Re: [CR] Good news for CR bike-market-makers ? ? ?

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:02:15 -0700
From: <mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net>
To: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
References: <20090325035240.AFAF419D8D@ug6.ece.ubc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20090325035240.AFAF419D8D@ug6.ece.ubc.ca>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Good news for CR bike-market-makers ? ? ?


What's at the tip of our noses?

An increase in the sales tax rate from 8.25 to 9.25 - another in a long line of "temporary" increases...

So two choices...buy new and pay more...

Or buy used and start a tax revolution for which the legislative analyst may have admitted to indirectly by noting a possible 8 billion shortfall by May despite the most recent "creative" mid-season budget fix.

=8-)

Robert Shackelford San Jose, CA USA

Quoting donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>:
> I have been really surprised by the increase in Ebay auctions, we used
> to see 40,000 items listed in the bikes section on ebay, now it's
> 70,000+ items listed in bikes on a daily basis.
>
> I heard on the radio (PBS's "Car Talk") that the value of used cars is
> going up because people are forgetting new cars and just buying and
> maintaining used cars. Since I don't see much movement in used-bike
> prices I imagine that this might be happening in the bikes market, too.
>
> While many many people might be selling stuff due to tougher economic
> times, new players might be entering the market to buy used bikes due
> to tougher economic times ("hey, let me get a bike so I can save on
> trips to work", or "hey let me give up on my car collecting hobby and
> focus on bikes which are cheaper ...")
>
> In general ebay prices in the past 12 months don't seem to have
> changed very much, but the volume of items sold may have changed.
> Before the economic collapse, there was a bike-boom due to high gas
> prices. Now because of the economic collapse, there might be a
> used-bike-boom due to deflation and lowered incomes ...
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, cA, USA
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