Originally Posted by
lshobo
How can people try to sell 20+ year old bikes for upwards of $300-400 dollars!?? We're not even talking about classics here. I don't care how "freshly tuned and trued" your $hit is. A monkey could do the work you do - wipe down, regrease, replace cables, blah blah. How about leaving the good deals for people on a budget that actually want to ride the bike, rather than trying to do a flip job that borders on robbery?!
Sadly, this also reflects on the stupidity of clueless buyers who are helping these leeches thrive. SF Craigslist is such a jacked-up market.
/RANT. Thank you for reading.
Who is buying these bikes?
I don't think an uneducated consumer will spend 400 bucks on an used craigslist bike. They are more likely to spend 200 bucks on a new bike at the big box store.
So that only leaves educated consumers. Which means they find value in the product being sold.