Well, its us older guys trying to re-capture our youth by buying up these
old kits from our childhoods that we are never going to build in our dotage.
I have several Lil Wizard and Baby Ringmaster kits that I bought on Ebay. I
remember mowing lawns to get the $10 or so the kits cost back in the 60's
along with the dope, paint, glue and silkspan to build it.
Paid something like $30 for one of em a year ago because it is still
shrink-wrapped.
Old fool etc....
"High Plains Thumper"
wrote in message
news:48268d3f$0$22076$6e1ede2f@read.cnntp.org...> fubar1 wrote:
>> Sam wrote...
>>
>>> Maybe it's because the dollar is so low overseas, but if
>>> anyone is watching rc gear auctions on eBay, it's unreal the
>>> prices that things are going for. In many cases, if not all,
>>> I can buy brand new through TowerHobbies, cheaper and with
>>> the Tower Hobbies service and warranties. It's stupid what
>>> people are bidding for stuff on eBay.
>>
>> A lot of people don't do any research on what they are bidding
>> on. I have seen people bid better than $100 over what they
>> would pay for the same item if they bought it from one of the
>> online hobby houses.
>>
>> I always tell friends and such that have never used Ebay that
>> they need to know: What the item should cost. If they could
>> get the item for less at some store. If its unavailable
>> anywhere else, what that item is really worth to them. And,
>> lastly, CHECK THE SELLER'S FEEDBACK RATING.
>
> I bought some nostalgia era engines for nostalgia planes for a reasonable
> cost. They were a 1/4 of what I would have paid for a new engine from
> Tower.
>
> All have like new compression, just needed a little clean-up. But then,
> one needs to know what they are looking for.
>
> Kits OTOH have been going recently for ridiculous prices. I bought some
> nostalgia kits, 60's vintage stuff several years ago for a reasonable
> price. Now, people have gone nuts, I saw a kit like a Sterling Mini-Mambo
> go for over $100, not bad for $7 back in the mid 1970's. A Competition
> Models B-70 profile scale free flight for .049 went for close to $80. In
> the mid '60s, the kit was several bucks, all sheet balsa.
>
> One can buy the plan from AMA and build from scratch cheaper.
>
> --
> HPT
> Quando omni flunkus moritati
> (If all else fails, play dead)
> - "Red" Green
