Posts
As far as typos are concerned, I have seen John Burns make them before. As a matter of fact, I have seen many pages of corrections to his books. In his "plastic Aircraft Kits of the Twentieth Century", printed in 2003, the Lincoln/ATP/AA kit is listed as being 1/96. That's why we really have to have someone measure the kit and compare it to the real dimensions, if it is really important.
Ron M
----- Original Message -----From: Allegheny580To: AMDSent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:30 PMSubject: [AMD] ATP DC-3 and Ebay debate
According to my IN PLASTIC: COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT KITS by John W. Burns, the EAL DC-3 was the ex-Lincoln kit, issued in 1978, and was 1/110 scale. Personally, I think this is a typo, as turning to the Lincoln page, the Sabena DC-3 is listed as 1/100 scale. In all my years of referring to this airline model "bible", this is the first typo I've ever found!As for the Ebay debate, I can see both sides. Having paid $22-27 for many a Hasegawa widebody in years past, I think it's safe to say that that most AMD members EXPECT other members to be sold one in the $5-10 price range. This pretty much goes for all kits but the Otaki L-1011. Some of us just can't afford to discount 75% to make a sale. It's bad enough that you almost have to anyways to sell on Ebay!As for Ebay, I used to be a seller, but joined the boycotts early in 2008. Their new policies and fees (combines with 3 straight years of postal rate increases) drove away half of their sellers, and many of their buyers as well. (they shot themselves in the foot with their own greed) You pretty much have to be a power seller now just to have your item displayed on a default search. It's tough to sell when your item is on page 26 of an item search, and if the potential buyer specifies the parameters of the search and your item DOES manage to get found, exiting the page automatically defauts back to Ebay's default search parameters, and your item is back on page 26 again. The new feedback system is criminal. Sellers can't even leave negative or neutral feedback for bad buyers. Add to this that Ebay no longer allows checks or money orders, but demands PayPal, who can, and will, withhold payment for up to 21 days until the seller ships the item and gets a positive feedback from the buyer, means the seller is at risk of losing the item without being paid. I have heard many a story of PayPal awarding refunds to unscrupulous buyers who SAID they were unsatisfied after receiving the item. They did not leave a positive feedback, so the seller did NOT get paid. The buyer kept the item anyway. The seller was out the item and the money, AND was not even allowed to leave a bad feedback! There are buyers out there taking advantage of this and changing their ID on a regular basis as they rip off sellers left and right, and the sellers are helpless under the new rules. As Ebay owns PayPal, this extortion is keeping millions of former sellers from ever going back to Ebay, unless they return to their old ways of doing business. Also, as fees escalate, now Ebay has capped what a seller can charge for handling. My last few weeks as a seller in late 2007 and early 2008 I actually had weeks where my fees exceeded my net income! It sure has changed from when I started selling in 1999!Tom in BFD (grateful for the recent additions from Jimbo and Don Schmenk. My dad and I owe you guys!!!! THANK YOU BOTH!)
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.7/2222 - Release Date: 07/07/09 05:53:00
__._,_.___
No comments:
Post a Comment