Suzuki gsx750 es. Hang out sale or strip for parts?

[jimbothe]

Firstly, this is not a sales pitch. I'm looking for some genuine advice as I seem to have come to a dead end.


What am I doing wrong?


I put my gsx up for sale 20 days ago on ebay and had a lot of people watching but no takers.

I listed it at £1600 (probably well ott but you have to start somewhere), I then dropped it to £1400, then £1200, now it's at £999 and there are a LOT more watchers but still nobody has rung about it, well apart from a guy who was going to break it and offered me £500..... cash! like that's going to make a difference. How else was he going to pay for it? sexual favors?

Mot is out in august and although I'm sure it will go through I have simply lost interest in it. It's been sitting in the back of the garage for a month now as the Thunderace is back on the road and most of my spare time and money is being spent on my landy, partly why I need the gsx gone.

Do you think it would be worth breaking it instead and selling it in parts? It seems a shame as it's in pretty fine condition but I have to face reality here.

I'm not polling it as I would like to hear your opinions if you have any.
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[mad4it028]

i wouldnt break it if i were you as with breaking just 1 bike youll probally be waiting months to earn the money i never pay more than £600 for a breaker unless its a harley lol
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[jimbothe]

ok, thats good advice. I put a new Marshall deeptone on it about a month ago. I thought that may make back £200 fairly quickly. It's not the money so much as the time.
I always thought there was a fair market for early 80's bike bits?
I'm probably wrong and you should know as you break bikes all the time so here's some
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[mad4it028]

yes there is amarket for early bikes and a good one but it will still take moths to break i still have a few bits left from a cb900 i broke early last year
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[Shaft]

If this is the bike I was looking at in a thread a while back, surely it's too good to break?

Although it might take a while, I would keep plugging away at ebay, but drop your reserve; I reckon it might just make £1000, but a reserve nearer £600 might get it moving.
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[jimbothe]

In your opinion, I apologise if I'm taking the mick.

What would be the first bits to go and approx what would I see back from them?

I have space, plenty of it, so thats not a issue.

If I could see a 'fairly quick' 500 back I don't mind sitting it out for the rest.
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[jimbothe]

[mad4it028]

start it at 99p no reserve then get a friend to bid the minimum youll take for it be realistic i garentee that because you started at 99p lots of people will bid everyone likes a bargin and even once the price starts going up some will still bid as they have already named it cleared a space for it and fell in love with it...lol
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[Shaft]

[jimbothe]

Ebay does keep asking me if I want to change it to auction format (for a fee, of course...)
Perhaps it's time to take notice then.
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[Marmalade]

I'd wouldn't bid it up for you if you went down those lines

Got to bold as a whole, too nice to rip apart. Someone who likes bikes will buy it
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[jimbothe]

I'm not really keen on ripping it apart I must admit but the money could be better spent and I'm more than a little disheartened by the fact it's hardly tickled anyones fancy.
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[MarJay]

If I was watching it and it started at £1600, then you dropped it to £1400, then £999, I'd be waiting for the next drop in price.

The problem here is that you listed it far to high in the first place. Plus auction formats get a much better coverage, and appeal to people's "I want it now" instincts. I tend to just skip classified ads unless its something I really want, but I've never ever bought a bike from an ebay classified ad. I have however bought most bikes via auction formats.

List it starting at £1000 on a ten day auction starting on a Thursday. Don't set a reserve. It'll sell.
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[woodyeee]

Try selling it on oldskoolsuzuki theres lots of suzuki guys on there!

[woodyeee]

Try selling it on oldskoolsuzuki theres lots of suzuki guys on there!