Yet the Yat Ming company do a fire trauck similar for about $70. You just need the flat car and detailing of it.
https://www.diecastdirect.com/asp_modules/catalogmfg.asp?Mfg=YM&Type=&RChar=&Scale=24
Mmmmmmmmm
Ross,
you know that anything sells on eBay, as long as one finds a gullible buyer.
PS http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gullible
Ross yea that price of the “custom” flat car does seam a tad high. But that’s Ebay for you. Years ago I got a laugh, when a Heartland Liberty bell was selling on Ebay for over twice the price posted on Heartland’s site, and at the time it was still in stock at Heartland.
BTW, why don’t they make model firetrucks in the proper colour? A red firetruck? That’s just a goofy as a red barn.
What’s gulls got to do with it ?
It isn’t as though the wagon is any good either .
The thing I hate about these types of thing is the people who do buy them are often not gullible , but have been looking for a surprise present for hubby/son/anyone , without the knowledge that the stuff is a rip-off .
I have regrettably seen it happen , not to anyone in my family , but friends who in one case showed me the “fantastic model” , and another who was (rightly) suspicious of what he’d received . Neither of these were railway connected , they were both “rare” diecasts .
One got the money back via ebay protection . The other did not wish to upset his wife .
Mike
Mike, that is one reason my mom doesn’t buy things for me. She doesn’t know what I want, and she doesn’t know the normal street price for any of my large scale equipment.
I tell folks to shop around and compare prices, apples to apples, to see what the going price is. Compare the same make and model at one retailer to the SAME make and model at another retailer. If you know what the street price is, then you know a good deal when you see it. Whether its on a retailer’s site, Ebay, Trainz.com or wherever you shop.
So $250 for a $70 or $80 firetruck on a custom flatcar riding on what look to be Heartland trucks and decent quality metal wheels does seam to be a tad overpriced.
David,
Did you buy/order any engines this week? 
How many times does it need to be said:
CAVEAT EMPTOR … BUYER BE WARE
Bob Cope said:
How many times does it need to be said:
CAVEAT EMPTOR … BUYER BE WARE
Bob,
Sometimes it takes a little longer, in Swiss German we refer to that as “a long line” - it takes a while for the signal to get there. 
PS @ David last time I looked many of our fire engines were still red.
Hans, no, no I didn’t buy any engines, but I did buy 2 EBT LGB hoppers and some LGB mine cars. I need to quit the buying spree, or build more storage, or both.
Red fire engines? Huh? That was a disagreement I kept getting into with them “doctors” when I was a kid. They wanted me to say fire engines were red, and I knew that was the answer they wanted. But as a child, I could never understand why though. My Pap (grandfather) was a fireman, and he took me down to the fire hall with him once in a while. He even let me sit in the driver’s seat of the ladder truck once. So I had seen firetrucks up close, and they are GREEN!
And don’t forget , some railway engines are BLOOCHOOCHOOS .
Mike .
8 years ago I bought that fire truck at BJ’s for less than $20.00 in York, PA while attending the ECLSTS.
At the show the same truck was selling for $69 at 2 different vendors!!
As always, buyer beware.
David Maynard said:
Red fire engines? Huh? That was a disagreement I kept getting into with them “doctors” when I was a kid. They wanted me to say fire engines were red, and I knew that was the answer they wanted. But as a child, I could never understand why though. My Pap (grandfather) was a fireman, and he took me down to the fire hall with him once in a while. He even let me sit in the driver’s seat of the ladder truck once. So I had seen firetrucks up close, and they are GREEN!
David,
They can be any color the department wants them to be…
http://www.firefighternation.com/article/apparatus-innovations/what-color-should-fire-truck-be
Joe, yea, but them child psychologists wouldn’t hear of it. The only answer they wanted was “red”. And as a young child I wasn’t able to assert myself. But I knew that firetrucks were green, and I wasn’t going to tell them that they were red, because they weren’t. So there.
Our firetrucks are green. the pavement princesses are red.
Having got used to British and European fire engines being Red , Red/White , Vomit Green , Yucky Yellow and other attention getters , I found it confusing when driving in the USA because of the wide colour variation , but they all had one thing in common .
Go to the Engine House , ask if you can take pictures , and without exception they will move the engine to its most photogenic position . Even in Noo Yawk .
Mike