After seeing the Grafton eyeballs and the white porcs fetch some apparently crazy money I'm wondering is it so bonkers? Really if you've been collecting for a while and have exhausted your spending is something like this so bizarre. Lots of things(not bike related) are sold far exceeding there original value because someone wants it. Lots of people also have different priorities and higher disposable incomes. Not too sure what I'm waffling on about but it doesn't seem too ludicrous to me any more.
Ebay madness? or is it?
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hoegaardenadds1
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i completely agree! someone just paid £3million pounds for a 90 year old car that cost £1000 new! thats only about £25,000 in todays money!
I know a girl who collects snuff boxes,she spends hours and hours like us searching ebay and various other selling sites,some of these things are no bigger than a matchbox but go for daft daft money and she pays it,we have the added advantage that we can actually build our collected expensive bling into beautiful bikes that work and we can get first hand feedback from it,but unless she takes up sniffing brown shitty powder up her nose she wont get a lot back from her collection(im sure she sees this differently)
Some prices do boggle me,like the Grafton cable hangers that just sold,its 2 small bits of ally with a dolls eye stuck in the front,but to someone its a real gem,we will all do it in time on some item we just must have.
Each (and their money) to their own i say.
Some prices do boggle me,like the Grafton cable hangers that just sold,its 2 small bits of ally with a dolls eye stuck in the front,but to someone its a real gem,we will all do it in time on some item we just must have.
Each (and their money) to their own i say.
At the end of the day it's only money, you can't take it with you. If you have some disposable cash and a hobby then why not spend it on it? What's the harm in spending ridiculous amounts on old bike stuff?
At the end of the day neither money or bike parts or old cars or snuff boxes will do you any good at all when you're 6 ft under
At the end of the day neither money or bike parts or old cars or snuff boxes will do you any good at all when you're 6 ft under
Guillaume
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Agree with John...
But it's more effective too feel happy to ride a good bike than a banknote...:roll:...
All is always too much expensive too me! What is the good price for something..?The good price is maybe the price of the market...Without that how could we say something as a price...And we are all here doing the price of the market...particulary the one of the retrobike stuff...
To me the good price is the price that I'm able to put because I really liked to have this part, because I prefered to have that than money, wich I really don't care...And I don't say that because I've a lot of money, on the contrary :?
It's late, I say a lot of bullshit, I don't know if I'm agree with me :roll: and my english isn't not helping me a lot... But I've tried!!!
Pardon me, héhé
Guillaume le philosophe à de balles de minuit
But it's more effective too feel happy to ride a good bike than a banknote...:roll:...
All is always too much expensive too me! What is the good price for something..?The good price is maybe the price of the market...Without that how could we say something as a price...And we are all here doing the price of the market...particulary the one of the retrobike stuff...
To me the good price is the price that I'm able to put because I really liked to have this part, because I prefered to have that than money, wich I really don't care...And I don't say that because I've a lot of money, on the contrary :?
It's late, I say a lot of bullshit, I don't know if I'm agree with me :roll: and my english isn't not helping me a lot... But I've tried!!!
Pardon me, héhé
Guillaume le philosophe à de balles de minuit
hairstream
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Yep.
I bid £50 for the eyeball hangers and thought that was a bit silly :shock: there's always going to be the odd thing that goes for silly money when the timing is right and two people are looking for that ' something ' to finish a build :shock:
If some NOS M737 or M900 cranks came up at the moment I'd be throwing the kitchen sink at them and it only takes one other person to do the same and we'd have whole new thread
Anyway there's plenty of people out there spending a lot more than us on far more boring things than lovely shiny bikes so I'm not going to feel bad about it
If some NOS M737 or M900 cranks came up at the moment I'd be throwing the kitchen sink at them and it only takes one other person to do the same and we'd have whole new thread
Anyway there's plenty of people out there spending a lot more than us on far more boring things than lovely shiny bikes so I'm not going to feel bad about it
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