Rich250RRacer
04-18-2008, 10:59 PM
A couple months ago, I came across an ATV salvage dealer out of PA who sells on eBay. He had four low hour, clean, original 250R's up for auction, one of each year, and they appeared to be 100% stock. The 86 and 87 were close to $5000 the last time I saw them, the 88 and 89 were in the area of $7000. None of them met reserve. Now, everyone is entitled to do whatever them want with their own vehicles, I personally don't agree with parting out nice original examples of these quads, but to each their own. This guy decided to part them. He has sold off a few of the HIGH demand items and has been relisting the rest over and over again, and it doesn't seem like he's having much luck. To me it's a shame that these quads have been torn down and are now missing a few pieces here and there that would be needed to make them complete again. I decided to write and ask him if it was more profitable to part them or if he would have been better off leaving them whole. Here's my emails to him and his replies to me.
Dear sport-atv-salvage,
I don't want to be judgemental on your methods of selling, but I saw all four 250R's that you had up for sale and they were all very nice, clean originals. It seems to me like you're going to be sitting on alot of parts that have very little demand when you're done with these auctions and missing a few crucial parts that would be needed to put them back together. It just doesn't seem you're even going to come close to your original high bids on these quads with the few parts you do sell. Perhaps you would have been better off putting them in storage for a few years and wait for the market on them to rebound, I'm sure by that time you would have had collectors knocking down your door to get them. I really hate seeing clean examples of these quads being torn apart just to sell a few parts off them. But that's just one person's opinion, good luck with your auctions.
- rich250rracer
Dear rich250rracer,
you're opinion is very incorrect, these all brought much more in parts, we have 13 more in even better condition so don't really care, we really hate long winded people with too much time on their hands send stupid emails like their opinion matters
- sport-atv-salvage
Dear sport-atv-salvage,
Well, I was just wondering if it was really profitable to sell them this way, since I've seen that a lot of the parts from these quads of yours have gone unsold. Like I said in the previous email, I wasn't trying to be judgemental on your selling practices, in fact it was under my recommendation to a friend to buy the calipers you had from one of them. I hope your attitude isn't the same with all your buyers.
- rich250rracer
Dear rich250rracer,
shove your opinion and buy elsewhere
- sport-atv-salvage
Do you think I struck a nerve?
Dear sport-atv-salvage,
I don't want to be judgemental on your methods of selling, but I saw all four 250R's that you had up for sale and they were all very nice, clean originals. It seems to me like you're going to be sitting on alot of parts that have very little demand when you're done with these auctions and missing a few crucial parts that would be needed to put them back together. It just doesn't seem you're even going to come close to your original high bids on these quads with the few parts you do sell. Perhaps you would have been better off putting them in storage for a few years and wait for the market on them to rebound, I'm sure by that time you would have had collectors knocking down your door to get them. I really hate seeing clean examples of these quads being torn apart just to sell a few parts off them. But that's just one person's opinion, good luck with your auctions.
- rich250rracer
Dear rich250rracer,
you're opinion is very incorrect, these all brought much more in parts, we have 13 more in even better condition so don't really care, we really hate long winded people with too much time on their hands send stupid emails like their opinion matters
- sport-atv-salvage
Dear sport-atv-salvage,
Well, I was just wondering if it was really profitable to sell them this way, since I've seen that a lot of the parts from these quads of yours have gone unsold. Like I said in the previous email, I wasn't trying to be judgemental on your selling practices, in fact it was under my recommendation to a friend to buy the calipers you had from one of them. I hope your attitude isn't the same with all your buyers.
- rich250rracer
Dear rich250rracer,
shove your opinion and buy elsewhere
- sport-atv-salvage
Do you think I struck a nerve?