People quite frequently bash someone for paying a seemingly crazy price for something on eBay. I always figure for every "lucky" winner, there are usually 3 or 4 "unlucky" buyers who just got outbid at the last moment.
Logically the "winner" should be able to resell the bike if he ever needed to for a very minimal loss, and if cleaned up and properly advertised, maybe even make few bucks. I see bikes on eBay all the time with lousy descriptions and pictures and wonder if the sellers have a clue how much money they are throwing away?
cheers, Rod Kronenberg Fort Collins, CO
> All this talk about prices and value... I guess it's worthwhile to recall
> or find out how much you'd pay for these machines NEW thirty odd years ago.
> Unfortunately very few cycle catalogues had prices and the "suggested
> retail price" sheets seem elusive as well. All I know is that a) I couldn't
> afford to buy these beauties then and b) I sure couldn't afford to buy them
> now at 1970s prices adjusted for inflation. Heck, I think Raleigh
> Professionals cost just shy of a grand in 1976!
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> My personal bike "value" barometer is stuck in the 1970s based on my
> newspaper route earnings. None of this was any bargain 30 years ago.. even
> a Brooks B72 cost $20 and that was serious money. A PX-10 c. 1972 was about
> $240... you could sail to Europe in the S/S FRANCE one-way student fare for
> less. Those were real choices, at least for me back then.
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> Maybe Mick Butler can tell me how much my 1948 RRA, which cost an
> astounding 39 guineas new, would cost in today's pounds?
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> Of course, I hasten to add I am like the rest of you... I want to pay $500
> tops for anything that strikes my fancy. Anything more, of course, is a
> bona fide rip-off.
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> Peter Kohler
> Washington, DC USA
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