Please help

[nearlymint]

Seller sold 2 wreck truck/amber windows with different colour hooks , also the esso on the box is different colours,Is this £200 more for a yellow hook or is the box special. J
http://www.ebay.com/itm/391007936811

[GHOSTHUNTER]

I think the seller is using this model's relative early production status as a money gatherer...

No front bumper braces.
No rear mudflap braces.
The Amber lamp...
...and the Amber glazing.

But still a bit high IMHO.

Ghosty.

[motorman]

Someone will buy it, no matter the price, as a lot of collectors what a good example of this rare variation on the display shelf!!

[numi]

This seller earns himself a place in The Ebay hall of Shame.I had been watching this seller for a while but slipped for a few mths now.Seller was previously mentioned about 2yrs ago about selling a fake #41 Green Jaguar with spoke wheels and which had suspect axles.I remember that Jason (jaskelrod) purchased that specimen and re-sold off via Ebay.
Two Old Folks??? Hmmm i have serious doubts about this.This is a pseudo-guise of a youngster operator,faker,fraudster.
Check this out!
numi

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matchbox-Bliste ... 2c93a8e855

Blister Pack - Hatra Tractor Shovel

This is a Matchbox Blister Pack - Number 69-B Hatra Tractor Shovel.
Orange Body - Yellow Blade - Yellow Hubs with Black Tires - 1965
Mint Condition - See Pictures

I took this piece out of the Blister Pack to put it on display.
So that I could have it beside my other variations.
Now, I wish I had not done that.
I put it back in and glued it carefully.

Box is perfect - Someone clipped the price off the Blister Pack with pinking sheers.

We have downsized and are in the process of liquidating hubby's toys.
Starting with some of his "Hard to Find" pieces.

[nearlymint]

Hi Numi,
I have my doughts about this seller as well, but when buyers pay £180 for one amber window #71 and then £400 for one with a different colour hook how on earth can you help them. I even thought the Blue 27a had bad axles but good feedback has come back on that one.
Just do not understand it, maybe its just me.
J

[Tinman]

My only comment is about the use of pinking sheers. It was common practise for small merchants to use these when removing prices or part of the packaging on items that were reduced for sale.

[kwakers]

The marketing of that Hatra was not to my liking at all in the wrong Bronner blister pack, but it did bring a Vectis Auction price for the Seller Numi. The Buyer must now make decisions on it's originality, but that cannot be done very well inside that tight blister package.
In looking at the Seller's past sales very carefully 2 weeks ago Numi, the blue Low Loader axle crimps are fine, they just seem large and odd because the metal wheels used on this 27A are only 7.5 mm, small, and the crimps look enormous next to them. The colors are true and precise, so no faults there at all. The Buyer of that one bought it at 1/2 market value because the condition was excellent, so they bought a real bargain. Most of these blue Trailers always had top chipping from the cab unit being rubber banded on top of them when shipped in their boxes. I would not sell my NMint spare for that low of a price, but the Seller clearly sold theirs.
Jason asks the same question I did when the hammer fell on both of the nearly identical Wreckers they sold. Ghosty apparently saw some other more detailed pictures that help explain added values on one Truck over the other. As we all know, amber windowed Wreckers in Mint condition are quite rare, and present demand is high for them as Superfast collectors go back into regular wheels that were transition models. These seem to have brought a higher market price for one, while maybe the second was a more common casting? I had checked both their decks to see if they were the smooth early casting, but I believe they were both diamond plate 2nd style.
The Major Pack collection they sold off months ago had the indication of an elderly detailist collector much like myself Numi. The variations were quite deep, they appeared to be store bought Mint with some in their correct boxes, and I could only find one piece in their whole history to criticize. That one piece was a Major Pack Combine Harvester with large GPW fitted to it's front axle hubs. These were never sold that way, but maybe the Buyer will correct them when they put that one on their display shelves.
I am not familiar with the axles on the wire wheel Jaguar from 2 years ago, so Jason would have to comment on that particular model you have also mentioned above Numi. Do you perhaps have a name on this Seller? With the rare RW variations, and also the splendid Major Pack collection he has sold off, I am sure he is a long-time collector that is well known here in the U.S., perhaps even familiar to our own Tinman or myself. kwakers

[Tinman]

When did this style blister first hit the stores?

[TonyfromOZ]

I was watching the 2 amber wreck trucks - the yellow hook truck was listed as mint but the red hook was lsited as having chips. I dropped out of the yellow hook when I zoomed in on the side of the bed and saw a funny blotchy area. It may have been a casting issuse or a touch up - I wasn't sure but for that kind of money I would want to be 100 % sure

[vetrad]

The 67 VW was enough to keep me away. Looks like the pale grape body only found on the SF issue (not dark purple), hard to see the rivets well but there was enough for me to question it. Seems like there are a few landmines planted amongst these flowers, but that's the new norm these days. What did you guys think of this one?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matchbox-67-Vol ... 7675.l2557