Beware of this SV650 For sale

Originally Posted by metalangel

I had a similar thing when I traded my CB500 in... they gave me a grand on trade-in and within a week it was on their (Blunder Road) website for £1800. I'd argued it was worth more than a grand but they'd refused to go higher. Suffice it to say, that combined with my practically new SV being delivered out of fuel with a dead battery means I won't be doing business with them again.

Name an shame them.

Originally Posted by VR46650

Name an shame them.

For what? Doing exactly what dealers do? How is he supposed to make any money if he gives you the same price as he is going to put it on the shop floor for?

Originally Posted by VR46650

Name an shame them.

Most dealers look at giving you a 3rd of what the bike is worth to them.
From memory its something to do with the amount of VAT thats added to it before they even start to make a profit from something.
If you had a shop and took my bike for £1000 would you sell it on for £1000?
I think not, you would make as much as possible on it.

Originally Posted by VR46650

Well now they are selling it for £800 more than they brought it off of me, thats not the thing to watch out for tho. It says on the add that it is sold for spares and repairs. There is absolutley nothing wrong with the bike, it's a wonderfull bike i wish i still had it, but there mabey finance outstanding on it still so if you want it do a hpi check first, even tho it's from a dealer.

Originally Posted by VR46650

Sell bike for a profit yeah but £800 is taking the p*ss, especially as there is something wrong with it.

Originally Posted by VR46650

No i haven't claimed my £200 back yet, should do really, Yeah i know you would have to be a bit bonkers, i brought this bike when it had 20,000 miles on it for £1900 and now it has an illegal tread limit front tyre, and 9300 more miles and they have bumped it up 95 quid.

I'm a bit confused here. First you say there's nothing wrong with it, then there is, then that it's got an illegal front tyre.

The front tyre is presumably the reason they're selling it as spares or repair and to get out of offering some sort of warranty.

Nobody ever forces somebody to trade in a bike at a dealers. We do it cos it's easy and quick.

If anybody thinks their bike is worth a lot more than the dealer offers then go sell it privately.

Originally Posted by lukemillar

For what? Doing exactly what dealers do? How is he supposed to make any money if he gives you the same price as he is going to put it on the shop floor for?

I'm not on about the price for him, by all means dealer need to make a profit, i'm on about the bike having dead battery and out of fuel, even he said he won't be dealing with them.

Originally Posted by speedplay

Most dealers look at giving you a 3rd of what the bike is worth to them.
From memory its something to do with the amount of VAT thats added to it before they even start to make a profit from something.
If you had a shop and took my bike for £1000 would you sell it on for £1000?
I think not, you would make as much as possible on it.

I know, i was on about the battery and fuel not the profit making, i've just had alot of bad experiences with dealers lately, by that i mean the last month.

Originally Posted by petevtwin650

I'm a bit confused here. First you say there's nothing wrong with it, then there is, then that it's got an illegal front tyre.

The front tyre is presumably the reason they're selling it as spares or repair and to get out of offering some sort of warranty.

Nobody ever forces somebody to trade in a bike at a dealers. We do it cos it's easy and quick.

If anybody thinks their bike is worth a lot more than the dealer offers then go sell it privately.

Firstly, i thought that you would sell a bike for spares or repairs, if there was more than just a front tyre needing replacing, which is what £100, less than that for a dealer, then you could sell it, as a legit bike. I said there was nothing wrong with the bike itself then i noticed that the front tyre hadn't been replaced after i made the thread. Also when i said that there was something wrong with it i meant the finance. If you had read my other thread you would realise that i couldn't sell it privetley because it still had finance outstanding, not my finance either, and im not that sort of person just to fob it off to someone else. So in a way i was forced to, to get out of the pickle i was in, i didn't trade it in, they brought the bike back off me, which to be honest i thank them for, all i was doing is warning people that the bike may still have finance outstanding, so beware, the bike is fantastic never missed a beat.

I'm sorry i said name and shame them, it's not fair, it's just i had had alot of trouble lateley with bikes from dealers.

Originally Posted by VR46650

Sell bike for a profit yeah but £800 is taking the p*ss, especially as there is something wrong with it.

The ad says 'Spares or Repairs', which implies there is a fault that needs attention. It's a dealer's job to maximise profits so asking 800 quid more than you sold it to them for is fair game. If you were savvy enough you could have sold it privately for the same price and made an extra 800 quid... that's why the dealer is rich and you're not.

It's what's known as tough titty, sunshine.

[yorkie_chris]

Selling a bike with outstanding finance crosses the line, I know dealers can be thieving c**ts at times, but that is a proper thieving c**ts trick.

If you're that annoyed at them then give trading standards a call. I know I would if I was £200 down.