I am keeping it?

Yes

only for a short while, I’ve boxed them up, usually just frames, and then after 6 months thought the longer i keep this the more it devalues

Yep, tried a few times to sell my salsa juan solo scandium ss with mavic slr wheels (v brake), frame in very good condition but even at £300 there was no interest so it’s now sat in my attic, will prob split it at some point

Think Renton did.

I was selling a mint well spec’d Bronson on flea bay last week, inundated with knobs making stupid offers to I ended the auction, can’t be arsed with it & happy to keep it, I said enough if that’s what you mean?

Yep, on a frame. Ended up building it up a year or so later, riding it over winter then split and sold the frame for what I originally couldn’t get.

Yorkycsl,…..that is what has happened to me.

Very nearly recently, but I called the guy’s bluff and he left with his tail between his legs having paid the asking price.

Yes. Never selling another bike on the open market.

Yep and to my detriment, sold my old Mojo HD through Facebook to a chap who was gonna split it down into parts and sell it all for a profit. Gutted.

getting to that point at the moment.. for the sake of £50 it might be a pub bike for me!

yes

Theire is a what its worth to me and a what I can get for it

For example I have some XT 26 er wheels – probably only get about £20 as one big ding in each rim

Both work fine though so I keep as a spare set

Same applies to bikes but the real issue is what it is worth to you is more than what it is REALLY worth – assuming the buyer is not being a nob

No. I put them up on the usual places and if there is no interest they go on Ebay and get sold.

If I don’t really want to sell a bike then rather than stick a ridiculous price on it, moan its getting no interest, moan when people tell me to reduce the price I just don’t sell it.

Its simple really.

Some feed back needed chaps, what is a 2015 Bronson cc large, used for 7 months worth as I work over seas a lot it is gen 7 months use, invisi kit fitted day one, 2015 36Rc2’s CCDB cs shock XO1 through out a RF Turbine cinch 32t crank, 2016 xt brakes
Easton 40mm 35mm dia stem with Santa Cruz 760 Carbon bars.
Perfect reverb & wtb seat. DT240 hubs on mint WTB KOM rims.

I was getting pestered 2K offers so bollocks I ended the auction & may yet sell the frame only

Best gestimates please what would you ask for if it were your bike??

I think you might need to split that one up yorky.

It’s the old model Bronson, yeah? I can’t see anyone paying more than £2k for a secondhand bike which has been replaced by a “superior” new model.

What were you hoping for?

If you are prepared to hang on to stuff you will sometimes get a better price in response to a Wanted ad.

Not quite, but all my frames are 21″ or bigger so fairly limited (tallpeople) market, even though they’re all in very good condition and too cheap most of the time 😉

It’s not just the financial thing for me, it’s all the hassle, time wasting and seemingly increasing risk of being conned that puts me off.

I’d happily sell for a fair price to somebody who was going to use and enjoy the item. I’m not bothered about getting top dollar, but I am fed up with people just wanting to pay as little as possible for everything (and making all our lives that bit more crap in the process) too. Also, for reasons I don’t fully understand, I’m reluctant to sell to anybody who just wants to turn things round for a profit. Probably because I have some kind of irrational emotional attachment to bike stuff.

If there was a way of selling just to regular posters on here, for example, that would suit me fine. Of course it wouldn’t guarantee anything, but there is some sort of community here and both sides may think twice about being a dick just to make or save a few quid.

Selling an old model, no-warranty mountain bike for more than £2k is a very tough sell and people at that end of the market are often very particular abut the spec they want. Split it up and everything will make great money and will sell well.. Bit more effort, but well worth it in the end.

If there was a way of selling just to regular posters on here, for example, that would suit me fine

There’s nothing to stop you only accepting offers from folk you recognise as being regulars or asking what folks username is.

roverpig,

I’m with you all the way pal, just want a fair price no hassle & know I’m actually going to get the money & not scammed, also as you rightly say to people from the real community.

chakaping, yeah old !! model, I’ve built a very pink new one which is good but the 2015 isn’t no slouch, may yet sell the frame.

There’s nothing to stop you only accepting offers from folk you recognise as being regulars or asking what folks username is.

It’s a fair point and I have contemplated sticking an advert in the classified section and stating that I’ll only accept offers from people who also post in the Bike section (or offer a discount for them), but somehow that doesn’t seem right either.

To be honest, most of my sales have come from threads on here where I’ve noticed that somebody is looking for something that I’m not using. Often that’s just laziness on my part. I haven’t been bothered to list it for sale, but if I see that somebody wants it them I’m happy to let it go and those sales have always been easy and pleasant transactions.

Yeah, years ago I sunk more money than I was really comfortable into a DH bike I rarely rode – I loved the thing but, mostly it was an expensive ornament that literally sat in the corner of my living room gathering dust.

