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Well, I’m going to be putting several kits on ebay soon.
Mainly for a plain and simple reason that I guess “Lurker No-one” would not give a d*** about: TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON! I have a credit card bill I need to pay off (or at least start paying down). I never previously allowed the credit card bill to build up, paid it off very month. But last Fall I had to use it to pay the rent and a few other bills, before I finally got the part-time job I have now. But the job I have now is only paying for about 75%-80% of my monthly expenses, and I have cut spending to be bone. The next "luxury item” I buy might be a skillet. I have not even bought a pack of rocket motors since last summer. My primary expense at rocket launches the last few months has been the gas to drive there, what little I’ve flown has been with motors I already had. As of yesterday, having paid rent this week and minimum payment on the credit card, I had a whopping $153 in my bank account. To help supplement my income, I plan to come out with a 1/110 scale space shuttle kit. But I can’t even afford to do it right now, since it’ll take a few hundred bucks to get the masters and molds ready, plus the raw supplies like tubes and balsa. So, the kits I auction, if they help raise enough to pay more than the bills, will also help provide the seed money to finally get the shuttle kit off the ground. Preview of some of the kits I plan to put in eBay: Estes 1/100 Saturn-V from the late 1990’s. Unopened, mint. Estes Maxi V-2 (from 1999), unopened, mint. Centuri 1/100 Saturn-V (late 1970's), still shrinkwrapped, mint. North Coast 1/72 Space Shuttle kit (early kit that had no pretty box, useful more for building than for collecting). Mongram plastic 1/72 shuttle with ET and SRB’s, shrinkwrapped. I’ll post a list elsewhere on this forum when I have them (and a few others) up on eBay. I’m not going to let go of all my goodies, things are not that desperate (yet). And I hope to get over the hump so I won’t have to give up some kits I really would like to keep for many more years. - George Gassaway Last edited by georgegassaway : 03-06-2010 at 09:11 PM. |
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Thanks for suggesting that I take pre-paid orders. I do not want to take paid pre-orders in case for any reason the kit did not happen, and then I’d be stuck owing people money. I think that selling old kits on eBay will help raise the $. And tonight Sandman has made me a gracious offer in trade that I may take him up on. I had already contacted him months ago about making the wood mold patterns I’ll need for doing the vac-formed ET & SRB parts (I have my own vac-form gear). I plan to come out with the kit in limited production at first. So, this is why a huge chunk will be the initial start-up costs such as for the molds and such. I’ll buy enough “supplies” (tubes, rings, lugs, wood, etc) for about 14 kits, figuring 2 kits for final prototypes, 2 kits to send to a couple of people for fast feedback on construction and the instructions, and 10 kits to sell. I do know the first 10 kits will sell out fast. What I get from selling those first 10 kits will pay for the initial costs to get the kit into production (like the molds and such), the supplies, and then more supplies to produce another run of 10-20 kits. So I might not make any $ off the first limited production run, but it will open the door to make money on every kit after that. BTW - it’s going to be about a fun flying shuttle kit, to watch fly. It’s not going to be a detailed kit to look at close-up. More info here: http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=8053 - George Gassaway Last edited by georgegassaway : 03-06-2010 at 09:07 PM. |
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I know how Gearoge feels - I've been in and out of work the lasy year myself, my savings is almost gone, and I keep treading water day to day .
Not much left for models or parts- have gotten some goodies bu selling off others - sort of 'trading places' with other hobby items or interests. Have not gotten much response to any for sale posts here on YORF, so will be left with ebay on the remaining items. still sorting, if I;m never going to rebuild and fly, then the birds might better move along - same with HPR stuff ( hardware,etc ) ... can not give up the hobby , just have to juggle enough to find a way I dare say it is not about greed or and ulterior motives as has been suggested, but IS about the love of the hobby. Pay Forward ~ AL |
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Were you ever able to find that model I PM'ed you about or had you already sold that one?
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sorry to say I think that one is gone if I run into it in a box, you will be the first to know figured some of the purists here would want the genuine vintage builtups, but no worries, they'll find nice homes ~ AL |
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I'm struggling with this one. If we had politicians that understood that human interest in the space program means human involvement in the space program, we could have watched humans on big rovers, describing what Mars is like. I think the Space Shuttle was a huge waste, taught us little, and we should have invested in manned exploration to the Moon again, and beyond. And this would not have had to be done at the exclusion of all the other great scientific achievements in agriculture, medicine, etc. We are the good ol' USA, and we used to be able to achieve anything we set our minds to achieving.
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