The "How much?" or "You're havin' a giraffe!" thread
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Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
£200 for a Puch needing restoration. It would only be worth half that in pristine condition.
https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/puch-vintage-bike/1486769514
https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/puch-vintage-bike/1486769514
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
Oh! Come on, those lights are collectors items.
They are style icons in their own right.
See how they blend with and contrast, so iconically, the aesthetic flow of the bike. The new materials and thinking that allowed designers to dare to create such evolutionary forms for even functional objects.
Their brutalism of form contrasts so much with the Zeitgeist of the frame.
The frame colour stands as a reminder of the endless pea soup of the post war austerity. Simultaneously unleashing the freedom and independence offered by the chance of owning a bicycle that was not black.
It symbolises the analogue of the never ending conflict between design styles and times.
Such a wonder of human creativity needs it's own shed, to sit or hang and gently blend back to it's original fundamentals.
Yes, it's raining and I'm bored out of my tree!
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
I may be wrong, but £500 for an old Bianchi that hasn't been used in 25 years does seem a tad excessive: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395958642142 Especially as it's got old Shimano EX?00 components and a non-original saddle.
Gwylan
Veteran
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- All at sea⛵
It's a bike. £25 on a good day
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
A few years ago you would get 200-250 for that with ease
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/31600515...S2MMFOEZeZMGsKER6ZkjeCvg==|tkp:Bk9SR7KTn46DZQ
A Dawes Audax Clubman, early 00s version, I think it might be a bit overpriced.
A Dawes Audax Clubman, early 00s version, I think it might be a bit overpriced.
Just a tad.
Gwylan
Veteran
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- All at sea⛵
Suggests the pedals are worth more than the bike.
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
Fixed the link fo you
"I priced to sell I will be open to sensible offers." - Sadly the seller seems genuinely deluded; reckon it's got to be worth about 10% of what they're asking..?
Does beg the question of why they've replaced it with a - by their insinuation - inferior modern bike..
Also, those photos... Imagine you're listing a bike for sale. "I really need to present this properly", you think: "let's get some photos of my precious bicycle. After all, I'm asking someone to spend £800 here. What's the best photo I could put first in my listing? A driveside shot of the whole bike? An artfully composed and lit scenic shot of it out in the wild? No, I've got it! A blurry close up of the low quality left hand shifter!" Who are these idiots?
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Regular.Cyclist
Über Member
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- South West Scotland 🏴
Been looking around for two espresso cup. Tesco have space on their shelves for some at a reasonable price but none of th four places we’ve been to have any in stock.
So the hunt continued. We spotted some yesterday but they were £15 each and another £13 each it you want a saucer too!!
Finally got two this morning from Dunelm for £1.70 each. Great looking cups and indistinguishable quality difference between them and the expensive ones.
So the hunt continued. We spotted some yesterday but they were £15 each and another £13 each it you want a saucer too!!
Finally got two this morning from Dunelm for £1.70 each. Great looking cups and indistinguishable quality difference between them and the expensive ones.
Seems the bar of human capacity and botheration sinks ever-lower
I saw a Deore crankset on ebay recently; listed confidently as 11sp / 170mm / 52mm chainline with the usual, painfully-obvious AI-generated listing content. It even has the model number and crank length etched on the arms in the photos so two minutes spent on an internet search would have given the seller all of the pertinent information...
Instead they evidently chose the laziest route of selecting at random a chainset from ebay's multiple-choice offerings, then letting AI write some rubbish to try and sell it.
I dropped them a PM suggesting that they might like to google the model number to get the correct specs; and while I did get a thanks it was accompanied by a pretty blunt request to provide said specs to them. Yeah, jog on mate.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Part of the blame is covered on another thread "ebay no longer charging private sellers". If you remove the cost-to-list you get stupidity like £100 if you're lucky bikes being listed for £800.
It's the same for vintage film cameras which I'm vaguely interested in; people keep on listing for stupid prices which clutters up your search and makes browsing unworkable.
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
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- Ross on Wye
I was really into elderly film cameras a few years ago. I still have a lot of pretty cool cameras from the dim and distant knocking about the house. They're fun to use, but as you say are worth very little while being subject to the "it's old, so it's worth a fortune" mentality which also seems to afflict undistinguished old steel bikes.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
On the old camera front, my ex-mrs
had bought herself a semi-pro Nikon for close to a grand back in the day, and a grand was quite a bit more back then too. A few years later she sold it on for maybe £300, and upgraded. A few years after that, by which time we'd gone our separate ways, and I bought an admittedly a bit scrappy example of the same camera off ebay for 17 quid !
F90x was the model
