Late update: This scooter ended up selling last week for $5500 with only one bid. Someone walked away with a great deal. Obviously the general economy didn't help the seller, but the sold price was quite low for this scooter. My guess is that the fact that the seller did not offer to help with shipping and was looking for a local sale hurt the final price quite a bit. In any case, well bought, and hopefully this scooter will be out on the scooter runs soon.
This is a scooter that you just don't see for sale very often in the US. It is the DL/GP200, certainly among the best scooters ever made, and among the most valuable to collectors. This is an Italian version, and looks very tidy. It is for sale right now on Ebay.
These were not imported to the US (perhaps a few slipped through for police use), and so are very rare here. Heck, they are quite rare even in Europe, and large demand from collectors have pushed prices for them way way up. This auction should be one to watch. Expect the final price to end up somewhere between $8-10,000 for this scooter. It will be interesting to see if the Great Recession does anything to the value. The main question is going to be shipping. If the seller had international shipping lined up, this thing would fetch closer to $10k, and likely be on the slow boat to the UK at the end of the auction.