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Perhaps this topic has already been discussed here, but it's always fun to hear about people's "best ever" finds - bargains, rare items, free gifts etc.

What are yours?

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I think it is quite difficult to find real bargains on ebay, simply because there is so much competition.

I was quite pleased with one of my recent purchases: 2 x Mardave Cobras (one with radio gear) plus a TL-01 for GBP£40 plus postage. This was a "Collection Only" listing, but I asked the seller if he would be happy for me to arrange a courier and he agreed.
I sold the TL-01 a few days later for £25
I will probably build one good Cobra from the three I now own ( ) and sell the others.

The best ever find i got was my last Bruiser.

It was advertised on our local bidding platform for Switzerland, kind of national E-bay.
The Bruiser was listed as "Tamya Bruser" and sort of hidden in the search list.

I've been lucky to find it out, honestly i found it accidentally. I put a very low bid and fortunately i got it for less than 60€.

This is it

only 60, so that makes the bumpers I send you the most expensive parts on your car, bill is on its way



This is one of my better finds (sofar) all in one buy



the LB came extra.

The Sand Scorcher was bought before christmas, nothing special there. But the job lot of about 24 boxes of porsche tires, 7 differentials and 3 gearboxes was a pretty good find I though. One gear box is for a 936 Porsche, another a Honda F2, the third I am yet to identify. I got onto this when buying an unused chassis for my 58005 countach. Expect to see some ebay listing for tires, although I wonder if there is much demand for them,

regards

Johann

If you wanna part from the 936 gearbox give me a PM, been looking for one quite some time

Cheers, Bram

Waterbock, I love your TF Evo.
Personnaly, I had some "best find. I bought a long years ago a lot of nib ta03 and TL01 for 50€ each. Boxes wasn't in top condition but cars was in kit
An other is my 037 TA03RS and my blackfoot when I was in college...

Ah, so that's why the old 1/12 diffs are so rare, Yogi's got them all!

I've had a few better than average deals over the years, most recent being a scabby Astute that turned up 99.9% original & complete, with AP427 radio installed,
one of the pair of ThunderDragons I bought was in exceptional condition under the crud, & most recently the 90% complete vintage XR311. Another memorable one was my mk1 Rough Rider, which although I paid the normal/right money for, turned up 99% original, undamaged (Relatively) & complete, with box (Including left-over bits, bags, lube, tools etc), original radio, 2x original batteries (1x boxed), chargers & original documentation, non of which was mentioned in the Ebay listing.















Oh & nearly forgot, the Thundershot (Dog toy) I was given, in excellent barely used condition, complete with original radio, 8.4v battery, fast & slow chargers & a Beatties bag

Maybe not that spectacular, but in 2005 (before the reissues) I found a new and complete C-parts tree for the Sand Scorcher on ebay, BIN for USD 50,- (a bargain at the time!)

others are my MRC (Model Racing Car)sand master and santana absolutely nib vorgotten since 1989 in the usine . In the same time I bought the MRC 1/5th and my clio MRC 1/4. Absolutely mint.