eBay Laugh of the Day

[JonathanDunbar]

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180448385854&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123

This guy is seriously deluded. I emailed him about how over priced this is and he said he got a new "price list" that says the HoJo is worth $230!! I replyed, asking him if this was in Hong Kong dollars.

I await his responce with baited breath and no, I didn't eat any worms:hohoho:

Well the seller received no bids, though I am sure there are those who are trying to work out a deal off ebay with the seller.

If the seller had started the auction at $10, he would have sold the lot for around $200 - $250.

The economy is bad, people are upside down in their mortages, and the kits frankly are common - uncommon (the Arcas and HoJo are really the best in the lot).

So let this be a lesson to us all, just because one or two times on ebay a kit closes for $270 means absolutely NOTHING as to what the actual value of a kit is; it is worth what a given person is willing to pay for it at any given moment.

Like I said in a posting several days ago in this thread, if I use the current pricing spreadsheet, my collection would be worth 100's of thousands of $$$, but it isn't because the high end really doesn't reflect actual value but reflects actual greed/deceit/ignorance pricing. And the B.C. style of bidding up rockets with absolutely no intention of paying but as a way of fooling others into paying slightly less off of ebay for same rocket doesn't work like it used to. B.C., you know what I am talking about don't you. :dark: I won't ever forget my friend.

E.g., back in the 90's, I bid and won an Estes 1968 catalog for around $30 on ebay. The seller REFUSED to sell it to me because he had paid $100 a few years earlier and wasn't going to take the loss.

People, only collect what you enjoy and stay away from 'fliping' the item. I have a co-worker who has 4 houses; WOW you say ... she is upside down on 3 of the 4 mortages ... not good.

You see the rockets that I have I will take to the grave; maybe even literally. I am NOT interested in getting rich off of model rocket auctions as so many people are. My rockets represent a part of my core that isn't for sale.

I remember buying a first year Centuri 1/45 Little Joe II from Romie Lucas back in 1995. I paid $500.00 for it. Why? Because I wanted one, and posted on r.m.r. that I was willing to pay that much. I could afford it back then, I couldn't now. Back then I was unmarried and making over $100/hr as an IT contractor; times have changed... paying $500 was half a days pay so I didn't care. The kit will stay with me for good. I over paid, yes I did, but then I could have taken that same $500, spent it on cocaine or booze and where would the money be now? Well after the high/intoxication a visit to the bathroom and there goes the remnants of the $500 down the sewer pipes.

Buy to make yourself happy, and don't do it in an attempt to flip it for profits as you might get stuck with it.

Jonathan