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Paging TOG
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For a valuation.
I've finally decided to sell the Tiger.
Tiger 955i, in black. Located in Swindon, Wilts.
2002 model, 1800 miles on the clock. Serviced regularly (apart from
this year but I did an oil-change). Pretty much perfect condition (it
lives in a garage) and recently MOT'd (so has about 11 months MOT).
Extras:
Heated grips
Touring screen
Ventura luggage rack (I still have the original handgrips that came
with the bike that the buyer can take away with them)
Scottoiler with touring reservoir
Centre Stand
I also have an Optimate that I might be willing to throw in - depending
on whether I buy myself a small bike for playing around on.
Looking around the various prices I was thinking of putting it out
there for £4900
Does that sound about right?
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Miles out imo. Mine was £4k from a dealer, with full factory luggage,
8k miles, FSH & less than 2.5 years old when I bought it. OK it was a
bit of a bargain due to the colour, but even so - £4900 for a 5(ish)
year old private sale with no hard luggage? Way over the top.
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There is one on Autotrader (53 reg, 2,200 miles etc etc) for £4595.
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Ah, Bransons. I believe they're the people that had Rich's old one in
for over 3 years before they sold it.
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On that basis I guess I'd amend it to £4100 - mine is a year older but
less miles and more goodies..
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Look at how many low mileage 03 & 04 bikes there are, rather than
basing your price on the absurd levels asked by some dealers.
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Nope. Triumph dealers are still doing brand new 2006 ones with full
luggage, heated grips and centre stands for =A36500 otr. Hate to say it,
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£3K?
Ouch.
Still - I suppose I only paid £5.2K for it 5(ish) years ago..
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You expected it to only depreciate =A3300 in FIVE years? What planet are
you on?
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Oi!
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A run of mill bike isn't going to depreciate much less the 20% a year down
to the LCD market price for that kind of machine. In the current market LCD
is around £2.5k if you actually want to move it.
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but I'd suggest =A33k.
And having gone through the financial pain of over-estimating Triumph
residuals myself (the Sprint ST went for =A31700 in the end, so I
dropped =A3300 there: win some, lose some), I'd suggest to asembled ukrm
that right now, a used Trumf (just about any model) is probably the
best VFM out there.
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No. You can get a 2005/6 model for that. Even Parker's usually optimistic
price is only £3250
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Does that take into account the mileage?
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On a 2002 bike, low mileage will make a difference of a few hundred quid at
best.
I see TOG has suggested £3k so the £3.5k for a 2002 bike I referred to
above was a good result for the seller.
Stick it on Ebay with a £2500 starting price and hope you get 2 bidders
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And a £3k reserve? Or are reserves frowned upon nowadays? I have yet to
test the Ebay selling waters..
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If you *really* want to sell it then don't put on a reserve. You just have
to bite the bullet and accept what the depressed market is willing to give
you.
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Ah OK. Although if it goes for too low a sum it won't only be the
market thats depressed.
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take it up to the £3.5k mark. On the other hand, do you really need the
cash? If not then keep the bike as it is not likely to drop much in value
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Well - there are some things I'd like to buy and having a bike sit
unused in the garage is irking my parsimonius soul[1]
I do want to have a bike - just not a big, heavy mega-trailie that is
too heavy for me to move around by myself. A nice small 500 trailie or
other tall bike (something that doesn't put pressure on arthritic
wrists) would be ideal. If I sell the Tiger for £3K then I'd have about
£1K so spend on a small bike.
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i think it's unlikely you'd find a runner for 1k.
you could get a turn-of-the-millenium transalp in decent shape for about 2k.
these are basically bulletproof and very comfy.
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Na, you'd want a VFR750 for that kinda dosh.
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Would it break down repeatedly? And do you just happen to have one for
sale?
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Phil.
[1] ie Cheryl..
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and you might find time to use it.
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I did think it was a tad high but was going by the prices that I'd seen
on other auctions. I wasn't intending to use Ebay but various other
bike selling websites.
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Have a look at finished auction prices on Ebay. Note the number of unsold
bikes failing to reach optimistic reserves. It's a buyers market in the
"adventure sport" category.
e.g. Ebay auction for a 2002 bike 270121338923 sold for £3501
180119818814 for a 2004 bike got to £4000 but did not make reserve
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Jeez, I hope that's a mis-type!
Have a look on Autotrader, for starters.
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I'm sensing a theme here.
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