[quote=DBR]first one bites the dust in salt lake…
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad=13596522&cat=191&lpid=1&search=&s=1
wonder how long till the ‘market’ is flooded.
Let’s keep a ikea-dex of sorts, and relate it to the prediction of cataclysmic events for all bike-kind.
currently $135 not selling, $90 selling.[/quote]
yes! no local ikea, so my contribution to this will be minimal
THEY SAY IT’S COMFORTABLE, SO IT MUST BE GOOD. FITS ANYONE BETWEEN COLE AND SOL
also once again san francisco owns the shit out of the bike prices. ikea-dex at an average of $190
$180: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/2104605868.html
$200: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/2105043111.html
sacramento at a still-sad $150
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/bik/2101940457.html
HOLY SHIT MOTHERFUCKING LOSE, EBAY IS CRUSHING IT! this bike is at $202.50 + $54 shipping and it still has 5 DAYS
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Special-Edition-IKEA-Bicycle-RARE-/390270392951?pt=Road_Bikes&hash=item5added9a77
OH MY LORD EBAY
[quote=oogenssssss]also once again san francisco owns the shit out of the bike prices. ikea-dex at an average of $190
$180: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/2104605868.html
$200: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/2105043111.html
sacramento at a still-sad $150
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/bik/2101940457.html
HOLY SHIT MOTHERFUCKING LOSE, EBAY IS CRUSHING IT! this bike is at $202.50 + $54 shipping and it still has 5 DAYS
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Special-Edition-IKEA-Bicycle-RARE-/390270392951?pt=Road_Bikes&hash=item5added9a77[/quote]
i fucking hate the sf bike market. anywhere else i’ve lived i could find a steel '90s road bike of decent enough quality for beater winter bike for 100 or less, even free. here, people are trying to get 150 for a fucking mongoose walmart bike and it’s nothing shocking.
I feel like Sacramento is the same way.
[quote=beargrinderrrrrr][quote=oogenssssss]also once again san francisco owns the shit out of the bike prices. ikea-dex at an average of $190
$180: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/2104605868.html
$200: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/2105043111.html
sacramento at a still-sad $150
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/bik/2101940457.html
HOLY SHIT MOTHERFUCKING LOSE, EBAY IS CRUSHING IT! this bike is at $202.50 + $54 shipping and it still has 5 DAYS
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Special-Edition-IKEA-Bicycle-RARE-/390270392951?pt=Road_Bikes&hash=item5added9a77[/quote]
i fucking hate the sf bike market. anywhere else i’ve lived i could find a steel '90s road bike of decent enough quality for beater winter bike for 100 or less, even free. here, people are trying to get 150 for a fucking mongoose walmart bike and it’s nothing shocking.[/quote]
naw, dude.
there just aren’t tons of 90s steel road bikes floating around for 80 bucks on craigslists everywhere else.
if there were I’d be buying them all day and flipping 'em in new york or on ebay.
it’s overpriced shit allover. ferrealz.
i dunno, i have seen slightly better prices more often in portland, and all the time in columbus (when you couldn’t just find bikes being thrown away). sure, it wasn’t all the time either place, but it happened. i have yet to see that here. that gary fisher i got for 250 and tarck was telling me it wasn’t a super deal (also turned out when i saw it in person to be higher end frame than you could tell from the photo) but around here, it wasn’t a bad deal by any means.
the bike market here sucks!
just the other day this kid i know sold a motobecane jury frame set for $55 and he also had a trek t1 frame set that was stripped that the dude offered him $25 for. its weird here.
I feel like it’s not even worth my time to deal with CL flakes and no-shows for less than $150.
I am shocked sometimes at the bikes I’m able to get a bill out of. Other times I can’t get $300 out of a $500 dollar bike. $100-$200 seems to be about what people want to pay for a bike, as evidenced by that ebay auction. The don’t really care what they’re getting, because anything more than that is “too much to pay for a bicycle”.