Re: [CR]Maxicar hub on French ebay

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From: "Ken Sanford" <kanford@comcast.net>
To: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>, <themaaslands@comcast.net>
References: <011520052241.8956.41E99C0E00096067000022FC22007621949C0B020E049C0E0E030A089B@comcast.net> <75d04b4805011516393231ccde@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Maxicar hub on French ebay
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:51:21 -0500
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cc: Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Jeez

I can see why one might want to part out a bike for maonetary reasons, but why in hell would you split up a pair of matched hubs???

It makes no sense to me. Monetary or otherwise! I am often reluctant to sell one of a pair cause it leaves me with an orphan...

Ken Sanford
Kensington, MD


----- Original Message -----
From: Kurt Sperry
To: themaaslands@comcast.net
Cc: Classic Rendezvous
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Maxicar hub on French ebay



> <themaaslands@comcast.net> wrote:
>> About one week ago, this seller offered a front Maxicar hub for sale. I
>> outed and neglected to bid on it because it was being sold as a
>> singleton. The seller is now offering the rear mate to the hub that he
>> already sold:
>>
>> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>>
>> It makes me wish that I had bid on the front hub. I seem to recall that
>> it was a list member who then won the front hub, so you now have a chance
>> to get a matched set.
>
> Might this be an instance where a better price may well have been
> realised by selling the pair as one auction rather than two? "Orphan"
> hubs and crankarms generally seem to get less at auction than half the
> price for a pair in my experience.
>
> Kurt Sperry
> Bellingham WA