Steve,
<Are vintage collectors and bike sellers hoarding parts or keeping the parts off ebay?>
Yes.
<has the bike collection market gone downhill?>
Yes and No.
In my 5 years of selling vintage parts on eBay I can stand 100% behind the fact that WORLD EVENTS HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON THE VINTAGE BICYCLE PARTS MARKET.
PROOF:
1. When the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, the bike parts market came to a DEAD HALT. I lost a bunch of money on eBay as I had a lot of Campagnolo items listed at that time. I was too stupid to STOP the auctions, and wound up selling a Record crankset for $9.00, a pristine NR rear derailleur for $5.43, and so on and so on. But I did not care about the money lost; I was more concerned for the people who had loved ones for no reason.
2. When our jack-ass of a pResident led us into a war on Iraq (that was in no way justified, and has since been proven to be 100% inaccurate,) the same thing happened again.
You are correct in that at one time there were 3,000+ sellers of vintage Campagnolo. But if this pResident gets re-elected, my guess is that all vintage stuff will all be snapped up.
3. But we're not out of it yet. Now the pResident is considering war with Iran and who knows who-else.
HOLD ONTO YOUR VINTAGE PARTS!
Ted Baer "Moving out of this country for four years if the "chimp" gets re-elected." Palo Alto, CA
> Whatever happened to all the Campy parts listings on
> ebay?
>
> A year ago, there were several (?3000+)thousand
> listings for parts and this week there are only
> approx 1200 listings... has the bike collection
> market gone downhill? Are vintage collectors and
> bike sellers hoarding parts or keeping the parts off
> ebay?
>
> Just wondering...
>
> Regards, Steve Neago
> Cincinnati, OH
>
>
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