I think ebay should be for people who need to make a sale in a week. If you don't need it gone in a week, don't list it. Stay off ebay. Put it on amazon, put it on CL, open your own bike shop.

When you have a hundred idiots all listing the same "rare" item for 500% more than any knowledgeable person would pay for it - and it sits there month after month - ebay is ruined. And that's the worst part of ebay right now, the greedy and the clueless unwittingly colluding to fix prices at unrealistically high levels. So ripoff artist lists something way too high hoping for a sucker. Nobody buys it of course because we're not all stupid - some clueless person comes along to sell theirs, sees the other guy's asking prices - and lists it likewise. Soon there's twenty of the same "rare" items rotting on ebay all because everybody is too greedy and too stupid.

If it doesn't sell in a week, it doesn't belong on ebay. That's why ebay used to be great. If you need a certain figure just put a reserve, but don't clog up the system with a million overpriced items that are never going to sell.