The "How much?" or "You're havin' a giraffe!" thread

[biggs682]

That's my old bike which I sold earlier this year on eBay for £200

The only thing he's done is to swap the leather Selle Italia saddle for a different one.

He also bought the DBS Winner I was selling - I can't see that in his current or sold items so it's either still to be sold or dismantled and being sold as parts.

That's a good profit margin

 

[rogerzilla]

Too nice to be a Falcon. If it's a Quinn it should have a Q number made of an O and an L stamped to look like a Q.

It has an M prefix. Real Quinns have the Q made from an 0 and a 1 (I have two of them).

 

[rogerzilla]

That's my old bike which I sold earlier this year on eBay for £200

Caveat emptor indeed!

 

[Paulus]

That's my old bike which I sold earlier this year on eBay for £200

The only thing he's done is to swap the leather Selle Italia saddle for a different one.

He also bought the DBS Winner I was selling - I can't see that in his current or sold items so it's either still to be sold or dismantled and being sold as parts.

In your opinion then, as you were the owner, is it a real Harry Quinn or did you sell it as something else?

 

[DCLane]

@Paulus - I sold it as a Harry Quinn using the same description as when I'd bought it 18 months previously. The previous owner had owned the bike for many years, along with others. It came without a seatpost or saddle and I changed the outer chainring for usability along with the brown bar tape shown in the eBay advert. Even after the work done I still made a decent profit and sold simply because I didn't like riding it all that much.

Do I think it's a Harry Quinn? Probably. And it may be a very early one. My buyer clearly knows something about them - he requested quite a number of additional photos of frame points before bidding.

Is it worth £1500? I very much doubt it is.

 

[DCLane]

£2000 for an unused 2012 Raleigh - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151193267317 It's got the old 10-speed Ultegra groupset but seriously ...

I sold the same frameset to @Jameshow for a tenner.

 

[Drago]

And it does - almost - have a full groupset, and not just the drivertrain that the ignorati refer to erroneously as "a groupsrt."

 

[DCLane]

£550 for an XL size old 501-framed Peugeot - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186224546007 -

 

[Grant Fondo]

What are these? Ptarmigan eggs?

 

[Grant Fondo]

£2.20 for 4 at Tesco, although they do taste like cardboard.

 

[Paulus]

£2.20 for 4 at Tesco, although they do taste like cardboard.

The tesco finest ones are quite nice though.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/305966087/?icid=ghsandapp_ghs_pdp_share

 

[Alex321]

The tesco finest ones are quite nice though.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/305966087/?icid=ghsandapp_ghs_pdp_share

They are, but more than twice the price of the standard ones, at £2.50 for 2

 

[Grant Fondo]

The ones at my local Deli are about £2.50 each, worth it for the chorizo one though.

 

[Paulus]

They are, but more than twice the price of the standard ones, at £2.50 for 2

But if the standard ones taste like cardboard,

£2.20 for 4 at Tesco, although they do taste like cardboard.

Would you go for quality or quantity?

 

[Chris S]

£150 for a Raleigh Chiltern, reduced from £200. No timewasters.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/722692709677835/