at least you didn't have to make the trip to wrong island, odd that he didn't budge even a token amount, sounds like he does it alot and will get the price eventually, it's hard to fault people for reselling old bikes for profit that would otherwise be tossed in a landfill, scrapped, or just bought by another suburbanite that would let it lie unused for an indeterminate time, but you can't praise them when they sell things at inflated inflexable prices just because they can in a market like nyc which is one of the few places where bicycles are used as transportation by a large amount of people,
at least now you don't have to worry about it getting stolen,
there were plenty of those made and another is bound to show up,