Author Topic: Price range for a good used Jensen #20? (Read 865 times)

ShadetreeMotorcycle · « **on:** April 21, 2021, 07:14:59 pm »

I have not been looking for very long but have not seen a used Jensen #20 come up for sale yet, what might I expect to pay for a nice used one?

Nick · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2021, 07:37:37 pm »

$350 minimum would be a good, cheap price, but expect to pay a little more (likely pushing $500)... especially if one has not been on ebay for awhile...

This is the only recent ebay sale that I can find and it’s in the UK

https://www.ebay.com/itm/274654954461?hash=item3ff2b603dd%3Ag%3AIJgAAOSwsxJgCXFK&nma=true&si=dkiZniuy6QAzRjS%252Fd2FjtAGoVls%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

St Paul Steam · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2021, 07:38:33 pm »

Imho $400-600, & for a 20G $500-$650 assuming it has the cast genny. both in reasonably good working condition.

Nick · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2021, 07:57:53 pm »

Quote from: St Paul Steam on April 21, 2021, 07:38:33 pm

Imho $400-600, & for a 20G $500-$650 assuming it has the cast genny. both in reasonably good working condition.

Thinking more on the subject, I don’t think I’d let one go for less than $500

Jim · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2021, 08:07:04 pm »

Quote from: Nick on April 21, 2021, 07:37:37 pm

$350 minimum would be a good, cheap price, but expect to pay a little more (likely pushing $500)... especially if one has not been on ebay for awhile...

This is the only recent ebay sale that I can find and it’s in the UK

https://www.ebay.com/itm/274654954461?hash=item3ff2b603dd%3Ag%3AIJgAAOSwsxJgCXFK&nma=true&si=dkiZniuy6QAzRjS%252Fd2FjtAGoVls%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Someone got a bargain there.

Nick · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2021, 08:16:17 pm »

Quote from: Jim on April 21, 2021, 08:07:04 pm

Quote from: Nick on April 21, 2021, 07:37:37 pm
$350 minimum would be a good, cheap price, but expect to pay a little more (likely pushing $500)... especially if one has not been on ebay for awhile...

This is the only recent ebay sale that I can find and it’s in the UK

https://www.ebay.com/itm/274654954461?hash=item3ff2b603dd%3Ag%3AIJgAAOSwsxJgCXFK&nma=true&si=dkiZniuy6QAzRjS%252Fd2FjtAGoVls%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Someone got a bargain there.

It was a good price, but I’m not really a fan of that generation... dark wood base, very turquoise? engine base, and fat red handles... I only like the dark base on the 95’s

Jim · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2021, 08:18:40 pm »

Quote from: Nick on April 21, 2021, 08:16:17 pm

Quote from: Jim on April 21, 2021, 08:07:04 pm
Quote from: Nick on April 21, 2021, 07:37:37 pm
$350 minimum would be a good, cheap price, but expect to pay a little more (likely pushing $500)... especially if one has not been on ebay for awhile...

This is the only recent ebay sale that I can find and it’s in the UK

https://www.ebay.com/itm/274654954461?hash=item3ff2b603dd%3Ag%3AIJgAAOSwsxJgCXFK&nma=true&si=dkiZniuy6QAzRjS%252Fd2FjtAGoVls%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Someone got a bargain there.

It was a good price, but I’m not really a fan of that generation... dark wood base, very turquoise? engine base, and fat red handles... I only like the dark base on the 95’s

I made a lot of new red handles, those fat ones just look real extra 'toyish' to me.

Woe is me · « **Reply #7 on:** April 21, 2021, 08:55:37 pm »

It was still $500 with shipping.

classixs · « **Reply #8 on:** April 22, 2021, 05:20:57 am »

Quote from: Jim on April 21, 2021, 08:07:04 pm

Quote from: Nick on April 21, 2021, 07:37:37 pm
$350 minimum would be a good, cheap price, but expect to pay a little more (likely pushing $500)... especially if one has not been on ebay for awhile...

This is the only recent ebay sale that I can find and it’s in the UK

https://www.ebay.com/itm/274654954461?hash=item3ff2b603dd%3Ag%3AIJgAAOSwsxJgCXFK&nma=true&si=dkiZniuy6QAzRjS%252Fd2FjtAGoVls%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Someone got a bargain there.

Now you struck a nerve here Jim

No they didn´t!

I bought it, and that (stupid) seller kept insisting on shipping via his preferred shipper, as he appearently had a great deal with them.
I was charged £100 initially in shipping, and consistently from the very beginning asked him to use Royal Mail, as their £67 postage easily was covered by my payment, but he wouldn´t.
Eventually after a couple of months, it had come back to him so many times, that he cancelled the sale with Ebay and refunded my money, claiming that my address wasn´t correct, eventhough i had received several packages via Ebay from the UK in the meantime.
(An address which i have had on record with Ebay and PayPal since 2004)

Regarding the engine itself, and my particular interest in it...
That engine was purchased new by an Australian "Whistler" in 2009, and was purchased by me in a "ridden hard, put away wet" state in 2012.
A year later a young kid at the Mamodboard was inquiring for a 20, and since he was such a young lad, it got the best of me and i sold it off to him at a VERY fair price, with the only condition that i should have the chance to buy it back, would he ever decide to part with it again.
Since it was so rusty all over, i changed firebox/chimney support and chimney to factorynew stripped parts (stripping was offered and chosen above factory paint), and beadblasted/repainted the rusty enginebase with hammerite, which is why the colour is slightly off there, and shipped it off.
When he grew a bit older he apperently had learned what he had, and kept listing it at Ebay at a high price where it didn´t sell, and had absolutely no intention of honouring our previous agreement, with no replies to my messages.
Then earlier this year it was listed again, an unwanted Christmas present according to the seller, and i decided to bring it home again...which as seen once again failed miserably.

