Sean Grosvenor

2006 Triumph Speed Triple 1050cc Jan 2006, Scorched Yellow colour, 3000
miles comes with genuine Triumph hugger, Fly Screen and Single Seat Cowl.
£6250 UK GBP ovno 07971287442 Mid Wales

TOG@toil,chateau.murray@btinternet.com,

On 16 Jul, 12:01, "Sean Grosvenor" <seani...@nospamplsbtinternet.com>
wrote:
> 2006 Triumph Speed Triple 1050cc Jan 2006, Scorched Yellow colour, 3000
> miles comes with genuine Triumph hugger, Fly Screen and Single Seat Cowl.
> £6250 UK GBP ovno 07971287442 Mid Wales


Fat chance. Try £5000.

CT

TOG@toil,chateau.murray@btinternet.com, wrote:

> Fat chance. Try £5000.

Whilst £6250 might be *tad* high for a private sale, looking on
AutoTrader there are only two at < £6000 and the next cheapest at £6250
is a 9000 mile 2005 model (although they are all trade).

Of course, there's no guarantee that they sell at these initial asking
prices...

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TOG@toil,chateau.murray@btinternet.com,

On 16 Jul, 16:08, "CT" <m...@christrollen.co.uk> wrote:
> TOG@toil,chateau.mur...@btinternet.com, wrote:
> > Fat chance. Try £5000.
>
> Whilst £6250 might be *tad* high for a private sale, looking on
> AutoTrader there are only two at < £6000 and the next cheapest at £6250
> is a 9000 mile 2005 model (although they are all trade).
>
> Of course, there's no guarantee that they sell at these initial asking
> prices...
>

I bet they don't (he says, still smarting from the hit he took on his
Sprint ST).

Hm. Let's have a look at Ebay's completed auctions, then.

Holy Christ! Even worse than I thought:

2007 model, £6.1k, failed to meet reserve.

2005 model, £5.2k, failed to meet reserve.

2005 model, 4600 miles only, £4.6k, failed to meet reserve.

Loads of 2002 and 2003 models, all failing to make reserve. The only
one that did sell was a 7000-mile 2003 model which struggled to £3.1k

And then you're down to 1990s models which go from a grand upwards. I
have a feeling that all these prices are way, way below book.

For a nice '06 model, then, you could be down to £4500-5000. Good news
if you're buying.

I suppose that a franchised Triumph dealer might ask and get
substantially more, but for a private sale, that £6250 could be as
much as £1500 on the high side.

Monkey

TOG@toil wrote:
> On 16 Jul, 16:08, "CT" <m...@christrollen.co.uk> wrote:

>> Of course, there's no guarantee that they sell at these initial
>> asking prices...
>>
>
> I bet they don't (he says, still smarting from the hit he took on his
> Sprint ST).
>
> Hm. Let's have a look at Ebay's completed auctions, then.

I get the impression that vehicles on EBay sell for a fair bit less that a
'normal' private sale though - presumably because buyers are a bit wary.
Case in point - Sally's CBR400 sold for £1150 *one day* after it went in
MCN, when similar models were fetching £700-£800 on EBay. We reckon we could
have even got a bit more for it, as there was so much interest at that
price.

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Sean Grosvenor

">
> I get the impression that vehicles on EBay sell for a fair bit less that a
> 'normal' private sale though - presumably because buyers are a bit wary.
> Case in point - Sally's CBR400 sold for £1150 *one day* after it went in
> MCN, when similar models were fetching £700-£800 on EBay. We reckon we
> could have even got a bit more for it, as there was so much interest at
> that price.
>
>

MCN it is then ;-)

Hog

Sean Grosvenor wrote:
> ">
>> I get the impression that vehicles on EBay sell for a fair bit less
>> that a 'normal' private sale though - presumably because buyers are
>> a bit wary. Case in point - Sally's CBR400 sold for £1150 *one day*
>> after it went in MCN, when similar models were fetching £700-£800 on
>> EBay. We reckon we could have even got a bit more for it, as there
>> was so much interest at that price.
>>
>>
>
> MCN it is then ;-)

Have you ever seen any stats of how many MCN ads have sold in (say) 2 weeks
after the first ad? I have £20 here says that its a rather small
percentage. In part because it's a useless rag, in part because people ask
over what the market will bear.

Depreciation on most new bikes is savage. To actually get a bike resold
privately in the current market I would allow for 25% per annum for 3 years,
if you put some miles on it.

So your £9000 Kwak 1400GTR will equate to 1 - £6750 2 - £5062 3 - £3796
Tailing off more gradually once it has bottomed out at the £3500 mark.

Sure, a dealer will get more, the very occasional lucky private buyer will
do a touch better, but for most and for those who want a quick sale....
there it is.

That Ducati in my sig had dropped 61% of it's value in 4 years and 26000
miles and he was one of the lucky sellers, he found me wanting one living
locally and they are scarce in the market.

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The Older Gentleman

Monkey <monkey@surfR3M0VEbum.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> I get the impression that vehicles on EBay sell for a fair bit less that a
> 'normal' private sale though - presumably because buyers are a bit wary.

I think that's true to a certain extent, but equally, I've sold some
bikes on Ebay for way more than I thought they'd fetch. Ebay has its
off-days and good days.

But Ebay's "completed auctions" search is still he best indicator you'll
get of what things have actually sold for.




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Timo Geusch

"Hog" <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> writes:

> Depreciation on most new bikes is savage. To actually get a bike resold
> privately in the current market I would allow for 25% per annum for 3 years,
> if you put some miles on it.

.... which, strangely enough, happens to co-incide with the write down
you get on a company bike.

I wonder why.

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Hog

Timo Geusch wrote:
> "Hog" <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Depreciation on most new bikes is savage. To actually get a bike
>> resold privately in the current market I would allow for 25% per
>> annum for 3 years, if you put some miles on it.
>
> ... which, strangely enough, happens to co-incide with the write down
> you get on a company bike.
>
> I wonder why.

Well indeed because with decent work mileage you will write off the entire
value in 3 years!

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Vass

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> But Ebay's "completed auctions" search is still he best indicator you'll
> get of what things have actually sold for.
>
how d'ya do dat den?
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Vass

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> how d'ya do dat den?

s'ok, found it
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Hog wrote:
>>> Depreciation on most new bikes is savage. To actually get a bike
>>> resold privately in the current market I would allow for 25% per
>[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>>
>> I wonder why.
>
>Well indeed because with decent work mileage you will write off the entire
>value in 3 years!

Indeed. Which is why I was looking into the company bike thing, even if I
ultimately decided against it.

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