Now that I've done the nice warm-fuzzy-for-my-year-story, back to reality:
I listed two bikes on the Richmond Craigslist this morning, an '80 Schwinn World Sport and a '99 Nishiki Manitoba mtb. First call I get is . . . . . . . . . a guy who, since I'm fixing up and selling an older mtb, wants to sell me a suspension fork he's got. No, I'm not interested, I've got four others hanging on the wall waiting for future frames (I don't do a lot of mtb's). OK, if I was interested in such a fork, what would I expect to pay for it. I told him I'd picked up all four in my inventory, one having never seen a frame, for $30.00 total.
From the silence at the other end, it was obvious I wasn't coming up with anything near the figure he was hoping for.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)