Within 1 hour of posting the bike someone emailed me to let me know he used to have one and he loved it, but wasn't going to buy it.  I love talking bikes, but that email was strange.

A few hours later someone emails me about trading the bike for several guitars.  I had to nicely turn the offer down due to the fact I'm dumb and purchased a wallet with a billfold, but no guitar sleeves.

I'm looking forward to the next chapter of Craigslist strangeness...provided it doesn't involve an axe-wielding maniac.

Enjoy your trip through Wonderland! A few years ago I listed my 73 RD-350, and it was a strange trip indeed. I received some fabulous too-good-to-be-true (and they weren't) offers. In the end, after I filtered out all the bullshit, I did sell her at a good price... but it was, to put it mildly, entertaining!


Good Luck!

I have sold 3 bikes on CL.  Bizarre.

I sold one around the time that either Bush or Obama gave one of those stimulus checks of $600 per person or $1200 for married filing jointly.  The bike was worth more than that but I got lots of calls for either of those 2 amounts.  Someone else wanted to trade a deep freezer, an R/C car, and a BB gun.

It's like Wal-Mart.  You go for the people watching experience.  In the end it always worked out, but it was a wild ride.

The next chapter of odd happened around noon.  A guy that once owned the same model called and asked about the starter issue I mentioned in my listing.  As I started my answer he cut me off and told me all of the started symptoms my bike has been suffering.  Then he tells me I just need to spend $35 on a starter clutch rebuild kit from ebay.  Cheers to that guy!   

I'm OK with every Craigslist oddball reply/offer except for the "ridiculously low ball offer guy". I once placed a for sale ad for an item worth $5,000 and asked $2000 for it because I wanted to get rid of it. One guy offered $150. I actually had to email him back to make sure he didn't mean $1500. He didn't.

Quote from: jestercinti on May 08, 2012, 10:34:29 AM
I have sold 3 bikes on CL.  Bizarre.

I sold one around the time that either Bush or Obama gave one of those stimulus checks of $600 per person or $1200 for married filing jointly.  The bike was worth more than that but I got lots of calls for either of those 2 amounts.  Someone else wanted to trade a deep freezer, an R/C car, and a BB gun.

It's like Wal-Mart.  You go for the people watching experience.  In the end it always worked out, but it was a wild ride.

hel i only got 300 from those checks lol

My favorite is always the people who appear to not be able to read, or simply don't care. You write "No Trades" and you get a bunch of people writing in saying "I have a ........... I also constantly have people who email me when I sell things on ebay, and write "shipping inside the US only" and people want to know "are you willing to ship to.....". No, read the stupid listing.

Quote from: Juan1 on May 08, 2012, 03:54:41 PM
The next chapter of odd happened around noon.  A guy that once owned the same model called and asked about the starter issue I mentioned in my listing.  As I started my answer he cut me off and told me all of the started symptoms my bike has been suffering.  Then he tells me I just need to spend $35 on a starter clutch rebuild kit from ebay.  Cheers to that guy!   

He he, pretty much every bike I have tried to buy, and nearly 1/2 have been GS'es mirrors this ... Does your bike take forever to warm up. Does it feel like it wants to race once its warmed up, aaah OK, how about you pay me $5 to get that POS off your hands.

Recently I had one of these exact things happen to me sorta, a MZ skorpion which uses the 660 raptor motor has a starter clutch issue, I search and search and search on the MZ sites and no one says anything about a starter clutch. I get on ebay looking for a starter clutch and wowwww there is a 1000 raptor starter clutches ... and I go WTF ... how can the MZ guys not know this ...

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