on 06-08-2019 12:58 AM
I put a bid on an item and my max bid was $500 then someone outbid me when I opened up the automatic bid history I could see the $510 then the same user bid again and the bid went up to $4000 How can this happen? I thought the bids were supposed to go up in increments not straight up to their maximum bid
on 06-08-2019 04:49 PM
@collect247 wrote:I'm telling you what the value is for the bike.
The seller states their bike is in very good condition which is valued at $2400.
The seller doesn't say $2400 der but that's what their valued at,I know a bit about motorbikes do you?
The US Redbook site would be the only site that would have them valued that low and they under value
everything.
The CB 750 is valued at $7000 upwards and some can get up to twenty thousand plus these days (the "base"
price is more around the ten thousand mark and up).
You will get some around a lower mark but most of those only have the single pipes.
I used to have one back in 1974 and ended up selling it to my brother.
on 06-08-2019 06:09 PM
on 06-08-2019 07:24 PM
Regardless of anything else, you're always going to be behind the eight ball buying something like that from the US.
For starters, you would be up for a significant amount for freight, which a US buyer won't be. There would be GST on the bike plus the freight. If the seller uses the GSP, you are unlikely to even get it as Pitney Bowes would probably refuse to send it as it is used and has a petrol tank.
More importantly, you are taking the seller's word for the condition and any faults.
on 06-08-2019 08:40 PM
OP may be currently in US, on holidays or staying with relatives. That would explain a lot.
on 06-08-2019 10:25 PM
@collect247 wrote:I'm telling you what the value is for the bike.
The seller states their bike is in very good condition which is valued at $2400.
The seller doesn't say $2400 der but that's what their valued at,I know a bit about motorbikes do you?
The bike is in the U.S and $4000 U.S is very close to $6000 Australian. I,m not sure of thier value in the U.S.A but your estimate of $2400 is way off the mark in Australia. ( see link below )
These bikes have gone up dramatically in price in the last few years, along with the XS Yami 650,s, Suzuki Katanas & GSX1100's. Basically any of the big, iconic Japanese bikes are gold now and the smaller ones are going up in value fast. Luckily I stashed around a dozen early Jap bikes away fifteen to twenty years ago. A couple only cost me carton of beer at the time......
on 06-08-2019 10:41 PM
The bike is in the US so yes my value is meant to be in US dollars
Why would I value something that's in another country to us in AU?
US$4000 lol.
06-08-2019 11:01 PM - edited 06-08-2019 11:01 PM
@chameleon54 wrote:Luckily I stashed around a dozen early Jap bikes away fifteen to twenty years ago. A couple only cost me carton of beer at the time......
They were disposable when I was growing up, lol (my mum's learner bike was an old Honda, but it was discarded ASAP for a Harley - this is back in the early to mid-80's and they were not particularly fashionable amongst the people she knew, all bikers). I remember being at a fundraiser that was thrown by the Hell's Angels where they had one and charged $5 a pop to get in a whack with a sledgehammer.
on 06-08-2019 11:13 PM
So your mum was a bit of a REBEL bikie hey
on 06-08-2019 11:23 PM
Definitely not the most traditional mother one could have, lol. At least when she upgraded to the Harley, me and my brothers could hear her coming home when she was still a couple of minutes away and could scramble to get to the chores she told us to do before she left and pretend we'd started them much earlier. Best bikes ever.
on 07-08-2019 01:01 AM
@chameleon54 wrote:
A couple only cost me carton of beer at the time......
Chamo, I don't even want to think what I swapped my Triumph Tiger Cub for back in the '60s..................