Sort of a hypothetical....
My bike is for sale & I work with someone who rides who I also want to stab in the eye. Then I got to wondering, if he came up & said I would like to buy your bike and slapped down what I wanted for it, I'm thinking I wouldn't sell it to him 'cause I make the beast with two backsen hate him & seeing him on 'my' pride & joy would tear my heart out. But, his money is as good as anyones and it wouldn't be my bike anymore anyway.
Plus, I'm selling it 'cause I have to, not 'cause I want to. :'(
Should have added a 10% "I hate you" Tax Super, but either way, cash is cash. As long as the amount is what you wanted.
You can still stab them in the eye once you have their money. [thumbsup]
If it had flakey rockers I would sell it to him for 10% less than asking price [thumbsup]
i wouldnt sell it to him...or anyone else i work with. to much potential for (more) bad blood down the line when there is some problem with the bike.
why would i care about something i'm getting rid of! ```
If the money's green...
Spit in the tank before you let it go :'(
Or find someone you like to have what you loved before..
I would not sell it to someone I see every day and hate..never
Could not stand the fact he has fun with what was mine before [bang]
asshole tax applies
Quote from: herm on July 03, 2009, 03:26:57 AM
i wouldnt sell it to him...or anyone else i work with. to much potential for (more) bad blood down the line when there is some problem with the bike.
agreed. I don't do business on mechanical items with people I know, even if I don't like them.
Quote from: vampire on July 03, 2009, 03:47:54 AM
why would i care about something i'm getting rid of! ```
how would you feel if you dumped your GF, and then she started dating someone you hate (or even someone you dont hate?)
Refusing to do business with someone you don't like or who is rude? Who wins? I sold home improvements for the last 10 years. If the person was a nut, meaning they would obviously be a problem customer, I would pass. If they were rude? I had a few of those. Rude while I was working on their neighbors home, year or two passes, then they call me for a quote, forgetting how they treated me. I sold all of them. They all paid $1,000 more then they would have. I win.
No
Quote from: kopfjager on July 03, 2009, 08:26:17 AM
No
Never sell a car or a bike in this case to anybody you know. Whether it's your friend or co-worker you see everyday. If you do, whatever happens to that vichecle in the future, you are going to hear about it.
Avoid all that drama. Cut it loose and sell it to a stranger
Yup. His money's not hateworthy. Business is business-you need money, he has money-take it.
Just don't misrepresent the bike.
Though it's a good time to get the cops used to seeing a certain year/colour scheme bike that runs from them. :P
I sold my ol' 98 M900 special to a guy I didn't really like. In fact I thought he was a Brian W. He make the beast with two backsed around for weeks before making an offer. But I needed to sell it so I did. A day later, I realised I'd left my plug tool under the seat, so I called him and told him that I needed it back, and could give him the ORIGINAL Ducati tool in return. He said something like - "...well, if you really wanna get it, OK - but it's only a 10 buck tool...". Then I KNEW he was a Brian W.
Would I have still sold him the bike...? Yeah. Did I get the tool...? You make the beast with two backsen bet your arse I did...[coffee]
i would never submit myself to watching someone else step out of my car/bike every morning
or do mods that i dont agree with to my baby.
out of sight, out of mind imo
It's just a bike. There is always another one down the road. I don't get attached. As for someone you hate, why hate? Did he take a leak in your coffee or something? All it does is eat you up inside. Save the hate for dead child molesters.
It was just a hypothetical question. He wouldn't buy it anyway and plus I would not sell it to him even if I did consider him a friend. As someone has said before, anything goes wrong with the bike, they'd be whingeing that I sold them a dud.
Quote from: corndog67 on July 03, 2009, 12:07:09 PM
It's just a bike. There is always another one down the road. I don't get attached. As for someone you hate, why hate? Did he take a leak in your coffee or something? All it does is eat you up inside. Save the hate for dead child molesters.
Hate is probably a too strong a word. Severely dislike is probably better. He is just one of those annoying pricks who talks too loud, laughs too loud, asks make the beast with two backsen stupid questions all the time, coughs/clears the crap out of his throat every thirty seconds and is always the first one brown nosing the boss when he turns up at work, "I did this boss, I did that". Get make the beast with two backsed! Plus he looks like Scrat from Ice Age and he rides a Yamaharley. :-\
your first bike has some sentimental value.
every other one is blah. Unless it did something special like high side your ass and didnt self destruct.
Selling is difficult, I have recently sold my 620 (first bike). Sold it to a kid who looked at it 3 times before he put his cash down and I am sure he will or maybe already has crashed it. Had another guy who was looking but he just couldn't make up his mind and became a pain in the ass asking all sorts of questions and wanting different prices for various things being stripped off the bike.
Bought a bike from a friend on the forum who I ride with on the track and road. I have no problem buying from someone I know. As long as you know the same rules apply, it is a secondhand bike and if things go wrong well shit happens. If they are a decent person they will try to help (as we all do here) when people have problems that need to be sorted.
Bottom line cash is cash, just set the ground rules when you sell it.
Put the $$$ where you need to and buy a better bike to piss all over the owner of your old bike.
Quote from: herm on July 03, 2009, 06:41:42 AM
how would you feel if you dumped your GF, and then she started dating someone you hate (or even someone you dont hate?)
i'm dumping her,, why would i care?! ``
(^_____^) ```