So as you see by my rambling here, this particular engine has grown to be kind of a White Whale to me

But yes, had i gotten it, the price would have been extremely good, on an imported engine like this over here.
In fact very close to what the youngster initially paid me...and spot on if the £100 postage was included into our totals.

Jim · « **Reply #9 on:** April 22, 2021, 05:59:04 pm »

Interesting read Jan, what a shame mate it didn't make it back to you.

Dampfopa · « **Reply #10 on:** April 23, 2021, 05:24:48 am »

Hello Jan,
in Germany we have a saying:
"You always look people in the face".

Nick · « **Reply #11 on:** April 23, 2021, 07:27:36 pm »

Quote from: classixs on April 22, 2021, 05:20:57 am

Quote from: Jim on April 21, 2021, 08:07:04 pm
Quote from: Nick on April 21, 2021, 07:37:37 pm
$350 minimum would be a good, cheap price, but expect to pay a little more (likely pushing $500)... especially if one has not been on ebay for awhile...

This is the only recent ebay sale that I can find and it’s in the UK

https://www.ebay.com/itm/274654954461?hash=item3ff2b603dd%3Ag%3AIJgAAOSwsxJgCXFK&nma=true&si=dkiZniuy6QAzRjS%252Fd2FjtAGoVls%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Someone got a bargain there.
Now you struck a nerve here Jim

No they didn´t!

I bought it, and that (stupid) seller kept insisting on shipping via his preferred shipper, as he appearently had a great deal with them.
I was charged £100 initially in shipping, and consistently from the very beginning asked him to use Royal Mail, as their £67 postage easily was covered by my payment, but he wouldn´t.
Eventually after a couple of months, it had come back to him so many times, that he cancelled the sale with Ebay and refunded my money, claiming that my address wasn´t correct, eventhough i had received several packages via Ebay from the UK in the meantime.
(An address which i have had on record with Ebay and PayPal since 2004)

Regarding the engine itself, and my particular interest in it...
That engine was purchased new by an Australian "Whistler" in 2009, and was purchased by me in a "ridden hard, put away wet" state in 2012.
A year later a young kid at the Mamodboard was inquiring for a 20, and since he was such a young lad, it got the best of me and i sold it off to him at a VERY fair price, with the only condition that i should have the chance to buy it back, would he ever decide to part with it again.
Since it was so rusty all over, i changed firebox/chimney support and chimney to factorynew stripped parts (stripping was offered and chosen above factory paint), and beadblasted/repainted the rusty enginebase with hammerite, which is why the colour is slightly off there, and shipped it off.
When he grew a bit older he apperently had learned what he had, and kept listing it at Ebay at a high price where it didn´t sell, and had absolutely no intention of honouring our previous agreement, with no replies to my messages.
Then earlier this year it was listed again, an unwanted Christmas present according to the seller, and i decided to bring it home again...which as seen once again failed miserably.

So as you see by my rambling here, this particular engine has grown to be kind of a White Whale to me

But yes, had i gotten it, the price would have been extremely good, on an imported engine like this over here.
In fact very close to what the youngster initially paid me...and spot on if the £100 postage was included into our totals.

Sorry for the paint comment Jan! 😬 Just too bright for my liking... I do like Rustoleum’s hammered blue (not sure on exact color) for a match.

As for seller, that’s Alex Gaspa aka Alex-G (AG Chiptuning) and his girlfriend Sian Grant. Been caught for bidding his own stuff up (including an SE4) and if he accidentally wins, he re-lists with high BINS.

Jim · « **Reply #12 on:** April 23, 2021, 07:55:00 pm »

What a shame to read that young Alex (well he's not that young anymore) is shady.

St Paul Steam · « **Reply #13 on:** April 23, 2021, 08:31:17 pm »

Quote from: Jim on April 23, 2021, 07:55:00 pm

What a shame to read that young Alex (well he's not that young anymore) is shady.

I remember him

classixs · « **Reply #14 on:** April 24, 2021, 04:44:35 am »

Please remember that i didn´t call him out as shady, and actually didn´t recall the Ebay scam either, before Nick mentioned it.
In my case, he merely grew up to be a man with a different set of values than i.
Had i held any real grudges, i would have named and shamed him, but don´t like to hang people out on smaller "lessons of life" like this.
Same reason the seller is unnamed as well, as i generally think he´s a good guy...just my bad luck that i encountered him while his brain was in for service.

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