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06/06/2026 12:07 pm
.....seems awfully expensive for a $6.00 1/18 Maisto H-D service trike. 🤨 🤨 🤔
I did an advanced search to view actual selling prices, but nothing came up in this livery - only the others, which ranged from $15 - $50. I've had one for years - just sitting among my other 1/18 motorcycles from 1909 - 1963.
06/06/2026 12:37 pm
Maybe something special akin to California where both are selling from - but I doubt it. Cool models though, just not that price cool. I like yours better!
06/06/2026 1:26 pm
To many people think are holding gold bricks, the same thing with the used car market, cars that should be selling for $2,000 to $5,000 dollars are being priced at $30,000 to $45,000 dollars. They have over 200,000 miles on them so you know they are going to need expensive repairs not far down the road yet these people want prices exceeding the original MSRP's on them.
Ever since covid people think anything they own is a solid gold brick.
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06/06/2026 2:12 pm
"I like yours better!"
Thanks Tone, but it's the same model.... those two sellers have the identical motorcycle I bought for $6 decades ago. 🙄
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06/06/2026 2:16 pm
@john3976 I noticed that years ago, when dealerships started advertising used trucks with 200,000 - 250,000 miles and consumers were financing them! 😯 😯 😯 😮
07/06/2026 6:03 am
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07/06/2026 8:24 am
@perrone1 Thanks for noticing, it took about 15 years to get that look; some things are worth waiting for. 😏 😏 😏
07/06/2026 9:28 am
@perrone1 Thanks for noticing, it took about 15 years to get that look; some things are worth waiting for. 😏 😏 😏
Not sure if you are kidding or not Chris but what I said, though maybe tongue-in-cheek, is pretty much truthful too. All my plastic tank kit builds sport the same (albeit 1/35th scale) dust. I even took them outside in dirt to help with the simulation.
07/06/2026 11:05 am
...I even took them outside in dirt to help with the simulation.
Now, now, Tony, you're among friends and we won't judge you for taking your models outdoors to play with them. 
07/06/2026 12:39 pm
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07/06/2026 2:11 pm
@perrone1 ....no worries at all Tony. "Dust" or the mention of dust is among the least of my worries in life. There are literally, 2,468,713 other things that occupy my pea brain. 😉 😉
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07/06/2026 7:36 pm
My father taught me back in the 1950's that anything is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. That is why I have no illusions that my collection is even worth what I paid for it, let alone more. On the other hand if I was going to put some of my 'one of a kind' models up for sale I'd aim high - nothing to lose by trying
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07/06/2026 9:39 pm
"My father taught me back in the 1950's that anything is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it."
True then, true today, true 300 hundred years from now. 😉 I guess I was just shocked to see those prices on something I considered to be a "throw-away-model."