Very little LGB around right now...?

Interesting price on the mogul

I will probably be selling one that I have which is also factory DCC and as new, so I am watching very closely to see if it gets its price!
 
I've got several moguls of all ages and never had a problem with stripped gears. The chassis design has not changed as far as I can tell. I think the Americans probably overloaded the loco and stripped the idler gears. These locos are not all that powerfull for their size and struggle with more than 6 bogie wagons is there is a gradient or radius 1 or 2 curves. If you run on R3 and up they will pull 8 LGB bogie coaches or more.
This is the longest train I've pulled with an LGB mogul being 11 cars longs and on a dead level R3 track without reverse bends:

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Nah sorry the reason that there was little LGB is that all the sellers were waiting for a FREE LISTING WEEKEND, then they can start the listings for free at silly prices, and who can blame them!

Just waiting for the blasts.
JonD
 
If you don't need to sell the stuff quickly the free listing weekends are the only way to avoid getting too low a price or paying high listing/reserve fees unless you are pro seller and get the discounted rates.

But even on the last few free listing weekends not much has been listed.
 
Free listing saves you very little really as the cost for listing the item is low it's the final value fee which gets you!!
 
minimans said:
Free listing saves you very little really as the cost for listing the item is low it's the final value fee which gets you!!
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Maybe that is so in the US but ebay has different fee structures and rules in different countries. If you want to list and item between £30 and £100 in the UK the minimum listing fee is £1. Since most items of G scale rolling stock would fall into this band you would be paying between 1% ad 6.6% of the sale price assuming that it sells on top of the 10% final value fee and 4-5% PayPal fee, if the market is slow and you can't get your minium price you are throwing away quite a lot of extra money if you list several items. Even if it does sell first time it may cost you 20% of the final value price.
The final value fee is 10% up to a cap of £40 which means that if you are trying to sell a loco for under £400 you might as well get your local shop to sell it on comission as the fee will be similar and they usually get a higher price.
 
Looks like ebay are managing to get rid of the individual seller - pretty obviously the way they want to go. No auctions next - BIN only. Looking like Amazon every day.
Great shame - I like the old ebay of a few years ago.
 
stockers said:
Looks like ebay are managing to get rid of the individual seller - pretty obviously the way they want to go. No auctions next - BIN only. Looking like Amazon every day.
Great shame - I like the old ebay of a few years ago.
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Agreed. Funny thing is, the more the eBay UK have gone that way, the less I've used it both as a buyer and a seller. Hardly at all as a buyer last year and not at all as a seller.
 
whatlep said:
stockers said:
Looks like ebay are managing to get rid of the individual seller - pretty obviously the way they want to go. No auctions next - BIN only. Looking like Amazon every day.
Great shame - I like the old ebay of a few years ago.
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Agreed. Funny thing is, the more the eBay UK have gone that way, the less I've used it both as a buyer and a seller. Hardly at all as a buyer last year and not at all as a seller.
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Why do you think that they are going in that direction? It seems obvious that it would probably be less popular for many buyers and definitely for sellers. Is this approach a safer bet for ebay profit wise?
 
Volume Mel. They seem to want (they certainly encourage - pricing wise) big volume sellers. Probably too much hassel to deal with the little guys for the return generated. They are not daft enough to ditch thier origins - but do seem to be moving away from them.
 
Marc said:
Maybe this is an idea.....

http://kopen.marktplaats.nl/search....postcode=3044&distance=&search.x=0&search.y=0 < Link To http://kopen.marktplaats....rch.x=0&search.y=0
There are about 500 items on the site. No extra costs.

Desciption are in dutch but I can alway help translating.
around 25,00 euro's for a standard package from Holland to UK.
Maybe you can sent together.
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One for Whatlep perhaps....

http://hobby.marktplaats.nl/modeltr...Hp2iEQfBD79cE7sQgUXu/3PyLtlOk=&fta_ind=7&fs=1
 
ebay is for make as much profit for ebay.
everything elas, is just a distraction, to ebay
 
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