Just won this one.........waiting for the postman........

Good capture Chris.I am still waiting to find one ! Richard

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Hi Richard,
Welcome home indeed,
don ' t see many of either of those over here,
result the tin tilt is still there too.CW.

Hi Chris.Meanwhile,
there is a mistake: the marriage between the Ford
and the tilt ! This Ford ref.25lc was sold without tilt.The green tilt goes with the Ford ref.25ja which has a moulded hook.Mine has a metallic one.Cheers

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Greetings all! I recently won this through a seller in Germany on eBay, costing about 50% less than had I won it through Vectis when two red hub Terex boxed models were sold through them over the past two years. Hopefully it will soon arrive in my post office box and will be waiting for me on my return to Australia! Now all I need to find, and cheaply, is an example with the military green hubs, and my Euclid/Terex set will be complete! (But do not tell the wife!! ) Regards Bruce in Manila (150) #541

OOOH that is so nice Bruce! Result! Chris Warr

Hi Bruce, that looks really nice. Were you able to use your normal login e-bay details or do you have to have a specific account with e-bay Germany. Dave

Thanks Chris and Dave, Dave, I just use my normal eBay account, which allows me to bid on anything on any of eBay's various sites. My eBay search covers anything Dinky and I exclude words such as Atlas (for sure!!), repro, reproduction, copy, etc, which then reduces the quantity to just genuine Dinky Toys that interest me. Even then, the total number of Dinky Toys on the various sites still comes to over 6,000, with several hundred being listed each day. I do not bother going through all those, but then from the list, I then search out particular models, such as 965 in this case. I must confess I was somewhat stunned with the final price which was Euro216.00, very pleasing, plus of course postage, and most importantly, no buyers premium! Now to wait for its arrival and see if the model is worth every cent of those Euros! Kind regards Bruce(150) #542

Hi Dave, I remember you telling to have no, or limited, access to some other country's eBay, but I have no restrictions at all. Hi Bruce, and what about denials like: no Atlas, no repro, not played with, etc.? Kind regards, Jan

Jan I use the refined search tools available through eBay, otherwise I would receive notification for over 12,000 Dinky related models, which includes reproduction boxes (literally 100s of them which are of no interest to me) Atlas, (I am not interested in these Chinese copies), repro (many sellers only use that terminology for reproduction, Matchbox (I am no longer interested in Matchbox Dinky), DY, as that includes the latter. In other words I have eBay eliminate anything that is of no interest. I then use a further search tool that includes words such as mint, near mint, excellent, original box, etc, thus refining my search even further. Of course my search engine may miss something if for instance a seller includes the words, 'original box not a reproduction', but I then pick that up when eBay does the next search for 'original box'. I then target from what eBay sends by requesting a search for particular models 965, 905, 501, 930, 102, 140a, 196, 182, 156, etc, etc. Without utilizing eBay's own search engine, I literally save hours and hours of scrolling through hundreds and hundreds of entries. eBay was for me a secondary tool for the past 8 years although between 1993 and 2007 I used eBay plus traditional auction houses, as I have concentrated my purchases since 2007 on two auction houses, mainly through these posting the items themselves and not farming mailing out to a third party. The auction houses are Wallis & Wallis and Vectis. I discontinued my association with the latter as from last year when my loyalty of over 20 years and over 250 lots won was not considered with a Mobilgas tanker I had won that had two thirds of its tank tabs broken off that was not included in the description and the condition of the lot that was over stated. For Vectis, my absence has been a reduction in countless auctions when my participation would have resulted in a higher final price and thus a greater financial return for that company, even if I did not win that lot. (Based on the previous twelve months, both with lots I won and those not, this in effect has meant a reduction in their income of a conservative figure of about