Look what just showed up on craigslist seattle

[SeattleChuck]

http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/mcy/3124737868.html

[SeattleChuck]

And another gem from Seattle Craigslist

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/mcy/3124963269.html

[jimbyjimb]

While the 78 may be one of the coolest XS's I've ever seen it isn't even close to 6k cool.

The 79 might fetch 1800. More if somebody likes it too much.

[TomB]

While the 78 may be one of the coolest XS's I've ever seen it isn't even close to 6k cool.

No way man, you're wrong!! there's a guy in England got one the same up for sale for £10,000.


Note I said up for sale, I didn't say he was selling it for £10K, coz that would imply someone would give him £10K for it!! LOL

The '78 is nice though







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[Tat2demon]

Hot damn. That thing looks like its straight from the crate.

[James England]

No way man, you're wrong!! there's a guy in England got one the same up for sale for £10,000.


Note I said up for sale, I didn't say he was selling it for £10K, coz that would imply someone would give him £10K for it!! LOL

The '78 is nice though







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Nobody here is going to pay that for it, believe me. It's not what it's claimed to be, by all accounts, and certainly isn't UK spec. He bought it on eBay several months ago... I watched it sell for £5,000. It went up for sale a few days after I got £5,300 for mine on eBay. The guy is a bike dealer and has made a mistake with that one, I reckon.

The bike on Craigslist is very nice. It would sell for $6,000 here in the UK, without a doubt.

[TomB]

I dunno, theres always some idiot out there with to much money.

I watched it and yours sell on ebay, within days it was back on for £10K after the dealer bought it for £5K

Have you seen the prices of the rest of his stock

Clicky


Sorry Chuck, I'm dragging the thread off topic




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[foreda]

78e

I doubt he'll get 6 k but I sold a 79F with < 3k miles for >$3k... And I was not trying to sell it. Guy called me!

[SeattleChuck]

Hello Boys

I think the 6000.00 is a bit much too but, a collector and his money can be parted...

[James England]

I dunno, theres always some idiot out there with to much money.

I watched it and yours sell on ebay, within days it was back on for £10K after the dealer bought it for £5K

Have you seen the prices of the rest of his stock

Clicky


Sorry Chuck, I'm dragging the thread off topic




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Fourteen thousand for a CBX1000? Barmy.

Have a look at the thread I started, asking for opinions....... the 10 grand XS11 is dissected very carefully there.....

[TomB]

Have a look at the thread I started,

I commented in the thread




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[James England]

I commented in the thread




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oops, so you did.....

[jimbyjimb]

I dunno, theres always some idiot out there with to much money.

I watched it and yours sell on ebay, within days it was back on for £10K after the dealer bought it for £5K

Have you seen the prices of the rest of his stock

Clicky


Sorry Chuck, I'm dragging the thread off topic




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I wouldn't go so far as to say somebody who paid 6k for the E would be an idiot, but they definitely would be over spending.

I probably paid a bit high for my SG, $1700, but it was the only one for sale at the time on CL and it is a solid rider and in great shape for a bike well-used at its age. I probably should have paid 13-1400 for it. Right now, with the competition currently, that would have been a reasonable price.

I've heard many people say they feel the XS is undervalued. While that may be true compared to other brands, I think 1-2k for a 30 year old bike is plenty. Immaculate examples like the E above excepting, of course.

If I had 6k to drop on a bike the XS wouldn't even be on my radar, for a guy who can at present only own one motorcycle. Don't get me wrong, I love my XS and have no plans of parting with it, but really? For 6k I could get a pretty decked out GS, or a Concours 14, or even a 'Busa.

No accounting for taste but 6k is real high. I hate to be a douche but I'd lowball the guy at 3500 and let that bike sit on CL until he caved. I paid 3500 for an immaculate VF1000F at a dealer! And the 1000F was only sold for one year in the US!

[Crazy Damian]

All in how you look at it.

It's all in how you look at it.
For those of us willing and able to fix up the cheaper ones we find, it;s crazy to think about buying one for 6k.
But for someone who has no time or the skills to work on one, who just appreciates it and wants to add it to a collection, paying 6k isn't that far fetched.
I do computer work for a living, and have built my own computers for years, so when someone tells me they bought a "Off the shelf" pc for $1000 I usually shake my head because I know I can build it for hundreds cheaper with better parts.
Add to that, how many crate fresh 1 owner never seen rain or wet roads 1978 motorcycles do you think actually exist? I bet not many.


Damian

[TomB]

I wouldn't go so far as to say somebody who paid 6k for the E would be an idiot, but they definitely would be over spending.

I was referring to the UK XS11 up at £10K, or to show how ridiculous the price is .......$15,550 That would require an idiot!!

$6000 is £3,859 at todays exchange, not too much money at all for such a lovely bike, and as James says, it would definitely sell for that in UK.

I agree with you Jimby, I wouldn't spend that on an XS11, great bikes though they are




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