Tossers selling bikes on trademe

[gamgee]

jeeez there are some idiots selling bikes on trademe, some of you will know i was supposed to be buying a brand new vt250fg off there for cheap, well i just found out the seller had been lieing the whole time about the age of the engine, they originally said it had only done 300km, then i found out that it was actually that it had done 300km since it had been put in, and was in fact a second hand engine which god only knows how many km's it's done, they have also wound back the speedo to zero when the engine was put in, which is completely illegal, and i can't even see what the logic was in doing it since the engine WASN'T new!!! argh wasted so much time but at least i dug down deep enough to reveal this con artist! the listing id is Classified Number: 29588443 so steer clear, i know he has now changed what the ad says but the original ad said it was a brand new engine, and i think it's just to dodgy to be worth even looking at.

[gav]

A VT250FG is a 1986 model I think, you really expect to find a brand new one?

[Suney]

Only done 300kms on new motor bought 2nd hand out of low mileage bike 4 yrs newer motor.

He does't appear to be lying here, except the low mileage part which he can't back up. Did he edit this afterwards or w hat?

[justsomeguy]

A VT250FG is a 1986 model I think, you really expect to find a brand new one?

Not everyone is a bike expert......

[Jackrat]

I've come across this type of thing with TM,not as bad as this case but crap all the same.The bike I have now came with a warrant it shouldn't have but I put that down to the shop that issued it not the seller.
It also came with a problem I should of picked up myself and continues to give me hassles,but as I say I should have picked it up as it's a well known issue with them.
Pays to not be so keen it blinds you to the obvious.
Anybody see the XS on there now with a price of $5000 on it.
Now that guys kiding himself

[lukehyslop]

I was going to bid on a '84 gsxr 400 with a rebuilt impulse motor which had only done 7000kays. I decided to go have a look which was a fair drive and was so glad I did. It turned out that it had been rebuilt sometime in the past by a previous owner (if you choose to believe) and had been in the bike for 7000kays. When I rode it it felt more like 70,000kays. Just goes to show - Try before you buy.

[Gremlin]

meh, I bought my bike damaged, as is, without trying or seeing it, and basically because I thought it felt OK... even after John said it was possible it could cost $9k in repairs.

Money spent doing it up etc, but other than that, it has been alright (touchwood) and brilliant for a learner. Cosmetically damaged, but the motor is in excellent nick.

So it is not always bad, but obviously I wouldn't recommend doing it my way, just felt that it worst came to the worst, it wasn't too big a hit in the pocket.

[Zed]

...argh wasted so much time but at least i dug down deep enough to reveal this con artist!

Time worth spent learning a valuable lesson about TradeMe and such organisations I hope...never forget the phrase "Buyer Beware!"

I'm glad you didn't make a financial contribution to this con-mans sucker trust fund!

[gamgee]

originally the ad said it had a 'brand new motor with only 300km' on the relist it said what it does now, i know it's stupid, but i thought well maybe possible that he got a new engine somewhere, and i actually asked the guy if it had been run in and he said no which led me to beleive i must have been brand new as it said. i was suposed to be driving the 800 odd k round trip to pick it up on friday so wasn't that lucky!

[Dafe]

Lucky for him hes running a classified instead of an auction otherwise everybody would have seen my question "Why did the speedo get illegally wound back to zero?"

[Jantar]

I've brought two bikes through Trade Me, and both times I got exactly what I was expecting.

I will confess though that one of the bikes belonged to the son of a friend and I knew the bike before hand.

[Bonez]

Hmmm, when I get around to selling the CB750FC2 I guess I can advertise it as "One Nanna owner since new" and I wouldn't be lying , as opposed to the GB thats had 9 .

[onearmedbandit]

Speaking of new engines in old vehicles, one of my salespeople is possibly trading a mid 80's Honda Accord at work that only 5000km ago had a brand new mid 80's engine put into it. Came off the shelf from Honda Japan.

[Ixion]

I've bought two bikes of Trademe , sight unseen, and got what I expected and paid for.

But there's an awful lot that I wouldn't touch no matter what.

The seller is more important than the bike.

[wildcat_lgf]

It is possible, as already mentioned (more so with cars probably) there have been a few engines that have been imported NEW from their country of manufacture...(I'm thinking of a new Fiat engine that came from Italy - still in its crate) However it does sound pretty dodgy with a 2nd hand engine and a re-wound speedo...could get you into trouble down the track?

Good luck finding what your looking for.