Where to begin, (kinda in order I guess) Thanks to the gentleman who trekked down (or is it up...or over?) from Bradenton with a flatbed of goodies (OK it wasn't full, but had a couple choice pieces) to trade for misc stuff. A fellow builder creating...something(s) and needed some odds and ends. Sorry I couldn't fill the whole order (hey, Superman had Kryptonite, ya know?) even we fall shy of dream lists. But we were able to come to an amiable swap, and I got a SWEET (or will be shortly) old school GT BMX Mach One! (but don't drool to much, I sold it a little less then an hour later, and am restoring as we speak) and a diamond in the rough Motobecane road bike (about 64cm) tats gonna be a streaker when we're done with it! And yes ANOTHER Schwinn Stingray Chopper (that makes two more this week!) Sold the GORGEOUS Specialized Stump Jumper M4, and the man got a KILLER deal! It was in on consignment, and the owner let me go down a little on the asking price. I'm very happy we could help the gentleman get such a sweet ride, having his old school Hard Rock Stolen recently he deserves the upgrade! And on the "consignment front" I think we set (or at least got close to) the fastest sales record in our history today. A Wonderful young couple came in today looking for a good quality BMX for their son. First one for him, and they'd checked out a couple other stores first (I love when folks do that), but they've been reading our blog (now, now, don't hold THAT against them, they are really quite nice people) and wanted to check out what we had to offer. Well after they relayed me their sons needs (IE; WANTS) I gently encouraged them NOT to spend that much on a first time BMX, and that we could get him on a really nice high quality customized BMX for under $150.00. Yes I know that sounds like a lot of scratch, but the equivalent they were checking out STARTED at over $300.! so we was a bargain! BUT in the midst of deciding on a direction to go, a young gentleman (who had come in earlier wanting to consign his bike) and his mom (we don't Buy from anyone under 18 unless their parent's know about it) came back in to put his SWEET Haro F1 on consignment. After setting the price, I showed the bike to the other visitors and they jumped at it. I mean he was only looking for $150.00 and all I had to do was restring a rear wheel! Everybody happy, in under 6 minutes!
Boy I love my JOB!
And thank you to the young couple for bringing us the gift later on, that was real sweet!
We also sold the Mongoose aluminum, the Huffy MTB and the Purple Magna, SOOO surprisingly...we gotta make more BIKES (no DAH, you say...you're..a bike shop!)
And once again, as is tradition Thank you all for trusting us with you re-pairs today! We actually got 'em in and out right quick. And to the one disgruntled young man,I do so apologize you are having to wait for your bike to be repaired but alas when we have to order parts, we give an estimated time of arrival, dependent upon our supplier, then its up to them. And sometimes we have to wait. So in the end getting mad at us for this is like taking a whizz on an electric fence...pointless.
Was that negative? sorry. It's just we try and keep things light around here, and we try and keep it cheap, that's why we don't order new stock for in the store (except the basic need every day) we use our supplier as our warehouse. That way we don't have to charge a HUGE amount for our re-pairs.
But other then that brief moment every thing else was grand. Again thanks to all of you for visiting with us today.
Doors open, we'll keep the light on for ya!
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