I recently sold a 26″ Ti singlespeed. Didn’t have a £520 chainring but was decent spec – XT brakes, Thomson bars/stem, Hope hubs, Velocity P35 rims etc,.
The fact it was singlespeed would have no doubt lowered the value but it sold for £570.
Would agree that £1000 would be about right for a higher end price for the Soda.
I’m still not sure I’d be spending that on a second hand frame and wheel’s with some 10 speed XT slapped on it. Think he would be better putting some standard finishing kit on and selling the ti bits separately. But hey, gotta love a try’er, and seems he may have read this thread and removed his chainring fib…..