1957 Soft Plastic Mediterranean Blue 500

[TelePlay]

Anyone win this phone? $393 including shipping. Interesting competition with 14 bidders and only 15 bids.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221220146869

Stated defect was a cracked finger wheel.

[liteamorn]

I tried but was outbid , my max wasn't even close.

[AE40FAN]

I bid too...just seems to be going higher and higher for these phones!  I better start hitting flea markets and garage sales....

[MagicMo]

I bid too! 
Mo

[zaphod01]

I bid, too. Pictures showed a 3-57 date on the base.

Wasn't this actually a 1957?

[MagicMo]

Yes, it was a 1957. She made a typo when listing it.

[WesternElectricBen]

Wish I could have snatched it up, thats my dads birth year/month...

[MagicMo]

I changed the finger wheel and lightly cleaned it with dish soap. It is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen! It is Mediterranean Blue correct??
Thanks,
Mo

[WesternElectricBen]

Yes your right it's Mediterranean blue, I would think your dad might have had some!

[MagicMo]

The inside date:

[liteamorn]

HEY, you said you bid on it, YOU DIDN'T SAY YOU WON IT !!!! CONGRATULATIONS on a beautiful phone!

[MagicMo]

HEY, you said you bid on it, YOU DIDN'T SAY YOU WON IT !!!! CONGRATULATIONS on a beautiful phone!

Thanks. I was a little embarrassed to admit to it. I'm trying to get rid of phones and here I am spending big bucks on one phone from Ebay. I am trying to get one 500 in every color and now I'm much closer to my goal. It sure is pretty. I'm going to try and stay off of Ebay for at least a couple months. Do you know if they have Ebay rehab?
My Ebay feedback should really read something like this: POSITIVE: Plain brown packaging seemed to fool my husband. Thanks!

;)Mo

[DavePEI]

POSITIVE: Plain brown packaging seemed to fool my husband. Thanks!

Just as long as it doesn't ring while you unwrap it   

That is one beautiful phone, Maureen. Sadly, once hooked on phones, you are a phone addict for life!

Dave

[AE40FAN]

Congratulations Maureen!  I'm happy it went to an active member of the forum but, I can't say that I'm not a little jealous;-)  I'd suggest polishing it up with some sort of plastic polish (novus) shine that baby up!  Hopefully, one day I'll have one of these in my possession...

[HarrySmith]

WOW! Here we have a textbook case of phoneitis

This was back in November:
"I just began looking, I have boxes and boxes of parts and phones. I have a box full of brand new princess phones never taken from their box, tools, tool boxes, tool belts, hard hats, switchboard, bell luggage, testers, early mobile phones etc etc. It's crazy! He didn't get rid of anything. It's all gonna be sold. I just have to haul it all down from the attic. I am guessing about 40 boxes."

Now Mo is buying phones to get one in every color

Mo, are you trying to get all the soft 500's in the 16 original colors or evey 500 color ever made, soft, hard, modular, hardwire and the variants?