I do not collect Centuri kits, but wasn't this a starter kit back in the day just like the Estes Alpha?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...:MEWA:IT&ih=002

It was available with the "Powr Pad" as a starter set like the Alpha III starter set. I have a Screamin Eagle starter set that I got off eBay last year. The rocket was already built (poorly). It had to be repaired before I flew it, but the pad was in near new condition. I got the whole thing including original box, instructions, etc. for a price close to what starter sets cost today.

There were a few not so older Centuri kits a week ago that all ended in the $120's I think. There was a Scorpion that I would have loved to get but it's hard for me to justify that kind of money...

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Kurt Knox
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Criminy! And the bid skyrocketed from $35.00 to $222.22 in 1 bid..crazy...shakes head and mutters something about fools and money going separate directions....

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Jon
SAM #0396
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NAR 86940
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It wasn't just one bid. Somebody put a huge maximum bid in and all the folks that bid after that didn't show up because their bids were lower than his. If I were to bid $1000, ebay will only bid the lowest amount above the current bid, which would be somewhere around $225. There's no way a single bid will jump from $35 up to $222 in one bid because of that feature.

Sure it could. Bidder A could have, like you said, bid $225, but currently had the bid at, say, $20.
Bidder B comes in and bids $223. He is outbid (by Bidder A's max proxy bid), but Bidder A now has it at $224 (or whatever).

One bid causes the (apparent) amount to rise from $20 to $224...

-Tim

To me, that's two bids. Bidder B makes his bid, and eBay automagically bids again for bidder A.

I know it's a point of view thing. You are explaining it where Bidder B is the only one to physically do anything. I see each electronic jump in price as a seperate bid.

Ah, gotcha. I thought you meant it would take more than one bid (a bid being an actual human typing in an amount) after the first one.

As my wife will tell you, I often misunderstand things or am just plain wrong!

-Tim

I have two. My most recent one cost me $10.

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I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc - Starfighter Scorpion Centuri - Mini Dactyl Estes - F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc - Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark

You definately aren't wrong. We just have different terminology.