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Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

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  • #992
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Beasty wrote: »
    Here you go (again!!!):

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    What are Bonts like to ride with?


  • #993
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Is it just me or is very hard to sell stuff at the moment?
    Seems to be very few buyers and of those that are commenting seems to be a high percentage of tyre kickers......
    Is this on adverts.ie?

    Is there an article anywhere about selling stuff on adverts.ie or any equivalent site?

    I like to have a good think about processes before starting in earnest, and I'm in two minds about selling stuff online that is now surplus to requirements in my house.


  • #994
    OldBean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Is it just me or is very hard to sell stuff at the moment?
    Seems to be very few buyers and of those that are commenting seems to be a high percentage of tyre kickers......

    It's not just bikes, I've a few bits on Adverts and I can either sell them for a small fraction of the price, exchange them for someones old hamster cage, or they'll pull out of meeting up just beforehand.

    Puts me off uploading the rest of what I've got to sell. Very frustrating.


  • #995
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Is this on adverts.ie?

    Is there an article anywhere about selling stuff on adverts.ie or any equivalent site?

    I like to have a good think about processes before starting in earnest, and I'm in two minds about selling stuff online that is now surplus to requirements in my house.

    Here, adverts and done deal.
    Have a range of stuff up and no interest on some good quality bits and when there have been offers tyre kickers and messers


  • #996
    12 element
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭12 element


    Spotted this yoke in Copenhagen!
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  • #997
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Raam wrote: »
    What are Bonts like to ride with?
    They are perfect for me, but I have very odd shaped feet - if you look at the white ones, which were made to measure, my feet are very broad, and I also have a very high instep.

    The others are size 42 or 43, but double wide. The fact I can then mould them further in the oven helps me get shoes that actually fit!!


  • #998
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Is it just me or is very hard to sell stuff at the moment?
    Seems to be very few buyers and of those that are commenting seems to be a high percentage of tyre kickers......
    We're moving out of recession. The economy is growing, meaning people are more inclined to buy new rather than 2nd hand. Investing in a bike shop may not be a bad hedge at present;)


  • #999
    koutoubia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭koutoubia


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Is it just me or is very hard to sell stuff at the moment?
    Seems to be very few buyers and of those that are commenting seems to be a high percentage of tyre kickers......

    It maybe time to get a few tables out in the car park of a certain pub and sell in real life.


  • #1000
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Here, adverts and done deal.
    Have a range of stuff up and no interest on some good quality bits and when there have been offers tyre kickers and messers

    D9ne deal is horrendous, adverts slightly better but still alot of f'in around. At least here you get the truth about how no one will buy your stuff without all the messing about.


  • #1001
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    koutoubia wrote: »
    It maybe time to get a few tables out in the car park of a certain pub and sell in real life.

    Are you organising a date, time and location. Moving house soon so have lots to move.


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  • #1002
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    RobFowl wrote: »
    I've got gold, silver and bronze from the World Medical games if you want to check the colouring ;)

    Ah yea but you were only 17th, 23rd and 27th overall in the races!


  • #1003
    The tax man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭The tax man


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Is it just me or is very hard to sell stuff at the moment?
    Seems to be very few buyers and of those that are commenting seems to be a high percentage of tyre kickers......

    I'd love for someone to kick my tyres.:)


  • #1004
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    12193374_10153239537213946_5327909037587179588_n.jpg?oh=015e130c11d2def4ab02dab912d172d6&oe=5684F214


  • #1005
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    ^^^^immediately stolen for Facebook


  • #1006
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Ah yea but you were only 17th, 23rd and 27th overall in the races!

    Worst result over 5 races was 12th ;)


  • #1007
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,380 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    According to a Volvo driver I met this morning, I'm the reason cyclists have a bad name. I don't know what I was doing to achieve such an honour, and he didn't stick around to continue the conversation he started through his passenger window on the wrong side of a solid white line on a blind corner.

    I don't know whether to perform seppuku with a tyre lever, or will a few rounds of self-flagellation with a chain whip do? I'll leave it up to every cyclist on the planet whose name I have sullied to decide.


  • #1008
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,093 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Lads, the R759 road (Sally Gap to Manor Kilbride) is physically closed at the first little bridge on the descent (not the dangerous Liffey one). There are barriers across it. Can see anything official online about it. The only way around it is to ford the stream.

    RobertFoster wrote: »
    According to a Volvo driver I met this morning, I'm the reason cyclists have a bad name. I don't know what I was doing to achieve such an honour...
    Mis-matched boards.ie kit?

    I can't think of any other reason!


  • #1009
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    According to a Volvo driver I met this morning, I'm the reason cyclists have a bad name.

    It's a pity you had to find out this way. Nobody had the heart to tell you here.


  • #1010
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,380 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Mis-matched boards.ie kit?

    I can't think of any other reason!
    I was in club kit, so it can't have been that... Maybe he didn't like five people riding 2 abreast. Some people are very particular about their whole numbers.
    tomasrojo wrote: »
    It's a pity you had to find out this way. Nobody had the heart to tell you here.
    I've always had my suspicions. I'm glad it's finally out in the open.


  • #1011
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    I was in club kit, so it can't have been that....

