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Tyre kickers......

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SumpMagnet:
so...its not just me then .....

I'm still answering questions about rubbed paintwork on the sidepanels and tail where it was kept under a cover...and has the paint faded after 16 years. No mate....and I have a painting of it in the attic thats slowly going rusty..... (excuse the literary reference...I'm venting before I answer any more requests for info which would otherwise include a crude drawing of where I would happily shove the bike right now)

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Last car I sold privately was in 1996 it was a Mercedes W124  230E manual 5 speed (it returned 32-40mpg), only one person enquired about the car advertised in the local newspaper. He came to see it as he definitely wanted a manual not an automatic. He test drove it and bought it I think I accepted about £100 less than I was asking for it - manuals are not sought after.

About 6 weeks later I am in the local Post Office when I bump into the same chap who had just got out of a BMW 350 automatic. He complained about the Mercedes being hard work to drive as he was used to driving automatics so he traded it in for an automatic BMW. He then complained that the BMW only did 17 mpg! To be fair he did tell me he took it to a local MB specialist who checked it over and found it was in faultless condition - he said if there had been anything amiss he would have returned it for a refund as he had made a mistake!

Laverda Dave:
A mate sold a 80% restored 70's Triumph via a well known auction site.  He had a few phone calls but nobody actually came round to see it.
One guy kept calling and asking fo info along the lines of what needed doing to finish it (all in the description), what parts were missing....none, again all in the description, would he take an offer as it wasn't running.....it was running as mentioned in the description, all the gears selected etc, it just needed the paintwork doing, the mudguards putting on and the front brake adjusting, again all in the description. The guy admitted he had never owned a British bike before and could he use metric spanners on it? He eventually bought it and collected it in a van. Because he had the phone number he would call my mate up every weekend or whenever he worked on it to ask about this and that and what should he do etc.  Worst mistake my mate made was selling it!

When I sold my 400/4 I didn't want the stress of the tyre kickers, waiting in for the no-shows etc so I sold it to a dealer. I lost money on it but I had the money in my hand straight away and without the hassle of placing ads and paying commission etc.

Pops400:
“What’s the lowest you’ll go on it mate?”

“2 miles an hour, Mate, any lower than that and you’ll fall off.”

I’ll get my coat…  :-X

kevski:
When they try to beat me down i counter with a higher price and say can you see where I'm going with this, or say i will let you have it for nothing and come round for the next ten years to service, clean and add fuel to it for you, then they look at me as if i am taking the pish.

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