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Bill0351
| | Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 12:01 am: | 
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$59,100.00!
RESERVE NOT MET??!!!
For a pair if 22 year old MINIBIKES?
WTF?
Now for some real classics... with history!
I wonder what these would sell for!
COOLER THAN HAVING JAMES DEAN'S TRIUMPH! |
Jackbequick
| | Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 08:08 am: |
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"..$59,100.00! RESERVE NOT MET??!!!..."
Do you know how eBay Motors works? They charge a $30.00 Insertion Fee for starting the listing, and then a $40.00 Transaction Services Fee. The Transaction Services Fee is charged as soon as the first bid is made on a listing without a reserve price or when the reserve price is met. There is no additional fee charged after the vehicle is sold.
So sellers often set a high reserve price and let the auction end without a winning bidder. It saves them $40.00.
And at that point you have a high (although non-winning) bidder and maybe even a number of runner up bidders that were identified as having an interest.
And you can start hammering out the emails to any or all of those people to work out the possibility of and details for selling the vehicle "off the auction".
Since day one at eBay, the company has struggled mightily to figure out a way to keep buyers and sellers from working out deals off of the auction that circumvent the eBay master plan and avoid some portion of the selling fees.
The sellers always pay something but there are many ways to avoid paying at least part of the costs.
If you were with eBay as a seller or buyer from the early days, you've probably found eBay to be greedy and generally unlikeable for the steady procession of changes in fees and policies that were, almost without exception, all aimed at increasing profits.
Its not a big deal, it's just the way it is. If you don't like it or don't agree with it, don't play.
But the enticement of being able to sell something for $60,000.00 or more and, at the same time, screw eBay out of $40.00 in the process, will always have a certain attraction to some people...
Jack |
Hattori_hanzo
| | Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 12:48 pm: |
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My first bike looked just like this. Man that thing was fun! |
Spdkls
| | Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 02:40 pm: |
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$60k reserve not met. bidding ended
thats one greedy SOB if you ask me.
what did those bikes sell for brand new?
the 08's go for around 1400 bucks
the 86 i'm guessing went for about 800 maybe?
doing the math
thats about a 3800% profit each bike.
GREEDY!!!JUST SELL THE BIKES!
(Message edited by spdkls on February 29, 2008) |
Damnut
| | Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 04:07 pm: |
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His reserve was set at $89K |
Bill0351
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 12:05 am: |
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$89,000.00?
That reminds me of the "price is no object" thread.
What would my stable look like with $89,000.00 to spend?
I guarantee that it would have a little more than a fossilized pair of 50cc minibikes!
Bill |
New12r
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 07:41 am: |
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GREEDY!!!JUST SELL THE BIKES!
Have you ever watched Barrett Jackson???
Its not what its worth, rather what someone will pay.
I say the guy had some great foresight!
And here is my new Z50R Picked it up last night! I have all the parts missing in the pic.
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Spdkls
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 08:35 am: |
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Have you ever watched Barrett Jackson???
ever seen deal or no deal?
sometimes you just gotta say when.
i mean, there is a sucker out there that will pay, but he's got other things for sale to make up for it.
i'll say it again...GREEDY!!! |
Glitch
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:12 am: |
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Greed is obtaining wealth dishonestly.
There is no greed in asking more than the market will pay.
He's still got his bikes, and you've still got your money.
It's a free market. |
Spike
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 05:36 pm: |
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Somebody needs to snatch this one up: 1984 Z50R $350
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/mcy/602733367.html |
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