82 maxim 750 Parting out

Let me know what you need and i'll give you a fair price or offer a trade.

 

Hi Sam, do you have the instrument cluster? and where are you located? Do you have any pictures you can upload of the bike? I am restoring the same bike.

 

Interested pending prices - Pics and your location will help others (especially if they could pick up locally)

Front Calipers Both - Any leaks? - So I can rebuild a set w/o bike down time
Front Rotors Both - Condition? Thickness? - Just to have spares

All of the removable (side) engine covers - So I can resurface them and swap out mine w/o down time - Assuming you are ready to part out the engine

Exhaust Cross Over - Condition? Rusted Thru?
Mufflers Both - Condition? Dented? Excess rust/holes?

Left and Right Handlebar Controls - Overall conditions?



To save others the trouble asking for prices:
Tank
Seat
Carbs
Side Covers

 

If the tank is in decent shape, I'm very interested! Please, let me know...

 

Hey everybody i am located in Milwaukee, WI all prices listed DO NOT include shipping cost please let me know what you want and your zip i can calculate shipping or you can take care of it whatever is easiest. I can not upload pictures so if you want something let me know i have lots of pictures i can email them.

Front Calipers Both $80 - no leaks
Front tire rotors and forks $250
Rear tire almost brand new and hub assembly $200
All four head pipes minor rust $100
Muffler assembly medium rust $80
Left Handlebar Control Decent condition $25
Right handle bar Control Decent condition $30
engine and trans in good condition $450
Tank sold
Seat $75
Carbs $135
starter needs to be rebuilt $25
camshafts $75
fenders front and rear $150 or $80 each great condition
rear shocks $50
sissy bar $30
back rest $30
luggage rack $30
front headlight assembly includes tach and speedo $125
ignitor $100
ignition coils both in good condition $30 each

 

Why the discount for two fenders instead of just one? Are you paying overhead to store those parts? ....

 

Ha, I'm sorry. I do wish you the best but $80 each for a fender? One could get two complete sets for that much. I understand wanting some cash for good parts but that'll never happen for you...

 

Thanks for the parts list, but it's too rich for me. Not saying your prices are out of line, just more than I can afford at this time.

 

Prince albert3 has a point. My "2 cents"; I've bought & sold lots of parts and I'll add that this isn't ebay, these forums tend to offer an alternative for bargain basement buyers. Besides that, the economy sucks...which is something we all can agree on!

 

Most of that is to rich for my blood - Though I would like to see the luggage rack and back rest

 

So i took all your posts into consideration and appreciate what everyone had to say but with all do respect i understand this isn't ebay but it is a business to me. i am trying a different approach in selling used parts and yeah some parts are high some parts are low but nothing is a rip off here. Mercuryman i am paying overhead because all these parts are taking up space in my shop. Sorry if guys want more of a discount but if you want to make an offer that is reasonable and not ridiculous i can more then likely work with it.

 

I think this guy needs is to feel the collective heat from all of us who can't afford samjd07's prices. What kind of overhead is generated by parts taking up space anyway? c'mon XJers, we can find better prices on Ebay.

 

To be fair your big items are not priced over the top. I didn't mean any disrespect about the overhead, but dual prices for quantity is a tactic that big box capitalists use to get you to buy more than you need, so it surprised me. I do think your are a little high on some of the smaller items and the ones that you indicate have issues like the "medium" rust muffler for $80 (If it were me I would remove the rust to get top dollar) but they are your parts and you are entitled to price them as you see fit.

 

There was no disrespect taken i just felt like everybody was firing at me and needed to fire back no hard feelings at all lol the prices are not set in stone. I'm paying for a shop and if they are taking up space i can not be productive in that space thats all. i'm not trying to get rich here. like i said i run a shop and i was using this site to try and move some parts and see how it worked out.

