Does Anybody Really Pay These Prices?

What a seller asks for an item is totally up to them!
Its not for us to say if the price is too high!
Thus damaging the chance of a sale for the vendor!!
It will sell or it wont!
The market will decide!
 
I managed to get mine last year at a show we attended.

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I got them for.............................. £5.00 for the pair 8)
 
testrider said:
I can't stand the things and I don't know what all the fuss is about. Why are they so sought after?

Hi,

I know each to there own etc..... but I have to say I agree, I like the car to be clean and uncluttered looking.

Tim
 
It makes me laugh. When I first got a P6 it had teardrop headrests which were fine. Talking to others I soon learned that ET's are 'rare' and coveted by P6 owners. I eventually got hold of a pair and started to go to shows in the car. At one show in particular I was talking to a fellow forumite who commented on the new headrests. As I looked around at the other P6's there, probably about a dozen cars, every other car save for one had ET's !

They are definitely more comfortable but less aesthetically pleasing than the teardrops.
 
Pilkie said:
What a seller asks for an item is totally up to them!
Its not for us to say if the price is too high!
Thus damaging the chance of a sale for the vendor!!
I strongly disagree. In my view this forum is about providing trusted support to fellow Rover P6 enthusiasts. Keeping quiet in order to help someone sell P6 parts at inflated prices smacks of collusion and will do nothing but damage.
The market will decide!
Of course it will, and if we can help that decision, all the better.
Incidentally, these are a hundred quid cheaper:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131188676437
 
We wouldnt say thats too cheap if they were £25 or £50 would we!
And then advise the seller to up the price!
Interfering with an item for sale,whoever is selling it,is not polite!
Its a matter of buyer beware and research the prices first!
We all have our own opinions on many things!
In this case I think its a matter of "Keep them to yourself!"
We dont want to be seen as the whats the right or wrong selling price police do we!!
imho, There should be a rule about this!!

And in answer to the original Q posed!
Yes they do,,often!!!
If they are after a certain item they will pay the asking price,or they will haggle!
 
Sounds like Pilkie has a shed load of them to list on ebay soon :LOL:
As their is no rule i'd like to agree that they are always over priced and i think hideously ugly . I do however like the rear ones , so if anyone has a NOS pair in buckskin i have 20 quid waiting for you :LOL:
 
Aren't the rear ones rather more effective at blocking the rear view and restricting further the already small back seat than they are at resting your head?

And they almost never fit properly like the afterthought they clearly are?
 
PeterZRH said:
Aren't the rear ones rather more effective at blocking the rear view and restricting further the already small back seat than they are at resting your head?

And they almost never fit properly like the afterthought they clearly are?

I only ever sit in the front ! :LOL:
 
Quite. I like them for the same reason I like the P6 estate. It kind of misses the point completely in a very "period" way.
 
"Does anybody really pay these prices"
Have just looked at the completed listings for P6 ET Headrests, I can say that generally people don't!
There was a really nice pair of black ones from a P5 with the reading lights and these went for £186.
Generally looking at the sales history for these on eBay, individual headrests go for £30-50 and a pair sold for £73... other than the real nice P5 ones mentioned above.

As for price generally on parts... I realise this is my hobby and there isn't unlimited funds, but equally for the person selling, it may be their business and livelihood.
If I need to buy parts for my car and can afford them, then I can purchase, otherwise it would have to wait.
I don't want to fall into the usual eBay box of expecting everything for nothing, just because it's old or second hand!

On another note, these headrests are not rare at all! They come up all the time.
 
On another note, these headrests are not rare at all! They come up all the time.

Indeed as the consensus was that these are "rare" (and probably are in context to overall P6 production), I'd wager people kept them as the number of cars on the road declined, especially as these are so easily removed.
 
Pilkie said:
We wouldnt say thats too cheap if they were £25 or £50 would we!
We'd probably post a link to them on the forum that the seller would be able to read, same as this one. The seller can then react by modifying their price or ignoring us, just as this one can. Discussing an item's price is hardly interfering with a sale.
I really don't see what you're getting so worked up about - and judging by all those exclamation marks, you seem about to blow a valve! Please relax, we're not going to agree on this so let's just agree to differ.
 
I posed a question which has resulted in a healthy debate which is hardly 'interfering' with the sale. The market will decide & as I am part of the market, I have every right to decide whether the price is too high or not & will express my opinion if I so choose within the guidelines of the forum, which fortunately does not forbid the expression of free opinion. If anyone should happen to want their opinion repressed in this way then please feel free to join a Rover forum which originates in say, China or Iran.
As it happens, I have not expressed an opinion regarding the price of the headrests which form the basis of this post as I merely asked a question & the assumption that I consider the price is too high is mere supposition. I hereby confirm that the supposition is correct & the general consensus of opinion expressed in this thread would appear to be in agreement.

As for it not being 'polite' to draw attention to an item for sale to a major section of the market (even if price is the main point), that statement is clearly ridiculous. As for politeness itself, I will only say that people in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.

I do like the ET's & the rear headrests too, though I agree that they can make the interior look a little cluttered. I have got a pair of Buckskin rear's, Stina, but they aren't NOS. The piping is quite curly in fact but as I paid £9 for them, I wasn't complaining. I also have a pair of bronze ET's with original reading lights which came with poor old POE. They should be worth at least £500, don't you think?
 
The Rovering Member said:
I also have a pair of bronze ET's with original reading lights which came with poor old POE. They should be worth at least £500, don't you think?
£500 :shock:

That's a bit bloomin' steep don't you think???

I'll get me coat :LOL:
 
I ve never liked the ETs but then i dont like rev counters or the round gauges. But i do like a car to look clean and simple inside with very little in it. But i think ETs rate at the moment is near £150 for a good pair. I ve never seen them sell for less than £100 a pair. But as they are popular then the price will rise bit like the front light can fetch a high price but we need them.
I think its up to the seller and buyers to decide . I would pay high money if its something i really wanted.
Marcus
 
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