Nobody has bid on my Schwinn Homegrown 4-Banger mountain bike yet on EBay. The auction ends tonight and I’m hoping that there will be a flurry of bidding in the final hour or minutes. Nineteen folks have added the link to their “watching” page and I have answered a number of emails requesting further details, so I know there is some interest. Since I can’t browse EBay from work without a great deal of effort, I guess I’ll just have to see how things play out tonight.
If the bidding jumps up anywhere near my “Buy it Now” price of $1200, I will be closing in on the purchase price of a new scooter! I’ve been watching, and looking and asking some questions and I’ve discovered that there are not as many different brands of scooters available as I once thought. Several of the scooters I first looked at, like the Del Ray by TN’G are available under different brand names, with different colors and considerably different prices.
Take a look at this Del Ray and then this Bullet EC150. (ed note- you have to find the link on the left. Sorry) Do they seem mighty similar to you? They do to me. Differences are that the EC150 has a bigger motor and none of the blinky-flashy LEDs that the Del Ray is festooned with. But they are the same machines, built by the same company in China and configured as each importer requests.
And there is at least the difference in price of $281 but the seller on EBay is actually selling his scooters for substantially less than the listed price on his web page. The last EC150 I watched sold for $1217, pushing a delivered-to-the-house price to just $1500… Hmm.
I haven’t settled on the EC150 model just yet though. The RC150 has the retro, cruiser chrome plated look going for it and it is pretty in red. There’s another bike that doesn’t appear on JJ’s website that looks more like a sport bike and it has 12” tires instead of the 10” tires of the other models that I’m also partial too. I’ve been assured that parts are available and just a couple UPS shipment days away if I buy a scooter from JJs so that just might be the kicker to buy from them. Once I get my money in my hand I’ll get serious about picking a model and color and wrangling for a straight purchase at the price of some of their recent EBay auctions.
Cross your fingers that that mountain bike sells!
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