 

I suggest that you look at the prices on Ebay and compare what you have to them and set your prices COMPETITIVELY. There is a search feature that will show you all the XJ parts for sale. Just as an example, there are many fenders, front and rear that are, in some cases, 1/3 the price of your fenders. And they are in pretty good shape. Actually, you are priced right in the range of other sellers on most of your parts. All we really want is for the business community to know that we the consumer will not tolerate any more GREED. So when you set a price too high, in OUR opinion, you'll get the response from us that you did. Also be aware that we can't really communicate this to Ebay sellers except to not buy from the ones who are clueless and set their prices stupidly high. I have watched for months and those parts sit there gathering dust, but the sellers still don't get it. My guess is that they patiently wait for some poor sucker who is too stupid or too desparate for a certain part and that's just not right. I hope this has opened your eyes about the mindset of us consumers; WE'RE JUST TIRED OF CORPORATE GREED AND CORRUPTION! I'm sorry that you got lumped in with that bunch, but you told us about your shop which means you are a businessman.

 

I understand and thank you for your opinion i want nothing to do with corporate greed and corruption i'm just a small business owner trying to get by like everyone else. i wasn't trying to impose anything crazy. maybe for this site i'll lower my prices to be competitive on here and differently on ebay.

 

Thank you for your understanding in this matter, pricing is a difficult thing to do when you are not aware of the customers ability to cope in this economy. We are all aware that for a business to flourish there must be a reasonable profit. Pricing should be based on how much an item is in demand, and the availability from other competing sources. I'm sure you know that NOS parts are priced higher due to their perceived rarity, but you can see that NOS parts don't move very fast on Ebay because there are other competing suppliers who sell OEM parts for less than NOS. I can't speak for anybody else about their financial situation, but I can tell you of mine; I am a disabled veteran living on a fixed income of less than $1000 a month. I am not so disabled that I can't ride, but I can't be employed. So I have this bike I bought to have as a hobby and to restore it to a condition where I can ride it. Thanks to a loving woman I live with I do have a few bucks to devote to this hobby, but after my bills are paid there are precious few dollars left to buy parts with.

 

My $.02 if anyone is interested....I just made a purchase from Sam...Good communication and seemed to be straight up guy. We negotiated price and I bought what I thought was a good deal and told him I'd have to wait on other stuff...
No need to gang up on a guy because he's trying to make a buck. Don't we all want to get top dollar for the things we sell? It's only a ripoff if he #1 misrepresents what he's selling, and/or #2 you buy it.
If you don't like the price of the fender either make an offer or don't buy it....but don't publicly shat on the guy because you don't like his prices...just not cool...
My opinion.

 

SEMPER FI and a happy veterans day to you too. And long live the concept of GREED!

 

God Bless the Veterans! No doubt we owe them our freedoms.

Patmac did you read all the posts? I don't think there was a collective gang up on the guy. Just a normal reaction to prices that some felt were unfair or too high. Your other points are totally valid though. Complaining does no good when you have no stake in the matter. Just go elsewhere if you don't like it.

One question though-have you already received what you purchased? Because until you do, you can't really have any idea whether or not you got a good deal. I purcahsed a valve cover for $16 and when it arrived it looked better than the pictures. It had actually been completely stripped, cleaned, and lightly primed. Looked brand new! So great parts at reasonable prices can happen. Best of luck.

Sam congratulations on making a sale. Even though you took some heat you did the right thing by bringing your parts here-a place full of people who's first priority is keeping their ride alive!

 

No offense, but owning a business and perhaps overpricing a couple items does not equate to a character of greed and corruption. This is a free market, and individuals are free to set whatever price they want...but within reason of course if they want to make a sale. My input and intention earlier was directed at how this forum, like many other forums, is where one is likely to expect better prices than ebay. Regardless of their own circumstances, sellers are free to set prices as they like. In this case, I think a couple of us wanted to simply hint that some of this guy's prices seemed over the top, and something he may want to consider.

However, it's not fair to cast any businessman as "greedy". Greed & corruption are not exclusive to corporations, big or small. Gov't has it's fair share of greed/corruption, ie Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae cooking the books with no accountability to the taxpayer. Corporations have been involved in many a scandal too. But 60 percent of business in America is small business. Right now, most are suffering and many going bankrupt. Profit is not greed, nor corruption, profit is incentive. Investors deal with risk & reward. Take away profit and there goes incentive, for investors & producers.

