EBay BMW Parts....buyers beware

Found a few decent EBay purchases recently...I needed foot peg rubbers for the R100S and these square ones are $20.00 each new...found an EBay pair, new, for $10.50........pretty good deal.


This left side BMW Toaster Side Cover came on EBay as a "Buy it Now" for $19.00...that is a steal. A new reproduction one will run over $100.00. I happened to be on EBay when this came up so bought it immediately......it looks find of "gold" in the photo but came to me as chrome and in excellent shape.


This Right side Toaster cover came up with no "Buy it Now" but I picked it up for $34.00......a nice pair for a total of $53.00 + $12.00 total shipping ...not too bad. It showed up yesterday and is in great shape.......I sold my original Toaster Covers from my 1973 R75/5 for $136.00 on EBay and they weren't in as good of condition as this "new" pair......

From a "Buyer Beware" standpoint this pair of Toaster Covers (below) are now on EBay and the bid is over $100.00 for the pair with 5 days remaining on the auction...the bidders are not looking at the photo or don't know what they are looking at, as the right side one has a big chunk cut out of it and the seller is not disclosing that fact. He describes them as in "very nice condition". I emailed him to ask if one was cut up one or was it just an illusion on the photo? He replied : "That's how it came off the bike", and didn't add anything to his auction description........The new owner / winner is going to be pissed when he receives them....the buyer better brace himself for some "negative feedback" unless he discloses that one of them is "junk".....someone likely cut the piece out for a sidecar mount......I had to cut the same area to mount my sidecar but I cut up one of the later style plastic covers....no way would I butcher a Toaster cover...the plastic one ares much cheaper and easy to find.....

I bought these Bates Saddle Bag mounting frames a while back and got them for $9.99....upon receipt I see that a piece is broken on one of them......For the $9.99 purchase price I felt that it was not worth the effort to complain to the seller...he likely did not realize they were damaged....besides he sold me a nice pair of Bates Saddle Bags for $75.00 a few weeks ago....
These old Bates Bags will hook up to the Bates frames with a little modification......they are in fair shape......a bargain for $75.00........

Received this pair of original /5 "cigar" style mufflers yesterday...$71.00 for the pair....they don't look too bad and have one ding in them....new reproduction pairs cost $525.00 + shipping.....