Do you think getting rid of the colour would help it sell ?
Chakaping I want to sell it for what I think is a fair price.A lot of folk on here are saying it's worth around the same as older run of the mill bikes ?
Renton, come on, it's not worth what you think it is, if it was you'd have sold it by now, sadly it's that simple. You now have a simple decision, sell it for what "the market" thinks it is worth or keep it.
Options.
(a) we are all giving an honest answer.
(b) we are all lying just for a laugh
(c) we are all really after a XL 26" older bike and are hoping to get a bargain when you reduce the price.
renton - Member
So basically You are saying it's worth the same as some older spesh
What is being said is that nobody wants to pay what you are asking, Specialized is one of the most recognisable names in the trade, will always come up on the ebay searches. They also don't look to be XL bikes - this is the other issue you are pitching to a much smaller market. By the looks of that ebay will give you a better return than here so you should stick it on there.
This thread is hilarious. Never have I seen one person so determined to deny all the evidence in front of him and miss the point entirely on half the comments.
Classic case of 'I disagree so I must defend'.
All you're doing is damaging the eventual resale of the bike by keeping the price high and stringing it out so that its perceived as even more outdated than it is now.
Yeah Angry Ram
I am genuinely baffled as to why my 5 spot isn't selling.
Ask yourself this question...
Would [b]you[/b] buy it for the asking price?
If the answer is yes then you should keep it. 😛
I'd leave the colour more good money after bad etc.
also the eBay links you place'd are for complete bikes so they might command a higher value, if your a newish biker and are looking to move to a full sus spesh is a known brand! As apposed to boutique brands like turner.
I think you must realise some where in your head it's time to cut your losses and out it at what eve the price now
Just put it up for £300 posted and see what happens.
Batman11
I've got mine advertised at 900 posted ono for the complete bike as it is ??
Do you still think that is too high?
That 2008 Enduro still looks modern and probably has fairly slack angles compared to your Turner, even the older Spesh Enduros were ahead of their time geometry wise.
It's that kind of thing that sells these days, not how boutique a brand is...the emergence of YT, Canyon, Solid, Rose etc has opened a lot of people's eyes as to how much (new) bike you can get these days for less than 2k, viewed like that who'd want a 5 yr old bike for 1k?!
I looked at a (new) Turner frame last year when buying something full-sus to build up with the forks and wheels I had laying around, even their new models seem expensive and outdated compared to the mass produced stuff around at the moment, they may well be boutique but they appear to have gone off the boil and don't seem fashionable at the moment...that counts for a lot when you want 1k from someone for a product half a decade old!
Things (sadly) seem to move as quickly in MTBing as the mobile phone world, this years hot product is obsolete in 12 months time, best advice I can give anybody on this forum is to buy a frame with as many interchangeable standards as possible....get a 44mm or tapered headtube to future proof against fork steelers, get a frame that can swap to a 142x12 rear axle, look for as much clearance as possible (sadly '+' size tyres are coming), if you're planning on keeping a frame for any length of time it needs to be able to take an Angleset to keep up with changing geometry etc etc.
Rant over....also buy 27.5 or 29 inch wheels, people just aren't buying expensive 26 inch stuff currently...which is a shame as my hardtail is 26 and rides as well as ever, I've had it at BPW, FoD, Cwmcarn, QECP, Rogate and all over the Surrey Hills this winter and all I've needed to do is change tyres depending on where I've been riding...and as a bonus 26 inch tyres are cheap!
I'd keep the Turner, there are now Anglesets for 1 1/8 steerer tubes, they only slacken by 1 degree but it's better than nothing, have the forks and shock serviced, buy some wide 26 inch rims (which are also cheap ATM), fit beefy tyres and enjoy the new lease of life your bike will have...then when you feel you've got all you can out of it sell it in a year or twos time and accept that £500 is probably what you'll get but you'll have had the bike for 7 years by then and had a blast, think of what you get for a second hand bike as merely the deposit for the next one and you'll never be too disappointed.
Deviant.... Can't get much bigger than the 2.4 that are fitted to it already.
It sort of makes sense to view it like as the deposit on a new bike in a couple of years time.
Pesky bike industry moving the goalposts all the time to eek out as much money out of punters as possible.
