That is silly...and totally taking advantage of those buyers who unaware of the Japanese auctions!! As a seller I suppose that is what free enterprise is all about, but as a collector who once was confined to, and strictly only used eBay (because it was the only resource I knew of), it is quite a gouging. We got ours (pristine box & contence) for under $150 just a year and a half ago, when they were going for "$300-$500"!!... Maybe the market has shifted a bit since then, and we'll never see them go for under $300 at auction again, but $1600+, let alone listing it at $2400 is absurd.
Be patient!! They will come back one day in multiple listings all at once on the Japanese sites, and you'll be able to finally pick one up!!
Play nice & have fun!!
This is way to much for this set and yes the seller could try to take advantage of people that don't know jauce. At $3200 Australian dollars it is way to steep and is not one of the rarest trains/sets out there. There will be another set on there sooner or later and will be far, far less. The seller also has it on Jauce and he has many other rare sets and train on there as well, maybe he will put them all on eBay at ridiculous prices
Just for curiosity I made an offer of $500 and the Seller countered at $1600. As far as rarity, here in the States you almost never see this offered up in a box on Ebay especially from US sellers. Its a rare occurrence to even see the set as used. This new in the box set would have looked real nice in the 'Future World Collection' but not at that high of price.
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