XT6E Prices - On the Increase in UK?

[kentfallen]

Over the past few months I have started to see late model (2003) Yamaha XT600E's being sold by shops and private individuals in the UK for increasingly silly prices (in my opinion)! Last week I saw one low mileage XT6E going for £2,300 in average condition!

I have even seen quite a few high mileage old dogs of bikes with a price tag of £1,500.

Last week I even saw a non-runner rust bucket (33K) being sold with an asking price of (wait for it)..... £1,300.

I can only presume that as the supply of good XT6's dry up, the prices being asked goes up. This is what happened to XT350's when they started to get scarce in the late 1990's. These little machines had such a good name yet they were discontinued.

The way things are going hanging on to a XT600E seems a pretty good idea from an investment point of view.

Perhaps the supply of XT6E's is now indeed getting low?

Or perhaps everyone is now getting plain greedy?

In my opinion a low mileage XT6E in mint condition is worth £1,600 tops as a private buy, a bit more (£1,800) for shop sold bike.

It's now possible to find early XT660's for just over £2,000. Are these shops really suggesting that earlier XT6E's are worth almost as much?

Wanted to ask you fellow XT lovers what's going on.....