Buy anything cool lately?

carsntrains posted:

Noah posted:

Not so Cool. I picked up a Harry Potter Lionchief Bluetooth Set on ebay I just opened the box. Cleary the seller had no idea how to ship it. This is how I got  it.  The loco is slightly bent. I need to bend it back into shape without breaking it. Any ideas?

Thats not good.   can probably straighten it out but I would surely contact the seller first!

Jim

Contact the seller for sure. That is not what you paid for. If you don't get satisfaction then go to Ebay directly.

Good luck

carsntrains posted:

Noah posted:

Not so Cool. I picked up a Harry Potter Lionchief Bluetooth Set on ebay I just opened the box. Cleary the seller had no idea how to ship it. This is how I got  it.  The loco is slightly bent. I need to bend it back into shape without breaking it. Any ideas?

Thats not good.   can probably straighten it out but I would surely contact the seller first!

Jim

It gets worse I took it by my local train store to check it out. It doesn't run all the smoke leaked out of the circuit board when we tried to run it.

I was quite happy finding this post-war 97 coal elevator in beautiful condition!

This is the AF tinplate zephyr I received today and posted pictures of earlier. 

The whistle actually works. Zephyr  in action.

JOHN

Second batch of cheap little folk. 

The cheap folk look distinctly Asian with black hair and yellow skin. They make great filler people for back scenes and hard to see spots

Picked up a non powered Santa Fe engine to ride behind the MTH p3. Here it pulls the tourist train with LIRR cars to the circus/ fair! A well spent  $20.

Noah, that doesn't look too bad. The seller is an idiot for packing it that way but those main rods and crossheads will bend back just fine. Take some good photos and tell the seller you'll try to fix it but if it breaks you want you're money back. That way youre covered. in the pics I don't see anything that is actually broken or bent that cant be bent back.

pdxtrains posted:

Picked up a non powered Santa Fe engine to ride behind the MTH p3. Here it pulls the tourist train with LIRR cars to the circus/ fair! A well spent  $20.

The non-powered unit and the people look great!  You are a smart shopper indeed!

Noah posted:

carsntrains posted:

Noah posted:

Not so Cool. I picked up a Harry Potter Lionchief Bluetooth Set on ebay I just opened the box. Cleary the seller had no idea how to ship it. This is how I got  it.  The loco is slightly bent. I need to bend it back into shape without breaking it. Any ideas?

Thats not good.   can probably straighten it out but I would surely contact the seller first!

Jim

It gets worse I took it by my local train store to check it out. It doesn't run all the smoke leaked out of the circuit board when we tried to run it.

 

Ask the seller to accept the return and be sure to ask them to pay the return shipping.  But before you do anything, re-check the Ebay ad that you bought it on.  Make sure that you didn't miss any disclaimers, etc.  

As a buyer you have pretty good clout on Ebay.  I have had a few less than stellar pieces come to me and usually I was able to get a partial refund if I wanted to try and fix the item myself.  The last big item I bought was the Lionel Nuclear Reactor.  The description said that it was working properly.  The actual item hardly worked when I got it.  I was able to get a very substantial partial refund because I wanted the item and am working on trying to get it operational.  

Went to the train show today at the Augusta armory in Maine today and spent $2. Coffee & a donut.

Picked up some needed extras at auction today.  Horses, cows and chickens... plus several post-war operating accessories.

Haven't had a chance to clean it up yet but I found inside in the corner the typically missing...

newspaper!  Found it inside the building tucked under the mechanism.  I hear that's hard to come by.  Also got a gantry crane, barrel loader and whistle station (all post-war).  The most interesting find was a couple of modified Right of Way Industries stock cars with sound card mods.  So here is the menagerie, not including Philly flyer loco that is on the kids test track.

I got a Lionel SP RS11 and a Atlas O Reefer. Will film a video on the RS11 soon, its a TMCC model from 2003. 

As you can see,  I’m also a fan of the bobbing animal cars!

Trainlover9943 posted:

I got a Lionel SP RS11 and a Atlas O Reefer. Will film a video on the RS11 soon, its a TMCC model from 2003. 

The Lionel RS11 is very nice. I got mine (a D&H) at a train show on January 28th, and it  was in the 2001 Lionel catalogue. Here it is:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Trainlover9943 posted:

I got a Lionel SP RS11 and a Atlas O Reefer. Will film a video on the RS11 soon, its a TMCC model from 2003. 

The Lionel RS11 is very nice. I got mine (a D&H) at a train show on January 28th, and it  was in the 2001 Lionel catalogue. Here it is:

Cool! I really want the D&H one! 

Went to the Winter Cactus Meet in Phx yesterday with nothing in mind but a few pieces of rolling stock for my 027 and O scale coal trains when something caught my eye!  I have been looking for these MTH Northern Pacific F-3s in 2 tone green for a couple of years.  These are the 2007 PS-2 release and they run as good as they look.  The best part is the seller had 2 cars from the 2007 5 car passenger set and he threw them in for $20 each!

Now the search for either decals or the other passenger cars begins. 

Rolland

A happy forum transaction. Thanks mustang todd:

Been working on this for a couple of week's 

LIONEL to the rescue. Now I need a First Responders train!

Jushavnfun posted:

Been working on this for a couple of week's 

LIONEL to the rescue. Now I need a First Responders train!

Love that idea. Looks great.