There Is Hope In Kijiji Motorcycle Buying After All

Ya I hate when people don't delete sold ads. Like please don't waste my time and get my hopes up.
 
Pegassus said:
I'm guilty of that but not on purpose. When I sold my old bike I placed an ad on Kijiji and placed my phone number on it and only got 2 phone calls in 1 week. I sold my bike to someone from the area who saw it parked with the sign on. 1 month later I went to check my e-mail for an unrelated matter and I had 58 e-mails from 58 people interested in my bike wow. But why the hell they e-mailed me? I placed my damn phone number on the ad and I got tired of replying "sold" to dozens of e-mails so I gave up and don't respond now. Even now 8 weeks later I still get e-mails from people asking for my bike, jesus christ I would have thought that ad of mine would be deeply buried 200 pages down the throughfare, how are they still finding it?
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trust me ...be glad no one calls you up...it's been a year and half since I sold my prelude and I still get guys drunk as **** calling me asking if I have the "lude".
 
nearace said:
I just bought a klr 650 off kijji;)
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How much you paid for it? I saw a KLR 650 (red and white colors) for sale at this house's yard for $1,600 but I don't know what year was it. This was around the Keswick area.
 
evang said:
That goldwing doesn't seem completely unreasonable. Those things sell for about $30k+ new. He's probably priced it higher because people will come in with lower offers.

If you ask me, the bigger pain with Kijijij is trying to sell something. Dealing with people making ridiculous lowball offers and offers for trades. I had a 2009 Ninja 250 listed for $3700 and I was getting people offering me $1500. One guy offered me a band saw and some cash. Another offered me a 1978 ford pick up.
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I got offered a jet ski and a hot tub for my car.
 
Pegassus said:
How much you paid for it? I saw a KLR 650 (red and white colors) for sale at this house's yard for $1,600 but I don't know what year was it. This was around the Keswick area.
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2007,$3500,10500k,I think the one you saw was a 2 stroke.
 
I got my '97 Virago 1100 off kijiji. ($3,200) I had been shopping the local dealers and watching the ads. prices ranged from $2,500 to almost $6,000 I offered him exactly what he was asking provided he got it to pass a safety. Everyone was happy. I've put 10,000 kms on the bike since February with absolutely no issues other than the OEM Yamaha battery is getting a bit tired. LOL

I also buy and sell guitars on kijiji. Think people low ball motorcycles? Try selling a vintage guitar!
 
kijiji is great, just need to know how to use it...

ive bought literally every bike except an 09 r6 from kahuna.

so 8 bikes from kijiji all win

and when people are asking such a high price, just low ball the **** out of em, someone will crack and wants to sell.

as for non-deleted ads, they should be shot. So frustrating
 
JZ67 said:
In your opinion, what is the correct asking price for this bike Peggy?

Your math is always interesting so please show how you calculated the value.
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It should be $8,000, not more than $10,000. First of all ANY vehicle that drives off the lot of a dealership loses 35% of it's value immediately, so if this bike is worth $30,000 new then it was worth $20,000 as soon as she was taken off the lot. Add another 8% devaluation per year, in 6 years that's another 48%, so in essence this thing should be worth less than a third of the price, exactly $8,000 like I suggested.

The fact that it was your first bike or that you loved it means crap to me, I will pay you market value for it, I don't give a crap about your sentimental attachment. I paid $2,900 for the bike I have now and it was worth $10,000 just a couple of years ago and yeah, it's in mint condition.
 
Pegassus said:
I'm guilty of that but not on purpose. When I sold my old bike I placed an ad on Kijiji and placed my phone number on it and only got 2 phone calls in 1 week. I sold my bike to someone from the area who saw it parked with the sign on. 1 month later I went to check my e-mail for an unrelated matter and I had 58 e-mails from 58 people interested in my bike wow. But why the hell they e-mailed me? I placed my damn phone number on the ad and I got tired of replying "sold" to dozens of e-mails so I gave up and don't respond now. Even now 8 weeks later I still get e-mails from people asking for my bike, jesus christ I would have thought that ad of mine would be deeply buried 200 pages down the throughfare, how are they still finding it?
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Most people looking to buy on the internet will communicate through the same media, the internet.

People are still inquiring because the ad is still up. Take it down. It takes all of 5 seconds. Although it also takes 5 seconds for someone to just report it as sold and Kijiji will take it down for you.
 
Pegassus said:
It should be $8,000, not more than $10,000. First of all ANY vehicle that drives off the lot of a dealership loses 35% of it's value immediately, so if this bike is worth $30,000 new then it was worth $20,000 as soon as she was taken off the lot. Add another 8% devaluation per year, in 6 years that's another 48%, so in essence this thing should be worth less than a third of the price, exactly $8,000 like I suggested.

The fact that it was your first bike or that you loved it means crap to me, I will pay you market value for it, I don't give a crap about your sentimental attachment. I paid $2,900 for the bike I have now and it was worth $10,000 just a couple of years ago and yeah, it's in mint condition.
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Where does this come from? I'm having a hard time finding R8's, Corvette's and 911's that are 35% off.
 
Pegassus said:
It should be $8,000, not more than $10,000. First of all ANY vehicle that drives off the lot of a dealership loses 35% of it's value immediately, so if this bike is worth $30,000 new then it was worth $20,000 as soon as she was taken off the lot. Add another 8% devaluation per year, in 6 years that's another 48%, so in essence this thing should be worth less than a third of the price, exactly $8,000 like I suggested.

The fact that it was your first bike or that you loved it means crap to me, I will pay you market value for it, I don't give a crap about your sentimental attachment. I paid $2,900 for the bike I have now and it was worth $10,000 just a couple of years ago and yeah, it's in mint condition.
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Your ZX7 was worth $10,000 2 years ago????? WOW.

You can pull numbers from you rear all you want but please do the math right. Losing 8% every year doesn't mean losing 48% over 6 years. Going by that logic, I am surprised you and your buddy actually paid money for bikes waaaay older than 8 years.
 
Pegassus said:
The fact that it was your first bike or that you loved it means crap to me, I will pay you market value for it, I don't give a crap about your sentimental attachment. I paid $2,900 for the bike I have now and it was worth $10,000 just a couple of years ago and yeah, it's in mint condition.
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And mine was worth almost $9k 3 years ago. I'd consider it worth $4k now... I don't understand what your point about this is.

There is a price filter if you don't like how high your results are.
 
Pegassus said:
... so if this bike is worth $30,000 new then it was worth $20,000 as soon as she was taken off the lot. Add another 8% devaluation per year, in 6 years that's another 48%, so in essence this thing should be worth less than a third of the price, exactly $8,000 like I suggested.
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Even IF your numbers were right... If something devalues 8% per year, that doesn't mean 8% x 6 years = 48% of the original cost. That means 8% of the value per year, so for the first year $30,000 depreciated 8% is $27,600, the next year would be $25,392 ... etc etc... Until the 6 year it would still be worth almost $20,000.
 
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Modeboy said:
Even IF your numbers were right... If something devalues 8% per year, that doesn't mean 8% x 6 years = 48% of the original cost. That means 8% of the value per year, so for the first year $30,000 depreciated 8% is $27,600, the next year would be $25,392 ... etc etc... Until the 6 year it would still be worth almost $20,000 still.
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Prediction - your logic will be completely lost on the OP.
 
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