Outrageous prices for models!

i have just recently paid some exhorbitant sums of money for model kits on the bay, but then again, i'm an idiot, but i'm ok with it, lol. but, i have also scored some deals, paid $1.04 for a pete 359 kit, opened/motor built, but all there. so i don't feel bad, the fleeceing i took on others is tempered by the deals.

I'm a little busy to post the link - my 95 yr old mom took a fall down the old home's stairs and now she's in the hospital, bumped & bruised, claiming a broken neck disc. However, considering when I called her room, she told me she was at home already and she's told my dad about having nightmares and claiming he's upside-down standing in front of her, I'm more concerned about her state of mind.

Anyway - 1988 Beretta Pro Mod/Street - looks to be twin turboed six cyl, normally goes for 40-50 bucks. One seller had theirs in black molded plastic for $109. They also had a "rare" orange molded one for $200? I don't care if it's MIB, un-opened, it's not worth that if you're gonna have to do more work painting over it! Too bad also; the model had beautiful engine, tubs, wheels and tires.

Well not sure what he's staging for.....when you use the mouse to view close-us all kinds of blemishes and scratches on the paint job the guys nuts he's trying to sell blemished builds for more than Donn Yost perfect ones. Oh Mitch I'll be praying for your mom very sorry that happened to her I know it must be hard on everyone. Take care my brother.

Can you actually drive this after it's out together?? Another crazy one.

www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ORIGINAL-TAMIYA-TOYOTA-HILUX-4X4-PICK-UP-KIT-58028-BNIB-RARE-/200971573877?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item2ecad6da75

What in tar hooties?!?!?
These folks from Krazistan or what? I wonder if that Merc is just a posting error using Congressional numbers, putting the decimal in the wrong place. If not somebody needs to get a flight back to Earth.

He will smash the merc kit down shove the broken kit into an envelope and ship it for $00.85 pocket the rest of the money then charge you more money to ship it back to him. gatta love Ebay    

Does anyone live near Prospect, KY? This would be a treasure chest if it wasn't for the shipping. I'd pay almost a $1000 just for shipping for these.

cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190932985862

Wow, that might end up being a deal of the century, but your right, the shipping will be brutal. If I was within 500 miles of there I would be watching this closer.

I'm nit all that far but no vehicle to pick them up

dang glad somebody has money to burn probably some rich hobby guy

It has been about three months since there was an update here, so maybe it is too late to chime in. I couldn't see the items you were talking about, but know all too well the type of seller you are talking about. In all fairness to Iceman and other reputable? sellers (just kidding Iceman), I just got an item for $7 + under $3 S&H. The description wasn't the best, and there was only a picture of the boxed kit. It was still a good deal, but not what I expected. In messaging with the seller after receiving the item, she said it was a friends kit she was selling and he wanted $20 to be the starting bid only because it was an OOP kit.She dropped the price to what she thought it could sell for, and just forfeited her share of the profit for that item. If all that was true, it goes to show you that not all sellers are crooks and/or delusional.

While I think sellers like the ones above are crazy, they are better than the ones who use some of the other tactics out there. The ones who get me are the ones who test the market by have a starting bid of $0.01 (or some rediculously low amount), but set a reserve price so high nobody will reach it. Then, when that auction ends without the item selling, they relist it at just a dollar or two above the highest bid from the previous auction, hoping the same bidders will snatch it up since they missed out on the last one.

But the sellers I can't stand are the ones who set the S&H at what it would cost to really mail the item PLUS the minimum amount (reserve) they would accept as a bid. I came across one of those today. The item was in the US, so it wasn't a matter of international shipping costs. They had it listed for right around $10 , which would have been a great price, but had shipping hiked up to $45! I am estimating, based on experience, that actual shipping might have gone as high as $17 because of size, not weoght.

I know this is getting long, but while I'm complaining about ebay sellers, let me include the ones who use the computerized shipping labels with the postage included. I've looked and looked at these labels, and cannot find anywhere where it has printed the amount of postage. Call me old fashioned, but I like the ones that were taken to the post office, weighed, and had a label with the postage amount stuck on at the counter. In my own little rebellion, when I get an item with the computerized label, I rate the shipping at 3 stars, since I can't tell if it was reasonable or not.

Yeah Iceman you suck! How dare you sell me a NIB Pontiac GTO for such a reasonable price?! Thank you very much!

Oh no worries. This is a constant thread. Maybe folks just haven't seems anything like this on eBay lately.

I'm always seeing crazy prices online. I'd been looking for some AMC models for a long time, but they're always over $100! I was lucky to sneak an AMX away for only $30! It's frustrating, and I completely understand how angry one could get. What really angers me are pre-built models that aren't painted and the guy wants 50-60 for it.