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  1. 16th July 2010, 21:06 #31
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    Make money on TardMe?
    I think not.
    I've been clearing the house of some (good) stuff lately, and it's either failed to sell, or I've had to sell it for really ridiculously low prices. People have no idea of the value of things, and really weird expectations...
    I've ended up chucking perfectly good stuff out, after losing money advertising it on TardMe and getting lots of lookers but no bidders.
    Buying stuff? Seems to be the opposite. Just bought an espresso machine for a few hundred more than I intended to pay, but at least it's got the same guarantee as a brand new one, and was about $600 cheaper.
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.

    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....
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    No doubt a little over the top but hey why not Ducati and Harley both sell em at even more ridiculous prices and it seems theres no end of dreamers line up.
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  3. 17th July 2010, 09:15 #33
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    Re the RZ 350 - there was a zero miles one sat in the shop in Gore until the shop closed. I heard at the time it went for quite a low figure. It's probably still sitting somewhere still zero miles.

    Expectations on trademe are getting out of hand - Lockheed calipers on there the other day,unsold, as reserve is more than it would cost to land new from the UK.
    Probably a member here, if so, tough. Price stuff at what the market will pay.
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    No doubt a little over the top but hey why not Ducati and Harley both sell em at even more ridiculous prices and it seems theres no end of dreamers line up.
    Seems to be a lot of well paid dreamers out there.... mind you...I've never owned a new bike..or car or house for that matter..whats it like?
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    The lack of the original plate devalues it a bit. Who wants a classic bike with a shitty white plate on it?
    As for tard me, there's still a few deals, but not many, I get most of my stuff off e-bay nowadays...
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  6. 23rd July 2010, 17:23 #36
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    Dreaming?
    http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-302600688.htm
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  7. 23rd July 2010, 20:43 #37
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    Grumph the locheed calipers sold ha ha ha ha ha
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anthrax View Post
    Dreaming?
    http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-302600688.htm
    Ya silly billy !!

    Check my post on # 28



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    Well would ya look at that. Whatdaya know.....

    There is a nice blue one on TM also that is a more realistic price too.
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    We both agree that RD is wayyyyy overpriced.

    There's an RG250WD in TM very cheap which is begging restoration.
    http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-304683193.htm

    ...if only I didn't have so many projects already....


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    Quote Originally Posted by vifferman View Post
    Make money on TardMe?
    I think not.
    I've been clearing the house of some (good) stuff lately.
    You see this fucken cheap 06 bike? Even as a do-up?
    Whole lotta bike for $3.5K

    http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=303380929
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    Wow, I thought that first Suzy GS was a typo til I read the comments in the auction - wow!

    Must have been his 1st cousin who was doing the bidding on his behalf lol.

    One man's "immaculate" is another man's "tidy".

    I've found buying off older sellers - Ulyssians (like m'self) CAN help get a good buy and immaculate bike. One old fella I bought a mint VX800 off, - you could tell my the state of his garage that there was nothng to be worried about - dinner off the floor stuff.

    At the other end of the scale 1 Guy who was selling stated in his advert "$900 receipts" (in the day) - the receipts were for petrol, oil, sparkplugs etc etc LOL LOL

    I wil also make the effort to travel to look at a remotely located promising buy - many won't..........

    At the end of the day "the market decides"
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  13. 24th July 2010, 02:49 #43
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    Wow, I thought that first Suzy GS was a typo til I read the comments in the auction - wow!

    Must have been his 1st cousin who was doing the bidding on his behalf lol.

    One man's "immaculate" is another man's "tidy".

    I've found buying off older sellers - Ulyssians (like m'self) CAN help get a good buy and immaculate bike. One old fella I bought a mint VX800 off, - you could tell my the state of his garage that there was nothng to be worried about - dinner off the floor stuff.

    At the other end of the scale 1 Guy who was selling stated in his advert "$900 receipts" (in the day) - the receipts were for petrol, oil, sparkplugs etc etc LOL LOL

    I wil also make the effort to travel to look at a remotely located promising buy - many won't..........

    At the end of the day "the market decides"
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