Looking for a deal online I came across this… 227 kits stash for sale, on eBay.
I am curious if the content is worth the price. On a quick browse and if it was a more solid, meaningful, number, like maybe two more added… I think so. Do you?
[Disclaimer: I am not the seller, nor am I associated with that cat in any way].
If you wanted all those kits, then ye i guess it would be. But it is a lot of buck in one go.
Do you think his wife wouldn’t let him go the extra 2.
227 kits for 1800.00? DOLLARS!?!?!?
Granted, that’s about eight bucks per, but that’s a lot of scratch to shell out at once and there’s not much to go on…
I’d ask the seller for a better list of kits and their scales before I’d bid… It’s an ok price per, but what if there’re 200 kits in a scale or genre you don’t do?
Whoops… Somebody just bought it in the last 6 minutes… That you Echo?
I’ll let you know…he threw in two more kits to boot…
Nope… Homies be broke these days. [:$]
It’s helpful that it kind of gives you an estimate of what a small stash of that size would go for on the open market. I’d have taken the extra step to make a list of the individual kits, but he must have gotten his money regardless.
If 227 kits are a small stash, what does a big stash look like? [^o)]
Just be glad the seller isn’t in Southern CA. If an earthquake strikes, that’s one big mess! There are some of my “do wants” in those piles, those Ju 88s for a start, it looks like he cleaned out a closing hobby shop! (we have way too many of those) [:(]
I can think of only four Chicago area hobby shops that display significantly more kits.
There may be others but I haven’t been able to visit all of 'em.
Beat my LHS…
Looking at the pic, the 1/32 kits stack alone is rougly about $1000 dollars retail. With all that 1/35 armor and 1/48 aircraft tacked on, plus the 1/72 birds… $1800 is a very good price for what is shown… I could turn around and sell the 1/72 pile and at least make back the shipping costs[^o)]
Well, obviously more. Based on that photo, my stash can easily go that deep into a one car garage and continue the width. Basically occupy a footprint larger than a sedan and go six feet tall.
There are photos of it here from one of the old “how big is your stash” threads. Most have been boxed into fairly decent sized moving boxes with some sembalance of order (box may be labeled 1/72 scale aircraft, Italeri armor, etc.). I started cataloging them on a legal pad, but never finished it. Listing box #1 on page 1 of the yellow pad and then listing the contents of that box. Obviously, a 1/35 armor box doesn’t have as many kits as a 1/72 scale armor box, but you get the idea of how I’m trying to get a handle of the kits I have.
Edit: found the old thread, the stash is larger, but as previously stated, not laid out on shelves (still have some like that though). The vast majority are in moving boxes from when I moved off post and into a house in a local town.
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Rob:
thanks for the reply and “hot link”
Based upon your photos and “footprint” description I can well understand why you are selling off some of your stash kits when buying new model kits.
Location is Houston. I have a feeling I know who the seller is.
Dang, that was in Houston. Could have built up the stash. Oh well, I don’t know what I’m going to do with what I have now.
Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas
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