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Author:  mrmikkelsen [ Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:00 pm ]
Post subject:  valuation help
So I posted my 74 CR250M Elsinore for sale and I have plenty of interest. The thing is that nobody wants to make an offer, save for the $100 crowd. Everybody wants me to name a price. I'd really like to get some help so I don't sell it for too cheap to an opportunistic sneak, nor do I want to chase away a perfectly fair buyer by asking too high of a price. I am not looking for offers on this forum, just a handful of quick opinions.
The bike is complete. It was put on a dmv non-op registration 30 years ago. Tires look okay, but are probably not ridable. Fork uppers have rust between the tripple clamps, the rear shock shafts have a few rust pits toward the top. It has the original exhaust is trail-dented shape. Chassis bearings don't wobble. The plastics are overall useable but not show quality at all. The tank is really nice with two mentionable dings. It's a pretty darned original bike owned and trail ridden quite a bit by one owner. It has good compression, but no effort has been made to service it nor to get it running. Overall, it's just what you expect to stumble on in an old trail rider's garage if he'd parked his in-use bike some 30 years ago and left it for other interests.
In this shape, with this limited description, what do you think it's worth? Come on, what do you really think? What do you actually think its' worth at a fair price to people actually looking to buy such a project?
Thanks for the help folks!
Jon
Author:  dogger315 [ Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: valuation help
Here in TN, I'd offer as much as $2500 for a complete "barn find shape" runner.
I'd offer a bit more in CA due to the competition (other buyers).

I paid $1300 for my incomplete, non running, piece of crap '73 and $2500
for my totally complete, strong running, very nice '79.

Don't know what the market will bare right now with the economy in the sh*tter.

Good luck with it.

dogger
Author:  mrmikkelsen [ Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: valuation help
Dogger, you continue pumping out good, helpful information. Thanks for the first objective, non-opportunistic pricing advice.

Let me know if you need parts for your 73, and I'll give you some good deals. I bought a parts lot a while back, and could stand to jetison much of it.

Take care,
Jon
Author:  woosh [ Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: valuation help
There is one for slae by me I wish I had the money for 2500 I thinks its a pretty good price here is the link


http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/819967580.html
Author:  yamahooper [ Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: valuation help
Dont sell for less than 2000. Do try to get it running it is worth 500 more that way. :lol:
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