My Club was assisting with an after school subsection at our local secondary school, however as exam time this year came up most dropped out and it was impossible to continue..

Unlike those here who have moved up Scales or intend to, I'm going the other way. I still have my N gauge layout, and work on it at the MRC, there are other N gauge layouts there too. But I'm now just starting  on an NT layout, yep N (2mm) scale with T gauge track narrow gauge at home, While...

I've just taken apart a N gauge layout that just didn't work, it was growing larger and larger as I attempted to get everything in, it being a real place..
So about a month ago I gave up stripped the whole thing apart, the N gauge stuff transfers to the N Layout mentioned above,and I'm building the same place in T gauge...

  No, I like my work to be delivered on time.    

Just kidding to any real posties!   

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Quote from: njee20 on Yesterday at 07:34:54 PMYou almost certainly didn't lose by a small amount, you were just bidding against one other person with a higher bid. If you snipe at £100 and someone else bids £120 when your bid goes in it auto bids for them at £101 or whatever the next increment is. You believe you've just lost, but if you'd bid £105 it would've sold for £106.

Not exactly correct, I used Auctionstealer which I set to snipe within the last few seconds, which meant it was only placing a final bid, it would not have been involved with placing bids leading up to the final 5 seconds!   

FWIW like most when time allows, I always bid at the final 3-5 seconds, but if I cant be around to bid, I always use Auctionstealer.

Eh? I'm not talking about the bids placed before your snipe. You can bid with 1 second to go, but if the pre-existing max bid was £120 then you will lose the auction, It's why eBay even says "determining the winner" at the end, as it has to reconcile all the sniped bids thrown in the dying seconds.

I use sniping too, daft not to, but what you're really beating is a physical person sat there typing in a number in the last couple of seconds who doesn't have time to increase their maximum. It's absolutely the case that when you think you've 'only just' lost it's because there was only one other bidder who went higher, you just have no idea how high.

Quote from: njee20 on Yesterday at 07:34:54 PMYou almost certainly didn't lose by a small amount, you were just bidding against one other person with a higher bid. If you snipe at £100 and someone else bids £120 when your bid goes in it auto bids for them at £101 or whatever the next increment is. You believe you've just lost, but if you'd bid £105 it would've sold for £106.

And often shill bidding bots run by the seller. Amazing how many things "sell" when someone just beats the bid and then 2 weeks later reappear.

Ebay does try and deal with this but they are pretty ineffectual, at least in things like old computer stuff (where I still bother now and then)

I just put what I consider to be my maximum bid in and walk away. If I win the item, great. If not, there'll be another time.........................mebbe

Quote from: njee20 on Yesterday at 07:34:54 PMYou almost certainly didn't lose by a small amount, you were just bidding against one other person with a higher bid. If you snipe at £100 and someone else bids £120 when your bid goes in it auto bids for them at £101 or whatever the next increment is. You believe you've just lost, but if you'd bid £105 it would've sold for £106.

Not exactly correct, I used Auctionstealer which I set to snipe within the last few seconds, which meant it was only placing a final bid, it would not have been involved with placing bids leading up to the final 5 seconds!   

FWIW like most when time allows, I always bid at the final 3-5 seconds, but if I cant be around to bid, I always use Auctionstealer.

The bottom line here is, I would only bid what I felt the item was worth to me, if I didn't win, it was no big deal!

I'm a hypocrite! 

Just "won" two Santa Fe SW9/1200 switchers. I'm surprised at the price. They are supposedly new-old-stock and should run, but represent insurance/parts for my beloved B&O SW9/1200.

You almost certainly didn't lose by a small amount, you were just bidding against one other person with a higher bid. If you snipe at £100 and someone else bids £120 when your bid goes in it auto bids for them at £101 or whatever the next increment is. You believe you've just lost, but if you'd bid £105 it would've sold for £106.

@cornish yorkie, yes good point about what your prepared to pay.

I use an eBay stealer, whereupon I enter the highest amount that I am willing to pay for an item, and leave it to the automatic bidder, okay it has to be said I have lost a few bids for only a fraction over what my limit was, but then I have won items well below my limit too!

Quote from: class8mikado on Yesterday at 03:17:31 PMApologies all for the rivett-counting but i would like to talk about wheels. Pullman coaches in Restored/Museum condition almost always have White painted wheel rims and sometimes umber centres ? B/w photos of them in real service tend not to show this.. is this just work grime hiding the livery or was the white wheel rim  really only applied to show ponies ?

Hi there,

The only images I have showing the cars with white wheel rims are those taken when the cars were fresh off the production line.  I do not have any images showing them in service where the wheels are anything other than dull dirty grey.

Once in service even freshly cleaned cars do not have decorated wheels.

cheers

Ben A.