Evil Bay a big tease

[Hall]

It is like a moth to a flame with E Bay. You know you should stay away from the light but you are drawn to it. :eek: I once owned a one off Dyna 4wd truck. Was a great gadget, but needed a lot more like power steering. Low and behold on E bay at the moment is a Dyna of the same mid nineteen seventy` s vintage in real good condition. It is only a couple of suburbs away. Yes I now admit I strayed onto E bay truck sales in a moment of weakness :( Was just looking at the winch I have in mind. Then I weakened and had a sneaky peek at the truck sales. Dam and there it was. They make a great forward control four wheel drive. Would be a great project. Dam you Evil bay
Cheers Hall

[Chucaro]

That is one of the side effects of the internet :D

[DeeJay]

:Rolling::Rolling::Rolling:

About 5 years ago one of the ladies at work complained to the boss ( in a feeble attempt at brown nosing) that she needed more work as otherwise she "wandered" to Ebay & it was costing her money..:eek:
It took the IT Dept about 20 minutes to have it barred for everyone. Boy was she popular - at least until she resigned...:D

[sheerluck]

I spend equal amounts of time loving and hating eBay.

Sometimes you get some absolute bargains, like yesterday where I won 12 LED bulbs to replace some halogen bulbs in the kitchen lights. Came to $1.

And last night, a pair of genuine Mercedes bonnet gas lift struts. $5.50 instead of the dealer price of $57 each.

But on the flip side, there's the dishonest ones who blatantly lie, or set out to defraud.

Either way, it has the capacity to surprise. :)

[Tombie]

The Bay is awesome...

I receive at least 4-6 parcels a week from my addiction :D

[rijidij]

The Bay is awesome...

I receive at least 4-6 parcels a week from my addiction :D

I love getting my little presents in the mail.........it's like having a birthday every week........sometimes two birthdays every week...........sometimes more...........gotta go, something on my watch list is ending ;):D

[Tombie]

Today's surprises were:

Hydraulic crimping tool

Ratchet crimping tool

Custom tags for the dogs collars

A lunge lead for the puppy

[bobslandies]

It is like a moth to a flame with E Bay. You know you should stay away from the light but you are drawn to it. :eek: I once owned a one off Dyna 4wd truck. Was a great gadget, but needed a lot more like power steering. Low and behold on E bay at the moment is a Dyna of the same mid nineteen seventy` s vintage in real good condition. It is only a couple of suburbs away. Yes I now admit I strayed onto E bay truck sales in a moment of weakness :( Was just looking at the winch I have in mind. Then I weakened and had a sneaky peek at the truck sales. Dam and there it was. They make a great forward control four wheel drive. Would be a great project. Dam you Evil bay
Cheers Hall

Geelong Differential Services built a 4WD Dyna and later a 6WD from it - think it ran a 350 Chev, T400, Land Cruiser transfer case and front end (tubed and laminated) and two 9" Ford rear diffs. That was in the mid-80s.

Bob

[bobslandies]

I love getting my little presents in the mail.........it's like having a birthday every week........sometimes two birthdays every week...........sometimes more...........gotta go, something on my watch list is ending ;):D

Get Auction Sniper and you can sleep easy or make more wheel carriers!:D

Bob

[Vern]

My father in-law was newish to eBay and one day got his decimal point in the wrong place and put a $12,000,000 dollar bid on a p38, guess what, he won it:D
(For $12,700):)

[Hall]

Geelong Differential Services built a 4WD Dyna and later a 6WD from it - think it ran a 350 Chev, T400, Land Cruiser transfer case and front end a two 9" Ford rear diffs. That was in the mid-80s.

Bob
Yeah there are quite a few variants. My old truck was mated with a donor 45 series troopy. Did have a old H diesel and four speed, but finished up with a 2H and a five speed. Land cruiser axles, springs.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/11/315.jpg (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/strawbqwerty/media/June0708.jpg.html)
Cheers Hall

[33chinacars]

Geelong Differential Services built a 4WD Dyna and later a 6WD from it - think it ran a 350 Chev, T400, Land Cruiser transfer case and front end (tubed and laminated) and two 9" Ford rear diffs. That was in the mid-80s.


Saw the 6x6 a few times . Awesome bit of kit. One of Frank Parsons finest.

Gary

[Sleepy]

The Bay is awesome...

I receive at least 4-6 parcels a week from my addiction :D


I love getting my little presents in the mail.........it's like having a birthday every week........sometimes two birthdays every week...........sometimes more...........gotta go, something on my watch list is ending ;):D


Hahaha:Rolling:...Both you two are Vendors! - your meant to be selling not buying. :p Ebay - tragics! (Worse than my SWMBO!)

