NOS original Skinwall ONZA PORC!...............

[Baldyz1]

Offering over inflated stuff on Retrobike as if its doing the community a favour is totally out of spirit.

Sometimes I will look at something I want to sell and think this should go for silly money and has wide appeal so I put it straight on eBay. Let the market dictate the price. Other times I think well this is something a fellow Retrobiker will appreciate at a sensible price and it will simply get lost on eBay. It is rare, unusual colour a component of another part etc.. Obviously you will list a strong price initially but that is after comparing with what has sold before on Retrobike.

You don't alienate your market if you do want to sell stuff. I think others have learnt this also.

Thanks

 

[Jon Smith]

Inflated prices should be for Ebay. Retrobike members are best thought of as friends. I've just had a wonderful purchase from Stumpjumper1990 and he didn't know me from Adam yet as a fellow member he was happy to pass on a bike at the same price as he paid for it. Not something I expected nor asked for, but really appreciated all the same and I now have a bike that will be cherished for a very long time. People trying to exploit members by buying and then selling at inflated prices are soon outed and rightly so, as they do not understand the Retrobike movement and should not really be a part of it.

Somebody chancing their arm with a highly priced item gives members a chance to buy something rare before it goes onto the open market and it is up to them whether they buy it or not. But it gives use all a chance to work out what type of member they really are!

Plus, it's quite entertaining!

 

[john]

All. Please read the rules. Please keep comments on pricing to a minimum.

 

[toomanyframes]

I find it sad that people attempt to exploit our hobby by asking stupid money for stuff. It just mimics what's happening with today's big brand corporates:....... screw the customer, make as much money as possible

If things carry on a 200 pound a Porc trajectory RBing will be a sport only for the elite. We'll see Kate and Will's tootling around on old Alpinestars e-stays.

That's me pension sorted then