Some perspective
http://www.hargrovescycles.co.uk/bikes/mountain-bikes/specialized-camber-evo-2014-mountain-bike.html
£1500 new
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/kona-process-suspension-bike-2013/rp-prod123658
£1300 new
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/cube-sting-140-pro-29-suspension-bike-2014/rp-prod114162
£1250 new
It's not the pesky industry moving goalposts there are just bikes that are really good value out there.
So you all reckon a 2010 boutique bike is worth less than some older run of the mill specialized bikes ?
Yes. Get the hint, as many people have told you on here.
Lots of people who buy Specialized have never heard of Turner. Plus it's an XL. Always a slow size to sell.
If it was worth what you want for it, it would have sold. It's not, so it hasn't.
And without trying to sound too harsh, Turner's look like sh*t - i've seen less than 12 month old Burners with much higher spec's struggle to sell for £500 more than you want for yours.
They arn't a popular bike, at all.
As others have said, 99p start on Ebay & you'll see what it's really worth, not what you want it to be worth.
Renton, you are being incredibly naive, much like you demonstrate with your various car buying threads :roll:.
Don't spend any more money changing the bike to try and get it to sell - it won't help.
However...the price the 'bike experts' tell you it is worth on STW, will be much lower than what you might get from a non-expert on ebay if you are patient and advertise it right. I've sold a few old bikes on ebay with reserve prices (£750-1000) that would be deemed ridiculous on here, always to non-bike experts (either new to the sport, or getting back into it). All have been happy with their purchase, so it's not like they have been fleeced. I've often had to be patient, re-list them a few times, and decline low offers. As others have mentioned, it's not the best time of year to be trying to find that type of buyer.
I've got mine advertised at 900 posted ono for the complete bike as it is ??Do you still think that is too high?
Oh FFS!
Everyone thinks it's too high except you, but what does it matter what we think...
As Angeldust said, sometimes you can get lucky.
I sold a Spesh Allez road bike (£600 new) for £450 twelve months later!...the buyer didn't know bikes, he just knew he liked it and it was smart looking to be fair, all coordinated blue and white throughout, people on here would've hated it but the young lad loved it and uses it as his flashy London commuter.
Drop the price slightly and stubbornly keep relisting it, you may get lucky?
Your eBay listing suggests you turned down an offer of £900.
So you've already found the (quite reasonable) value that your bike will sell for.
Mods can we change the thread title to "why won't I sell my bike?" please?
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Why isn't it selling? Have you ever ridden one? Then there's your answer.I slagged off the 1/ 1/8 headtube one on here and was flamed for it. Awkward old school set of angles etc.
I've ridden one - nothing wrong with the angles - must be your riding style/skill level. There's several people on here with dw-link fluxes that have ridden them all over the place and I have never seen a compliant about head angles there, and that is steeper than the 2010 5 spot.
People have heard of specialized because they have a big marketing budget.
The bike is worth more to someone who knows Turners as they know how good and solid their bushings are - which is reassuring for buying a second hand bike.
Realistically £900 I'd say no! but then where still back to what is a 5 year old frame and geometry to XC by today's standards. Long,low and slack is the order today. Not tall,steep and short which your frame is.
Keep the gears and brakes and just out the frame forks and wheels cheep.
I'm the same as you always have XL frames and have always had to suck it up and sell them cheeper than I want to!!
But I'm realistic I realise that being tall in the bike world is always against me when reselling.
Out it,out it, out it just get some cash back in the bike fund bank.
Sorry to be so blunt Renton I do feel for you.
This is a funny thread.
Put it on ebay at 99p start with a reserve set at the least you'll accept. Then you'll get your answer.
Bikes are an investment into one's fun - If you need to justify them pertaining to their deprication either buy super rare collectables that may hold relative value or make do with cheaper ones - Replace with second-hand will also offset losses incurred ..
The market is flooded now http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/2012-turner-5-spot-great-spec-pikes-reverb-thomson-etc-1850-ono 😉
That one is lovely, still too much money though....you can buy the new Alu Capra for the same price....I reckon you'll need to go to less than £1500.
Bloody hell, hope he adjusts his expectations a bit easier.
Then you'll get your answer.
