Everyone has a different view of fleabay. I got screwed big time on fleabay and the guy was an OGR forum member. I feel very safe buying and selling on the OGR forum. Never had a bad deal. My situation as both a LIONEL and MTH tech is I get many calls from people from everywhere asking me to fix the train they got from fleabay. I flat refuse and that has not made me popular with many. I have seen horror stories and those problems the bargain hunter ends up with are not going to be my problems. Yes, some good deals have been scored. I get many of these calls. I am aware of the many reasons why people use fleabay. I am talking about locomotives and nothing else. If you buy a locomotive with modern electronics and do not know what you are doing, you will pay somebody decent money to hopefully fix them.
This is a good time for post war guys to buy trains. They do not have to worry a lot as anyone can fix those trains. For those buyers, fleabay is a good resource to built a collection. I do not look for work off the forum but like to run my add to buy inoperative shelf queens. Any trains I do sell (modern electronics) have been fully gone through by me and I stand behind them. I wish everyone good luck wherever they buy trains.
