jolly_codger

I was looking at this early 90's Stumpjumper that a local church's thrift shop has listed on their website and am wondering what's a fair price. I'm in a very small market and any value estimates are appreciated. Ebay didn't have much to go on (most of the listings that sold are either very early models or models with partial & full suspension). Thank you for your help.

Mr. 66

Buy it, join the cult of moosebar! Gosh those can be pretty popular. I'm thinking any thing under $200 is probably a good price for in that condition. If I recall people really like the Suntour thumbies shifter. I'm not a huge fan of the thumbie.

bikemig 

This is an early model and in great shape. I'd buy it in a heartbeat at $200 or less. I've paid right around $125-$150 for Stumpjumpers from the late 80s to the early 90s. That is a reasonable price for those bikes. This is older and worth more than the ones I've picked up at least to a collector. As a rider, the later ones are better bikes I think with indexed shifting and a little more aggressive geometry. So $150-$200 is probably about right for a local sale for a church thrift organization. The bike is worth more if going through eBay but then you have to deal with eBay.

wrk101

This one is an early model. eBay is FULL of solds for that era Stumpjumper. Solds are going to be in the $600 to $800 price range. Asking prices are sometimes crazy high, but those do not sell. Local sales can linger at $250 or higher in my market.

Shifter cable routing is horrible but an easy fix. If it is your size, I'd buy it.

Paul Waque 

Probably from about 1983. A similar but larger one is listed for sale at $600. Good looking, but small, bike.

jolly_codger

Please help me out here because I must be doing something wrong in my search. I searched for "stumpjumper" in the sold listings and got 43 complete bikes of which 6 were kind of similar to the one I posted. Is there a better term to search on to get better results and avoid being a pest on this forum? Thanks!

katsup

If you pay for a ebay seller store, you can see a longer duration of sold items.

wrk101

Terrapeak is one source of longer ebay sold. It goes back two years if you have access. Worthpoint goes back even further, it costs $$ but I understand you can get a free trial. Since I have access to Terrapeak, I haven't tried Worthpoint.

One thing about ebay sales history, it is pretty meaningless on local sales. Unless you are willing to pack and ship, then the fact the item can bring more $$ on ebay does not matter. Sellers do not always understand this, and too often rely on ebay ASKING prices rather than solds. Even if they actually check ebay solds, those prices do not reflect local market conditions.

I have heard this statement at least 1000 times: "I saw this selling on ebay for $xxx." I always ask: "Selling or asking?" There are always silly sellers asking sky high prices and their items rarely sell. Sure enough, there is a seller asking $2395 for one right now. There are over 80 watchers. Almost all of those watchers are not interested potential buyers, they are other sellers tracking the item to see if it sells.

Even with just the standard 90 day history, you can see early Stumpjumpers that sold. There is a 1983 frame that sold recently that was in horrible condition.

VtwinVince

Looks like an '84 Sport in time-capsule condition. A bigger frame would command more money. In my over-inflated market these sell for about 350.00 USD.

DMC707 

For a church fund raising operation I would gladly give this much and perhaps a little more - IF I was no taller than 5’8”. I freely give to good cause fundraisers if they are legit, (churches; candy bat drives, Girl Scouts etc). It tickles the little kids pink when you drop $20 on them and say, “Sweetie, I’m on a diet’ but use this to help with your product leakage”. (Because little kids can’t be trusted with a box of candy bars and the till will always be short a few bucks that mom and dad will have to make up for in the end)

But if you’re not feeling that benevolent, you could just ask them if they had a number in mind