haha yea I know, I could have waited a little more, its been years, whats another few weeks. But I had been browsing the exchange and hadn't seen anything that inexpensive, and I had missed out a few I saw on eBay already anyways. You know how it is, common sense says there will be plenty of opportunities, but when you have that itch to buy something you don't want to wait! But I would be more upset if I had dropped $500 or $600 on the NIB ones. At this point I am out $325 and the frame shouldn't need anything done. Not much different that spending $225 on frames and then $75 more on a refurb. And there were 35 bids on the ones I got, so even if I want to resell, I shouldn't have a problem.
Cpl yrs ago I bought a 1995 Sea Doo HX, with the intention of resto-modding it a bit. These are fairly rare skis, hard to find in good shape, if you know jet ski racing you probably know the HX. I needed this plastic trim cap for the hood, and right away I saw a couple on eBay, you can't get many parts for it from the manufacturer anymore, but I figured there would be plenty around, so I did not jump on the ones I saw, they seemed a bit expensive. Turns out those were the last ones I saw for over a year. Talk about Unobtanium. I ended up eventually finding one in Europe, NOS from some shop's back room, using Google translate to contact the seller to see if it was real. I ended up paying about 50% more than the ones I saw at first. So ever since then I don't like to wait when I think I found what I am looking for!
Cpl yrs ago I bought a 1995 Sea Doo HX, with the intention of resto-modding it a bit. These are fairly rare skis, hard to find in good shape, if you know jet ski racing you probably know the HX. I needed this plastic trim cap for the hood, and right away I saw a couple on eBay, you can't get many parts for it from the manufacturer anymore, but I figured there would be plenty around, so I did not jump on the ones I saw, they seemed a bit expensive. Turns out those were the last ones I saw for over a year. Talk about Unobtanium. I ended up eventually finding one in Europe, NOS from some shop's back room, using Google translate to contact the seller to see if it was real. I ended up paying about 50% more than the ones I saw at first. So ever since then I don't like to wait when I think I found what I am looking for!