• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

why are the prices so high? parts/used bikes??

Joe Chod said:
NOS platic washers are like more money than race tech and who wants brittle 40 year old plastic?
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The (most common to what is discussed on here) ones I got from halls I have gotten have ranged from $2 to three and change over time though It has been a few years since I got any. 84,94,04,14 thirty years. They looked fresh to me, can't comment on the ones on ebay.
 
There are folks on Ebay that have created a business out of buying bikes and parting them out so their intent is to make as much money as possible. Also, Ebay as a place to sell parts is a huge overhead in and of itself and that adds to the price of the item.

I don't know how many of you a know that a seller on Ebay is charged the sales fee and the Paypal fee (average of 15%) on the cost of shipping. If the shipping cost happens to be 50% of the item, as is the case in an auction of a heavy weight item, the amount the seller makes on that item can be as low as 60% of what it sold for.

As for the sellers that are listing stuff at sky high prices, they will score a sale once in a while but as its been said in this thread already, those sellers will sit on their stuff for quite awhile.

For the most part I agree that its all about supply and demand. I see good deals on Ebay often but those deals rarely last long.
 
I'm just an old codger who desires to ride again. I was in my 40's to early 50's kicking up dust on husqvarnas. I was in the best shape of my life. Then my bad joints, arthritis, two knee operations, then prostate cancer it's in remission, now lower back spinal stenosis and a golf ball sized kidney stone which they won't operate due to my health my desire is to work on husqvarnas. Tinker with them. Maybe putt around the yard.
For now till the cancer injections are over in six months. In one year a husqvarna bike just maybe my workout machine and my return to some sort of life. I can't see any better way to get my strength back. I'm a tough old codger not willing to give up yet.
I been away from bikes for 13 years. I ask questions to catch up because a lot changes in 13 years. Look at the new ignition, the lectron carbs, even the fork seals have improved. Please bare with me with my questions that may seem dumb. I'm playing catchup. It's fun riding these old Swedish iron. I regret not riding as a kid. But my three
older brothers were so wild without bikes no way the old man was going to get us bikes. Three of us had bad bicycle accidents. But it's husky's again. Bill
 
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