But he won't. He'll set the reserve too high.
Case in point - my buddy has a sweet spec Privee Shan literally sat gathering dust - he wants to sell but doesn't think he'll get what he wants for it - shame really as a bike that nice you'd be enjoyed by somebody ..
Lots of old but good turners on here :
that one above is also going to have problems selling as it is a medium - Turner messed up the sizing I reckon on those dw-link versions - up to 5.8 or 5.9 maybe but 5.10 is a large, even Dave Turner recommended large for someone of 5.10.
Rentons is a 2010 as well, and 2010 frames were being sold off cheap by CRC as I remember, which I think started the low 2nd hand values for bikes of that age.
Thanks for all the kind words.
Realisation is starting to kick in that it probably is worth more to me than what it really is worth.
Just sucks a bit which most people must understand.
and what sort of terrain are you riding - long, slack and low is only really much point if you are riding steep stuff a lot, if you mostly ride XC singletrack then your steeper HA is actually probably more fun.
I test rode one against a giant trance X and a SC superlight and the 5 spot was by far the better bike - more efficient drivetrain than the SC and suspension a lot stiffer and better functioning than the Giant.
Renton not my place to ask really but have you gone through a bereavement or serious event in the recent past?
You're acting like I did and until I got counselling I was terrible.
hora - Member
Why isn't it selling? Have you ever ridden one? Then there's your answer.I slagged off the 1/ 1/8 headtube one on here and was flamed for it. Awkward old school set of angles etc. The next one (bigger headtube) was a totally different beast.
This is a joke....right??
I could go on and on about how much i love this bike. But i cant be arsed. Hora, you are an odd chap for sure.
I could go on and on about how much i love this bike. But i cant be arsed. Hora, you are an odd chap for sure.
Renton not my place to ask really but have you gone through a bereavement or serious event in the recent past?
..and it's only getting odder.
Mactheknife sorry I thought it was utterly shit. You may think my Butcher is shit but everyone likes different things in their bike and its hard to get offended over an inaminate object. No? 🙂
Mactheknife sorry I thought it was utterly shit. You may think my Butcher is shit but everyone likes different things in their bike and its hard to get offended over an inaminate object. No?
if we hadn't have seen that picture of you walking the end of BKB then we might have been able to trust your judgement a bit more. Did your bike at that time also have too steep a headangle ?
What's that picture? Where is it?
It's also bloody odd how folk get judged by what they ride.
Bizarre!
It's a piece of metal thats pretty funkin awesome in all honesty just shows up all those succombing to bs standards in the mtb industry I reckon.
I got my DW Flux for around £485 brand new a couple of years ago. UK sale. There's just so much on offer out there. Look at that new Ibis bike CynAl posted the other day for £999. If you put yourself in the position of someone on the forum with cash ready in hand.. and take a look at what's out there, it's a kick in the teeth when you realize what price you have to drop stuff to for it to sell with ease. I'm a hoarder and tend to keep stuff like that instead of selling it for peanuts.
CBAsed to read all that shit.
Is it sold yet?
This is the biggest troll of all time ain't it? We've all fallen for it? Damn. Good work.
Realisation is starting to kick in that it probably is worth more to me than what it really is worth.
Exactly the same happened to me last year. I have a limited edition 2007 Orange Clockwork (Last steel one, classic orange/white fade paint job, only 200 made) that I tried to shift as I needed to free up some money while our lass was on maternity leave. It's in great nick but no one bit at the asking price or even made an offer close to what I would accept. The only offer I got was for about half what I wanted. I couldn't let it go for that so I now have a small wheeled HT and big wheeled FS when I'd probably like it the other way round.
Simple fact is you either have to keep it or accept that you are not going to get what you want for it.
With all that said I'm going to point a mate in your direction as he needs a new bike. He won't want to pay nearly 1k though!
I am open to offers chestrockwell
Not sure if he's in a position to buy atm but I'll ask.
FWIW I emailed renton asking him what he would like for his wheels after he offered me them in my wanted ad.
I didn't get a reply.
And that was me, asking him to name his initial price.
I just don't think he wants to sell it. Perhaps the whole thing is to convince a wife that he "is trying to sell it love, I really am.". 😆
