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What's your best example of Covid pricing on ebay (or other platforms) then?
I just found this BIN for a Surly Instigator 1.0 frame - Ebay link
£280 for a 10+ year old 26" frame (and headset, ooh lucky!)
I was thinking about selling my Instigator frame (same age, but the 18" in orange) and was checking ebay for prices.
I was going to ask for about £120 for my frame! (not a stealth ad btw, I'm still not even 100% that I'll sell it) and I think £280 is madness!
£22 Billion for a track and trace system that doesn't work? 😉
A bike identical to mine (that's now 6 years old) just sold for £2670 on eBay. That's 75% of its new price. It wasn't even in particularly good condition.
£22 Billion for a track and trace system that doesn’t work
Fair point, well made!
Might try and sell my 26" Jamis.
15" frame, Raw Alloy.
XT 4 pot discs (1999 ish).
LX cranks.
Chromo rigid forks.
I'm shortly about to list a ROSE Pro DX frameset with a cosmetic dent in it - hoping that Brexit and Covid tax might help iron out the dent (so to speak!)!
P20 sold an 18-year-old Colnago C40 last week for more than he paid for it new! (Ok, he did get it at trade price at the time, but still!).
R7000 chainset...
Was £90, now ~£155...
Bargain, I'll take 10! 😮
Prices are still nuts. I sold my old Planet X road bike (auction) on ebay for £575, which was far more than I was expecting.
Thinking of selling a Mint Sauce keyring to see if I can retire early....
this £22,000,000,000 test and trace, isn't actual spend, thats the budget set aside,
it will be interesting to see the breakdown of this number,
only £4b spent by end of october 2020.
whether its spent on local government, nhs or outsourcing it'll still be squandered royally..
Struggling to find numbers of contract £s signed for Serco, Sitel and Capita
There’s a guy on Facebook selling ‘New’ forks from ‘16-‘18, for £5-600. Without mentioning the model year, obvs.
Anyone questions the pricing it’s ‘bet you can’t find any in stock at that price!’ Well, no, because they stopped making them 5 years ago...
2010 orange dh bike (224?) £1200
Orange bikes have always held their value well anyway. Especially Fives and Alpine 160s.
maybe but it still seemed expansive to me for a 12 y/o bike, 26" wheels, straight steer obsolete in most components, old geometry bike.
I've kind of gone the opposite direction with my ebay sales.
Priced them all low (at least 20-30% lower than other sellers) and sold everything I've put on there within 24 hours every time!
TheBrick
Free Member2010 orange dh bike (224?) £1200
That's just what they cost really, if the parts are halfway decent. I sold a well specced one for £1500 about 5 years ago and built a really nice for a little less 2 years ago. Oranges tend to hold their value well but also the 224 Evo has tons of adjustability so you can still build a very effective bike.
(the suspension design is still shite but then it always was, and with a good shock it works well enough- and though they're not the fastest dh bikes they're a lot of fun.)
Local FB bike buy/sell has attracted a few dicks offering used bikes and parts well over the odds.
Most-recent was a NOS Magic Mary for £58 (plus postage).
Thought it was a typo.
Going to build up my shocker with posts i think and see if i can punt that on. Prices do seem to be high still
Well, put my Surly frame on for £160, and accepted an offer of £150.
Sold in under 3 hours.
I suspect Mr £280 will be waiting a while.
Did I under price it?
Maybe a bit.
Have I got the cash in my (PayPal) pocket?
Hell yes.
Houses with gardens in places with nice countryside around....