This is Insane

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:18 pm

THIS IS INSANE! I'm not sugesting anyone bid on this but I thought some of you might want to see it. A SSMT 1:43 scale it's at $100 bid with 4 days to go! I guess I should have bought a few.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SSMT-Micro-Crawler- ... dZViewItem

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:19 pm

I'll gonna go out on a limb here and say that the bidders are fake or won't pay.

They all have really low points. But.....I could be very wrong.

That price is crazy.

I have one, anyone got a $100?

Hell.... I'll do it for $90 shipped.

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Wed May 23, 2007 9:55 pm

I've got three bucks and a vintage yo-yo I'd be willing to part with.

Murdoch · Post by **Murdoch** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:15 pm

100 bucks? yea i'll pay that when I want a hole in the head.

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:22 pm

lmao, you could buy a m18mt for 110$ and create the ultimate custom crawler.

SHAUN · Post by **SHAUN** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:35 pm

I saw thison RCC a few hours ago, prettey high price. and its toy grade

You could buy some TLT axles for what you pay for that.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Thu May 24, 2007 9:43 am

Damn and mine's in pieces spread throughout the apartment.

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:19 pm

the sad part is that I never really wanted a crawler until I got a Nylint at a garage sale, I planned on putting it on ebay but had so much fun "testing" it I had to keep it...so when I saw a SSMT I wanted one but they were long gone by then...if these are real bidders (the last one so far at 102 has a 32 feedback and I checked they're mostly rc stuff) I guess I'll never get one. Maybe I'll have to try a zap build-up.

ibjamn · Post by **ibjamn** » Sat May 26, 2007 6:50 am

It's all about the supply and demand, there is no supply, yet a very high demand from a small group.

Right about the time people started wanting them, Canada was the only place that had them. They were taken out of the US TRU's and a couple months later, released up there. I lucked out on getting a few from Outcast's group buys, from scale4x4rc.
Then I traded one of them for this modded Mini-Z with a trans-am body, built by kingcobra from scale4x4rc. I am going to put a Grand National body on it.
http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showth ... post161319

I felt that maybe I should have gotten some money for it, I really didn't need another rc. He used those axles to make this thing.......so at least it went to a good cause....

This thing is insane, and he has a vid up on that page, also.
http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showth ... 46&page=11

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:02 am

Wow that was going to a good cause, way more ambitious than anything I ever would have used them for.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sat May 26, 2007 11:26 am

Wow, I thought that was real for a second.

Ya know, if the axles are all those things were good for, I still got those. I'm getting ideas. I got an Iwaver PCB I was saving for something special. I've got some spare mini-t drive shafts and cups. I'm thinking if I pick up some turnbuckles, ball cups, and sheets of plastic, I just may have a project. I need to find a cool body and wheels to really get inspired though.

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:00 pm

127 and climbing...one day left!!!

ibjamn · Post by **ibjamn** » Sat May 26, 2007 8:42 pm

crazydave wrote:Wow, I thought that was real for a second.

Ya know, if the axles are all those things were good for, I still got those. I'm getting ideas. I got an Iwaver PCB I was saving for something special. I've got some spare mini-t drive shafts and cups. I'm thinking if I pick up some turnbuckles, ball cups, and sheets of plastic, I just may have a project. I need to find a cool body and wheels to really get inspired though.

He didn't even use turnbuckles. He used fuel tubing.

I was eyeing my daughters tyco 1/18th scale 4dr frontier for a little while. Perfect for keeping the wheels/tires tucked under the body, just too heavy (ABS plastic) to risk breaking the axles.

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:57 pm

Well it ended at...drum roll please...$167.50 Plus $10 shipping. I contacted the seller and he said he'd let me know if the winner pays...he expected it to go for around $50 so he's as shocked as I was.

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:16 pm

just herd from the seller he said "Yup.. Paid in full 5 mins after auction ended... I would have never thunk
it.." I've got to start wacthing garage sales/ flee markets for these little gold mines.