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https://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-LIONE ... 4170896703

I dunno. Box is rough, pliers OBVIOUSLY heavily used, dings and nicks from using pliers to pound track pins in.

"Original box has 2 flaps missing on one end." Makes is useless to collectors...usually.

$795.

Geez.

Hennings for $12.95. You're gonna bang these up, too, and they all work the same:

https://hennings-trains.shoplightspeed. ... l-o-s.html

I know. Buy a good pair of linesmans pliers from Grainger for $12 and forget about this crap

What do you mean? That’s a bargain

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-Legacy- ... 890.l49292

what the...?

healey36 wrote:what the...?

Black Friday sale,

https://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-LEGACY- ... 890.l49292

That’s not the only one

gregj410 wrote:https://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-LEGACY-POLAR-EXPRESS-2-8-4-BERKSHIRE-1225-6-84685-/274589024879?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292

That’s not the only one

Could be contagious!

We better start saving our pennies, nickles, $100.00 dollar bills. I did not realize inflation had gotten so bad.

Okay, so are these sellers just phishing for people to respond to their obviously overpriced crap, so they can steal their identity?

up148 wrote:Okay, so are these sellers just phishing for people to respond to their obviously overpriced crap, so they can steal their identity?

Huh? Seller would only get name and address of 1 buyer. Not a very efficient phishing action.

FWIW. I used tubular track for my layout and a pair of Linesman pliers for the track pins. @ $10.00.

And it is the skill of the seller to find the weaknesses in the prospective "winners" and exploit them. Clueless? Maybe just difficult to get past the poor photos and descriptions.

Now we enter the troublesome area. If it sells, is it really worth what it sold for?

Does anyone think that any set of pliers in the world is worth that amount of coin?
Other than NASA toilet seat tightening pliers, of course.

You need to look at seller's other items. Holy Bat Poop.

But, Dave, you know that any thing that says LIONEL on it must be worth a lot of money just because it says LIONEL on it.

rogruth wrote:But, Dave, you know that any thing that says LIONEL on it must be worth a lot of money just because it says LIONEL on it.

That's what the free on-line courses for new evilbait exploiters....err...sellers teaches about finding a Lionel name anywhere on the item.

Then there is the issue of stuff that is Lionel, or maybe Lionel, without a name.

I KNOW I've put up several Standard Gauge, mint, never run, 1923 (or so) Lionel sets.
Except it's very recent MTH.

No chrome in the 20's and 30's on Lionel. No modern packing sheets between moving parts. Ever notice they never show the boxes? if new and never run, where are the boxes?

Oh, but it SAYS Lionel on the engine.....and they're asking mint, NIB prices for something that is 90 years newer than what they claim.

And evilbait doesn't care.

Oh, my God!

I'm speechless.

George