Tossers selling bikes on trademe

**gamgee** · 19th June 2005, 13:12

yeah admitedly my sr250 and even the old sj50 i used to have were both through trademe, both bought without seeing, just asked heaps of questions, both were good bikes, i guess the point i'm trying to make is ask heaps of questions and don't even assume the info in the ad is truthfull

**sefer** · 19th June 2005, 19:01

Originally Posted by Suney

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?

Yeah it's been changed from the original listing. I was looking at it too but decided that it didn't sound quite right.

**marty** · 19th June 2005, 19:13

i wonder about some people on tradme. there is one guy who has sold bits and bobs, couple of old dirt bikes etc, but at the moment he has an ex-uk police helicopter at $800 grand listed! bizarre

**motobob** · 19th June 2005, 19:42

I sold one of my dirt bikes thru Trademe. the guy who bought it was rapt with it. He rang up a week after and said thanks. I made sure that my phone numbers where available and was more than happy for him to and other potential owners to look it over and ride it. The bike had been "on behalf" at a bike dealer previously but the dealer could not be bothered trying to get the price I wanted and only wanted me to discount it BUT still give them the cut we originally agreed on.

Trademe worked for me, but obviously sharks cruise in every ocean, you just have to be aware.

Motobob

Thats L for lunatic (or is that Lost)

**inlinefour** · 19th June 2005, 20:57

Yes there are alot of shitters for sale there on TM and even more shitters selling the crap on TM.
However I was given 3k to buy a bike. I thought I wanted another early 70s CB something. I came accross the bike I have now. The lady wanted considerable more than what I payed. As soon as she answered the phone, she carried on how broke she was and how she needed to sell the bike. I thought, oh well, don't know about this bike. So lets see how much she really wants $$$. I offered just over half of what she actually wanted for it, saying that it was all I had to spend (it was not). She said no and I said never mind, good luck and almost goodbye and she changed her mind. She even payed to get it sent up from the South Island

Did realise that as I had only viewed a couple of pictures of the bike, it could be a total shitter

and started to get a tad worried

Eventually it arrived on the back of a truck, in a crate. So rather than take it out of the crate, I started to pull it apart to inspect exactly how much of a shitter it really was.

It did not take long to confirm that yes this bike was in bloody good nick and I started to realise just how much I had ripped the seller off

However as the seller agreed to sell it at that price, I was not too grief stricken

That was a good experience, however I have come accross plenty of bad ones including TM and I will most definitely NEVER be purchasing a ride there again.

**gav** · 19th June 2005, 21:03

Originally Posted by marty

i wonder about some people on tradme. there is one guy who has sold bits and bobs, couple of old dirt bikes etc, but at the moment he has an ex-uk police helicopter at $800 grand listed! bizarre

$800 grand? He's dreaming, mind you, look good in the pool room......

**Ghost Lemur** · 19th June 2005, 22:47

Originally Posted by inlinefour

Yes there are alot of shitters for sale there on TM and even more shitters selling the crap on TM.
However I was given 3k to buy a bike. I thought I wanted another early 70s CB something. I came accross the bike I have now. The lady wanted considerable more than what I payed. As soon as she answered the phone, she carried on how broke she was and how she needed to sell the bike. I thought, oh well, don't know about this bike. So lets see how much she really wants $$$. I offered just over half of what she actually wanted for it, saying that it was all I had to spend (it was not). She said no and I said never mind, good luck and almost goodbye and she changed her mind. She even payed to get it sent up from the South Island