Here's one for you all:  I noticed used a '98 or '99 at the dealer (Golden Gate Cycles for the locals) about two weeks ago.  It was in pretty good condition, had about 9k miles and was orange like mine so it caught my eye right away.  Anyway, it had a $3950 price tag and I am thinking "I paid half that much for a bike with 2k miles."  This past Sunday I am back to pick up my GS with new Pirelli Sport Demons on it, which are awesome by the way, and the bike is gone.  The salesman tells me it sold in a week at sticker price.  He said the GS is popular in the city and they can't keep them on the floor.  And you thought Harleys held their value!

Damn, that is high.  I bought mine brand new ('01 model in June of '02) with 1.8 miles on the odometer for only $3300.   But if they are actually getting that much for them, they will keep selling them...especially to people that don't know any better.

Cool.

The price for our '00 GS is now $3,500.
 

OK JamesG you lazy bum ... run an ad in the ad paper, like auto trader ... you cannot hold on to it once the ad hits the streets... at 50mpg (or 45 or whatever) and the insanely cool factor and the cost of gas hitting $2+ no way someone isn't buying it the day the ad comes out. In case you haven't guessed it ... most of us here have GS'es... Fine once in a while we have people looking for them, yes, but that is 1 in a 100 and usually the lookers get like a 100 buy mine responses.
At $3.75 a gallon 66% of people said that they wont buy a Honda Insight. That's how fugly the damn thing is. I have never seen one of those damn things go over 30 mph BTW. I wish that survey had included the GS or some similar small bikes, like a Vulcan 500 (for the cruiser crowd) and people had a choice of responding on that too. I'll bet at $2 a gal 90% will buy a bike. Of course 80% of those should be kept away from a bike to save them from themselves... but the other 10% will.
Cool.
Srinath.

Shhhhhh  you'll give away my secret.

The insight doesn't look too bad, its just tiny and looks like an electric car. The Civic-H and Toyota Prius though look pretty good. But we are holding out for the Ford Escape-H to come out.  Decent size and 46/50 mpg baby!

I was shocked how fast the GS500s disappeared locally from the Cycle Trader when I bought mine. 24hrs is about it. That's how long the ad I picked up on was out. I missed a nice 2002 model for just a little more money, but I did fine. Asking prices are fair and they sell quick!

was checking on ebay and found this one    not quite as bad as the 3900 but close
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&category=6027&item=2479352876&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT
i dont know about everyone else   but im not going to pay 1200 over blue book for a bike that has 0 mods

The going price of anything is what the market will bear.   The thing of it is, that the last Blue Book was written when gas was $1.40 a gallon, and the prices for most vehicles are somewhat fluid at the moment; SUVs and other gas hogs are down, economy cars are up.  I'd put a GS in the latter category, especially there aren't that many good starter bikes out there.  A GS will get 55mpg easily with a steady throttle hand, so the guy in St. Peters is showing it to locals in St. Louis (about 20 miles from downtown), whose parking and fuel costs would decrease dramatically over their Durango or whatever. Plus, that orange color is killer; almost as cool as the '96 Antares Red.