Resale profit margin

[RC10th]

Put yours on ebay for a much cheaper price so it gets listed side by side, that will soon sort out the mark up issues.

[morrisey0]

Stick with what you are doing Dadio, and don't let the money-hungry a$$hats get to you!

With your creations, you are personally saving vintage RC cars! And ultimately, whether the end user spent $20 or $80 for your creation, it may very well have saved a car from getting tossed in the bin or parted out. Nothing is going to change the money grabbing, but your desire to design (and have built) these parts that people need, is virtuous.

To keep it regional, you are the RC Mike Brewer and Wheeler Dealer! Not interested in making bunches of money, but saving the classics that need to be saved.

[XLR8]

Stick with what you are doing Dadio, and don't let the money-hungry a$$hats get to you!

With your creations, you are personally saving vintage RC cars! And ultimately, whether the end user spent $20 or $80 for your creation, it may very well have saved a car from getting tossed in the bin or parted out. Nothing is going to change the money grabbing, but your desire to design (and have built) these parts that people need, is virtuous.

To keep it regional, you are the RC Mike Brewer and Wheeler Dealer! Not interested in making bunches of money, but saving the classics that need to be saved.

Amen, brother.
What he said.

[Frankentruck]

you are the RC Mike Brewer and Wheeler Dealer!

Dadio is moving to California?!?!?

[Retro rc]

Personally I’d get 1 of everything I’ve designed from shape ways and list it with the exact same heading as his but for the real price. Then in the description note that it’s your design and shape ways prints them, no need to put links as long as your design and shape ways is mentioned

[Incredible_Serious]

To keep it regional, you are the RC Mike Brewer and Wheeler Dealer! Not interested in making bunches of money, but saving the classics that need to be saved.

Hmmmm..... is that a compliment?

[Dadio]

Hmm Mike Brewer and I , there are links , I'm a mechanic so I'm in the motor trade , we both do mediocre restorations and we're both lousy salesmen (and over weight )
I'd love to have the money to print everything I have on Shapeways and stick it on eBay at propper prices but Christmas is coming and blowing the budget on RC stuff would not make for happy children or grandchildren

[XLR8]

Apparently I'm the only one here who has no idea who Mike Brewer is - I've never heard of him.

[Dadio]

Apparently I'm the only one here who has no idea who Mike Brewer is - I've never heard of him.

Search for "wheeler dealers" it's a UK TV show about buying, restoring, and selling old cars. Notable because in the price breakdown his mechanic never gets paid a penny and even so they make very little profit if at all. Still, it's very watchable. Mike Brewer is a London car salesman who fronts the show, even though he never does you can't help picture him in a sheepskin coat and rigger boots.

[Retro rc]

Looks like another guy loves to resell at a huge profit.

Looks like a penguin body set to me

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353831001366?hash=item5261f89d16:g:H1QAAOSwf75hyqo7

[TRX-1-3]

I think some of these sellers are betting on an uninformed purchase from someone just "needing" the item without doing some searching. OR possibly having something they think is scarcely available or "rare" and have no idea of what a reasonable market price would/should be.

I have seen items that are still available from the manufacturer priced way high at auction or BIN.

It is unfortunate in any case. I'd like to THINK some of it is just ignorance and not all malicious gouging, etc.

[Retro rc]

Well in this case it looks pretty deliberate, he’s even stolen the pic from Steve’s eBay ad ffs- it’s the last pic of 4

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174926413335?hash=item28ba6d3e17:g:EpQAAOSwMm1hjjmE

Can’t tell me he didn’t know what it was worth

[juicedcoupe]

Speaking of the items on ebay, I could understand if the mark-up and shipping were reasonable. Especially if they have the pieces on hand.

Let's be honest, we all want our stuff yesterday. Also, Shapeways shipping kinda sucks, especially on smaller orders.

If I only need a couple things, I'll normally check ebay first. If I'm making a Shapeways order, its probably not going to be cheap.

[EvolutionRevolution]

Speaking of the items on ebay, I could understand if the mark-up and shipping were reasonable. Especially if they have the pieces on hand.

Let's be honest, we all want our stuff yesterday. Also, Shapeways shipping kinda sucks, especially on smaller orders.

If I only need a couple things, I'll normally check ebay first. If I'm making a Shapeways order, its probably not going to be cheap.

Does the Shapeways shipping for a single item + the item price for the items that get sold at huge mark-up on EBay match that Ebay price? If so, that's the source of the markup and someone on Ebay needs to learn buying in bulk...

[Dadio]

Buying in bulk and selling more at a lower but still marked up price must surely be a better business model ?