I may be getting a pink Buddy 50....

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I guess the pink Buddy 50 has finally gone to Buddy heaven. Owner said it completely quit working and won't start. I didn't ask any details because I'm done with her. She asked me if I knew anyone selling a good quality scooter for $1000. Those 2 words, "quality" and "$1000", don't fit together around my area. She was sending me links to used China Ice Bears and other crappy 4-strokes. I'm not wasting my time going to look at anything "cheap" and I'm not working on anything anyways. There is a China scooter seller in my area and they sell brand new 50cc scooters for $999, and they come with a 30 day warranty. A whopping 30 days! That's some confidence in a product!

The yellow bug-eye Zuma guy also said his scooter is messed up. Oh well.

Bum scooters for bum owners! Simple employment can buy them simple transportation. These 2 people expect miracles or something.

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That’s part of the problem with cheap Chinese scooters: buyers who aren’t willing to maintain them. There’s truly no hope for a pile of parts that is both of chintzy quality AND neglected.

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I truly feel sorry for the people who buy a off-brand China scooter as honest transportation and it doesn't deliver. We have a guy out my way who was lower income. He purchased a new Ice Bear 50cc to get to work and everything else life throws at ya. That scooter just fell apart! He never abused it, he learned how to service the valves, change the oil, etc. It lasted a little over a year before something broke that wasn't worth fixing. He ended up buying a Genuine Rough House next and it's still running strong.

I didn't know him before he bought the Ice Bear but I asked him what made him purchase it. He said he always saw me using my tatty Buddy everyday. This was my first Buddy, the black one. He figured all scooters must be generally alike, and the dealer he went to will hype up a dog turd, so he purchased the only 50cc scooter they had in stock-the 30 day warranty China special. Not all China made products are bad, its the quality control that goes into a product that makes a difference. His particular China scooter lacked quality control.

These 2 bums that I know (Pinkys owner and the yellow Zuma guy) refuse to get even a simple little job. They both live at home in the comfort of their parents home. One is in their 50's and the other in their late 20's! No reason for them to not have a job, just their parents make the nest to comfy to fly away from. They can watch YouTube and fix their own junkie scooters, I'm done being Santa's little helper repair elf.

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Update for anyone following the pink Buddy drama! The lazy girl sold the pink Buddy for $25. Didn't offer it back to me but I think she sold it to a scrap dealer. I was pretty banged up but the motor still ran and the exhaust side of the case didn't have any broken mounting tabs. Since I'm done with her and the other bum with the yellow Zuma I just follow the drama now. Anyways, bum pink Buddy girl "Really, really needs another scooter!" so she can hang out with her bum friends but she only has a budget of $300! So she finds this clone Honda Reflex on Craigslist or Offer Up for $600 and ask if she can make payments. So the guy tells her to send a Bitcoin deposit of $50 (that's all she had for cash) and he'll hold it till she sends $150 more and this nice man will deliver it! She has no idea of the actual location of this Reflex clone or if it even runs! I told her it sounds "Scammy" but she insist she really needs this scooter and is trying to come up with the rest of the $150! It's good to know there are people online who will sell you a scooter on a payment scheme with no credit check AND deliver it to your home!