Parting out bikes...

[Ninjakel]

Leon bought a wrecked 02 GSXR 1k a couple years ago.....with a clean title.

He made really good money on it...i think he paid the dude like 200$

[Amber Lamps]

You can win but the circumstances have to be PERFECT! If the parts you need/want are more expensive or equal to the bike then okay. Otherwise, forget it!

[derf]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

I told the guy in its condition he'd be lucky to get $300 for it... He responded this morning with, "I'll take $350"...

Just like everyone else says, offer him $250 cash, and tell him that you will be glad to load it without any help. I'd buy almost any modern bike sight unseen for that price.

[CasterTroy]

The following is just my opinion....based on my experience with TLR parts for 5-7 years

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Wheels

$150-200. Same as Gen I Busa, so you could market it that way and be a little better off

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

tires

Unless YOU need them...good luck! The only used tires worth buying are track take-offs and THEN only from someone you trust or have SEEN scrub them in and take them off after ONE heat cycle

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

rotors

$25 unless you include them with the wheels, then you up the wheels value by about $50

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

forks

$100

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

triples

Worthless unless you sell them with the forks, and then it only ups the value a little

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

frame

Worth VERY little. No one steals a TLR. If it were a Busa or Gixxer frame, it'd be worth a MINT (see Leon)

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

subframe

This is worth more to YOU, because you can butcher this one and KEEP your original!

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

rear suspension

If you get $10 for the stock rear suspension consider yourself rich!

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

engine only...

Now here you could go broke trying to gather up some of the old Yoshi racing parts and make a sweet motor for yourself. But don't look to get more than 135hp to the ground out of the BEST mods.

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by derf

Just like everyone else says, offer him $250 cash, and tell him that you will be glad to load it without any help. I'd buy almost any modern bike sight unseen for that price.

OK. WTF. Don't lower your already low offer and put CASH after it. I mean, what were you going to pay me with before - fruit loops?

[shmike]

Originally Posted by azoomm

OK. WTF. Don't lower your already low offer and put CASH after it. I mean, what were you going to pay me with before - fruit loops?

There was never an offer, OSP simply told the guy to be reasonable.

Sounds like the guy is coming around so no reason not to hit him low.

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by shmike

There was never an offer, OSP simply told the guy to be reasonable.

Sounds like the guy is coming around so no reason not to hit him low.

Cool... I think it was the "cash" statement that got me.

After recently selling a few bikes on CL, it was the "I'll pay you cash" statements that most cracked me up. How else are you going to pay me... Nigerian cashier's cheque? Especially when the amount is under $500 [in this case] why should you get special consideration for cash?

[shmike]

Originally Posted by azoomm

Cool... I think it was the "cash" statement that got me.

After recently selling a few bikes on CL, it was the "I'll pay you cash" statements that most cracked me up. How else are you going to pay me... Nigerian cashier's cheque? Especially when the amount is under $500 [in this case] why should you get special consideration for cash?

I hear ya.

The only time cash should get special consideration is if the other option is a credit card (additonal cost to seller).

Even on bigger ticket items, it is laughable. Often, the seller can make more financing the item than they can selling it.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by azoomm

Cool... I think it was the "cash" statement that got me.

After recently selling a few bikes on CL, it was the "I'll pay you cash" statements that most cracked me up. How else are you going to pay me... Nigerian cashier's cheque? Especially when the amount is under $500 [in this case] why should you get special consideration for cash?

Yea, I'm selling a couple cars and I get calls all day offering me "CASH!!!", usually for half the asking price...

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

Yea, I'm selling a couple cars and I get calls all day offering me "CASH!!!", usually for half the asking price...

When selling the buick id have taken four hundred dollars worth of fruit loops just for the pure spectacle of it