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A question for ebay experts:

Can anyone tell me why the following F-86 "The Huff" sold at such a low price ($38.72 delivered) when bidding began and then most of the bidders stopped bidding and missed out on a good bargain on a highly-regarded 1/18 jet?

The seller said it's "mint in box" but the box has a little wear/tear on it and the seller has a very good track record of 99.7%.

I've noticed that other highly-regarded 1/18 replicas like the 21st 1/18 Sherman and BBI F-16 draw many bids at the last second, but not this Huff.

Any suggestions on why did most bidders suddenly lost interest in this Huff?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3DWatching

From what it looks to me, somebody got an awesome deal. I don't know why it went for so low. Just one of those things....

-Ski

Listed in an inaccurate category is my best guess. I would never look in the diecast section for that. The people who are looking for diecast don't want plastic... so it doesn't get high bids, and someone walks away with a great deal.

The listing local was one thing but these have been out for a while. The market has been saturated. This happend to the Panther ambush the white nose Spitfire and some of the Fw-190s. After a couple of years they will come back 2 to 4 times the original selling price. I won several Panthers off of e-bay for $36 and white nose Spits for $26 without shipping.

Here's another odd ebay F-86 Huff that just ended. Look at the bids---one bidder jacked up the price repeatedly, then never bids again.
Why are people bidding for a bargain Huff then don't bid again?

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If you look at the automatic bids, you can see that "carlagrnbay" put in a bid on the 14th that "1***1" wasn't willing to keep going over.

A good price, but there are frequent bargains out there.

I think what happened is four-five months ago WM clearances all of their 1/18 AC; I picked up quite a few for $15-25. Capitalists we are I think everyone bought these thinking they would sell them on e-bay and make big dollars.

I have seen this with other sales. Squadron/Signal had a big sale on many of their "In Action" titles and e-bay was immediately swamped.

Just my guess though.

Hi i I am the one that bought the Huff for 38.72 on E-bay I was looking for 1:18 scale aircraft and they had about 30 of them most I have and the price on the ones I do not have are way to High, over 250 for the F-18 crazy I do not need it that bad, most you can get for a better deal on the online stores if you shop a little, anyway I looked at the bid price 21.00 for the Huff and how much time was left , it was like 4 minutes so I set up everything and when the time got to 2 min 30 sec I made a bid thinking if someone tried to outbid me they would not have enough time, and it worked I got the bird for a good deal but mark my work that does not happen to me very often just got lucky I guess. Love the forum and all the members with so much aircraft knowledge, very impressive I learn something new every day. You guys rock!!!!!

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As someone said earlier, it all has to do with the market. The "Huff" F-86s - based on reports from this board - got a very wide distribution at Wal Mart last year. Two stores in my area had a number of them. So, they were readily avaliable initially at the $40 Wal Mart price, which itself is a good deal. Add to that the fact that the planes really didn't sell well, that Wal Mart ordered even more of them, and then discounted them to $25 or less in some places. The F-86 is a wonderful plane and certainly worth its full retail price, but because of the Wal Mart shenanigans, collectors got their fill and thus the plane won't bring in a high ebay price for a few years until they are all gone.