OK, so title says it all. I'm ASKING $2200 OBO, just as an advertising price. I'm willing to take less, cash does in fact talk, after all. What I'm wandering is that too high to even be listing? Its hard to judge things related to yourself. I don't want someone to see the price and be like "you can freakin forget it"

I came to this price from looking at KBB and averaging out the retail with the trade in price. Retail is $2600 and trade in is like $1790 or so.


Oh, it has 5500 miles on it too.

 

I hope that your ad has more information than you provide to us.

Ride on
Brewster

 

yeah but its not needed, aftermarket work/parts have no retail value on a machine. Its got 5K miles, new tires, fully serviced, and I have some extra parts. The bike is straight up, fully legit. Not much to know.

 

What year and how close to pittsburgh are you? I might be needing a second.

 

The price won't necessarily make me avoid checking out a bike (I know it's negociable), but I wouldn't bother calling if I saw an ad that didn't list the year or condition. I've bought 2 bikes in the past 3 weeks and the poor communicators irritated the hell out of me. I found that if I had to play 20 questions to get any info on the bike I'd invariably find something wrong after I'd driven an hour or more to look at it. And getting those 20 questions answered was a pain in the *** because the seller was either terse enough not to answer a direct question or insisted on using a stream of consciousness writing style devoid of punctuation and littered with text-speak. Save everybody's time and effort and put everything in the ad with lots of decent quality pictures.

Am I going to have to put a chain, sprocket, and new tires on it right away? Does the bike even start? Does it have an ungodly loud aftermarket pipe? Has the airbox been butchered? Is the title lien free and physically in your possession? And you're right that accessories don't effect the selling price, but they do effect my interest level. If I see two of the same bike on Craigslist I'd go look at the bike that had a skidplate, hand guards, etc. versus a bone stock one.

 

if yours is the 07 that is listed on ADV then I am not sure why that has not sold. since here you haven't said year or condition, we can't really tell you whether that is a fair price or not (although it does sound fair from the prices you have listed from KBB)

 

Like to others have said if the condition is good mention it in your ad and that is a fair price for a good bike.

 

Pumpkinhead makes the point I was thinking... Who says "i have this for sale, no pictures or detailsavailable". That is sport of what the op is saying. Like I said, might be interested, but what are you selling and where are you selling it? The bikes overall condition can easily range from beat junk to near showroom new. Very large margin for error in that range.

 

Would you be interested in an advertisement that didn't list the model or year of the bike????? All you have mentioned is KLX and the mileage.
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Ride on
Brewster

 

Every bike on Craigslist is in immaculate, showroom new condition according to the seller. One man's excellent is another man's POS. That's why a good description saves a lot of time. A savvy buyer is going to ask when the oil was last changed, valves were checked, tires were changed (and what brand/model), what mods have been done and if you still have the stock parts, etc. Since you're going to have to type all that out each time a buyer asks, why not just do it once and put it in the original ad? The more detail and pictures you put in the ad, the more likely a buyer is going to call and the better feeling he's going to have about the buyer.