Been watching a nice little BEA Vanguard leaflet on ebay all week. There had been half a dozen bids and it was sitting at £4.25. I left it with an hour to run this evening then popped back with 30mins to go to see how it was doing. Err.. in that time, it had gone from £4.25 to £41.87 (no typo.. this in one go) then £54.87, £58.98, £74.99, £80.99 and finally £90.00. £4.25 to £90 in 30mins
All I can say is that I hope from the bottom of my heart that it gets lost in the post
My apologies if one of you here is the flash git with the bankroll!
Cheers I do feel it as a loss too. I was gonna be 'flash' and bid up to a tenner at the last moment and fully expected it to be with me by the end of the week. Disappointment no.3 in a week! I was watching a 1:400 scale Vanguard yesterday that shot up to nearly £40.. out of my range (by a couple of quid.. I won't mention what I just bought from abroad ) so went to buy a-n-other that had been sitting at 'buy now' for nearly £26 only to find some tw@t had brought it! There it was.. gone! Think I'll borrow your grandads hammer in future
Last week I was watching a VC10 Performance Manual on e-bay last week, after 5 days it had reached £7.00, in the last 30 secs it from that to £82.00 (Tonks?). I put a bid in in double figures but that was too steep for me.
I must admit a couple of years ago I paid £60 for a BOAC VC10 Flight Manual, but I got that as a Christmas present
Paul
If God had meant us to fly, he would have given us tickets.
That sounds like a Tonks trick but I doubt it was him. He'd more likely be the seller
£80 is the steepest I've paid for a manual.. a Vickers Valiant PN (inc Flight Ref charts in the rear pocket). Couldn't see me doing that again! (I've a replica of Colin's grandads hammer ready to go) I was in the archive at Brooklands a few weeks ago and stumbled over a set of TSR2 manuals. Wonder what they'd go for on ebay!
) so went to buy a-n-other that had been sitting at 'buy now' for nearly £26 only to find some tw@t had brought it! There it was.. gone! 
Think I'll borrow your grandads hammer in future 
It was 'another' Vanguard but rather more costly than the previous 3 
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