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FYI, .... i rejected, refused, cancelled, buried (as a matter of fact) my ebay "footprint".......to no avail, it's keep on "hunting" me, so i'll keep a faaaaar distance from that , and just count my blessings............

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Just now, Jack said:

FYI, .... i rejected, refused, cancelled, buried (as a matter of fact) my ebay "footprint".......to no avail, it's keep on "hunting" me, so i'll keep a faaaaar distance from that , and just count my blessings............

It's pretty easy to ignore EBay these days.

 

With patience and research, it used to be fairly easy to bag some bargains, but these days the prices tend to be higher than buying retail!

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yeah that might be, but it's going over the hill recently, and the "hold-on-system" which is just the mandatory system it' s going lately, by just being a "customer" of their system made me decide to just ignore it, am glad about it, i feel i've entered a virtual corkscrew i can't get away from.

Anyhow, i haven't been using this way of dealing with deals a loooooong time, just screw it allllllll the way..............

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An Eduard P-40N kit just sold via auction on EBay for £125 including postage.

 

That's still a little steep for me, but far more realistic than £185.

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Todays "Stupid EBay 1/32 kit price" (©) is brought to you courtesy of Wingnut Wings.

 

The Wingnut Wings Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 Early, certainly one of WNW's better kits, it's been in demand for years.

 

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You can have this kit for a mere £490, plus £6 postage.

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I spoke too soon!!

 

A WNW DH.9 kit, never one of the most popular of WNW's offerings, is available for £350.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125722245904?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=CvKtum2cQqu&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=4UKRxqbYQoS&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

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A WNW Fokker D.VII (OAW), popular but certainly not £375 popular.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225433923548?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=m7VUpVs8R_6&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=4UKRxqbYQoS&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

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And the granddaddy of all Wingnut WIngs inflated prices following the "Sold Out" signs appearing, the old WNW Gotha G.IV. Yours for a mere £799.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266180026514?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=1IkgIVJaQtm&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=4UKRxqbYQoS&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

 

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There are also Pup & Snipe kits available for £259.95 a piece.

 

These sellers are greedy and haven't done their research. Yes, there once was a time when WNW kits went for silly money, but those days are long past. Roden, CSM, Lukgraph, Silver Wings, Special Hobby, etc all offer WWI & inter-war kits at very reasonable prices, with a steady stream of WNW kits on EBay selling if priced correctly.

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Intriguing about the DH9 as I have one available for £125 and I can offer delivery in person for a goodly chunk of the UK.

 

Warm Regards from the Kingdom of the Rheged and Good Modelling,

 

Gary

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It's getting more stupid by the day.

 

WNW Duellist RE8 & Halbersdtadt.

 

£800.

 

And that's just a starting bid!!!

 

Plus £11 shipping.

 

These people must be smoking something.

 

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166035534540?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=9sulGeQ_Tma&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=4UKRxqbYQoS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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8 minutes ago, DeanKB said:

It's getting more stupid by the day.

 

WNW Duellist RE8 & Halbersdtadt.

 

£800.

 

And that's just a starting bid!!!

 

Plus £11 shipping.

 

These people must be smoking something.

 

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166035534540?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=9sulGeQ_Tma&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=4UKRxqbYQoS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

Well at least the shipping is reasonable.

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WNW or other collector kits and out of production kits are not the fault of ebay for high prices.  Buyers have long over paid for WNW kits even when WNW was in business the prices were high on ebay.  Any bonafiedly rare and high relative demand item is going to find high prices on a general market place whether eBay or something else.  By high relative demand, I mean that as 1/32 modelers were are a niche market but the WNW kits have a broad enough appeal they are high demand within our niche.  If they were suddenly cheap I would buy them up as would many others so price goes up until one person will pay the price for one kit.  This is just free market economics and is not ebays fault.  

 

Someone posted the kitty hawk king fisher, now that one, with patience I bet you could find a deal, someone will under price that kit if you wait long enough and you could get it cheap.  But WNW is an outlier and those are going to move on to the collectors world if they are not there already.  I am not interested in being a kit collector as they don't store well.  Really you have something that will very quickly degrade if not well protected.

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