Why not $10,000?

[BiketoBasics]

For a lark, I decided to take a looksee at oivey for an XL size hybrid bike. I see offerings such as this one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256882622800

That one is offered at $1000cdn.

I don't understand where flippers base their starting points at. Apparently this seller is a bike shop.

 

[SteelNipple]

Low-end, mystery Cr-Mo. Maybe the seller accidentally added one zero too many to the price?

 

[Rapparee87]

Low-end, mystery Cr-Mo. Maybe the seller accidentally added one zero too many to the price?

Or two...

 

[bikeworkshop]

Some people are idiots.
There are a lot of people online.
Easy to find idiots.

A lot of private stuff for sale online is speculative.

A lot of it is money laundering.

Got 10k from dealing?
Sell a "vintage bike" for 10k, show the bank the ad,
Kerching.
Range rover.

 

[grantoury]

To be fair it only needs a new seatpost, and a saddle, a chain and spoke protector and its good as new.

 

[biker23]

To be fair it only needs a new seatpost, and a saddle, a chain and spoke protector and its good as new.

@ grantoury:
Yes, absolutely! If completeted with those parts missing,
it would probably then even win B.O.T.M. or even year!

About the price:
Chill out people, it's not US$ it's "only" CAN$!
So $CAN 1'000 equals to almost 0$ or almost close to 0 for any other serious currency....

I think this bike is a bargain, really....
who knows...maybe it's a "sign" that there is no seatpost in the seattube....
Just turn the bike around on it's "head" aka "upside-down" and who knows, just a pure speculation....
maybe something "valuable" comes out of its seattube.....
@bikeworkshop :
Hmm.....maybe your theory indeed applies here....(?)

 

[petgel]

Seller on eBay trying to sell a pair of Cinelli 66 old logo bars for £450. They were in nice shape but……

 

[vtwinvince]

LOL, our currency is pretty worthless, I'll admit, but not at the level of Turkish Lira yet.

 

[bagpuss]

Lots of wishful sellers on the bay .
Chap near me wanted a grand for on old delivery bike and it didn't even include a flat cap.
Oh and the wheels were rotted through.
A lot of bread for a garden ornament.

 

[biker23]

Some people are idiots.
There are a lot of people online.
Easy to find idiots.

A lot of private stuff for sale online is speculative.

A lot of it is money laundering.

Got 10k from dealing?
Sell a "vintage bike" for 10k, show the bank the ad,
Kerching.
Range rover.

@bikeworkshop:
"SOME(?) people are idiots"
=is maybe (arguably) the understatement of the century (or even millenia)!
Some years back, I think it was in 2006 or so..... there was a now - really famous film
about a future of the society, where the vast majority of the people would be idiots &
where a guy would be just astonished about waking up after many many years in a coma
just to find out that the once great world turned into something once never thought of being possible
- so sth. really distopyan, even totally unbelievably stupid.
The film's name was/is "Idio-cra-cy" you can watch some really funny sequences on YT. LOL