Well come to London plenty of monsters from old to new, ST4s/ST3s, hypers are plenty and few multis in between. Here obviously any bike will do for commute in winter as seen occasional Desmo, Panigale, 848/1098 and even a 999R for few days last week .... then rain started
Jimmy: just spotted this in Autotrader 6th Feb, 2014, and the ad's been there since before Christmas. Was quite shocked by the part-ex values you've been offered for your machine since they're not being reflected in a "realistic" price to the next prospective customer,or so it would seem. Unless buying for 12/13K and then selling for 17.5K is considered 'normal' margin practice in the world of Ducati Dealerships. DUCATI 1199 PANIGALE 1199 cc£17,494 2013 (13 reg) 1,500 miles 1199cc
Simple answer no! Seriously this is one trade price (as I don't believe jimmy was looking to buy another bike so even worse for the dealer) example price (somewhere in the country) from nov/dec when all dealers are not wanting to hold stock, let alone buy it outright, hence the price was 'cheeky'. That same dealer sold my daytona with a sub £500 profit, and i know for a fact that there isn't 5k profit in a used bike sale. Sorry dude but this is a mad example and comparing apples with oranges.
yeh steve know what you mean ,I nearly done the deal on a bayliss, actually lost my deposit, but thought there is no way im giving a 20k bike away for 13k ,so keeping it now, thing is though that bikes still for sale because its to high you can probably get a new one for around the 19k price and possibly get termi,s , and low rate finance ,everything takes a hit but the p/x prices I got were taking the piss , had to put my panni and 5 k cash for a 17k bayliss so work out the maths, so now im gonna keep the panni and chuck another 4k towards the 5k and get a 848 streetfighter to play on as well happy days
I should also add that I know a guy who traded in his 1199s at Fowlers against an RSV4 and got £14500 ish, may have been £14700, either way I think everyone agrees jimmy was correct to laugh in there faces at 12k
I do think that £17k is high for that bike though, but there is a lot of dealers being 'optimistic' at any sniff of people starting to spend more money
Can't wait for all these 899s to go on the used bikes market in a couple of years, so poor people like me can dream of actually buying one. Wohoo, long live depreciation!
Except that Jimmy was offered 12.5K against a Bayliss and was told that there are too many Panis around to keep prices up. I'm guessing that had he accepted, his machine would have been offered for sale at around 18K. Ducati Wolverhampton currently have a 2013 1199S with 96 miles showing for £18,250. Since I'm interested in buying this bike I'd be particularly disgruntled to know they bought it off the previous owner for 13K or thereabouts. The laws of supply and demand don't seem to work both ways: if low part-ex valuations are a consequence of over supply (the argument Jimmy was presented with) then why aren't pre-owned 1199 Panigale prices falling? Would I be realistic in offering Ducati Wolverhampton 15K for their 1199S do you think?
pleased ive kept mine now ,had some bits and bobs done on it, had a call off a dealer yesterday who said he could give me a cracking deal now ,,, offered 13k,ha ha think some people think your that desperate to get rid, offer him 14.5k because that's the highest I was offered 12k-14.5k but you know dealers they want it all ways.
