How NOT to ship a brass 2-10-0

[Chris Webster]

For only $2,495.99, you can be the lucky owner of a OMI-0190 Lehigh & New England 2-10-0 after a UPS store in North Carolina slapped some tape and shipping labels on the green OMI box and shipped it to New Jersey:
O BRASS OVERLAND MODELS 0190.1 LEHIGH & NEW ENGLAND 2-10-0 F-1 F/P #401

Interestingly, a pawn shop in a suburb south of Atlanta wants $2999.99 for a factory painted OMI of the other L&NE F-1 2-10-0: Brass Overland Models L&NE F-1 2-10-0 401-402 Lehigh Valley & New England, Factory Painted #402. Their description includes:

We have looked this item up, and we know its very rare (we found only 10 made), so please don't bother with lowball offers.

It's interesting to me that both factory-painted numbers happened to be available on ebay at the same time.

[up148]

That is remarkably poor packaging for Uncle Dave's Brass.....has he gone senile? He knows the value of an original box and the loco is certain to be track when it arrives. Wow!

BH

[Chris Webster]

That is remarkably poor packaging for Uncle Dave's Brass.....

That poor packaging was how it was shipped to Uncle Dave, according to the UPS labels on the box.

[Arthur P. Bloom]

...the loco is certain to be track when it arrives.

I am not familiar with that expression.

[bob turner]

Trash. These new computers have weird spell correctors.