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Marketplace => eBay Finds => Topic started by: mainline on December 10, 2011, 02:47:21 pm

Title: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: mainline on December 10, 2011, 02:47:21 pm
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/PE-400-Z-1-82-vmx-vinduro-collectable-Suzuki-rare-/140656023031?pt=AU_Motorcycles&hash=item20bfc095f7
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: Simo63 on December 11, 2011, 07:49:19 pm
Not sure but Wow $4950 and reserve not yet met  ???  That can't be right surely  ???

Plenty of bids though  ???

I wish those bidders were interested in mine. Looks damn cheap in comparison.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: frostype400 on December 11, 2011, 08:21:24 pm
I couldn't sell my PE 400x because this came on but I am happy to see it so high so happy I just today stripped my 400z to peices to start the rebuild.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: oldfart on December 11, 2011, 08:49:01 pm
Mainline ..... that motor your chasing  has just increased in Price ;D ;D
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: Tony T on December 11, 2011, 09:21:55 pm
I wouldn't take eBay 'valuations' as gospel.
I was bidding on something and watched the price go up and up, then noticed that the other guy bidding had only bid on items from this one seller. I pulled out and the listing got cancelled just before it finished with the 'dummy' bidder in front because it was 'no longer available'.  ::)
Not saying it is like that in this case, but lots of interesting things going on out there.........

A DR400 sold a couple of weeks ago for $1200 and it needed a rebuild.
I listed mine that is pretty much ready to go and couldn't get more that $710.00. So it can stay in my shed for while longer.  ;D
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: frostype400 on December 11, 2011, 09:33:45 pm
I asked if he had a buy it now cash price and he didn't he said make an offer he said he had seen them sell for heaps but I think he is talking silly money you will have to do a full rebuild on it and there is a lot of money to spend on top of the price it sells for.

The thing is it is a 400z so they aren't a every day bike that comes up for sale I would be very happy if it sold for big money to know mine will be worth a lot when finished, but that is irrelevant to me anyway cause I won't be selling mine.

Tony, the fake bidders are a big problem there are also the semi genuine ones that will put say $10k on a $4k bike if they get it for what they are really prepared to pay they are happy and follow through if not they don't they just start new accounts all the time.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: b490 on December 11, 2011, 09:59:10 pm
5 K for that  ???
 Faded plastics , rusted bits & leaky fork seals would be only the start of a big list, I suspect.
     ............... Dreamer. ::)
 
Regards ,
              Steve
 
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: vandy010 on December 11, 2011, 11:35:32 pm
there's not one decent photo in that ad ???
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: firko on December 11, 2011, 11:48:14 pm
Quote
there's not one decent photo in that ad
I think he took them with his phone. If that bike's worth 5k my 400Z has to be worth 7k. Anybody interested?
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: frostype400 on December 11, 2011, 11:51:55 pm
Perhaps Firko. ;D In a couple years time when I am not so poor. :)

I wonder what mine will be worth then with all the brand new original parts tank speedo etc etc I have an original owners manual if you'd like one Firko.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: firko on December 11, 2011, 11:55:35 pm
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I have an original owners manual if you'd like one Firko.
I've got one thanks Michael. I was only joking mate...I couldn't ask 7k for a PE and still sleep at night :o. It's going to do some vinduro work next year.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: frostype400 on December 12, 2011, 12:06:41 am
Be great to see it going around a track yours is a good original mine was a bit tatty when I got it but nearly one hundred percent complete.

Now that I have the new old stock tank for mine and all the other bits I will get it done and put it in my lounge room.

I don't think you'd be to silly at $7k though by my counting there is only 3 known in Australia now.

Let me know when it is going to be ridden in a vinduro and I'll see if I can make it on one of my 400's been thinking of doing a interstate vinduro for a while, thanks Michael.

You could do a swap for the PE I will give you a xt and xr 500 :)

Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: DIRTPILOT72 on December 12, 2011, 12:25:57 pm
I smell a rat.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: oldfart on December 12, 2011, 04:42:26 pm
FFS  it's nothing special   same old  motor - frame - etc as the 1980 and 81
 what you are paying  big $$$ for is nothing more than stickers - folding  gear and brake lever....it is basic follow on model . Oh and its a PE  400 Z  ???
Missing quite a few of the hard to obtain bits ... battery box - blinkers - mirror - tail light - kick stand - speedo -  front light assembly   all of which are like rocking horse shit.

 
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: mustanggrahame on December 12, 2011, 05:09:15 pm
I think this is bullshit too. I doesn't matter how many were sold that year they aren't anything special. It would have to be genuinely like brand new to be even close to being worth 5 grand.
Cheers, Grahame.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: topari on December 12, 2011, 07:52:04 pm
I smell a rat.
me too. The current top bidder has zero feedback.

And

On 07-Dec-11 at 10:04:22 AEDST, seller added the following information:

Just to add,this item is advertised elsewhere and i have the right to remove at anytime. thanks.


And it has been relisted. Stay away.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: frostype400 on December 12, 2011, 08:23:49 pm
Yes there is something suss it got relisted though because he had multiple titles ie it xr ts etc you can't do that I'd say someone complained to ebay just to bugger him up he says in the add he knows how much they have worth he told me a lot of figures he has seen them sell for. ::)

Stew they are much better looking stickers and you get the big bulky taillight aswell as the big base kickstand. ;D

(http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu283/frostype400/image-5.jpg)
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: lukeb1961 on December 17, 2011, 05:00:29 am
FFS  it's nothing special   same old  motor - frame - etc as the 1980 and 81
 what you are paying  big $$$ for is nothing more than stickers - folding  gear and brake lever....it is basic follow on model . Oh and its a PE  400 Z  ???
Missing quite a few of the hard to obtain bits ... battery box - blinkers - mirror - tail light - kick stand - speedo -  front light assembly   all of which are like rocking horse shit.
Agreed. A futile exercise.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: frostype400 on December 17, 2011, 09:23:39 am
It hasn't been re listed yet I can't understand why he wouldn't be happy with where it got to I wonder if it sold outside of the auction, thanks Michael.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: lukeb1961 on December 30, 2011, 04:35:50 am
Relisted with no reserve, so should go for a reasonable price, rather than the Maico 490 valuations.
PE400 is a nice bike.

"missing batt box, kick stand,speedo front light and blinkers. You can find these parts easily etc. "
Those easy to find parts...  I wonder when he last tried to locate these?
if anybody has them under dust in their shed, speak up. I'll take them.
Luke
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: frostype400 on December 30, 2011, 08:23:03 pm
It is relisted again, I just got some more pe indicators today I'd swap some nos ones for a nos rear guard or headlight plastics.
Title: Re: PE400z, the new Maico 490?
Post by: topari on December 30, 2011, 08:33:30 pm
Starting at $4000 .  :o