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Westerfield S scale Boxcar

George Courtney All Messages By This Member #176976 Just saw on eBay a Westerfield USRA boxcar kit? posted as S scale.? A warning to new S scalers.? I don't think Westerfield ever made a S scale car.? HO yes.? S no. ? George Courtney
JGG KahnSr All Messages By This Member #176977 开云体育 Ebay listings can be fairly casual about descriptions, especially as to scale, either from simple error or pure ignorance. JGGK toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of George Courtney via groups.io <gsc3@...> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 6:14 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [S-Scale] Westerfield S scale Boxcar ? Just saw on eBay a Westerfield USRA boxcar kit? posted as S scale.? A warning to new S scalers.? I don't think Westerfield ever made a S scale car.? HO yes.? S no. ? George Courtney
Charles Kinzer All Messages By This Member #176978 Yes. You have to discern carefully.? Some items are sold by family or estate outfits or somebody who simply have no knowledge of the hobby.? This is where you see steam engines posed with the "coal car" backwards.? Or perhaps brass engines and tenders sold separately.??Sometimes they used the "sell similar" choice and something incorrect was carried over from a previous listing that was correct for a prior item, but not this one.?? When I see something that I am SURE is wrong, I message the person and politely let them know.? Usually, they are happy to correct it.? After all, correctness helps get it sold. Then there are issues with "bad foam" with brass engines.? I don't know if this is much of an issue in S scale since I think most brass isn't as ancient as some of the HO.? But I suggest discarding it because it won't reliably support the model in shipment as the foam crushes and turns to dust. Occasionally there is somebody a little sketchy who puts something important at the very end of the description.? An example is the selling of some catalog, and at the very end they state it is photocopy.? So, it pays to read it all. Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 03:43:17 PM PDT, JGG KahnSr via groups.io <jacekahn@...> wrote: Ebay listings can be fairly casual about descriptions, especially as to scale, either from simple error or pure ignorance. JGGK toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of George Courtney via groups.io <gsc3@...> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 6:14 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [S-Scale] Westerfield S scale Boxcar ? Just saw on eBay a Westerfield USRA boxcar kit? posted as S scale.? A warning to new S scalers.? I don't think Westerfield ever made a S scale car.? HO yes.? S no. ? George Courtney
William Cole All Messages By This Member #176980 I messaged the ebay seller about his description mistake. toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM, Charles Kinzer via groups.io <ckinzer@...> wrote: Yes. You have to discern carefully.? Some items are sold by family or estate outfits or somebody who simply have no knowledge of the hobby.? This is where you see steam engines posed with the "coal car" backwards.? Or perhaps brass engines and tenders sold separately.??Sometimes they used the "sell similar" choice and something incorrect was carried over from a previous listing that was correct for a prior item, but not this one.?? When I see something that I am SURE is wrong, I message the person and politely let them know.? Usually, they are happy to correct it.? After all, correctness helps get it sold. Then there are issues with "bad foam" with brass engines.? I don't know if this is much of an issue in S scale since I think most brass isn't as ancient as some of the HO.? But I suggest discarding it because it won't reliably support the model in shipment as the foam crushes and turns to dust. Occasionally there is somebody a little sketchy who puts something important at the very end of the description.? An example is the selling of some catalog, and at the very end they state it is photocopy.? So, it pays to read it all. Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 03:43:17 PM PDT, JGG KahnSr via groups.io <jacekahn@...> wrote: Ebay listings can be fairly casual about descriptions, especially as to scale, either from simple error or pure ignorance. JGGK From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of George Courtney via groups.io <gsc3@...> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 6:14 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [S-Scale] Westerfield S scale Boxcar ? Just saw on eBay a Westerfield USRA boxcar kit? posted as S scale.? A warning to new S scalers.? I don't think Westerfield ever made a S scale car.? HO yes.? S no. ? George Courtney
JGG KahnSr All Messages By This Member #176984 开云体育 It is not just ebay: I bought a very well assembled Kemtron Wabash Mogul (O scale) from a Stout auction where the tender was in another, mostly On3, lot.? I bid on the other lot, too, of course, but others wanted the On3 in it rather more than I did; I asked Stout to tell the high bidder on the other lot he had a buyer for the odd item, but nothing ever came of it. While often sheer ignorance by the seller is not intentional, sometimes I suspect stupidity and greed (the two are usually related) lead to? misleading information in the listing.? And often there is a blanket disclaimer that the seller has no knowledge of the condition or completeness and the buyer assumes all risk.? ?That has not prevented the seller from putting a ridiculously high opening bid price on the item, fearing that he would be missing out on untold riches otherwise. JGGK toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Kinzer <ckinzer@...> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 7:06 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [S-Scale] Westerfield S scale Boxcar ? Yes. You have to discern carefully.? Some items are sold by family or estate outfits or somebody who simply have no knowledge of the hobby.? This is where you see steam engines posed with the "coal car" backwards.? Or perhaps brass engines and tenders sold separately.??Sometimes they used the "sell similar" choice and something incorrect was carried over from a previous listing that was correct for a prior item, but not this one.?? When I see something that I am SURE is wrong, I message the person and politely let them know.? Usually, they are happy to correct it.? After all, correctness helps get it sold. Then there are issues with "bad foam" with brass engines.? I don't know if this is much of an issue in S scale since I think most brass isn't as ancient as some of the HO.? But I suggest discarding it because it won't reliably support the model in shipment as the foam crushes and turns to dust. Occasionally there is somebody a little sketchy who puts something important at the very end of the description.? An example is the selling of some catalog, and at the very end they state it is photocopy.? So, it pays to read it all. Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 03:43:17 PM PDT, JGG KahnSr via groups.io <jacekahn@...> wrote: Ebay listings can be fairly casual about descriptions, especially as to scale, either from simple error or pure ignorance. JGGK From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of George Courtney via groups.io <gsc3@...> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 6:14 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [S-Scale] Westerfield S scale Boxcar ? Just saw on eBay a Westerfield USRA boxcar kit? posted as S scale.? A warning to new S scalers.? I don't think Westerfield ever made a S scale car.? HO yes.? S no. ? George Courtney

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