Another Seacrest Auction

[E7]

Stout held another auction: THURSDAY September 20, 2018: Williamsport, IN – O Scale Two Rail , HO Brass and O gauge 3 rail

Ebay seller 108spoplar won some of the auctions -- 108spopular broke the lots up and rephotographed the items before listing them on ebay.

It will be VERY interesting to see what happens if/when this new state sales tax fiasco (sales tax must/can be collected, even if the seller does NOT have a physical presence in the state of the buyer) becomes reality.

Considering the amount of stuff on his/her seller list, Spoplar is going to have a lot of headaches! At least that's the way it appears to me.

The ol' Supreme Court crapped beside the bed on this one. (opinion)

Another little caveat,is that presuming the item is used, it has already had sales tax extracted (barring New Hampshire).

The light bulb goes on: We will have to confine all our sales to New Hampshire!

One round of sales tax is enough.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[Chris Webster]

This morning, Monday, September 24, ebay seller cugjp1 posted 62 of the Stout lots as ebay Buy It Now/Best Offer listings. The ebay seller listed the items in the exact same lots Stout did, presumably because that allows the ebay seller to reuse Stout's pictures.

The new Buy-it-Now prices are 2 times to 4 times what Stout sold the lots for,

I noticed that the seller is currently having a 20% off Sale on their 54 items listed in the O Scale category.

for example:
Stout - Sunset Models O scale brass two rail New York Central S-1b 4-8-4 Niagara - 6024 Modernized - sold for $575
compare to
Ebay #392128554545, Sunset Models O scale brass two rail New York Central S-1b 4-8-4 Niagara - 6024 - Buy It Now for $1,575

This Niagara is now for sale at $1260.00, plus $29.95 for shipping.

[bob turner]

I tried an advanced search. Any hints as to how to search only for those items?

[robert.]

This should get to to the sellers o scale listings
https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=o ... e&_sacat=0

[Chris Webster]

Any hints as to how to search only for those items?

Try this:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/O-Scale/19145/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_ipg&_from&_ssn=cugjp1&_sac=1&rt=nc
It should show you all the items that seller has listed in the O Scale category.

[bob turner]

That worked. Thanks!

Buy low, sell high. Best of luck to him.

[E7]

Another little caveat,is that presuming the item is used, it has already had sales tax extracted (barring New Hampshire).

Doesn't really matter, used or otherwise - sales are still subject to sales tax where it is being sold (NH and also BTW, DE - no sales tax there)

The light bulb goes on: We will have to confine all our sales to New Hampshire!

Still will owe taxes to your home state.

We'll all move to New Hampshire! Live Free or Die!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[E7]

We'll all move to New Hampshire! Live Free or Die!

Too cold, but I'll help you pack....

We can buy long johns with all the sales tax money we save.

A friend of mine and his family lived in northern Massachusetts, right on the NH border. Mass sales tax was 6%, so they did a good bit of shopping in NH. Never up there in the winter, but it was beautiful in the springtime!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[ScaleCraft]

One of the links off the re-seacrest re-auction (not seeing any bids on items I looked at) showed this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-O-Scal ... 2939712007?

Damaged SC trucks (bolsters ground badly....and metal, so needs double insulated wheels) with nailed on sides, missing parts, spray painted with gold paint over dirt.....and $40 plus shipping is about $39 plus shipping more than it's worth.
Turner.


errr.....Opinion.

[ScaleCraft]

and I really liked this...advertising must not be cugjp's strong suit:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3rd-Rail-moder ... 2128553560?

3rd Rail modern O scale brass Pennsylvania non powered MP54 self propelled coach


US $500.00 and he can't even take the wrapper off to prove what's actually in it? Or condition? And non-powered?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[Rufus T. Firefly]

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