Another Seacrest Auction

[Chris Webster]

On Friday, Stout had another auction:
Auction June 15, 2018: Williamsport Indiana – All gauges sale! Postwar S gauge, O Scale 2 Rail, Modern O gauge, G scale, and N scale
Lots 130 thru 179 are the 2-rail items. The most interesting lots to me were these five:

Lot 153: 8 pairs of O scale Precision Scale Co. and US Hobbies passenger trucks 9115, 9135, and U-220 went for $625.

Lot 157: Adams and Son O scale two rail Santa Fe B unit went for $160.

Lot 168: Group of ten O scale Calumet Model Works Southern Pacific Daylight streamlined passenger cars went for $1250.

Lot 174: Custom sixteen car Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey O scale two rail circus set went for $2300.

Lot 178: 1937 Min-I-Scale O gauge prewar Hudson and tender - Complete with shipping board and sleeve went for $2500.

[Chris Webster]

Stout held another auction: THURSDAY September 20, 2018: Williamsport, IN – O Scale Two Rail , HO Brass and O gauge 3 rail

This morning, Monday, September 24, ebay seller cugjp1 posted 62 of the Stout lots as ebay Buy It Now/Best Offer listings. The ebay seller listed the items in the exact same lots Stout did, presumably because that allows the ebay seller to reuse Stout's pictures.

The new Buy-it-Now prices are 2 times to 4 times what Stout sold the lots for, for example:
Stout - Sunset Models O scale brass two rail New York Central S-1b 4-8-4 Niagara - 6024 Modernized - sold for $575
compare to
Ebay #392128554545, Sunset Models O scale brass two rail New York Central S-1b 4-8-4 Niagara - 6024 - Buy It Now for $1,575

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[big bad jim]

If the seller is who I think it is, then he bought most of what they had for sale there on Thursday. And he apparently does that frequently. And is on a first name basis with everybody there.

I would be surprised if he doesnt have at least tacit approval to reuse the photos. He spends a lot of money with them, and they've already made their money. Heck, based on my own experience prepping to sell on Ebay, I'd pay an extra one or two percent for the opportunity to use those photos. Taking and organizing photos requires a tremendous amount of time.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[E7]

An caffeine addicted epileptic gibbon could take better photos than the ones on Stouts web site........

Flattery will get you nowhere!

[J. S. Bach]

An caffeine addicted epileptic gibbon could take better photos than the ones on Stouts web site........

They are not near as bad as most ebay photos!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[E7]

An caffeine addicted epileptic gibbon could take better photos than the ones on Stouts web site........

They are not near as bad as most ebay photos!

True. I really have to wonder if many of the sellers have vision problems and cannot see their own pictures.

Could it be, that it is the buyer/bidder that the seller is hoping to inflict the vision problems upon???

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[bob turner]

The photos of Jim's Lobaugh antiques were quite good, I think. I have saved them.

[E7]

The photos of Jim's Lobaugh antiques were quite good, I think. I have saved them.

We were referencing some of the stuff on Eeeeeeeeeeek Bay. (Figured we are close enough to Haloween! )

[E7]

True. I really have to wonder if many of the sellers have vision problems and cannot see their own pictures.

Could it be, that it is the buyer/bidder that the seller is hoping to inflict the vision problems upon???

Doubt they are that clever, Anyway, if I can't see it, I don't bid on it.

Perhaps "devious" is the word, and I agree: No Seeum, No Bidum.

[Chris Webster]

Stout held another auction: THURSDAY September 20, 2018: Williamsport, IN – O Scale Two Rail , HO Brass and O gauge 3 rail

Ebay seller 108spoplar won some of the auctions -- 108spopular broke the lots up and rephotographed the items before listing them on ebay.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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