Originally Posted by
StarBiker
My local thrift got a bunch of bikes in yesterday similar to this. I wouldn't buy it either, but people buy this stuff.
The crap, and the prices they pay for it in thrift stores never ceases to amaze me.
Many of them think they scored a gem, assuming old = valuable. I bought ten bikes from a guy like that. All were Goodwill finds. Nine were junkers, one was decent. I took all ten since that was the deal. Nine went straight back to Goodwill for the next sucker/buyer.
I've seen this transition in pickers in the last ten years. Pickers went from grabbing their specialty: toys, electronics, whatever; to grabbing anything they thought they could turn a buck on. Unfortunately, 99% of them know nothing about bikes, so they tend to grab anything, expecting it to be gold.
I see a lot of these on the local C/L, asking $100 or $200 for some "rare" barn find. I've seen one on C/L in Charlotte that has been reposted for OVER four years.