Now THIS is pretty odd.................

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Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby herronpeter » Tue May 30, 2017 9:31 am

..........curious how he gets away with this listing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-BRASS-GP-20- ... SwrhBZGfTK

In case it get zapped I will try to post a screen shot as soon as I figure out how.

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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby herronpeter » Tue May 30, 2017 9:35 am

Let's see if this works.........
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Seems to have.............Also, this is an HO model according to the listing? No picture of the box and I don't know if Oriental does HO brass................

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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby up148 » Tue May 30, 2017 2:29 pm

herronpeter wrote:Let's see if this works.........
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Seems to have.............Also, this is an HO model according to the listing? No picture of the box and I don't know if Oriental does HO brass................

Peter


They definitely did HO as I owned some of there E units back in the mid 70's. I was hoping this was an O scale model as they did import one along with GP-9's, prior to Challenger Imports upgrading the models.

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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue May 30, 2017 2:39 pm

herronpeter wrote:In case it get zapped.........


Seems a flagrant violation of the terms of use........
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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby E7 » Tue May 30, 2017 3:33 pm

Maybe we should start a pool to see how long this listing lasts! Maybe another to see how long the seller lasts! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby herronpeter » Wed May 31, 2017 8:40 am

Well I'll be go-to-H E double hockey sticks, it's still there!!

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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby herronpeter » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:39 pm

Glad we didn't start a pool-it is still up. The eBay police are not on the ball!!

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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:36 pm

herronpeter wrote:Glad we didn't start a pool-it is still up. The eBay police are not on the ball!!


I am a little surprised; every time I try to list anything for sale with obvious contact info that tries to circumvent their system, the software flags and kicks out the listing. I'm perplexed how folks manage to work around that.....

Oh, there used to be a "report this listing" tab, but apparently that's been discontinued...........
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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby up148 » Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:47 pm

Yeah, that is about as blatant as I've seen in a listing. Just screams, call "me" to go around EB and save "me" some money. What is there to discuss about a HO GP-20. I've seen a few others, but I can't even send additional photos of an item to a buyer who asks for them, because it gets kicked out let alone try to add a phone number or email address.

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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby Jay Criswell » Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:02 pm

I know my personal opinion means squat but that's never stopped me in the past. When I see something like this my first reaction is....whatever, who cares. My second thought is, hope it works out for him because ebay is a ripoff. I use ebay & PayPal but when they started taking a cut from the shipping charges I decided to use both as a last resort.

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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby robert. » Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:53 pm

If you list an item with local pickup a phone number is allowed. If you have an ebay store you can also post phone numbers. People with eBay stores pay a different fee. eBay is still the cheapest auction around. Even with fees added to shipping cost
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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Fri Jun 02, 2017 6:21 pm

robert. wrote:If you list an item with local pickup a phone number is allowed. If you have an ebay store you can also post phone numbers.


Thanks for that info.

People with eBay stores pay a different fee.


Less? More?

eBay is still the cheapest auction around. Even with fees added to shipping cost


That, I did know.
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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby robert. » Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:09 pm

You pay more on the front end and less on the back end. Price per listing lowers with the more you list.100,200,500,1000,and more. Not 10-20. These listings are not auction style. I tried to look for a few with phone numbers and found none. Trainz no phone number. Bob the Train Guy no phone number. I talked to a friend that has a store. He said." After a week he pulled his phone number from his listings. He could not handle the phone traffic of B.S." He said "people called all day long trying to help sell his stuff."
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Re: Now THIS is pretty odd.................

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sat Jun 03, 2017 1:04 pm

robert. wrote:You pay more on the front end and less on the back end. Price per listing lowers with the more you list.100,200,500,1000,and more. Not 10-20. These listings are not auction style. I tried to look for a few with phone numbers and found none. Trainz no phone number. Bob the Train Guy no phone number. I talked to a friend that has a store. He said." After a week he pulled his phone number from his listings. He could not handle the phone traffic of B.S." He said "people called all day long trying to help sell his stuff."


Ok, that all makes sense.
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