QUOTE (80class @ 16 Feb 2008, 00:27)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Back on topic..When I see things like that I tend to just smile and walk on. They are probably waiting for the same person who keeps buying things at ten times the RRP on ebay to turn up!!!
It is like the fish that rests on the sea bed and waits for a tasty morsel to come to it and swim into its open mouth...anyone experienced on ebay at actually winning items wouldn't touch an overpriced buy-it-now item anyway since they could with one click do a search to see if there are in open auction and also the cost of recently finished items, also the google cache can reveal past finish prices. etc. etc.
At an exhibition there is of course no information about past or current market prices available (where those books for used car values would help?) but prices are flexible and you can haggle or get a discount if you buy lots. And you can go to an exhibition with an informed friend/modeller for a second opinion while most people sit alone at a computer to decide on eBay... The value of an item is relative I suspect, if you don't have the internet or don't trust eBay then one must make do with ferretting at such stalls. Toyfairs will presumably be staffed by the less informed in model railways and so prices can be way too high or too low and very good bargains. It all depends, swings and roundabouts, caveat emptor, a stitch in time etc. etc. sorry my cliches have run away with me!
Let the stupid and the lazy waste their money if they wish! They keep many people in employment in our rabid consumer society.