Seems to be a good deal on Pudgy P-38s.

hotrodrock · Post by **hotrodrock** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:05 am

Was cruising around ebay and found a seller who had 20 Pudgy p-38s up for auction starting at $55 and there didn't seem to be much interest in them. Shipping seemed a little high at $20. Don't know how $75 total compares to other online offers since I'm not in the market for one and haven't been looking. Guess I was more suprised at what seemed to be a lack of interest reflected by the bidding. Were the Pudgy and PPMaru ever available in big box stores or were they hobby only?

flpickupman · Post by **flpickupman** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:15 am

To my knowledge (albeit limited), they were a hobby store only item. As for the price shipped, it looks to be decent. Most online shops have em for $65-$68, and sometimes for more. Not including shipping of course.

Website · Post by **Teamski** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:16 am

The Maru P-38 was seen at TRU quite a few years ago, albeit only very sparsely.....

-Ski

hotrodrock · Post by **hotrodrock** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:17 pm

Went back to ebay and thought I would put one of the P-38s on my watch list and they were gone. I thought it was a little odd that someone would have 20 of them on ebay. Also, as I said, they weren't drawing any bids at $55. He might have ended the auctions early. Kind of unusual.

hotrodrock · Post by **hotrodrock** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:27 am

This auction is getting pretty weird. I've tried for the last three days to find these P-38s that disappeared off ebay. This morning, I put in the same exact search words and they are back except there are 28 of them now instead of 20. Ending times stretched from today to 6 days from now. I've never seen an ebay item do this. Anyway, 28 planes and not a single bid at $55.

scbvideoboy · Post by **scbvideoboy** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:32 am

Sometimes ebay will pull a listing for various reasons. Having "20" or more of a single plane seems to me a warning flag.

Especially since these are supposed to be rare...

DH