Optimistic sellers

[Grumph]

I now have literally seen it all. May I present, for your derision and ridicule: the $25000 Vespa. TWENTY FIVE MOTHERFUCKING THOUSAND DOLLAR YO.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...23481dd5846662

It might be worth that if it had working warp drive.......

Memory says someone back a ways gold plated a Vespa....that's not it.

Sidecar Bob is much better now he doesn't have to deal with the public.....

[Stylo]

Memory says someone back a ways gold plated a Vespa....that's not it.

Sidecar Bob is much better now he doesn't have to deal with the public.....

25k for a Vespa does sound like a lot. In a vacuum. But there is an X factor that I'm sure the seller has factored in, maybe optimistically but I'm sure the market will view it subjectively and, he might get lucky.

I've got a CR500 that I bought new and had delivered about the same week my marriage turned to shit. Still wrapped up, under cover in the shed ,started it up once but never rode it. That was 2001. Been there 17 years. If I was an optimistic seller what should I ask for it to get on this thread ?

[jasonu]

I've got a CR500 that I bought new and had delivered about the same week my marriage turned to shit. Still wrapped up, under cover in the shed ,started it up once but never rode it. That was 2001. Been there 17 years. If I was an optimistic seller what should I ask for it to get on this thread ?

Apparently and old xr500 is worth more than $50k so take it from there.

I'll open the bidding with $5k.

[pritch]

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...23481dd5846662

OK so I get that this is the look that Vespa were going for but fuck! That's a serious drop short. It's true that the $25,000 might not even be enough for the deposit on the boat but...

[AllanB]

NZ is the wrong place to sell that Vespa.

A American or European Million/billionaire would not hesitate to drop that on a matching toy for their boat.

Heck a Google of Arab oil barons toys finds a 24 gold plated toilet that would be worth more than the Vespa. You can of course ride either.

[Fresh Oats]

Hmmm, my dads good at the ol' woodworking. Buy vespa for $5K, glue some wood panels on, ramble on about how it looks like some twat wooden boat and that you should buy it because some rich cunt in fancy Monaco owns one and I can charge $25 and make a quick $20k? Better yet, I could do all that but with the listing I can take some meth before hand, misspell every single word and charge $50k!

And here I am working a 9-5 like some sort of chum.


Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh look, the bike that I said was way overpriced at $8K and everyone shat on me for saying so is now down to $4.5K.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...a29e336d171ca7

*insert smug face here*

[Laava]

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...23481dd5846662

OK so I get that this is the look that Vespa were going for but fuck! That's a serious drop short. It's true that the $25,000 might not even be enough for the deposit on the boat but...

That is a beautiful boat. I wouldn't be surprised if you could fit 2 people on that! Wonder where the filleting station is?

[Drew]

And here I am working a 9-5 like some sort of chum.


Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh look, the bike that I said was way overpriced at $8K and everyone shat on me for saying so is now down to $4.5K.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...a29e336d171ca7

*insert smug face here*

I shat on what you said because you're an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about.
I never said it was worth 8k either.

[Fresh Oats]

I shat on what you said because you're an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about.
I never said it was worth 8k either.

All I said was that wasn't worth $8k and there would be better things to spend your money on.
Lo and behold, it's now down to $4.5k.

[Drew]

All I said was that wasn't worth $8k and there would be better things to spend your money on.
Lo and behold, it's now down to $4.5k.

No, you compared it to a modern 250 or 300 to justify thinking it wasn't worth that. That was incorrect and showed you had no idea.

[HenryDorsetCase]

25k for a Vespa does sound like a lot. In a vacuum. But there is an X factor that I'm sure the seller has factored in, maybe optimistically but I'm sure the market will view it subjectively and, he might get lucky.

I've got a CR500 that I bought new and had delivered about the same week my marriage turned to shit. Still wrapped up, under cover in the shed ,started it up once but never rode it. That was 2001. Been there 17 years. If I was an optimistic seller what should I ask for it to get on this thread ?

Well that XR500 varied from $30k to $300k so the sky's the limit...

[HenryDorsetCase]

Apparently and old xr500 is worth more than $50k so take it from there.

I'll open the bidding with $5k.

He got offended because you failed to include at least one (1) packet of potato crisps, as is the tradition. Or corn, if that's your thing. Personally I prefer them but not Doritos.

[HenryDorsetCase]

All I said was that wasn't worth $8k and there would be better things to spend your money on.
Lo and behold, it's now down to $4.5k.

Correlation, my young padawan, does not equal causation.

[sidecar bob]

I now have literally seen it all. May I present, for your derision and ridicule: the $25000 Vespa. TWENTY FIVE MOTHERFUCKING THOUSAND DOLLAR YO.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...23481dd5846662

It might be worth that if it had working warp drive.......

I bought a tidy '08 250 Vespa recently, which would leave $22,500 to get it painted like that, or in any style I liked before it owed me 25k.
A brand new 300GTS with ABS is around the 10k mark, leaving 15k for "improvements"

[Dadpole]

The bit that makes me laugh is that it is not a Vespa factory edition. Simply an Auckland company that claims to have tarted up and sold 9 to collectors for big bucks.

If only I had a superyacht to make the 'investment' worthwhile.