Nothin selling on Trademe - time to trade?

[rocketman1]

Just good to note that others reckon nothin much selling on Trade me except real cheap junk., ...serve you right if you buy it.
Had a couple of good bikes on there for months, bugger all response.
So I think that it is time to TRADE not sell.
Instead of selling i will TRADE that seems to be the way around this recession TRADING not selling... Im happy with that.
I have entered the words trade and swap in my ad, and have got a few offers of trade but nothin yet to suit me.
Any one have any others good ideas , apart from giving them away, which I wont do, not that hard up ...yet!!
This time last year it took about 7 days to sell a bike, now about 7 months.

[Renegade]

gutted.....im just about to list my ducati monster

[hmmmnz]

no one wants to fork out large amounts of cash in the current financing situation, and coming on to the end of summer as well,
not really the best time to sell any year

[Maki]

Selling is easy if you are realistic about the price. Seems to me that a lot of people just list their bike on tardme at some ridiculous price and just let it sit there in the hope someone will bite.

[R6_kid:Me]

I sold my GSXR1000K3 with sorted suspension, K+N filter and race pipe - for $7000.

Realistically if i'd invested $1000 in it it could have been worth $9500-$10,000 but I needed the money and that was the price that was going.

There are a number of bikes still advertised at prices that I think would have been a bit on the steep side back in November before 'recession' was a commonly spoken word in the media.

At the end of the day now is not the time to be selling, it's a time to be buying if you can afford to do so off your own back. If I could i'd be buying a house in the near future, but as for bikes i'm looking at what will suit my needs and is within an affordable budget - not what do I want, and can I afford to pay it off over the next 3 years.

[awayatc]

good product + good price= sale

[Muppet]

Interesting how Alan Bollard told us to stop spending last year or he'll put up interest rates, now we clearly have he tells us we have to spend to keep economy going and is lowering interest rates!! Can't have it both ways Alan.

[Bonez]

Buyers market my freind. Loving it. Winter will have better pickings.

[lostinflyz]

yea as above. at the moment you have to be bloody competetive and it has to be damned well worth the money. i just bought a bike and it was damn good value. but theres others cheaper listed that can't sell.

[madbikeboy]

Prices are so reasonable - looking for investment property is cool, low interest rates and people who are seemingly desperate to sell with no buyers... Even tradespeople are much more reasonable. I had a guy who quoted me a stupid price for a fence call the other day - he apologised for the silly price and then quoted one about 40% of the original quote since he was now hungry for work - I told him at the time that he was being a greedy prick - his response was that he had people queing up and could charge whatever he wanted... It was satisfying telling him to fuck off a second time...

[McJim]

Just bought a car from trademe - was a good buy. I have been flabberghasted by a lot of trademe prices letely though. There seem to be a lot of people who don't realise that 25% of depreciation occurs in the 30 or so seconds that you ride a bike out of the showroom.

there are an awful lot of $7,000 bikes being advertised at $12,000. No wonder they're not selling.

I'm about to list a 2003 Falcon for less than $10,000 - that's less than 1/3 of its original value only 6 years ago. Just need to get the panel beaters to fix the car park scratches and dings first.

An object is only ever worth what someone is prepared to pay for it NOT what the buyer wants.

[Max Preload]

I had a guy who quoted me a stupid price for a fence call the other day - he apologised for the silly price and then quoted one about 40% of the original quote since he was now hungry for work - I told him at the time that he was being a greedy prick - his response was that he had people queing up and could charge whatever he wanted... It was satisfying telling him to fuck off a second time...

The people that survive recessions relatively unscathed are those whose prices and service are reasonable all the time, not just when they're forced to be. Build clientale loyalty in the boom and you'll continue to work through the bust.

Anyway, what fucking recession? This week I got asked if I could do more hours, not less. How come I'm not going to get to work only 9 out of 10 'working days'? What did I do to deserve such cruel treatment?

[madbikeboy]

The people that survive recessions relatively unscathed are those whose prices and service are reasonable all the time, not just when they're forced to be. Build clientale loyalty in the boom and you'll continue to work through the bust.

Anyway, what fucking recession? This week I got asked if I could do more hours, not less. How come I'm not going to get to work only 9 out of 10 'working days'? What did I do to deserve such cruel treatment?

You and me both buddy, I could seriously work 18 hour days, we're so busy. I'm taking business off our competitors - we have that unique quality of offering a significantly better service to our customers, and magically, it's at a significant reduction in cost...

How is the bike, you all repaired?

[madbikeboy]

Just bought a car from trademe - was a good buy. I have been flabberghasted by a lot of trademe prices letely though. There seem to be a lot of people who don't realise that 25% of depreciation occurs in the 30 or so seconds that you ride a bike out of the showroom.

I just bought a new car - it was kind of funny, dealers were putting the prices up on existing stock, claiming the exchange rate was causing the increases. I'd believe that on stock that had not been purchased yet, but on cars they'd had on the yard for months?? Tui.

[Elysium]

Anyway, what fucking recession? This week I got asked if I could do more hours, not less. How come I'm not going to get to work only 9 out of 10 'working days'? What did I do to deserve such cruel treatment?

That is so true, what recession? The people who have lost big time are those who got too greedy or banks giving loans to morons who were never going to pay it. It's just unfortunate that some companies prefere to start with the workers when it comes to save on costs instead of themselves.

And I too have no trouble getting extra hours so I have no trouble getting some extra money to do up the bike with new tyres, WOF etc.. as I too am going to list my bike on Trademe but like some people here have said, I'd be more happy to trade, for me a Honda VTR or Suzuki SV,then cash. Cash would be good if I'm lucky to sell so I can go to bike shops and haggle.

By the way does anyone notice the art of Haggling returning yet?