On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 04:33 AM, David Novoselsky wrote:
> Very nice, but overpriced? Okay, that's easy to say for me since I
> have its virtual twin, a perfect all-chrome 73 P-15. But, $2,500 as a
> 'buy it now' price and such a high starting bid? Am I wrong here?
> What are today's Paramount prices, real ones that is, not the later
> PDG products?
> But no matter how nice this all-chrome 72 may be, and it seems to be
> all that and more, $2,500? Not IMHO. Too many keep popping up. For
> every Bike Boom Paramount, there are only a handful of Masis of the
> era, early De Rosas for the Italian fancier, etc. How many of those
> are bringing $2,500? Not a lot, unless I am way off here.
jack bissell <jack_bissell@mac.com> replied:
>With all due respect I don't think it's fair to compare my bike with
>used examples. If I went to get coffee on this bike it would depreciate
>$500-1000 don't you think? Tell us more about all the unridden bikes
>you are using for comparison, particularly the DeRosas.
>My basis for the price isn't relative to the many clean original chrome
>Paramounts I've seen for under a grand...
I agree wholeheartedly... if this bike is truly a never-ridden Paramount that just came out of it's shipping carton, it's in a whole different class. As for the old Masi's or DeRosa's, what price would you place on Richard's Masi restorations? Are those repainted and lovingly restored bikes with NOS parts worth $2500? I'd say emphatically so, or darned near it. Now what if someone found those same bikes, but in their original cartons and unridden, what would those be worth? I think $2,500 would be a fair starting point and bids would probably go up from there.
Bob Hovey
Columbus, GA