Things not to do when buying/selling a bike

I completely dissagree. When im buying a bike, I know what I want. I email every add on kijiji and lowball them all. In the end I get what I want and save a lot of money. The asking price rarely indicates condition, more so of fondness or need to sell.

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When I was selling my bike, one dude emailed saying "I can do 2000 MAX including delivery"

delivery of what? pickup? lmfao
 
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My personal favourite when I was selling my 125...

1 - how fast does it go?
2 - can I hit 200?
3 - can I outrun the cops?

LoL

And of course - I'll give you 50% CASH MONEY!
 
Testing the waters and its variants = It's a piece of junk but if someone offers me a ton of money I'll sell it and buy what I really want.

Rare = Can't find parts for it.
 
nobbie48 said:
Testing the waters and its variants = It's a piece of junk but if someone offers me a ton of money I'll sell it and buy what I really want.

Rare = Can't find parts for it.
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This isn't 1992 anymore for finding rare parts. I can find just about anything 'rare', but the main issue is people don't want to dig down in their pockets all too much.

don't PM asking to 'find xxx' cause it's a waste of my time and yours... cause in the end you won't commit to a sale cause the price is too high.
 
Spyug said:
Well I have to agree with everything said as I have experienced it all. The worst thing, IMHO, is when you have a verbal agreement with someone, you travel miles away from home only to turn up and find the bike sold. My own experience from years ago. I had been corresponding with a guy up beyond Peterborough on an XS 650 ( I live in Hamilton). I had arranged to drive up one Saturday and the arrangement was that he would show it but not sell until I had first refusal. I get to within 1 hour of his place and phone in to let him know I am close. Everything is fine and he's expecting me. I get there and...........the bike is sold and gone. No call, no sorry, no nothing. I am out almost 6 hours of time and $50 or $60 in gas and I don't even get a sorry. What a POS!

I've bought, sold and traded more than a few bikes in the last 11 years and that had to be the worst experience. 90% of people today both buyers and sellers are total idiots and the whole experience is getting worse IMHO. I don't know what the solution is but it is definitely getting more difficult to buy or sell.
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Once I met with a seller, paid a deposit to hold it for a week, and guess what? He sold it in that week. I got my money back but it was still really really annoying.
 
POS seller. No integrity anymore.
 
silverbullet132 said:
Once I met with a seller, paid a deposit to hold it for a week, and guess what? He sold it in that week. I got my money back but it was still really really annoying.
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I can see how that would be annoying. However I personally have had guys leave a small deposit to hold an item only to bail after I've turned away other prospective buyers.

When your selling something typically you want it gone ASAP.
 
You Know said:
I can see how that would be annoying. However I personally have had guys leave a small deposit to hold an item only to bail after I've turned away other prospective buyers.

When your selling something typically you want it gone ASAP.
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Don't people normally take the deposit if they bail?
 
You Know said:
I can see how that would be annoying. However I personally have had guys leave a small deposit to hold an item only to bail after I've turned away other prospective buyers.

When your selling something typically you want it gone ASAP.
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Then don't accept that arrangement. The deposit buys an agreement. A time line should be attached to that.
 
I currently have a flatbed trailer on Kijiji it is listed at $2000 Would "like" to get $1750 for it but would likerly go to $1500 just to see it gone. Guy emails the other day. If trailer is still available would you consider $1100. I replied sure I will consider it sold to SOMEONE else who makes a REASONABLE offer.... He didn't reply..lmao
 
Sunspark said:
The testing the waters thing is fubar. Non-bike related but same type of example, my stepmother wanted to buy a condo so she and the realtor went and looked at a listed condo and the place was acceptable as was the price. So she offered ask and the guy said no that he was just testing the waters and that he wasn't actually serious about selling it. The realtor was not impressed.

It still amazes me, some doorknob actually MLS listed his property and had people come to it and everything and never actually once planned to sell it.
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That's probably a bit different from his point of view...getting an offer at asking price so easily, he probably realized he listed it too low and instead of saying he changed his mind and was going to list/sell higher, he made up the excuse.
 
I think i get #1 the most. Even though i've specifically stated that if the ad is still up then the bike is still available. Worst part is 50% of the time that I get an email asking if it's available, they don't follow up after.

#3 is probably the most infuriating as at least if they waste my time via an e-mail i didn't have to take time out of my day to show the bike. Had some guy reschedule me 3x in the same day and in the end, no show.
 
Found another one:

Saying the bike is a CHEAP, GOOD PRICE, WONT LAST LONG AT THIS PRICE. X2 if you put it in the title. Guaranteed these are the bikes that sit for months at a time until the ad expires and is reposted. If you have to say it, it's because it isn't true.

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RockerGuy said:
Things like "do you still have it?" is starting a conversation. Like how you doing? Its meaningless but leads to conversion.
That's a fair question because some people sell their bike & keep the ad up, making any other questions "invalid"
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Its even worse when they know it, they receive a bunch of emails and they're too lazy to remove the ad and just don't respond to the inquiries they received. So many stupid people on Kijiji!
 
XenoVibe said:
Its even worse when they know it, they receive a bunch of emails and they're too lazy to remove the ad and just don't respond to the inquiries they received. So many stupid people on Kijiji!
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Yep stupid on both sides

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