Been selling and buying used bikes for the past 25 years. When I sell, I have a clear concious, and any bike I sell is 100% mechanically mint, and I always ask reasonably cheap money. I'ts never taken me more than a week to sell a used bike. On the flipside, i've had to read and listen to every bull $hit sales pitch that you could imagine. I never let on that I have over 25 years of MX bike experience, I just keep quiet until my closing comments and then walk away. The seller now realizes he bull $hitted the wrong person. A list of my favorites :
1) All Pro Circus performance done up KX250 "it's my wifes bike"
2) "fluids changed after EVERY ride" (yea ok buddy)
3) "race ready but never raced" (true race bikes are the ones that have been maintained)
4) "never raced" (only beaten every weekend, then put away wet)
5) " Needs a little" (translates to you will be opening up a can of worms)
6) "needs carb cleaned" (if you know exactly that thats the issue why didn't you just simply clean the carb before selling ?)
7) "vintage " ( does this make your MX bike more valuable or less ?)
8 ) "fresh top end" (recently blown up)
9) "fresh bottom end) (recently totally blown up)
10) "way too fast for me" (then why are you willing to trade for a bigger bike in another posted ad ?)
11) "need it gone by the weekend" (seller got arrested for road riding his dirt bike and is headed off to jail on monday)
12) "all new plastic" (the bike fell off the trailer on the highway from cheap tie-downs)
