Folks selling and their feedback.

[nobbie48]

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Most barn finds are a waste of time and money. Sometimes they are very productive. My cousin's husband found a zero miles Corvette in a barn in the USA in 1963. Farmer bought it for his son as a welcome home from Korea. Sons plane went down on the way home.
It was restored and sold for a very large sum to a museum in the 80s. It was a 53 Vette.

I restored a cedar strip runabout decades ago, launched it in Port Perry and motored over to a friends cottage. When we pulled up to the dock he said he liked the boat and a neighbour had one just like it for sale. Since one can never have too many boats we went to look at it.

The neighbour bought the boat 30 years earlier when his cottage was on an island. Then he thought he was too old for being on water access and bought a cottage on the mainland. The boat went into the garage, never to be used again.

We had to shovel dirt away from the garage doors to get them open. SOLD.

When I picked the boat up the next weekend he had politely recharged the 32 year old battery for me. I dumped the 30 year old fuel, got a new battery and it fired right up.

There's something nice about wood boats.

 

[Lightcycle]

When I was selling an older starter bike, the guy from FB marketplace told me he was on his way from Hamilton (to Mississauga.) While he was on the way he occasionally messaged me odd things like:

"my friends and I are on the way" which made me slightly uncomfortable, later,
"the last time I went all the way to Toronto and the guy didn't even show up" and "I really hope you dont flake on us because we are coming from Hamilton" Then later he sent me a picture of the cash he brought to buy the bike.

At that point I found it so strange and I thought this guy is just an idiot at home wasting my time. But then he said he had arrived. I didn't even feel safe meeting this guy because I thought he is maybe going to try to steal the bike or something.

When I went out to meet him, he was there with a bunch of family and friends, they were there to help lift the bike into the pick up truck. He paid in cash and they were salt of the earth type of people.

From the opposite viewpoint, I was buying a bike in London and wanted to make sure it would still be there if I made the trek out there.

Seller (ex-GTAM) told me another guy was also coming to look at it, so it was first come, first serve. No deposits.

It was a good deal, so I roped my friend into driving me out there, so I could ride the bike back. I quickly called up my insurance company, arranged a quick policy, went to MTO and got a temp license plate, and me and my buddy drove like a bat out of TO westwards on the 401.

All the way to London, I was continually texting the seller making sure the other buyer hadn't got there before I did: "I'm in Kitchener, is the bike still available?" "I'm at Woodstock, is the bike still there?" Seller probably thought I was nutz.

When we got there, the bike was just as advertised. We got the deal done quickly and I rode the bike back. I assume the seller called the other buyer and told him not to bother coming.

Anyway, fast forward a few weeks later, and I show up to one of the bike meets with my new-to-me motorcycle.

One of my riding buddies walks right up to me and starts yelling: "YOU SUNOVABEEECH! I WAS ON MY WAY TO LONDON TO BUY THAT BIKE AND THE SELLER TOLD ME TO TURN AROUND WHEN I WAS HALF-WAY THERE!!!!"

LOL.

 

[crankcall]

Unless your buying Steve Mcqueens desert racer with a picture of him on it , so it’s the only one ever , I don’t think it’s a sellers market . There is Always another bike for sale .
As a career sales weasel , I think I’ve heard every , it’s minty / one of a kind/ nothing like it story . Patience is your friend .


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[bitzz]

Unless your buying Steve Mcqueens desert racer with a picture of him on it , so it’s the only one ever , I don’t think it’s a sellers market .

If that's the bike you're looking at, it's being flipped. That bike sold last year.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

If that's the bike you're looking at, it's being flipped. That bike sold last year.

There are several Huskys he owned floating around. The 250 with the Solar Productions bill of sale is the one you want.

 

[Mad Mike]

If that's the bike you're looking at, it's being flipped. That bike sold last year.

This one?

 

[xrljoel]

Lots of people seem fearful but I've never really had a bad incident in all the bikes I've sold ( runners and projects probably at least 25 sales).
I also had the family clown show arrive once. Came out from Toronto. "Is there somewhere in town we can buy baby diapers?" "Can you lend me a helmet to ride this home"
Oddly they had a helmet in the car and he did end up riding it home.

That's been my experience as well , not the family clown show just the good sales experience. I have kiboshed interactions when they become more trouble than they're worth, or if they start sounding complicated or shady.

Buying/selling is a simple transaction so ANYTHING that raises the smallest red flag is a good reason to bail. If someone doesn't want to give you their cell number or has a number not consistent with where they say their coming from then it's time to move on for me.

I mostly have people come to the farm to pick stuff up unless I'm heading towards them for another reason. I've dropped off 2 bikes I've sold, once because the buyer had no way to pick it up and the other because the guy was coming from Gatineau so I met him half way. He paid for my tank of gas on top of the asking price.

It probably helps that I'm not selling cheap thrashed crap. Or expensive thrashed crap for that matter.

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