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Is the BMX OS bubble beginning to burst or are people worried about spending?

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jackel:

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--- Quote from: Zippy on March 19, 2008, 02:14 PM ---If things don't sell it's because either they're too expnsive or that nobody is after that particular item at that particular time.



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exactly and with the credit crunch watch out for stuff to drop as the bubble will burst soon and stuff will sell cheaper as it`s spare income this game is and what with other things taking priority bmx will take a back step

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wish it would hurry up i,m waiting to do another build :)

PHIPPSIO:
Another short timers perspective, when a rare part goes up for sale at a silly price, people justify the cost cos they know somenone is going to need it pretty bad and it wont hang around. The problem is that then becomes the market rate to anybody selling a similar part a week later or in some cases they want a bit more cos theres is black or blue whatever. Also when biagio runs out of something its generally time to make hay if you have rare stuff. I bought a nos green master from him last June for £200. Alans has just flogged one on the bay for over £400 today....thats not a bad rate of inflation

Mx1000's are also a good example though, every time a set came up it seemded to be a little bit dearer than the last set, never settled down that cost........... have no fear though, just look around your houses, lofts and garages, spare bedrooms , we wouldnt all have ended up with so much stuff if it was so easy to resist buying those bits, maybe just another couple of minutes considering it :LolLolLolLol:

Trev:
i'm not an old school collector and i don't really watch the prices of stuff too much. sometimes read about it on here, that's about it.
the way i look at it, those with lots of disposable cash who decide to build old school bikes will raise the price of certain parts. if they want it and can afford it, they pay the stupid prices that everyone else can't afford. i don't know how many really rich collectors there are (i'm talking millionaire status here). but say there were 10 of them. once they've all got what they want, then the prices of that particular item will drop.

buying stuff now to make a profit would be very risky. yeah prices are silly now. but will they go up even more? who knows. i'm sure if you try to remember back a couple of years ago, you may have thought the same thing. with everything, there has got to be a limit. whether we have reached that limit or not, don't know...

ron burgundy:
Most Redlines don't make big money...  only the special ones ;)

You've got 4 days to go Jim, loads of time for last minute bidding...

thebigdog:
I think you also have to take in to account that places like Vert Ego do not have that much left, Ruewheels has pretty much gone, there is not that much worth having at Alans and as far as I know its not like they will be getting that much more good stuff from Shiners.
You only have to go back a year to be able to get pretty much any colour Tyre you wanted from any of the above. Seats were easy to get, clamps, chains, headsets and brakes were all available in pretty much any colour. Haro frames were still about in boxes and so to were Beats, Trickstars and the odd Quad.

Its all pretty much gone and that has a big impact on new people coming in to the scene. It is very hard to build a nice bike from scratch now and you have to be prepared to sit and watch all the ebay listings and get lucky on forums like Rad to get the bits you need.

If people are getting pi$$ed with paying the high prices they will lose interest and if nobody new is coming in then parts will begin to come down in price as the market gets smaller.

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