    Depends on the club, he might have meant your plural.


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  • #1012
    koutoubia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭koutoubia


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Are you organising a date, time and location. Moving house soon so have lots to move.

    Spoke about it at the club coffee meeting this morning.
    Seems to be a decent interest in guys selling stuff but getting buyers is a different story,
    It would be in deep North County Dublin.
    Would send an email out to all the clubs so if they are passing on their spin they could stop buy and have a look.


  • #1013
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,093 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    As a motorcyclist passed alongside me near the end of my ride today, he pointed down rapidly several times at my bike and then sped off. I wasn't sure what he was trying to tell me and presumed he may have had a problem with my road positioning (although there was nothing wrong with it). Several minutes later my right cleat detached. He must have seen the bolts come off which I didn't hear with passing traffic. Thank you whoever you are! :)


  • #1014
    manafana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭manafana


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    As a motorcyclist passed alongside me near the end of my ride today, he pointed down rapidly several times at my bike and then sped off. I wasn't sure what he was trying to tell me and presumed he may have had a problem with my road positioning (although there was nothing wrong with it). Several minutes later my right cleat detached. He must have seen the bolts come off which I didn't hear with passing traffic. Thank you whoever you are! :)

    mixed bag those motorcyclists they either very caring of cyclists or try to scare the bejesus out of you


  • #1015
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    koutoubia wrote: »
    Spoke about it at the club coffee meeting this morning.
    Seems to be a decent interest in guys selling stuff but getting buyers is a different story,
    It would be in deep North County Dublin.
    Would send an email out to all the clubs so if they are passing on their spin they could stop buy and have a look.

    Buyers are always the problem. Who passing on their spin will have enough room to carry more than something small. It'd need to be thought through a bit better.

    The last one that was set up by a good soul on this board was a waste of time with almost none of those who showed an interest in buying or selling showing up.

    I have spoken to my own club about running something but we are simply too small. If you're going to do it, make it big? I mentioned it to a few people and they started talking about selling frames worth €1.2k... No-one brings cash like that to car boot sales and you generally can't trust people who say they'll contact you about it.

    AFAIK the market for bike stuff is flooded with cheap crap at the moment which is good enough for most people it seems. I'd also argue that this is the wrong time of the year to sell as most fairweather cyclists are hanging up their bikes as the cold comes in.

    This isn't an attempt to sh!t on the whole idea of it, but if my last experience with stuff and a few years as a seller at car boots and various fairs is anything to go by, you'll get more people in with better weather and a bit of promotion.

    The only positive thing I can suggest is connecting with some of the well-known car boot sales (like the one at Ballinteer Methodist Church) and joining up with them and having bike sale as part of it... but in these cases, sellers would need to pay fees to sell.


  • #1016
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    This isn't an attempt to sh!t on the whole idea of it,


    Jaysus, if that isn't I'd hate to see what was ;)


  • #1017
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,375 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    anyone heard any reports of cyclists hitting thumb tacks in north county dublin?
    i had to replace all four tyres on the car yesterday, and we're not sure if the tacks were pushed in when the car was in the driveway, or whether we drove over them while driving out through finglas/coolquoy/garristown road.


  • #1018
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Not sure we've had one if these northside and I've a garage full of quality gear I could try and shift. Rather than looking at buyers and sellers as somehow different perhaps recognise that if it is generally good quality a lot if the seller are likely to also be buyers

    I think people also need to be realistic with pricing. It's a hell of a lot less hassle selling a load of stuff face to face offering decent discounts than working through loads of individual online sales where you may make more on some stuff but equally be left with stuff you need to heavily discount or deals falling through at the last minute.

    Anyway if this goes ahead and I can make it I can guarantee a lot of quality stuff at very reasonable prices..... (this is not an advert!!!)


  • #1019
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Jaysus, if that isn't I'd hate to see what was ;)

    I know it seems that way tbh, it was really just a devil's advocate approach.

    When Mr Sherlock ran these/this he was in a position to basically use his own name to promote it across a number of different fora. But in the last couple or years the whole market has changed and it has become more and more difficult to sell anything, partially because sellers (myself included) are reluctant to make a loss on things. But a car boot type scenario really does seem to be the most logical to me. And I will again recommend looking into the large car park in Whitehall as a possible location, around 2pm on a Sunday. Like I said, I've looked into doing this myself and have realised I just don't have the time or connections to sort it properly. It'd be a biggish job for someone to do right.


  • #1020
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,387 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Beasty wrote: »
    Anyway if this goes ahead and I can make it I can guarantee a lot of quality stuff at very reasonable prices..... (this is not an advert!!!)

    I call dibs on the gold shoes.


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  • #1021
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    partially because sellers (myself included) are reluctant to make a loss on things. But a car boot type scenario really does seem to be the most logical to me. And I will again recommend looking into the large car park in Whitehall as a possible location, around 2pm on a Sunday. Like I said, I've looked into doing this myself and have realised I just don't have the time or connections to sort it properly. It'd be a biggish job for someone to do right.

    I used to be like that and have ended up with stuff rotting in my shed, I have now come to expect something but to remember that if I will never use it again, something is better than nothing. Whitehall would be good.


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