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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 18:56:32 GMT
After six weeks of bike selling experience I will report my findings to hopefully aid potential sellers on this wonderful forum.
I have had to sell two of my bikes sadly - one a CB400N (which has now gone to a great home, Crouchy) and one a Ducati Monster. I tried three places:
1) Car and Classic 2) Ebay 3) MCN
In a nutshell, car and classic did generate a bit of interest but not much. I had a guy from Hong Kong (English businessman that even registered on here for a short time) who offered to buy the bike blind, but in the end, just let me down for not apparent reason after months of hanging around for him to return to the UK. Also had many people emailing me but no one came around.....only one viewing from a guy who made a firm offer then walked away without leaving a deposit......conclusion - a few time wasters on there.
Ebay was full of the usual timewasters who offered me a price on the Ducati - a few clicking buy it now......but never following up on the deal - had to open a few cases just to get my FVF fee returned - conclusion - hard work but I knew it would be.
MCN was by far the best. Cost £20 for two weeks in the paper and six weeks on line - but it worked. I have ended up getting a serious hassle free sale from a genuine private buyer.
Just wanted to share that with you all - I know that one man's experience does not go for all, but it may help some of you.
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Post by twodogs on Aug 4, 2014 19:16:03 GMT
I've only tried the local free ads, i'm considering advertising the 250 further afield, possible Gumtree. Ebay has always been allot of hassle, right back to when it started, there are a lot of people who are just out to upset people on there, and bid even though they have no intention to buy. I think for larger value items they should have to pay a deposit to bid, which would go towards the item if won, or returned if bidding was lost.
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Post by Loz on Aug 4, 2014 19:18:24 GMT
Thanks for that mate.sure it will help someone.
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Post by Cheggy on Aug 4, 2014 19:51:43 GMT
I've only ever sold bikes on eBay, two of the three were perfect,hassle free transactions.
One was a nightmare but in general I find selling anything on eBay to be 90% fool proof.
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Post by terryc on Aug 4, 2014 20:02:38 GMT
Mine sold on bike trader no fees for three weeks if selling price less than a thousand 888 views three enquiries one from Oldham no follow up one from Nigeria (cough) and my buyer from Sheffield
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 20:14:16 GMT
I had that bit of a scammer through MCN as well.....the one who wanted to overpay me by sixty million dingobats. But in the end I got one buyer. From his first initial contact I knew he was properly interested and I kind of knew he would be the buyer. You only need one.  |
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Post by caprinix1959 on Aug 4, 2014 22:53:18 GMT
Yep MCN has always worked for me ,Car and Classic has too but it can take months and several re-listings. I just dont like the idea of selling cars and bikes on eBay -it seems to be knob-head central , they either cant read or don't read the listings properly and ask questions which were already answered in the listing,or make insulting offers with the promise that if you pull your listing they will be round in an hour with the wonga,usully when it states that there is no buy it now price the auction will run to its end. I have been pretty lucky that I have only had one problem payer in 7 years on eBay,but I know people that have a near 50% non-payer ,problem buyer etc history and as such vow never to trade on The Bay again. MCN is bought by bikers so straight away the audience you are targeting IS your target audience! I have advertised several bikes thru MCN and have had a 100% success rate .
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Post by stevellew on Aug 5, 2014 4:44:54 GMT
You can get scammers from any advertisement I suppose thanks for sharing that at least it's gone fungo nice one
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