Hey Guys
Iam selling a used set of mavic 351 Handle bars on ebay # 280764648217
I was wondering why these handle bars in mint condition are going for over 200.00$ on ebay ???
Thanks Pinch

Not really worth $200+ IMO. I got NOS Mavic 350 Criterium Bend bars for like 70 bucks about a year and a half ago I also got another one that's used but mint, except for little scrathes where the levers were mounted, for around 50 bucks earlier this year.
I would say for NOS, they should really be more in the range of 80 to 100 bucks max these days, but a couple of these sellers just let then sit at ebay for over a year now at 200+ bucks not seriously trying to sell them asap, but hoping to fish for desperate enough buyers that will pay their overinflated prices. Them sittiing at ebay this long unsold tells you that they are way overpriced. Unfortunately they influence other Mavic handlebar sellers to price their bars similarly so they also sit unsold for a while till the seller lowers the price to something more realistic. The same few sellers have lots of other French components priced too high at eBay (one even set a standard price of $249 for most of his better stuff, regardless of what it is. It's resulting in most French C&V higher end stuff), going up in price substantially just this last year, despite the depressed market. It really sucks if you have a high line French project to complete and suddenly these things become unaffordable. These sellers have been sniffing too much tub glue or something.....

Chombi