Old 08-31-06 | 11:53 AM
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Location is everything in a situation like this, probably compounded by the fact that you are setting the base price for a Colnago (assuming it is a genuine Colnago) frame in your country.

For the best way to guess net worth, look geographically. See if you can find any sales figures for a like frame (if not Colnago, substitute DeRosa, high end Eddie Mercx, etc.) in Estonia, Lithuania, maybe as far south as Slovakia. Given my understanding of current exchange rates, if you have to look west (Poland, Czech Republic) start figuring the sale price is higher than you can expect to see on a local sale. Going into Germany, France, you'd have to guess even more of an adjustment.

Bottom line in your situation is that the frame is worth whatever you can get somebody to pay. If you have no better basis to begin with, pick a figure that'll buy you locally whatever it is you'd consider fair exchange for the frame. Ask that price. If someone jumps too quickly, you priced it too low (a chance we all take when we sell something). If you get no action at all, you've priced it too high, just adjust downward.

Yeah, the advice is nebulous, but I'm afraid your situation is equally nebulous - and it's not going to answered by knowing what a guy in Philadelphia will pay for it - unless you already know the net worth of something to a resident of Riga vs. the same to someone from center city Philly.

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