Yeah, Its funny, about e-commerce.
I have touched on this in other posts but selling online comes at a real cost to the buyer and the seller.
Ebay takes up to 30% depending on the cost and type of item sold - PS2Fixer can attest to that.
Shipping oddly shaped heavy items gets expensive fast. Shipping a fender or engine will kill most deals.
I recently (last week) shipped a kids 70 from Florida to Nevada with insurance it was $550 (Pallet, truck freight) its taking 10 days to get there.
Aside from the cost to ship there is the real cost in time and materials, packaging, boxing and crating, taking items to the shipper or waiting for them to come to you.
Selling local is always the best for both parties, the problem for ATC guys is there isn't a huge demand for 30 years old parts locally. So you are very lucky Jim Mac.
Schlepp29-
The 185cc-200cc covers so many different models, I kinda fell into what I had available around me, in my rural part of America hard tails and working bikes are the most common, and I think they are the
easiest to work on too. So when buying parts bikes, a good 200s and 200e parts bikes, those 2 models will support most of the other models for good hard to find parts. In my other thread about "flipping bikes", I mention this
and how cost effective it is to stay in a narrow field of products.
Again, I can't say it enough, Thank you all for watching the YT channel and supporting my crazy venture. I am building a shifter cart now, powered by a 185s!
MrC.