Also, placing a finite value on a part or bike based on what you paid for it, is slightly flawed thinking and will cause you nothing but pain.
If you had a bike or parts and used them for 3 years, what value are you allowing for that enjoyment and use? 10%.....40%.....90%?
I don't know, but getting anything back financially is a win compared with say a hobby of smoking. Try to look at the benefit you had as the greater part of the value and be happy that you got a return after such a nice experience.....what's not to love there?
Pretty much as soon as you've walked out a bike shop with a new bike or practically anything for that matter, 30% is gone already - VAT gone, and the rest a risk / benefit related to a non-transferable warranty. If we see bikes like say a fashionable work of art, then ups and downs have got to be part and parcel. I think one part of the market adjustment is just - already consumed goods that are FUBAR regardless of rarity is a pointless thing.
