They want what for it?

[Captain Canada]

It's a very cool looking bridge ! But holy ! That's expensive !

[rickshaw]

That appears to have set the cat amongst the pigeons a bit.

What most of you appear to have missed is that in 1/35 scale it's about 8 feet long.  So apart from the cost, where would you display it?

[NARSES2]

The numbers don't add up on the page. First they quote £334.80 then it's £344.79 with £9.99 UK postage charge. And then there's the extra payments of £750. And at the bottom they say the total cost would be £1356 but you get 20% off to make it £1084, but add up 334.80 and 3x750 and you get £1084.80 and then add on UK postage to make it £1094.79. 

It'd be cheaper to make it yourself out of plastic card and rods.

Slow day at work Nick ? 

[Captain Canada]

Maybe the quoted price variations are due to the inevitable fluctuation of the GBP during the lengthy amortization period of the obvious loan/ mortgage you'd need to acquire said bridge.

[scooter]

Anybody want to buy a bridge?   

£344 for a decent sized scale bridge? Bit steep but worth it for a big diorama.... WHAT?! Plus 3 more payments of £250???
Who in their right flaming mind will pay £1100 for a kit? 

.....

It'd be cheaper to make it yourself out of plastic card and rods.

Especially if you're in the States- 70 GBP just to ship it to the US?  What's it coming by bonded freight?


By the way, anyone want a Chinook?  GSA's auctioning off three of them.  Opening price a cool $2 million.

[Captain Canada]

That Chinook link is pretty neat to look at.....to see the maintenance records, and even fill out your own 'end use certificate' application in case there are ever some ex-US military auctions you can actually afford !

[kitnut617]

By the way, anyone want a Chinook?  GSA's auctioning off three of them.  Opening price a cool $2 million.

Yeah! but it also says that 2 million didn't met the reserve price, so I wonder what it's really starting at ?

[Diamondback]

The other question is, are you bidding in it Flyaway, or for the scrap rights? I've seen requests for bids on older CH-53s, but the catch is it cannot leave the Boneyard in bigger than like one-inch cubes... which seems kinda stupid, there's gotta be someone somewhere that could put the things to good commercial/civil-sector use. (For example, in some of my writing, one of the concepts discussed is converting some into airmobile incident-response units and command-posts for law enforcement... and the idea comes from a self-aware Pave Low that now does contractor air-ops support for the FBI, proposing its own cargo hold for the first prototype.)

[Captain Canada]

Pretty sure she's a flier, judging by the wording and the maintenance specs etc.

[Diamondback]

Am I the only one who thinks Reserve prices are a steaming pile of crap? If you won't accept anything less than XYZ for your item, why don't you just set that as the minimum bid? Far more straightforward that way...

BTW, right now evilBay has only one Otaki C-5 listed for $200 starting bid, and the Anigrand (opened and barely started) for $115. Are they in ripoff country or am I just excessively cheapass?

[Nick]

That appears to have set the cat amongst the pigeons a bit.

What most of you appear to have missed is that in 1/35 scale it's about 8 feet long.  So apart from the cost, where would you display it?

OK, that's a fair point. In that case how does 8ft of large and heavy resin parts cost just £9.99 to post in the UK?

Narses2 I wrote that lot before I went to work on possibly our busiest day this year so far. What really bugs me is when retailers try to blind you with numbers and make out you're getting a great bargain but when you look closely at the details it doesn't add up that well.
It really wouldn't hurt them to simplify their webpage and pricing to say "These are the components, this is the total price, but we'll cut it all down to £1099 including UK delivery. Overseas delivery costs more..." And using a proofreader or spellchecker wouldn't hurt either. The website design leaves something to be desired, all that highlighting looks messy.

[PR19_Kit]

I wrote that lot before I went to work on possibly our busiest day this year so far. What really bugs me is when retailers try to blind you with numbers and make out you're getting a great bargain but when you look closely at the details it doesn't add up that well.
It really wouldn't hurt them to simplify their webpage and pricing to say "These are the components, this is the total price, but we'll cut it all down to £1099 including UK delivery. Overseas delivery costs more..." And using a proofreader or spellchecker wouldn't hurt either. The website design leaves something to be desired, all that highlighting looks messy.

AND they pepper the entire web page with 'Only'! There's NOTHING even vaguely 'Only' about anything on the page!

[NARSES2]

Narses2 I wrote that lot before I went to work on possibly our busiest day this year so far. What really bugs me is when retailers try to blind you with numbers and make out you're getting a great bargain but when you look closely at the details it doesn't add up that well.
It really wouldn't hurt them to simplify their webpage and pricing to say "These are the components, this is the total price, but we'll cut it all down to £1099 including UK delivery. Overseas delivery costs more..." And using a proofreader or spellchecker wouldn't hurt either. The website design leaves something to be desired, all that highlighting looks messy.

Forgot it would be a busy time for you Nick, and I'm in total agreement with your points 

[puddingwrestler]

Anybody want to buy a bridge?   

Hmmm... for $300 AUD, you could buy a laser-cut version of pegasus bridge, AND some resin pilllboxes AND some hotel-y stuff AND a German army AND a British army AND the Bolt Action rulebook. It's called the Pegasus Bridge starter set. It's in 28mm scale, which is about 1/48 I think.
The list of what is in it is rather long and epic.

[zenrat]

Am I the only one who thinks Reserve prices are a steaming pile of crap?...

No.  You are not alone.  On the rare occurrences I sell stuff on evil-bay I just start it at the minimum I am willing to accept.  That way it only takes 1 bid to make me happy.  Anything else is a bonus.