cpsqlrwn

Don't you usually get a discount for a bulk purchase?
If my math is correct, this is $3125 per bike with a nice $2500 shipping cost and a feedback of just over 96% (one negative feedback but check out his communication and shipping time scores)....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Collection-o...item27d089e194

KonAaron Snake 

Dare to dream.

BBC should buy them, after all...they can ask 10k/bike

gomango

Did you happen to see a link to a complete viewing opportunity?

Certainly expensive, but from the meager pics some beauties are included.

longbeachgary

My only question is how do I get the drool out of my keyboard?

fettsvenska 

I would agree that the price seems somewhat high. I didn't look at every single bike but the ones I did look at appeared to be in superb condition and might fetch $2000+. I think that the bigger problem will be finding a buyer that can fork over the cash to buy all of them at once.

gomango

Call Aaron.

I'm down to using old inner tubes atm.

Bike rich, cash poor for me.

shoota 

I'll give $200 for the Merckx to whoever buys the lot.

repechage

My read on the auction is that the real auction is on Gernam ebay, and this is functioning as an advertising tool, not an auction and that is the reason for the outrageous price. There was another auction like that last year for a single frame set, the German who listed it was unhappy with how the domestic bidding was going so he placed a USA ebay listing to drive eyes to the real auction.

A lot of interesting bikes, all appear to have some faults, nothing major but as a group they give me the impression of an owner who is not well versed in mechanics and is not really interested in them at present or for some time. A wide size range too!

lostarchitect 

Yeah, but do we deserve these bikes?

Velognome 

Don't know but I'll bet it will be better s*** if the sale goes down!

rootboy 

Group buy. I like the orange Masi.

even with the sloppy touch up.

Savagewolf

Do a group buy. I volunteer to have the bikes shipped to my house as the central location, and I'll ship them myself to you. I can't afford any of them, but I'd love to see the reaction on my wife's face when 16 bikes show up with a $52,500 invoice.

shoota 

I lol'ed.

Italuminium

Dibs on the black 'n gold colnago

wearyourtruth

i always think it's interesting when people try to sell entire collections (of anything, not just bikes). i feel like it's almost impossible to do, and it's not just because of the huge prices, it's because a great part of the joy of collecting is COLLECTING. i would never want to just buy someone else's collection, it would never feel like my own

rootboy 

He should just part them all out. That'll keep him busy for a while.

IthaDan 

I don't understand sales like this. Other than the one in a billion chance that some hedge fund millionaire is looking to diversify his portfolio with a bicycle purchase, there's pretty much no chance that he'll get anyone willing to take on a pile of [very nice] bikes without them having a damn good sense of what they're worth.

The biggest thing is that even if you made a reasonable offer of, let's say, $30k (+the shipping is about $2000/bike), the seller will only see that offer as you trying to scam him out of $20k, and only offering 60% of the "value". You even see this in microcosm through craigslist sales- I've learned to just walk away, no matter how nice the bike is, if the seller has started with a GROSSLY inflated value. There's just no talking them down back to FMV without them thinking you're taking them for a ride.

Even if you could get him to sell at $30k, you'd have a LOT of legwork to part them out and get that $30k back, on top of the physical space needed to host them all and the coordination to bundle the parts.

How do sales like this ever get done? DO sales like this ever get done?

KonAaron Snake 

Not me - I have the bikes I want, and I'm pretty frugal when buying (especially in bulk). If I'm buying in bulk, I'm looking to pay half to 1/3 of what I'd pay individually (depending on specifics).

I'm more likely in the selling market than buying for the near future

lostarchitect 

I doubt it. I think he either (1) doesn't actually want to sell them, or (2) is just delusional about the market. Or maybe both.

fettsvenska 

+1...I don't have any data to back this up but it seems to me like the seller is probably wasting his/her time putting an entire collection up on ebay.

3alarmer

There was a guy here in the Bay Area who was doing a similar thing and I think there's a thread
on it somewhere here from about the last couple of years.......the guy who bought it all actually
came on BF briefly in that thread and explained the transaction and how he thought it was a
good deal for him.

Maybe someone else remembers enough to find the thread ?

I'm another of the one or two at a time, guys. But I like to look at the pictures.

BTW, I've been using old tubes and take off tires for years now, and they seem to work fine.....

rekmeyata

I don't think the seller is smoking anything, I think he's hoping to find a buyer who's smoking something!

Italuminium

Maybe it's the old "yeah honey I put them online but nobody has the cash now. Crisis, you know?"

Shaneferd

They're some pretty nice bikes there, can't help but appreciate the seller's optimism.

rhm

That's my guess as well. He doesn't want to sell them, but if someone meets this price, he'll go with it.