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Big Bore Big Block Kit i just found on a new source!
- Thread starter 650trader
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It’s raining big bore kits around here! 
650trader
XS650 Addict
650 Skull : Ran by Mike what you said about the community being ripped off for years.
He says: First run of Koyo crank bearings totaled out at $85,000.00 US, first run of handlebar
switches totaled $150,000.00 ! Do you make your profit on the last piece or the first ?
The only big ripoff in the industry has been Yamaha themselves.
It takes nerve to pay for a production run when you never have sold them before !
In Ausi Geoff selectively/carefully got in as he had a small inheritance and reluctantly
went for it. Mike did not need to set him up but said the Au riders were great guys and
could use a nearby supplier. Mike had a separate au site at one time and sent to Au at
reduced prices so as to offset the cost of the long distance - Why ? because he could !
He says: First run of Koyo crank bearings totaled out at $85,000.00 US, first run of handlebar
switches totaled $150,000.00 ! Do you make your profit on the last piece or the first ?
The only big ripoff in the industry has been Yamaha themselves.
It takes nerve to pay for a production run when you never have sold them before !
In Ausi Geoff selectively/carefully got in as he had a small inheritance and reluctantly
went for it. Mike did not need to set him up but said the Au riders were great guys and
could use a nearby supplier. Mike had a separate au site at one time and sent to Au at
reduced prices so as to offset the cost of the long distance - Why ? because he could !
@5twins They are stocking stock bore and first overbore pistons and rings as well as 2nd 3rd and 4th overbore parts. Some are out of stock.
https://yamahaxs650.com/product-category/engine/cylinders-pistons-rings-pins-clips/
front guides at $25 also out of stock
https://yamahaxs650.com/product-category/engine/cylinders-pistons-rings-pins-clips/
front guides at $25 also out of stock
I'm surprised that as of now he has only sold five kits . At that price with 2nd day UPS ground is a no brainer.
I'm hoping Joe keeps this deal going for another week or so until I get paid. I plan to order another kit and put it away. At the rate they are printing Dollars right now the price will double or better in the next couple of years.
Take me out of context and it does sound like i am accusing Mike L, of ripping people off.........never accused hm, it is based on your prices compared to other retailers (RETAILERS... Not wholesalers), who stock the exact same product that comes from the same supplier.
A part MikesXS sells for $100, 650Direct sells for $88 and your price is $79.......This part i just quoted i bought for $65.00 off the original, Mikes XS over 11 years ago..... After Mikes was sold it blew out to $165.00 before other people decided to compete with a similar product......you are now selling something i bought for $65 over 11 years ago, for $79 now......Either you are loosing money or not. if not then the other retailers are making a good profit and some are at over 20% more than your prices...today so when they were selling that same thing for $165, am i justified in saying the 650 community has been ripped off........If you are making a profit then that is, more than, 20% mark up over your price.............could it then b said the 650 community has been ripped off.........a monopoly can charge what they can get away with........now the monopoly is up against 650Direct and Yamaha650.com.
When Mike L owned MikesXS he had the separate Aussie site. Buying off that Aussie site, they had set it up so it showed Aussie $ prices so we, down here, knew how much it would cost us without having to calculate through an exchange. That dd make it easier for us. When Mike L sold the business that was disbanded.........11 years ago or there about.....
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When MikesXS first sold sold these kits he to had them on Special. I bought 3 Kits, and all up it cost me $2100.00 to my door in Aus. This was a good deal.
Skull; making a reasonable profit is NOT ripping people off.
Among business folks the rule is that selling at a price too low to pay;
your vendors on time
your employees a decent living wage with benefits
yourself enough to live AND retire on
while still having enough to invest in, grow, the business.
IS a crime.
Among business folks the rule is that selling at a price too low to pay;
your vendors on time
your employees a decent living wage with benefits
yourself enough to live AND retire on
while still having enough to invest in, grow, the business.
IS a crime.
Ask Jeff Bozo.....2nd richest man in the world..........or ask his workers and you will get 2 different answers to that question
And, no of course not........when have i ever said that........I said that a monopoly can charge as much as they can get away with.....Am i allowed to say they are ripping people of when they sell something for $165, when, with competition, they now sell it for $100 and Yamaha650.com is selling the same product for $88........I have posted, and through that post MikesXS, (after Mike L sold it) has changed their advertising from a 50% sale price on their tanks to the true value of a 30% sale price when they were using a slight of hand, (yea ripping people off), to justify that 50%.............
I sure am drooling over one of those Big Block Kits
With the cooling fins nicely block sanded how could an XS650 engine look better!
Too bad my Truck cost me $900 this week and last weeks speeding ticket cost half of a kit in itself..
Watching !
With the cooling fins nicely block sanded how could an XS650 engine look better!
Too bad my Truck cost me $900 this week and last weeks speeding ticket cost half of a kit in itself..
Watching !
For various reasons goods get sold at less than decent profit levels.
Getting the word out
a Cash crunch
Excess or discontinued merchandise.
end of season pricing to reduce the expense of carrying items that won't sell til the next season.
Closing a business, or line of business.
That doesn't make a different vendor's ongoing business pricing a rip off.
Some customers are willing to pay more than others for better service, a nicer store, "Brand name" cachet
A business that caters to those customers is not ripping anyone off.
Getting the word out
a Cash crunch
Excess or discontinued merchandise.
end of season pricing to reduce the expense of carrying items that won't sell til the next season.
Closing a business, or line of business.
That doesn't make a different vendor's ongoing business pricing a rip off.
Some customers are willing to pay more than others for better service, a nicer store, "Brand name" cachet
A business that caters to those customers is not ripping anyone off.
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Also take into account Aussie consumer laws compared to the US's and the definition and/of legal differences also equate to different attitudes.
Or you could wait for Yamaha to offer a big block kit, Carb floats, 1974 gas cap assembly, etc.
He's rich cuz a LOT of people voluntarily hand him their money nearly always because they feel he offers them the best overall deal.
You are completely free to spend no money there or anywhere else , But yes there has long been a bias, backlash on some of the XS forums against anyone that tries to make a living selling motorcycle related parts and services.
It's possible there's a relationship tween that and your limited choices.
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Call me a cynic. I see this new venture as a play against a situation that no one knows what is really going on......you guys in the states are reaping the benefits.
. I just can't see there is ever going to an opportunity for overseas buyers to be able to get in on the same deal..........I may be wrong and hope i am proven wrong............. jealous, no , skullduggery, maybe.........conspiracy theory......ask Q,lolHow many on here love the free post and cheap prices from china.........
Certainly NOT me!
I barely justify even eating Chinese take out any more
