Then why bid so high ? I think that was Kim's question.
Greg Parker Ann Arbor, Michigan Where we just dodged a snow bullet - this time.
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:04:29 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Moran <gridplan@yahoo.com> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: re: [CR] Kevin and the Gloria in exess
The "no sense" part comes in because, as far as I know, there is no precedent on eBay for a Gloria frame (just a frame) selling for anywhere near that much. If anyone knows differently, I'd love to know. But three months ago I paid the same seller $3K for a complete Gloria Garibaldina in better condition. I bought 2 bare frames last year on eBay in rough condition -- one with almost a full set of parts that I'd planned to use on this frame -- for $1600 and $1500, respectively. Given this admittedly limited set of data ponts, yes, $5,400 falls well outside of what I had assumed it would cost me to win the day.
Cheers, -kevin
Kevin Moran
Bloomington, Indiana
USA
> I'm not so sure what to make of your post; you
wonder
> about the price it fetched and why it did. Then you
> say you were runner up; that means you were willing
to
> pay "almost twice what I paid" for the complete one.
> Where does the "no sense" part come in?
>
> greetz,
> kim