Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:19 pm
I keep looking out for a bargain on eBay, but secondhand Powercabs seem to sell for as much as new ones!
Model Railway Forum
For all model railways and railway modellers
https://www.modelrailwayforum.com/
Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Page 1 of 3
Re: Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:27 pm
You missed one on tuesday for £60.
Re: Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:37 pm
Was that just the handset?
Re: Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:39 pm
No complete kit. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Model-Railwa ... 5573.m1684
Re: Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:50 pm
Well that is disappointing! 
Even worse I have just seen a complete set sold in January for £40!
Even worse I have just seen a complete set sold in January for £40!
Re: Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:00 pm
You need to be alert with ebay. Just to rub salt in the wound the £60 one was from just down the road from you. 
Re: Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:53 pm
Thank you for that!
A lot of the cheaper ones are usually from the US, so you have to add £15+ carriage plus duty.
Good to see though that there are some innocents out there who don’t know what they are worth.
A lot of the cheaper ones are usually from the US, so you have to add £15+ carriage plus duty.
Good to see though that there are some innocents out there who don’t know what they are worth.
Re: Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:57 am
Things are worth what you can get for them when you sell them. I’d rather some idiot gave me £500 for something worth £50.
Re: Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:45 am
Slightly worrying that so many are available 2nd hand given the popularity of them on this forum. Are folk changing it for a different DCC system. going back to DC or leaving the hobby altogether one wonders?
Re: Is the NCE Powercab underpriced?
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:51 am
I don’t think we will ever know the answer to that one TWD.
The NCE is always the one recommended, and I picked one up at the end of last year for a reasonable price on eBay. It works perfectly well but in my opinion it is not as intuitive as my old Prodigy and I don’t find the buttons are placed in a logical position. The result is that I, personally, find it a little more ‘awkward’ to use.
The NCE is always the one recommended, and I picked one up at the end of last year for a reasonable price on eBay. It works perfectly well but in my opinion it is not as intuitive as my old Prodigy and I don’t find the buttons are placed in a logical position. The result is that I, personally, find it a little more ‘awkward’ to use.