Oh,i would pull it.But i think Minichamps would pull it first!

Any news today Jasper?

No,nothing.I will ring them on Monday!!:flame:

Let us know how you get on :D

I tell you,i'm going to put it on ebay.Just for a laugh."extremely rare Minichamps,i cannot vouch for it's authenticity etc.But please contact Minichamps for details""Lets see how long it lasts!!:devil:

if you dont want it i'll start the dsc bidding at £5 mate, sold as seen mind you

Deej,that's so generous of you.In fact,would you mind taking it off my hands and i'll give you £5!!:D

again to add very interesting. If everything that was on e-bay that was fake was removed there would be half as much stuff on there. Try looking at designer named stuff, - my wife seems to collect handbags, - and some of the wording is very clever on the adverts.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...9474 537&rd=1

This is very unlikley to be the real thing, - it uses the word authentic rather than genuine, - it's worth 5 times what it has sold for.

I know minichamps are far more nteresting, I will ge my coat....

yes jasper i'll take it off your hands with pleasure especially if your paying, will be much cheaper than a lawyer when the germans come to get their stolen property back :lol::lol::lol::lol:

Deej,i don't care what everybody else says about you,i think you are as Generous as they come!!:D

never say the cornish arent generous

we were the experts at smuggling once so if you need a disused cave or mineshaft to hide/lose it in give us a bell:roll:

Did you ring them Jasper?

HEs gone into hiding

Jasper if you end up taking a trip to germany let me know as we can go and visit that guy who tried to swindle us both.:D

Ok,Update on "The Rarest of the rare"!!.I have talked to Minichamps today and received the following e-mail as confirmation of the conversation>basically it IS a Minichamps that was produced by hand as a Pre-production model that was then not produced.The Model was NEVER intented to go on the general market!!When i asked whether they were prepared to confirm this to anybody that may e-mailthem,should i put it on e-bay,they said they would.Which was nice of them.

So,it's a VERY RARE Minichamps indeed.So,it looks like E-bay beckons,lets see what it's worth to all those that think they have them all(or all the 96/998's!!).

Please send all bids in a securicor van!:D

E-mail from Minichamps:

Hi,

thanks for your e-mail and your help.

I have discussed about this bike with my chief and the Project manager from us. We think that you have bought a decoration bike / Handsample and we have not produced this bike in this colour for the general market.

We have stopped the auction by ebay because we need the adress from the seller, but you don't fear something.

With best regards

Andreas

£200

Interesting story! Nice to see it's been confirmed, and I can understand why they want the sellers details.

You should sell it to Adam :D

thankyou dave:roll:

As I have already said to jasper It would be great if minichamps sent a letter on their headed paper to confirm the bike. That makes it 100% and a nice addition to the bike.

[Edited on 9-5-2005 by adam]

£200!!!!!You having a laugh matey!!:DThose common as muck 1999 Corser and 2000 Bayliss's fetch £400!

lol. sorry. ok didnt mean to offend you. £150 and I will pay the postage.
;)

How about the £7.50 for the Hodgson first!!:D

£7.50? blimey, ive paid you too much.:lol:

A 2000 Reynolds went for £147 a short while ago. Prices seem to be on the up at the moment. There are at least 3 Hodgson 2000s on eBay at the moment too. Everyone's selling!

maybe they know something we dont:puzzled:

I'm begining to think that alot of these "rare" models aren't quite as rare as they're made out to be!!

The Hodgson 2000 & Reynolds 2000 come up quite often on the bay!!
But the true rare ones ie Bayliss 2000,Bostrom 2000 & Corser 99 only come up once in a bluemoon!I think alot of people bought the models just because they liked the look of them & now they see that they are fetching strong money they're selling them to cash in!

True collectors would sell any part of their collection just to make a few bob!!
Having said that,how much do you want for the test bike Jasper????:lol::lol:

I'm still watching that Corser 99,just waiting for the missus to turn her back!!!:lol::lol:

[Edited on 10-5-2005 by baylissboy]

like yuo sat its only the 3 early bikes that are rare as everybody only bought the foggy bike when it came out especially at £40 a go

the hodgy and reynolds bike arent as rare thats why theyre only going upto £150/200 but it always seems to be the same people bidding on them each time.