[Tombie]

I'm really not a vendor here either anymore.

Just keep it going to do my bit to support AULRO.

I have a few bits to sell soon, but not a lot.

[snowbound]

I bought a freakin Disco! Couldn't get it home and had to Welch on the deal! ADVICE! Don't go on to evil bay while under the influence!

[Sleepy]

It's ok Tombie , I bought my 101 on eBay . A double tragic!

[Homestar]

I'm a bit the same as some others here. Half the time when I get a text to go to the parcel lockers (about 3 or 4 times a week sometimes) I can't even remember what it is until I open it...:D

[Hall]

Ahhhhhhh got a fix :) Feeeel sooo goood now :mellow: Yeah I brought some thing. Got my self a winch. Just a little bit cheaper than the truck.
Cheers Hall

[superquag]

I've been itching to buy a watch... and just did after reading this forum....less than $96 for a IWC lookalike...

And LED torches,

And lithium 18650 batteries.....

:o:o

[Tombie]

Oh yeah...

My other addiction is DX.com

Torches

[Landy Smurf]

It's ok Tombie , I bought my 101 on eBay . A double tragic!
I was watching swamp rat for a long time, It would have to be one of my favourites I have ever seen.

[FeatherWeightDriver]

I'm surprised how good flea-bay has become for after market parts.

Last week SWMBO's car had a window regulator cable let go again. Only the third time on that same window - hooray for quality German engineering... :censored:

Stealer wants $220 for a replacement unit kit, but that includes a whole pile of things that I don't need to fix what is actually wrong.

A well known brand in the repairs game fixed price quoted SWMBO $800 for the fix. I opened the door up they had clearly not even bothered to do so, as all of the retaining bolts were still loctited in place. Buggered if I know how they came up with the quote, especially at that amount.

Ebay to the rescue - $15 for a replacement part. Even if the part isn't as good as OEM for that price I can afford to replace it a few times. Also for that price I almost bought some spares just to have lying around and save me shipping transit times... :)

[crash]

Evil bay - the great impulse buy market - buying stuff you really don't need with money you really don't have.

[sheerluck]

Oh yeah...

My other addiction is DX.com

Torches

They sell some good stuff on there, but also some utter crap too.

[D110V8D]

Yeah it's so sad to see manufacturing going off shore and so many jobs being lost, can't even find anything Australian made to buy, even I wanted to buy Australian made but hey check out these crap useless foreign made gadgets I bought on ebay! :D

[superquag]

Evil bay - the great impulse buy market - buying stuff you really don't need with money you really don't have.

... But you need this......:twisted:

200 x USB Microscope Endoscope Inspection Camera Loupe LED Waterproof 2M TE15 | eBay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/170978186355'ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_9021wt_1399)

... and this...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/300689658762'ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

and certainly these...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/320686517192'ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_2139wt_1399

[Tombie]

Actually if there is at least an Aussie seller I tend to buy from them.

Then at least some of the funds stay here!

I can buy tools from a Sydney brick and mortar shop via their eBay site cheaper than from their shop.

And no Aussie co makes what I'm buying 99% of the time.

[PhilipA]

I just bought one. Bargain.
Hopefully better than my $100 one that i bought a couple of years ago which is useless.
Admittedly you have to have the laptop close but worth it if the image is usable. In any case $16 is not much to lose.
Regards Philip A

[Davo]

eBay is an absolute revolution for anyone in WA. It's far, far better than the old days where it either had to be ordered in or it wasn't available at all. Which is still often the case with shops here.

[Landy Smurf]

I just bought one. Bargain.
Hopefully better than my $100 one that i bought a couple of years ago which is useless.
Admittedly you have to have the laptop close but worth it if the image is usable. In any case $16 is not much to lose.
Regards Philip A
Let us know how it goes when you get it, as you said it is not a lot of money really for what it is.

[sheerluck]

........I can buy tools from a Sydney brick and mortar shop via their eBay site cheaper than from their shop.......

And in some cases can be bought cheaper on eBay than on their web shops too. I bought a little 2 man tent so that I can accompany my son on his trips with the cadets in the near future. Listed on the companies website for $120, eBay auction finished at an odd time of the day for $15.50.

It's fair quality, but will be fine for 95% of weather conditions I'll be using it in.

[Tombie]

I just bought one. Bargain.
Hopefully better than my $100 one that i bought a couple of years ago which is useless.
Admittedly you have to have the laptop close but worth it if the image is usable. In any case $16 is not much to lose.
Regards Philip A

Me too ;)