Scooterotica

then let the Japs pay £1500 for that crap then.

Absolute feckin rubbish- any one who actually pays that sort of cash must need examining.

rocho68 wrote: i thinks its us who are the fools ....................................for throwning the damb shite away in the first place

Sadly I have to agree. If some nutcase is prepared to bay £1500 quid for some old tat then fair play to the bloke making money off them.

if he gets his asking price or something near ,then good luck to him I say...and well done.
I wish I had some to sell

if some folk are willing to pay that sort of money for those items...then thats what they are worth to them ,simple as.

....I've got some ulma factory dog shite mint n boxed open to offers over $l,000,000 serious bidders only....viewers by appiontment.........i'm not in mondays to sundays...thanks for lookin

We had a born again mod turn up at our club the other week on a GS 160. His Mrs following in a people carrier. Nice enough bloke. But I started losing the will to live when he started on about the price of his shiny fittings. One pair of lights cost him £600 plus another £200 to have them rechromed. Tit.. He then went on about a Jimmy replica he had comissioned. Each to their own.

it completely amazes me why someone would pay vast amounts of money for what i would consider shite...but they do ..frequently.
but then its all down to ones perception of what is junk and what is treasure i suppose.
personally i would not even want those silly chrome things anyway ,and so they are somewhat worthless to me...
and personally i,d much rather spend that £1500 on tuning/ performance goodies etc...
but having said that ,i can also understand that if someone is really desperately seeking these so called rare items ,and so persieves them as a rare and unique treasure ,and to them a desirable thing to have.. that they may pay whatever to get them...as they may be hard to find.
its a supply and demand thing.
still,...i,d be well suprised that the buyers aquisition of these would futher increase his scooters value by the cost...
if i wanted some ...i would get some new ones made at maybe a fraction of the cost of those...

seans right , the price is whatever the next persons willing to pay , i know a guy whos tv200 is insurered for £11,000 with some of bling priceless , give me a race kit , tig welder and a cnc machine any day !!!!!!

sean brady scooters wrote:it completely amazes me why someone would pay vast amounts of money for what i would consider shite...but they do ..frequently.
but then its all down to ones perception of what is junk and what is treasure i suppose.
personally i would not even want those silly chrome things anyway ,and so they are somewhat worthless to me...
and personally i,d much rather spend that £1500 on tuning/ performance goodies etc...
but having said that ,i can also understand that if someone is really desperately seeking these so called rare items ,and so persieves them as a rare and unique treasure ,and to them a desirable thing to have.. that they may pay whatever to get them...as they may be hard to find.
its a supply and demand thing.
still,...i,d be well suprised that the buyers aquisition of these would futher increase his scooters value by the cost...
if i wanted some ...i would get some new ones made at maybe a fraction of the cost of those...

Have to agree with all of the above but i cant help feeling that the guy is not to dissimilar to a ticket tout. You can bet your ass that he didnt pay £800 of them and then put them up for £1500. Hes got these of someone like you or me who would ask maybe £100 and then ramped them up by a 1000%.
Nice work if you can get it but still......

I think we're all on pretty thin ice talking about what is and isn't a waste of money. Just how much money have we all spent on what any sane person would consider to be crap over the years.

ArmandTanzarian wrote:I think we're all on pretty thin ice talking about what is and isn't a waste of money. Just how much money have we all spent on what any sane person would consider to be crap over the years.

Indeed, i have spent far more than i could ever reasonably ever hope to get back if i ever sold it but cmon £1500 for some old crash bars...its hardly the same as spending £30 on yet another headlight rim that doesnt fit. I would have a wager with anyone on here that he doesnt get a grand for it and i dont even think he will get in a million miles of that figure either. But as a capitalist i do have to agree that somthings worth what someones willing to pay for it at the end of the day...