Values of 90's Bikes

Not sure of the value, but perhaps your pitch needs work. Ebay, gumtree, etc are very useful selling tools, but you have to pitch your bike right.

Firstly, take a good picture. No arty shots, just clear well-focussed shots of the bike in good light.

Then, use a buy it now option. You know what you want for the bike, so put it up for auction with a reserve that is the very least you'd be happy to sell it for, then add a buy it now price. Alternatively you can list it with a classified price and add a 'best offer' option. This is my preferred method, and I've never failed to sell a bike.

Thirdly, cut to the chase. No-one wants to hear your witty anecdotes of your time with the bike, so stick to the facts. Does it have a full service history, how long is the mot and tax, are all the documents and spare keys present? If your bike's non-standard, do the standard parts come with the bike?

Add other similar bikes to your watch list, so you can see if they sold, and how much they sold for.

Use these rules and there's no reason why the bike won't sell.

 

Personally, I think it's a fair price if you're prepared to compromise, although without pics it's difficult to say what 'used condition' means as it's all in the eye of the beholder. I think the thing is that there's so much choice in the market around that sort of price.

As a matter of interest there's one of yours advertised in a dealer for £8.5k fer chrissakes! Ok - so it's got v low mileage but .....

 

I think its well priced too and if I did not already have a 748, I would go for this. I think the issue at the moment is that folk looking for bikes are shmoozed by dealer offers, scare stories about reliability etc, 0% finance, no deposit etc, all sounds very tempting.
The 748SP is for someone that is looking for something that little bit special. Most newbies to bikes and Ducati's will not see/understand the value of a SP vs a newer lower priced E model in yellow so thats where the cash is going IMO.
If possible, I would keep it tucked away as you will regret dropping the price to get it shifted.

 

Still time to get the SP to the Lanark Show on Friday night with a big 'For Sale' sign on it.

I think some of the comments on other forums where people have had a sniff but not bought it bear this out.

You could stop messing about on MTB's before you hurt yourself and get out and ride the SP and SS :biggrin:

 

all I would add is that your pictures are crucial initially and you could do with some high quality well lit close-ups in behind the fairings to reflect the condition of components and fixings. Another good alternative to E-Bay is PistonHeads.

 

Firstly I'd suggest you put the good points before the bad points, and try to shorten the bad news to something like 'a few minor scratches and one small repair to the fairing'. Some clearer photos would help (one of each side showing the whole bike, front, rear, and an angled front shot should do it.

Unfortunately, living in Scotland doesn't help, with a smaller audience up there. But I guess there's not a lot you can do about that.

 

Totally agree - can't beat honesty. The biggest problem I have had when buying on E-Bay is people using clever wording to try and pull the wool all the time.

 

If you want people to come and have a look, you've got to sell it, simple as that. If you make the advert negative for the sake of honesty you'll never sell it.

 

we're all different I guess, like I can't even see me ever linking the word 'negativity' with 'honesty' for instance.

 

Look at it this way; if you're looking for a bike you probably have a handful of potential purchases, and you need to whittle them down. Are you going to dismiss the ones that look and sound clean, or are you going to ignore the ones that sound a bit battered and check out the clean ones first..?

 

I use autotrader when looking for a bike or car, i think you get 9 or 10 pic's as well.
lots of options as well for the buyer, distance, age, type etc .