Topic: SOLD Sand Cast Frame/Engine cases on eBay SOLD

[harisuluv]

I can get rid of these for $10,000 but the guy is in Japan, personally I would like to keep these machines in the United States."

Stuff like this is just total BS.  Won't sell them at or above top dollar cause he wants to keep his import bike in the country.  Riiiiiiiiiiiight...

[Stev-o]

I can get rid of these for $10,000 but the guy is in Japan, personally I would like to keep these machines in the United States."

Stuff like this is just total BS. 

+1....

[Powderman]

he replied to me again:

"Its tempting to send them back overseas but I never liked the idea of these old jap bikes going back to the mainland.

I had to leave my email and pictures of the sandcast engines with a guy in Ohio then about 2 weeks later I got a email from the guy in japan.

Well you know with rare items you ask a high $ then come down depending item/situation/customer. Never know someone may bite that bait you got out there.
Thanks for the inquiry


This make no sense because he had them listed at $3500, which is pretty high for just cases, his numbers are not as low as mine. Now they are relisted at $3K because he got zero bids at $3500 at the same time mine were listed for $1800 and I got zero bids at that price. How would he know if the buyer was from Japan until checkout, what would he do, tell them- I'm not sending them to Japan?

[harisuluv]

Lol, holding out for "high $" yet lowers the price to 3k.

As IF not sending them to Japan is worth 7k+ what a joke.  When I read this type of seller spin it just angers me.  What really infuriates me is that these types of people will have a small effect on the next guy who stumbles upon a similar item.  He will look up something on ebay and see what some dreamer LISTED the item for (NOT SOLD) and then value his item according to the asking price.  Dumb.

[Retro Rocket]

Not saying anything against the points raised here, that guy is full of sh1t, but its easy to contact an ebay seller by PM and make a deal without ebay being involved, or before the item is sold, I've done it a few times, rcently did it with a GS1100 swingarm, seller was selling with shocks, I only wanted the arm and did a deal outside the auction.. ...

[Powderman]

I message him to see what he actually wanted for them, he danced around the bush and never said. I wanted to get my cases listed while his were there at a much lower prices, thought it might help push mine, it didn't.

[jaguar]

Did you make an offer on them?
The seller did have a BIN price listed, so asking what he really wanted would not have yielded much info.......

How would this play out if the roles were reversed.....

[Powderman]

I hear ya