I hate when this happens!
 

I spent a lot of time bringing this bike back to life. Sold it last spring for $190.

Just saw it listed on Chicago CL for $325. It looks so good he just might get it.

http://images.craigslist.org/00808_5...iZ_600x450.jpg

Maybe it's been "upgraded".

get this joosey and you'd be ridin' stylin'

http://a406.idata.over-blog.com/224x...-FAGOR--69.jpg

"ah alluz wanted me sum thet thar spanish cookware!"

If you sold that bike for $190 that was a big mistake!

Welp, you're sure right about it looking good.

^ You got that right. Some "flipper" you are, way too clean and nice looking for that :)

Were you happy with the $190 when you got it? Would you still be happy if you had no idea the seller was trying to get more now?

If the answers are yes, all else is irrelevant. Forget about it, except maybe if pricing out another bike down the road.

BTW- you don't know if he'll get that, would you be happier if he could only get $180 and took a $10.00 loss?

You set your price and put the bike up for sale. If you get it, terrific. If you get it very quickly, then maybe you under-priced it a bit. However that's what you wanted, so revel in having gotten it.

I've never understood getting bad feelings for what the new owner decides to sell it for. If you just realized you undersold yourself (see sentence #2 above), live and learn. And you still made a profit by your original figuring, I should think.

I certainly took less than what I could have gotten in the early days on some of my sales. Its all part of education.

Bottom line: No bike ever got sold unless I was at least good (if not outright happy) with the price offered.

Yeah, that would make me happy.

The seller just picked a number. He doesnt have a clue. Throwing out a line and seeing what he can catch. Kinda the way things work these days.

That bike sure photographs nice though.

Whats odd is this is one of several that I have seen being resold. And they appear in the exact configuration that I set them up in. The saddle height, stem height, just as I sold it to the person. In other words, they didnt get ridden.

I've had buyers tell me as they're handing me the cash how much they'll try to re-sell the bike for on CL. Whatever. I got what I asked for, and good luck to 'em.

I would have given you 200 and we both wouldve been giddy.

That would be my attitude, as well.

Do flippers really get surprised that someone else might try to extract more value from a bike than they did? ;)

So, you have become a wholesaler.

The bike does look nice, not $325. Nice to me, but attractive.

It could be called Market Timing.

I don't really mind when it is J. Blow the consumer on CL.

I have my cash.

I'm not thrilled when I give a forum member a deal and I see it one week later on ebay for double the rate.

That has happened twice lately.

Ouch. That hurts. Before I was any good at researching sold prices I bought a bike at what must have been an incredible deal and sold it for like $300 more. I saw it on CL 2 months later for $200 more than I sold it for, using my photos. It probably sold for the $200 more than I got. S#$% happens. I think I am pretty good at research now.

I facilitated a wheelset for a forum member once, drove an hour plus each way for it.
Then I saw it posted not long later parting out the tires from the wheels for a profit. That irked me.

Isn't there a feedback thread for this? I know there is on Paceline but I don't know if anyone ever gets blasted for bad behavior.

Collectively the bunch here has been accused of being cheap in the valuation forum. So, you are stating there is truth to that, save the rare fellow who thought his butterfly handlebared Medici was worth a small mint.

I sold a bikes direct bike (new $350) for $225 after a year and a bit of use. Then I saw it on Craigslist for $450 with that fake msrp they give it. It disappeared after a couple weeks so maybe he got it...

Just sounds like three times you sold bikes for too little. Big deal. If you want to be a flipper then why dislike someone else who is playing the same game. Smile and say good job, be smarter next time...

Any sale I've made I've been ok with. I've seen one get posted for way more than I sold it, then watched it whittle down to 20 less than I sold it to him for. Got a kick out of that but either way, I made sales and that's the end of the commitment for me.
Timing and a certain buyer comes along and boom, more money.

I hate to say it but prices on c&v's have been on the rise. Probably because the hipsters all discovered that they have knees and bikes with gears and brakes are better. What you got a couple years ago has gone up 10-25%, in some cases 50-75%. Hopefully they will continue the move and switch to modern bikes and the hobby will stabilize again.