If the seller gets his price, he will be (roughly) getting back his purchasing power on his investment. I doubt anyone buys a frame, then stores it for a long time, with the intent to sell in the future. However, if that is the case, he's only breaking even on this one.
As always, the market will find the "right" price. dougP On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 8:37:02 AM UTC-8, George Schick wrote: > > This thread prompted me to search through my files to see what I paid for > my orange Ram back in early '05. It was $1,300 for the frame (and > presumably with the headset since there is no separate cost broken out for > it). Not sure how that relates to today's dollars. OTOH, I'm also not > sure how it relates to the frame itself, either. Do they depreciate or > appreciate in value over time? Seems like it's kind of up to the > individual. > > I have a neighbor who owns an early 60's Triumph TR4. Those were not > really well made top-of-the-line sports cars in their day. They weren't > intended to be. Yet, he's kept it in pristine condition and he tells me > that he could easily get in the mid-$20K range for it. I looked the year > and model up on the Web and he's pretty much correct. It's a collector's > item. A vintage car. Maybe even a cult following. And so it probably is > with these frames. Not sure I'd be willing to go to $1,800 for one, > though, NIB or not. > > On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 10:09:43 AM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote: >> >> There's an ad in the new BQ for the *L'Avecaise To Go*, $1700. Not sure >> what the "to go" model is, perhaps stock sizes. >> >> On 03/07/2016 10:47 AM, Brian Campbell wrote: >> >> Jeff Lyon told me that his website prices were out of date and that he >> did not own his website and subsequently, was unable to change them. I got >> a quote and for a frame/fork 1 color PC and brazed on centerpulls and it >> was $2,300. FYI. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
