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I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 19 Feb 2011, 20:40
by DaveB
A tale of disappointment..
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!
ATB
DaveB
Re: I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 19 Feb 2011, 21:29
by FlyTexas
I bet it was Garry.
Brian
Re: I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 19 Feb 2011, 22:20
by Garry Russell
Re: I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 19 Feb 2011, 22:32
by Effoh
£90?!?!?!
That's why I never go on EBay without my Grandad's 5lb engineering hammer close to my mouse finger
Commiserations (sp.) on your 'loss' DB
Rgds,
Colin
Re: I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 20 Feb 2011, 00:33
by DaveB
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
ATB
DaveB
Re: I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 20 Feb 2011, 00:52
by airboatr
say it wasn't a Boeing
Re: I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 20 Feb 2011, 01:10
by DaveB
what I bought from abroad?.. no mate
It was 'another' Vanguard but rather more costly than the previous 3
ATB
DaveB
Re: I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 20 Feb 2011, 01:59
by airboatr
Oh good , now I don't have to worry the end of the world has come,..... whew....
..... never mind me Dave I had a string of near apocalyptic events happen lately, and figured if you did , it must be the
end.
Re: I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 24 Feb 2011, 16:53
by VC10
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
Re: I guess it was always too good to be true..
Posted: 24 Feb 2011, 18:26
by DaveB
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!
ATB
DaveB
