I see it all the time JL Bodys slaped on NOS Aurora chassis selling for
$30.00 plus??? When you can have the same combo for less then
$25.00 with S&H Do the one's on ebay have other ebayer's they
know bid on them to raise the bidding??? I hope that this is not the
case. If someone can prove me wrong that this dose not happen
I will eat my hat and put it on You Tube lol.
Thank You for the Feedback I just had to post this for the new ebayer's out there.
Don't get me wrong I know that there are a lot of honest ebayer's out there like
95% are to the good' It's just that 5% that makes it bad for ebay over all.
I have did over 100 buys in the last 2 1/2 years and only got riped once.
Just have to say Thank You to all the Honest ebayer's out there.

Nothing surprizes me on e-bay. Either the seller is scamming or he thinks that he knows when he really doesn't. Buyer beware.

I suspect there is a lot of scam bidding going on at e-bay. I try to sell a mint car with a rebuilt aurora chassis , new M.M. body and silicones I can't get 5.00 WTF! So I certainly do believe that there is a game and I try to buy when I am happy with the price. BUYER BEWARE!

In any other auction that would be called something like, hmm, let me thing....illegal.

Most of the eBay sellers that I buy from have connections to or are members of Hobby Talk. This limits the problem. They did change something recently that gives credit to the Buyers and sellers by including repeat sales. This proves that there are good sellers and buyers still using eBay.Just read the feedback before you bid.

Most of the eBay sellers that I buy from have connections to or are members of Hobby Talk. This limits the problem. They did change something recently that gives credit to the Buyers and sellers by including repeat sales. This proves that there are good sellers and buyers still using eBay.Just read the feedback before you bid.

Why didn't you bid on any of my stuff last week then.........arggggg

I think newbies may not beware of how to track down the things they want from hobby shops and on-line stores. I once saw a JL blue cop car mounted on a Aurora chassis go fro a 100 bucks. If the seller starts the auction off at 19.99, I have no problem with it... if someone wants to bid 30 bucks for it, it's a on them. I don't have a problem with people making money, ebay is the last bastion of true capitalism left in our society. AS long as they don't lie about what they're selling... I say God bless them and suckers beware. We've all overpaid for cars, and knew it too.... but we had to have it. Sometimes you're paying for the convience of not having to look further for what you want, and to have it delivered to your doorstep.

What amazes me is seeing the yellow and blue magnets sell for 30-40 bucks a pair. It makes me glad I bought mine when I could get them for 4 bucks. I may have to replace them with JL magnets and sell mine on the bay while the getting is good.

As for scam bidding, I don't get how that works... if your pal bids too high for you, and no one buys it, you still have to pay the ebay fees... so why bother going through the effort?

Prices seem to have really come down lately... good for newbies, bad for the rest of us who spent a fortune on these cars, hoping to at least recover SOME of it somewhere down the road.

Feeding frenzies happen sometimes. I put my DVD's up for 14.99, often with a buy it now price of 19.99... yet every once in awhile, one might sell for 25 bucks. In one instance, the bidding got up tp 56 bucks for a DVD they could have had at 20.00 bucks with buy it now. I wound up sending the poor sap several DVD's from my collection because I felt bad for him. I usually send a DVD or two with my custom cars as well, especially if I got more for it than expected.

In the end, It's up to the buyer to make sure they want to spent the amount they're bidding. If someone has money and they want something, who cares who much of their money they spend? I just wish they'd spent more of it on my stuff.

How about that $12.95 T-Jet Chasis going for $25.00 on it's own. Maybe that is why people bid the $30.00 cause they get a bodie for free.
Dosn't it stink, and also at the same time seam a little "Queer" that you can loose an auction for one more .50cent or dollar bid, and the next day "You have recieved a second chance offer". Never have I taken anybody up on this. Just seams "Fishy". When you bid $10.00 and it goes for $30 or forty and there have been a number of bidders on the bid history, well hell, you lost, they wanted it more. But when you log on the next day and you lost by one bid, for $1.00, and the history only shows you and another, that stinks (especially when the second chance offer pops up)
$4.00 for super II mags, I worked for a hobby store for awhile, I remember $2.29 for them. $600.00 for a case of a hundered chasis, $1.29 for an Arm and plate. same for a bare chasis and that was as late as spring of 2003. I was putting in $100.00 orderes with REH for myself. I used to collect racecar models, then they started reproducing them. It killed the value of the models I had, but it made it easier to go out buy one and build it. With so many quality casters out there, seams the same for the aurora cars is happening, I'm sorry to say it, but yeah!!!! If I buy it, it's gunna be raced anyway, no trailer queens!!

I don't go for second chance offers either, unless I entered a dream bid, at MY price.. and the sellr has a good feedback rating. Some say 95%, I don't even like to go down that low. I usually go for the 97% seller's stuff

When I sold 2 slimline chassis and the bidding went about 50.00 (that was about 20.00 more then I expected) I lost some bodies and threw some second chance offers out (2 to be exact, and both sold)
I also took up a second chance offer on a white thunder General Lee a short time ago.
If the price is what you want to pay, heck, buy it.
(although I will admit, 95% off second chance offers get revoked from me, the second chance offers for the used video game that got shilled up is just wrong)

Why didn't you bid on any of my stuff last week then.........argggggSend me a PM with your seller name and I'll check it out every week.

my seller name is slotsrus67