In all fairness, the target should not be placed on any free market entity nor on the system itself. I didn't want to get political, but wanted to balance things out here. Amid all this outrageous/misdirected protesting in the streets!...We (Americans) all live in a great country - the greatest country - because of innovation, incentive to produce and/or deliver goods & services. It's a great system. (period)

BTW, regardless of politics ...a shout out to all you VETERANS, this is YOUR DAY!

 

Here Here! Good comments all...and very valid points.
Is it greed or stupidity that compels one to pay $200 for a beanie baby? Is it the sellers fault if some schmuk is willing to pony up two bills for a $4 toy? How about a Honus Wagner autograph.....people would break their mother's leg to pay $1/2 million for that...
My point...things have value....that value may not be the same for you (the buyer) as they do to me (the seller)....in which case it's a ripoff, greed driven,,,whatever... but when something has more value to the buyer than the seller, we proudly announce how shrewd we are in our dealings.
I simply sent a pm to sam asking his price "shipped" to my location...came to find out we live in the same city, albeit on opposite ends. He shot me back a price, which I countered and he agreed to. Met him at his shop and looked over his other stuff....asked about some parts (thought he was high in more ways than one), saw some others that were very reasonable...if not down right a steal...and those I bought on sight. The other stuff, I just shook his hand and said "I'll have to think about it."
My point is; Don't call the guy greedy or a ripoff artist unless you've actually dealt with him. I HAVE, and I can tell you he dealt with me fair and square. Take it for what it's worth.... If I were paying $70+ for a fender, it better damn well be a beauty....and I'd for sure be asking lots of questions and getting lots of pictures...if I had the $70+ and was satisfied with what I saw/heard I'd buy and not look back...if not I'd continue to look around...if I found a better deal...so be it...good for me! But that would have no bearing on the stuff sam was selling.
Get off your moralistic high horse people....if you don't like the guys prices...move on...maybe that stuff'll still be sitting in sam's shop and he'll be more "flexible" next spring when I come a-knock'in.

I'm now up to my $0.04

 

HA, come on guys.... I have taken both Micro & Macro Economics and have two college degrees, the first being business administration. I come here to get away from all that!

Supply and demand blah blah blah.... As most of us here do and others also did, I simply tried to offer an educated opinion.

It's not as though I got on here and took it past the argument of supply vs. demand and questioned cost vs. benefit. Ha, lets go there! A guy has overhead so he wants more, that is fair. At some point the guy most consider the prolonged overhead that his prices have caused and exam cost/benefit ratio. Does he hold out for a better sale causing his overhead to rise and eat his profit or does he sell for a quicker/smaller return and direct his overhead to more production? HA........

Sam, my argument is not directed at you or yours. I genuinely hope you the best! I just wanted a seat on the bandwagon that is this ridiculous argument...sorry.

 

OMG! what did I start? oh wait did I start this? I don't know but it's real fun though. Greed vs. stupidity, it's all subjective, on another thread I brought to the groups attention a guy who's attempting to sell a set of carbs fo $648.00. But is it gouging? I think that gouging only comes in when an item is desparately needed, like in the case of a disaster. But since a set of carbs aren't in that category, I suppose in this case it's stupidity. What with such a generous supply of carbs on Ebay. I think we are all enriched by such debate, so let's keep it going. With debate comes thought, and with thought comes wisdom.

 

Thanks patmac your $.04 it was well needed. lol guys i know we have been posting all kinds of crazy things on here and might have gotten a little off topic... so... let me know if you need any parts i can adjust price for you guys on certain parts!!! luggage rack and back rest are gone though

 

Hey man, you're not hated here. I'm sure that we all have a better understanding about economics now. And thank you for your understanding!

 

Still have the carb rack? If so, what kind of shape are they in, and how much shipped to 80021?

Thanks!

 

Oops, my mistake, I just saw your carb price.

 

Those carbs are/were very reasonably priced, no matter what to condition, the guy on Ebay has a set for the unreasonable price of $648. The set I bought off Ebay set me back $150 and they are very nice.