the higher price garnered on E-Bay.  It really seems you have to get the right person for the right vehicle.

 

I sold my Jeep Rubicon on E-bay for within about $2300 of what I paid for it almost 8 years and 70,000 miles earlier. 

Used car prices have gone crazy over here as well. I bought a new Hyundai Kona electric in January, but I'd ordered it January 2022, so a 12 month wait. Looking around at used, a 12 month old Kona electric with 10k miles on the clock was being sold for exactly the same price as a brand new car, whilst 5 year old versions that originally sold for around £26k were selling for £20k, losing just 23% over 5 years, when it used to be 40% lost over 3 years. 

 

Crazy!

[ScottsGT]

I seriously sometimes believe these insane prices are part of a money laundering scheme.  I’ll often watch them just to see if they will sell. At one time I considered buying the 1/200 Missouri battleship model.  There was one that kept coming up for $1200.

[DeanKB]

I've had a new offer for the Eduard P-40 kit, now down to £180!

 

Still ridiculous.

 

What's it actually worth, maybe £100 tops?

[DeanKB]

6 hours ago, ScottsGT said:

I seriously sometimes believe these insane prices are part of a money laundering scheme.  I’ll often watch them just to see if they will sell. At one time I considered buying the 1/200 Missouri battleship model.  There was one that kept coming up for $1200.

I'm convinced some sales are pure money laundering schemes, groups of people selling stuff to each other at ridiculous prices in order to launder the cash through eBay & PayPal.