gr8tfuldead Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Check out g.h.r-japan train auctions on eBay. (Some of his other items are a little racy). For $107.00 you can get a package of Kato plaster cloth. That does include free shipping from Japan, though. Either he doesn't know how to convert yen to dollars, work the decimal point, or he's crazy... Link to comment
bill937ca Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 How about a link? The name is G-H-R-JAPAN. http://stores.ebay.com/G-H-R-JAPAN/Other-/_i.html?_nkw=train&submit=Search&_fsub=1&_sid=1053560714 Hmm, no bargains there. Link to comment
gr8tfuldead Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 http://www.ebay.com/sch/Model-RR-Trains-/479/i.html?_ssn=g.h.r-japan Link to comment
westfalen Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 It's just rebranded Woodland Scenics (as are most of Kato's scenery items) plaster cloth that you can get here for $8.19. http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Woodland-Scenics-C1203-Plaster-Cloth-p/woo-c1203.htm All his prices are crazy, $93 for a pack of Micro Trains #2001 couplers that cost $4.89 in the U.S. ??? 1 Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Yeah, the Kato EZ water he has at $110 sells for 1575 yen (approx. $19) in Japan, so he's marking it up a whopping 579 percent. It's like that Florida-based secondhand bookstore on the net that seemingly has every used book you want, but at prices over $100 for even paperbacks. Link to comment
Guest JRF-1935 Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 He certainly makes Newhall look good ! EM'd him about his decimal points - no reply yet. Guess he's taking PT Barnum literaly ! Rich C 2 Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Holy hell batman! I wonder how he got a top seller rating, with those prices you expect he wouldn't sell anything at all =) Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Holy hell batman! I wonder how he got a top seller rating, with those prices you expect he wouldn't sell anything at all =) Checking his sellers history, he mainly sells anime and figure stuff, an area I have little expertise in. However, one item he sold for $149, the One Piece Thousand Sunny pirate ship, sells for ￥2536 on Amazon Japan (approx. $31), a 481 percent markup. Sellers like this take advantage of the information gap and lack of Japanese language skills of many buyers to fleece them. He is not alone either, searches of this item (in English), show average prices of over $100 by other sellers. Search in Japanese, and you get the discount price off MSRP... Link to comment
Tecchan Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Only 756$ for an 6 cars Shinkansen, be quick, it won't last long! And you get free shipping!!! Link to comment
The_Ghan Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Well, With all this chatter I just had to investigate. The 13mm Kato nails is my favourite rip-off. $76 including shipping ... RRP from Kato is Y53 ... less than 70c ... that's a mark up of over 11000% .... yes, 11000% Cheers The_Ghan 1 Link to comment
Bernard Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Well, With all this chatter I just had to investigate. The 13mm Kato nails is my favourite rip-off. $76 including shipping ... RRP from Kato is Y53 ... less than 70c ... that's a mark up of over 11000% .... yes, 11000% Cheers The_Ghan How much would that be per nail?!? Link to comment
Sir Madog Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Holy Mackerell! And I always thought, the hobby of model railroading is expensive only in Germany. This guy must think we are all stupid. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 unfortunately the business model of some other suppliers, make japanese trains seem rare, expensive and very hard to get for the newbies to bite on. hey its a legit business model that is taught out there! if you think you can get a market that is willing to pay X for something even though it only costs you a fraction of that go for it until you have competition that drives the price down! i hate it when the uninformed are just preyed upon like this. im hoping that its a mistake, but if he has been doing this on other auctions in the past i doubt its an honest mistake. ebay i think no longer cares if folks do this sort of thing. Caveat emptor. jeff Link to comment
The_Ghan Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Well, With all this chatter I just had to investigate. The 13mm Kato nails is my favourite rip-off. $76 including shipping ... RRP from Kato is Y53 ... less than 70c ... that's a mark up of over 11000% .... yes, 11000% Cheers The_Ghan How much would that be per nail?!? FWIW I think there are 200 or 250 per pack. That makes 38c or 30c per nail. Cheers The_Ghan Link to comment
pepegalego Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 unfortunately the business model of some other suppliers, make japanese trains seem rare, expensive and very hard to get for the newbies to bite on. hey its a legit business model that is taught out there! if you think you can get a market that is willing to pay X for something even though it only costs you a fraction of that go for it until you have competition that drives the price down! i hate it when the uninformed are just preyed upon like this. im hoping that its a mistake, but if he has been doing this on other auctions in the past i doubt its an honest mistake. ebay i think no longer cares if folks do this sort of thing. Caveat emptor. jeff Ebay love it. If he can sell this stuff at that price, Ebay pick up a killing on each of them. - 9% buyit now price commision! Link to comment
inobu Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 What's so funny is the prices looks like a scene/scam from an Adam West's Batman episode. The prices are so ridiculously high that no one buys or shops there....... just like the Joker wants it. It allows him to operate in the back office. $83 for a uncoupler.............lol read some of the ebay responses and almost everyone comments on how good the communication is Its gets really serious when you read the guy that post how expensive the pagoda was ..........Got the feeling he was real.......... Inobu Link to comment
Guest JRF-1935 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Inobu Have to laugh at the communication feedback - still waiting to here if the seller has decimal point dyslexia No response yet to my emails regarding prices Rich C Link to comment
cteno4 Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I emailed as well just to see if he would respond, but no reply. So much for good communication! Jeff Link to comment
Bernard Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I emailed as well just to see if he would respond, but no reply. So much for good communication! Jeff Jeff - be careful this seller might charge for every letter they type in a return email. Link to comment
bill937ca Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Jeff - be careful this seller might charge for every letter they type in a return email. Yeah! $975 a word! Link to comment
cteno4 Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 i just had to paypal him $14,625 in order to receive an answer! jeff Link to comment
Guest JRF-1935 Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Hey - here's another "great" dealer on ebay - don't want to ask him a question about dyslexia or decimal points as I can't afford the paypal response With free ship - I might buy 2! http://www.ebay.com/itm/KATO-10-245-KOKI-106-Freight-Cars-19D-with-Containers-2-Cars-Set-Free-Shipping-/310399795270?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item4845450046 Rich C Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 http://www.ebay.com/itm/My-neighbor-Totoro-Cushion-Big-Totoro-nap-style-Ghibli-plush-doll-NEW-JAPAN-/280879192083?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4165b45813#ht_3588wt_1068 Sure, it's big.. But is it 450 dollars big? ;) Link to comment
clem24 Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 http://www.ebay.com/itm/My-neighbor-Totoro-Cushion-Big-Totoro-nap-style-Ghibli-plush-doll-NEW-JAPAN-/280879192083?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4165b45813#ht_3588wt_1068 Sure, it's big.. But is it 450 dollars big? ;) That's wicked! I want it! Link to comment
keitaro Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 for real ? http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10012434 20000 yen for this? Link to comment
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