Funny, how so many think their lowest purchase price to a deal is such an accomplishment.
They have to brag about it to shine.
I flip a high volume of bikes, my gratification comes from not how cheap I paid for something, but with how high I can sell it.
I pay a lot for quality finds from private sellers. This allows me to restock anytime immediately, spend least amount of time repairing, photographed and flipped a couple of days later.
While other local hustlers hunt meticulously, striving to buy low to sell middle (with ads often lasting weeks or months), I've run circles around them 10x ten times over by buying middle and sell ceiling high. I do it again and again and again while others are reposting ads again and again.
On the chance I see a find is being given away (divorce/breakup/estate sales), I often offer the seller $20 more and tell them I will show up in 20 minutes, just so they bump me to the top of the organ donor list.
Yay capitalism
