I've mostly bought used. I guess 1 mountain bike new, which I decided the bike shop sold me one that was too small and too expensive. 1 road bike new that I loved, but severely discounted.

Everything else has come off craigslist. and the price differential's been worth it to me. I do most of my own maintenance or the bf does, so the lack of free tuneups doesn't make a difference to me.

At least around me, there's a ton of bikes on craigslist that have been bought and never ridden, or ridden only a couple of times - and those are the ones I usually buy. You see that on ebay too. Classic, I wanted my gf to ride with me, I bought her this bike, we broke up or she hated it.

I guess the road bike I got off craigslist was basically an old frame with completely new components, 'cause the guy who owned it had decided he needed a larger frame, and bought a new felt bike... swapped all his campy components off the bike he sold me on to his new bike, and put all the shimano 105 from the new bike onto the old frame. So while hugely discounted, I knew I was getting completely new components... And eventually I saw a basically new carbon frame on craigslist in my size & bought that to swap all my pieces onto.

Mountain bikes are a bit sturdier - so I didn't worry as much at buying a well used one off craigslist, especially since it was titanium.