Good deal on a Fox Rocket

I got a kick out of the starting price. Seems like this guy is in need of some serious cash.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3152672105&category=34055

Jay

By the way what is this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3152665154&category=34055

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>By the way what is this?
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>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3152665154&category=34055

It is a first version Fox .35 stunt. Commonly called the sandcast Fox.
It has a four bolt head and a two bolt backplate. This example has one head fin broken and extra mounting holes have been drilled in the lugs.

>I got a kick out of the starting price. Seems like this guy
>is in need of some serious cash.
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>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3152672105&category=34055
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>Jay

Wow! Has the US buck been devalued that much recently?

Eggy:P

The first one (the Fox 35 (Rocket)) is NOT a .35!!! It is a .40.

Bigiron

Marvin,
How do we tell?
Thanks!
Bill

Easy. The space between the head and the block. Note the gap. The .35 does not have this. Also, you want to have the venturi insert in place on these engines, too.

Jay, complete, total disagreement with your comment that the "guy really needs the cash" conclusion re the low starting price.

As you know, I sell on ebay. Some of the best prices I have gotten were items with very low starting prices.

Ex: Comet "rubber" kits that started at $10, got $60+.

Engines that ended up 6X the start price. Got $666 for a McCoy .60 once, with a start barely in 3 digits.

Over 700 transactions so far. Many, many examples of low start, high finish.

The question is: As a seller, do you have the cajones to do this? Many do not. Fear and greed make them post a "high" starting price.

Here's a trap that a lot of sellers make. Say an engine has a generally agreed upon value, tops, around $100. So it gets posted as $100 for starting price, and, 3 times out of 4, no bid.

That same engine could have been started at $49.99. And it very likely would end up considerably north of $100.

Use online auctions to your advantage as a seller. Let the psychology of the auction place work in your behalf. Let the bidders' egos and, hopefully, bidding fever get stoked.

In fact, I am going to bid on this .40 Rocket! See, the seller's strategy worked. Proof of the pudding...

These make fine stunt motors for overweight models that already are drilled for Fox Stunt 35s. Holes are identical. I did this on a Hellcat.

I agree.

They are fun on old "period" type Rat Racers like the Altair, Devil Dart, Guillows, etc. too.

Jake

Hope it doesn't shake as bad as a Rocket 35!

>Hope it doesn't shake as bad as a Rocket 35!

They do- just like the late .36 "X"s do. WORST shaker I ever had by far though was a McCoy .35 "Redhead". It was actually unpleasant to fly the model because the handle vibrated so (and NO, it wasn't the prop or anything else- it was this one motor).

Currell,
The auction had been edited, or whatever.
The original starting price was $19,154.00!! Pretty sure that was a typo.
Now it's 9.95.
Bill

Yes - I Emailed the seller and they responed with an Oops.

same for me, got a response that it was a mistake.

OK: He went from one extreme to the other.

The Rockets shake about like a Fox Stunt. Currell

Seems like You Currel went from one extreme to the other. No need to go on explaining the finer points of ebay. I too have been a buyer and seller. I thought you were going to bid the 19 grand that he was asking for. That would a been a real bargain. LOL
Jay

Sorry, Jay. I thought it started at $9.95. Currell

My uneducated guess on the sand cast, 4 bolter, Fox would be that it is a second version fox .35. The first version had a very thin cylinder head and the 2 bolt back plate. Any form of overheating on the first version and the head turned into a potato chip!

HEY, ARE YOU TELLING ME ITS NOT WORTH $19.154 ?
WOW, AM I EVER NEW.
TORHAM1