$150,000 layout for $1025?

http://993c4s.com/cars/for-sal...arsaliss-collection/

If I was less than 2700 miles away, and if I had more than 160 square feet of space for a layout, I would be really tempted!

Randall.....keep us posted!! Did the layout get moved from the auction site in LA??? Or is that in the LA area?? AND...good luck!

That 2009 Video kinda supports my post above about how the layout evolved in segments as in 2009 the layout ends at the service area. Interesting stuff.

Who is going to find issue #13 Heavy Hitter magazine and see whose layout it was????

Too bad some of that 150 K didn't go into buying a few trees...

Ever been to the region of So Cal??

I sent this question to the Seller on this auction:

 

Dear crusolympic, Hello there, right now I am trying to sell everything, yes everything that you see on the layout plus the layout itself is included. Today we are taking the layout apart, i am not sure how many sections will be, but I will have a better idea by the end of the day. The size is approximatelly 100 ft. by 17-18 wide give and take. Once again by the end of the day I will have more exact measurements. Yes I do accept paypal payments. Regarding shipping, buyer will have to make those arrangements. - my71mbz3.5

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"Who is going to find issue #13 Heavy Hitter magazine and see whose layout it was????"

http://993c4s.com/cars/for-sal...arsaliss-collection/

This is the best answer I could find.

I sent this question to the Seller on this auction:

 

 

From: crusolympic
To: my71mbz3.5
Subject: Other: crusolympic sent a message about Museum Quality Train Set over $150,000 Build Cost Fine Attention to Detail #330838808300
Sent Date: Dec-04-12 04:32:28 PST

Dear my71mbz3.5, Is this layout built in sections and easily comes apart? OR does one have to chainsaw sections in order to ship it? Does the wiring have plugs inbetween each section? - crusolympic

 

 

 

I recieved this reply:

 

Dear crusolympic, Hello there, right now I am trying to sell everything, yes everything that you see on the layout plus the layout itself is included. Today we are taking the layout apart, i am not sure how many sections will be, but I will have a better idea by the end of the day. The size is approximatelly 100 ft. by 17-18 wide give and take. Once again by the end of the day I will have more exact measurements. Yes I do accept paypal payments. Regarding shipping, buyer will have to make those arrangements. - my71mbz3.5

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Hope you win and set it up here in NEW JERSEY. 

Thanks Brad.......looks like you found the one time owner......

Only for the first 40 years of my life...

Guys,

The heck with the trains, I want to know what happened to the yellow Cuda, and the El Camino.

I am going to try for it, if it doses no get too crazy.

Regards,

Randall

It may sound like sacrilege but for the right price, you could cherry pick what you want and pay to dumpster the rest.  I have a feeling that is exactly what is going on in some of the bidders' minds.

Then like me.....an ex Californian.....you must have been to or at least seen the scrub brush areas of the Golden state!!! I like the layout and if not for a distance of 3K and a funds shortage of even more I'd have it!!

Even in the deserts, I remember seeing sage brush and a few live oaks here and there. The scenery on that model RR looks more like Tora Bora!

$8100 is a lot....but depending what is really there maybe a good deal! Was the winner a member of this BB????

Maybe it's a model of what you see from a Amtrak window.......

I'm interested to find out if this was an actual sale. There was a last minute sniper that "one bucked" (in this case $100) the previous top bidder. The sniper was a new bidder. Call me a cynic, but I swear there are still shills on eBay. Maybe it was legit.

The high bidder looked legitimate to me. The other bidder only had eight transactions versus three hundred plus for the winner.

Gunny

[empahasis above mine]

Unless there is more than one person higher than your max, won't you always lose by the bid increment amount? 

The winner could have put $10K as his bid, but ebay only auto raises it until he is either outbid (in which case some one else "one bucks" him, unless there are 2 other people with higher bids)  or on top.

Years ago, I remember learning this lesson after at least a few "lost by just a dollar" auctions.

-Dave

Looks legit to me......Winner had 3 digit feedback.....good for him/her.

You can win an ebay auction by as little as ONE CENT. Bidder A bids $10....bidder B bids 19.99 but current bid is now $10.25. with 3 seconds left bidder A bids $20 and wins auction by one cent.....I've won and lost them this way.

A lot for some.

chump change for others.

VERY TRUE!!! I forget sometimes......When I spent $150 last month on a powered and dummy Lionel SD-40 set mint....I thought I was spending big time!!!!

If I was closer, I might have competed for that set, but driving my U-Haul 3000 miles to pick it up didn't seem like a winner.

Matt, I had a black 928S and loved it. I think it had 320 HP water cooled engine. No place to drive it on our island. Don

There are two wonderful sports cars I love but will never, ever, work on again.  They were designed by masochists who believed no one would ever have to work on the cars or service them: Porsche 928 and Jaguar XKE V-12.  In both cases, you often had to do hours of work just to get at parts that, on normal cars made forhumans, would be accessible directly.  

I'm with Mario.....It was a fair bid. And I really doubt that it was a shill bid....the guy has almost 400 valid transactions so he can make a fake bid??? I also agree that even striping the trains, track and controls and junking the rest would be expensive in So Cal....no one allows you to toss it for free.....it would be viewed as construction bebris and charged as so to dump. Good luck whoever got it keep it or not.

Wha.....?  You mean the race-track to Hana is no place for a 928s???

Or the pre-dawn run up Haleakala with a kup of Kona-joe to watch the (yawn) sunrise?

C'mon, Don, where's that Maui-Waui spirit??

You island guys sure have it rough!

Mele Kalikimaka!

KD

"C'mon, Don, where's that Maui-Waui spirit??"

Many times it's behind a slow moving truck on the road to Hana. Lee, your right about the design. My heat/air temp. light went out and told them to just replace it. They said leave it out. The only way to get to it is pull the dash. A few thousand to change a light. I'll stick with this black beauty. Came back to Lahaina just this year with her sister steamer. Don