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Post by peteski on Oct 10, 2007 20:29:35 GMT -6
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Post by Honest Charlie on Oct 10, 2007 20:44:36 GMT -6
There are deals to be had yet.
Glad to see someone got a good one.
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Post by barrisfan- Mark-78Pinto on Oct 11, 2007 5:14:08 GMT -6
Well gang, I am not so sure about this one. I won the two Barris Mail Trucks for 20.oo and thought I had hit the jackpot. I just got an e-mail from the guy saying that his storage unit had gotten broken into and they took everything but a couch. That would include the model/collectable kits.
I am not so sure I belive this so I am going to keep an eye out for CHEAP Barris kits. I am sure that some knows what they stole and will be posting them soon enough
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Post by Steve Hilby on Oct 11, 2007 7:14:48 GMT -6
Yeah, well, the seller appears to have listed it in "Character Figures"--that's why it didn't get any bids.  |
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Post by davea on Oct 11, 2007 19:07:47 GMT -6
That WAS a real deal on the Bathtub kit!
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Post by modelcitizen on Oct 11, 2007 21:57:20 GMT -6
Cruise the obscure!
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Post by Paul B. Canney on Oct 12, 2007 10:01:07 GMT -6
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Post by Psychotic Hillbilly on Oct 12, 2007 15:24:05 GMT -6
that was a good deal. wish it was me... glade for him though.....
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Post by barrisfan- Mark-78Pinto on Oct 12, 2007 15:36:27 GMT -6
Nobody will be getting any of that stuff he had for sale from what he told me.
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Post by danno on Oct 12, 2007 18:39:56 GMT -6
Yeah it was me, got ahold of him today and will send out payment tommorow, he also had two Barris mail truck kits in one, and an orginal Beverly Hillbillies truck, I missed out on, I've been tring to replace some of the models I lost in the fire a year and a half ago, but it's been hard to get good prices on the older kits, plus my health has been so-so, and I'm only working about 26 hours a week so a good Bargain is what I hope to find... Lucky me
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Post by barrisfan- Mark-78Pinto on Oct 13, 2007 4:31:47 GMT -6
This is the e-mail I got after I had won the Mail Trucks. Maybe I am the only un-luck one here?
Dear sir,
I'm sorry to report (plenty embarrassed too) that after I sent
the invoice I went to my storage place this evening to fetch your item and more for auction on eBay only to find (to my extreme
dismay) my unit had been broken into and most of the contents missing (a$&holes took about everything but the furniture!!!),
unfortunately including the boxes of collectables and kits that
your item was in. I really hope this reaches you before you remit payment in any shape or form, as I do not wish to
inconvenience/disappoint/annoy you further. I promise to make this up to you somehow (free shipping or something?) in a future transaction and my sincerest apologies for this occurrence.
Sincerely
Jack
P.S. Please to e-mail an acknowledgment of receipt for this
message as promptly as possible that I may rest assured you have not sent payment and quite feel free to "chew me out" for this
colossal blunder.
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Post by Count Dragula on Oct 13, 2007 18:05:46 GMT -6
Barrisfan, Care to start an "Ebay discusting sellers" club with me? I wonder how many members we can have join up from the Corner!!! I would like to say I'm kidding, but.....  |
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Post by barrisfan- Mark-78Pinto on Oct 14, 2007 8:04:41 GMT -6
I am not mad at this person per say, just disappointed and a litte suspicious. I had won some pretty pricy kits for a really low price and now they are gone  . Hmmm I had gotten another e-mail from him and from what he told me, I guess he had placed an ad in the local paper wanting to sell off everything before going the E-bay route. A couple of guys showed up to look at the starage unit he had the stuff in and gave him a really stupid low price so he declined. He had taken the pictures of the stuff for insurance puropses so that's how he was able to put them on E-Bay. He goes to get some of the things that people had won and the place had been cleaned out. That's the story I have gotten. |
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Post by danno on Oct 14, 2007 11:09:41 GMT -6
This is the e-mail I got from him,
Congrats on your purchase. And quite the steal at $14.75 as I paid almost $50.00 for it 3 years ago on eBay. I also picked up an original issue Eldon Bathtub kit same place (for an excellent price, as it was in pristine condition, still factory sealed. Built the Eldon one (pics available upon request) and did such a splendid job of it, if I do say so myself, that I never needed to tap the Doyusha one for parts. But I digress....Will send a ship date e-mail upon confirmed payment. Thanks,
Jack
So we will see if I will receive it or not later...
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Post by rustybill1960 on Oct 14, 2007 12:21:17 GMT -6
Ain't it a "crap shoot" sometimes you hit the "mark" sometimes you get "crapped on"  |
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