Re: [CR]Maxicar hub on French ebay

(Example: Framebuilders:Tony Beek)

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:39:28 -0800
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: "themaaslands@comcast.net" <themaaslands@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Maxicar hub on French ebay
In-Reply-To: <011520052241.8956.41E99C0E00096067000022FC22007621949C0B020E049C0E0E030A089B@comcast.net>
References: <011520052241.8956.41E99C0E00096067000022FC22007621949C0B020E049C0E0E030A089B@comcast.net>
cc: Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

<themaaslands@comcast.net> wrote:
> About one week ago, this seller offered a front Maxicar hub for sale. I outed and neglected to bid on it because it was being sold as a singleton. The seller is now offering the rear mate to the hub that he already sold:
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> It makes me wish that I had bid on the front hub. I seem to recall that it was a list member who then won the front hub, so you now have a chance to get a matched set.

Might this be an instance where a better price may well have been realised by selling the pair as one auction rather than two? "Orphan" hubs and crankarms generally seem to get less at auction than half the price for a pair in my experience.

Kurt Sperry
Bellingham WA