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I wouldn't say so much that they were massively overproduced as that they were purchased by people who overestimated their building skills or the time needed for construction and never got built. ....Or are they all old stock from old hobby shops?
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Wonder if he thinks it's a "real" Saturn V
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I contacted the seller on amazon who is selling this.
They said that the price more than reflects what this kit is fetching on ebay!? See this is what burns me... there is a guy on ebay who lowered his uprated 1b from $700 down to just a mere $400 ... don't people get it: With collectibles, they are only worth what the market is willing to pay at any particular point in time. Just because a heated bidding battle takes a kit from $0.99 to $485.00, doesn't mean that the kit from then on has a starting value of $485.00 or does it? Honestly, I wold rather pay a seller in person the $485.00 than to make that amount public via ebay. I will never forget seeing a seller at a train show asking $150.00 for a 1970's bagged Star Trek Enterprise kit. You might say, well it is from the 70's; well the bag was tapped closed and the long body tube pod was bent in Z form. I just kept walking by his table... Jonathan |
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That Star Trek kit in MINT condition regularly goes for under $50.
That K-36 is worth 15,000; in CENTS but certainly NOT dollars. There is no way it will sell for 10% of that in the next FIFTY YEARS unless the buyer is an absolute numbskullian IDIOT !
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As an engineer, you should know better than to speak in absolutes There's always somebody who's gullible enough Otherwise, idiot-proofing would be truly achievable rather than merely an asymptotic ideal Doug .
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Doug, well said. But what gets me is that the Amazon.com seller is using prior ebay sales to arrive at the starting price of $15,000.00... when the H*LL did an Estes Saturn V ever sell for that amount of money on ebay?!? Jonathan |
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I don't think I have ever seen a K-29 Saturn 1B go for anywhere near even $1000 and that kit is far more rare than the K-36 Saturn V.
Even the giant Polecat Aerospace Saturn V is only $800. That package better include a few free 24K gold bricks as a bonus.
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Scratch that, make it Moronium.... |
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Ok, here's the deal...
We have 9 Saturn V's in various states from built single engine to 3 stage cluster to mint in the box and all versions of Estes. That gives you several versions ready to fly, build or collect. For a wire transfer of only $15,000, we will BRING all 9 of them to your door anywhere on this planet. NO CHARGE for delivery! This won't last long, order now! Randy www.vernarockets.com |
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You're probably going to see a lot of auctions with higher opening bids for a while..................Ebay offers sellers, on a regular basis, free listings (about 50 a month). They're even giving free Buy-It-Now as well. So some folks are just saying 'Why not pie-in-the-sky it and take a flyer?' This is to supposedly offset Ebay's higher fee schedule which they have gradually inched up to a whopping 9%. When you add in other listing costs, such as photos, and consider that Paypal takes almost 5% (also owned by Ebay), and EVERYBODY pays by Paypal, Greedbay is skimming about 15% of all the sales on their site! Now that's a pile of dough! |
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