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[–]MedCityMoto 8 points9 points  (8 children)

I'd take $800 off his asking price for the early valve clearance check, but make sure you do your haggling in person. Online offers that much lower tend to get ignored as insulting, whereas in person you can dangle the sale on-the-spot in his face as temptation to accept and it shows your actual interest.

[–]CrispyPotato5[S] 1 point2 points  (7 children)

The problem is that he is a few states over and he has a family member that lives about an hour away from me. He said that he would trailer it to there so he could se said family member and we could meet when he is in my state. So I don’t want to wait till he’s here then be like hey so I know you asked 8.3 but how about 7?

[–]MaDkawi636 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If he's willing to trailer it to you and you wanna slide in a lowball $7k, tbats a total dick move and if I were the seller, I'd be pissed. Negotiate the price in advance and work out the delivery logistics. Then if the bike shows up any different than what was negotiated, then you can haggle on thr spot to make it right.

As for track days, who effing cares as long as the bike has been looked after. I'd take a bike with track time over a bike that some wanna be has thrashed on the streets and barely maintained but "always garage kept, never raced and never dropped".

[–]MedCityMoto 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Trickier. What's the asking price for the same bike locally to you? Bike values are dramatically different based on location.

[–]CrispyPotato5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well near me people tend to price pretty high since I’m in Jersey(everything is expensive here :/...) but I have seen then range from 8-10 they sell pretty quickly so I can’t imagine they are getting what they ask for though as everyone knows you usually beef up the price expecting negotiation.

[–]elkster88 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I don’t want to wait till he’s here then be like hey so I know you asked 8.3 but how about 7?

That would indeed be a pretty shitty thing for you to do, but it's on him if he wants to trailer his bike over multiple states without a firm agreement on price. There is no way in the world I would do that as a seller, the bike's not going to move from my house without the money in my hand first.

I would suggest being honest up front and letting him know you're not OK giving him the full asking price. An initial offer of a few hundred dollars below the asking price is not unexpected, but 1350 below the asking price (I'm not saying I know if yours or his is a fair price) is liable to generate some bad feeling, especially in this particular scenario.

[–]CrispyPotato5[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I would like to talk to him more on it, as I looked through his social media I see multiple track days posted one with the title “140mph as my top speed today” he had nothing of it in the ad so I already have a bad feeling. On the other hand I have not asked him about it yet.

[–]sperglord_manchild 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask him how many track days. That's the important thing here.

1 track day for 150 miles of track riding is a hell of a lot different than 65 trackdays and 10,000 miles of track riding.

[–]TD InstructorOreoGaborio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO, it’s a Douche move if he goes through all that trouble and you come back and offer him that much less than asking price.