Sales methods - should prices be included?

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Sales methods - should prices be included?

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Moderator note: This thread has been split off from CJ's for sale thread viewtopic.php?f=40&t=145189


This bike has been my favourite for light and quick tarmac riding for more than 20 years (until I went carbon!). I've changed a few things since the review for Cycle magazine (read it here) and it's been the review 'clotheshorse' for each succeeding generation of Shimano road componentry. Yep, I liked that test bike so much, I bought it!

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So to the sale. In a few days' time, I will put the bike on Ebay, but I'd like to give friends of CTC first dibs. PM me your offer and if anyone can better what I think I might get elsewhere...
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What's your ebay reserve price?
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I don't think it's on eBay yet?
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jimlews wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 12:06pm What's your ebay reserve price?
Bonefishblues wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 1:45pm I don't think it's on eBay yet?
Correct Bonefishblues. I'm giving this forum first dibs. Think of it as a sealed bid auction. Send me your best offers by Private Message before Saturday 17 April and if I like one of them enough I'll not even put it on Ebay.

If I don't like any of your offers: I put it on Ebay and take the risk of selling it for even less. That way you might get a bargain, but obviously not if it goes for more.
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It seems you're a man who enjoys a hand of Poker, Chris.
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martin biggs wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 5:12pm This a nice example on the bay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thorn-Audax- ... Swx-9gYzS2
This is inappropriate on someone’s for sale post - I would remove.
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markjohnobrien wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 6:12pm
martin biggs wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 5:12pm This a nice example on the bay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thorn-Audax- ... Swx-9gYzS2
This is inappropriate on someone’s for sale post - I would remove.
Since the OP is asking for sealed bids, pointing to ways to ascertain value seems very reasonable.
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roubaixtuesday wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 6:49pm
markjohnobrien wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 6:12pm
martin biggs wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 5:12pm This a nice example on the bay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thorn-Audax- ... Swx-9gYzS2
This is inappropriate on someone’s for sale post - I would remove.
Since the OP is asking for sealed bids, pointing to ways to ascertain value seems very reasonable.
Agree, I has speculated on a similar price
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Cyril Haearn wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 7:04pm
roubaixtuesday wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 6:49pm
markjohnobrien wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 6:12pm

This is inappropriate on someone’s for sale post - I would remove.
Since the OP is asking for sealed bids, pointing to ways to ascertain value seems very reasonable.
Agree, I has speculated on a similar price
Disagree: as it could be seen as undermining someone’s sale as some potential buyers may be tempted by the other link.

It’s not reasonable as anyone can do their own online research without posting on here.
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markjohnobrien wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 6:12pm
martin biggs wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 5:12pm This a nice example on the bay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thorn-Audax- ... Swx-9gYzS2
This is inappropriate on someone’s for sale post - I would remove.
Didn't mean to undermine anybody
Just trying to show a similar bike's value seeing as the op won't put a price up which is a shame if you ask me
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markjohnobrien wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 6:12pm
martin biggs wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 5:12pm This a nice example on the bay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thorn-Audax- ... Swx-9gYzS2
This is inappropriate on someone’s for sale post - I would remove.
I don't mind. Seeing that on Ebay was what nudged me into finally getting a round tuit!
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Fair enough - it’s your sale post (and thread).
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martin biggs wrote: 11 Apr 2021, 7:32pm ...the op won't put a price up which is a shame if you ask me
"What is my bike worth?" is a question I never answered as CTC Technical Officer, so I'm not about to start now. IMHO an item is worth as much as someone will pay for it. End of.
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markjohnobrien wrote: 12 Apr 2021, 4:07pm Fair enough - it’s your sale post (and thread).
Indeed - absent firm rules on the Forum (unlike many/most, I'd say), then it's up to the OP to manage their thread in partnership with the Mods I think. I made a comment on a for sale post - a pretty innocuous one too, and got a thoroughly offensive (but actually rather hilarious :D ) PM from a would-be thread vigilante telling me what sort of person I was.
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May one ask how much you paid for it in 1997?
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