I tried to sell it after about a year, it was a custom build around a Shocker frame and whilst it was lovely, it was a bit specialist and frankly I refused to believe it was worth so much less than I bought it for – getting the usual offers from Pinkbike to swap for a ‘ped and 2 broken Xboxes and scam artists who could send money from Bolivia or whatever I split it – the forks, brakes and a few odds sold but no one would pay what I wanted for the frame, so it sat, for a year and I sort of forgot about this pile of ‘half a DH bike’ in the garage.

It soon came back to mind when trip to Whistler came up, an ‘almost’ homecoming for a Cove so a paid out roughly triple what I sold the old forks, brakes and stuff for shiny new replacements and rebuilt it. Had a flipping awesome time thumping it around the Bike Park, but deep down I knew it was a swansong – I just didn’t have the arm power (accident 18 month prior) to really let rip on it and I’d be faster and have more fun on something a bit lighter. I knew it would be a PITA to shift it, and/or I’d have to take a relative pittance for it so gave up on classifieds, stripped it and stuck it on eBay – even that wasn’t straight forward – most of the stuff sold well enough and I got to know the people in the Post Office quite well as I turned up with ever more oddly shaped and wrapped bits.

Finally the frame sold for about £400, it was near as damit brand new and Cove were still selling them (they still might be) for £1800, this is before mainstream carbon DH frames and 650B so it was still ‘current’ – despite it being a ‘UK only’ auction the buyer was on Cyprus using an alias account – great, so I rocked up at the Post Office with this heavy, oddly shaped parcel for a quote – £80 tracked – e-mail the buyer, oh no he’s not paying that, his cousins, brothers, mate had an Elephant shipped live from France to Istanbul for 27p in 1876 so I’m clearly ripping him off – so he found some spurious sounding deal online and sent me the details. Tracked but “uninsured” for £50ish and off it went – I did take a little bit of joy watching it bounce around Europe for nearly two weeks before it arrived with him.

I try not to take joy in others misfortune, it might have been down to poor translation – but the guy was a proper rude dick to me, and of course signed me up to a pile of extra work without invitation – anyway, a week or so after he got it, he e-mailed me to say the mech hanger was bent and did I happen to have a spare?? Nope, it did not, then he sort of hinted it might have been like that when I sold it, nope it was not – thankfully I had taken pics of a perfectly straight hanger for the add – oh and finally did I know where he could buy one – I certainly did – I’d had to buy one for Whistler…

Guess how much they cost?

£80, they a huge lump of machined metal, magnesium I was told although I don’t know if that’s true – oh and you’ll be waiting a good while to get one – about 3 weeks for me.

Yep. Was selling a set of Hope/Mavic wheels just before xmas, complete with tubeless tyres, valves etc.

One chap offered half the asking price if they didn’t sell…and then followed up with a series of emails a couple of weeks later asking if I’d sold them or not and that he was still interested, at half the going rate.

Yeah, I find that my bikes seem to depreciate more than my cars. So I am forever disappointed when selling bikes. Depreciation coupled with stupid offers just make me rage. Partly why I’ve cut down on the bike addiction.

@roverpig totally agree I was trying to sell some ROAM 40 wheels which retailed for £550 and were totally unused, after much to-ing and fro-ing someone told me that as they were second hand (true) I was expecting to get too much for them so he offered me £50! I have another set on my Whyte T-130 and they are actually very good robust but light wheels and I thought they would sell for about 50% ish.

In the end I decide to keep them and as I had a little windfall recently they are now on my new HT and I’m really happy I didn’t both to sell them.

I sold my Reverb this morning after listing it last night on eBay for full asking price, which is £20 less than I paid for it brand new over a year ago, delivered from Germany. Sure I got a couple of stupid offers, but I don’t tale them personally, just decline and move on.

It’s a fair point and I have contemplated sticking an advert in the classified section and stating that I’ll only accept offers from people who also post in the Bike section (or offer a discount for them), but somehow that doesn’t seem right either.

FWIW I’ve been selling/buying a fair bit lately and haven’t really noticed any difference in the amount of hassle from forum regulars and classifieds only users or PB users.

Been dealing with some really nice people on Pinkbike this week actually.

FWIW I’ve been selling/buying a fair bit lately and haven’t really noticed any difference in the amount of hassle from forum regulars and classifieds only users or PB users.

Been dealing with some really nice people on Pinkbike this week actually.

That’s reassuring. Thanks. I guess we only tend to hear the horror stories. Maybe I should just pull my finger out and list some stuff 🙂

I only ever sell on eBay, listed accurately, plenty of photos and at £1 no reserve with a clear note in the description that there is no Buy it Now price and the auction will run to the end.

That way you get fewer emails asking what the buy it now price is and the item sells for what it’s worth as ultimately it finds its true market value.

That way you get fewer emails asking what the buy it now price is and the item sells for what it’s worth as ultimately it finds its true market value.

I tend to agree with you and have done this myself but, of course, it only finds the true market value for that week. List it at a different time and you’d probably get a different price. It is a fairly hassle-free way of selling though (until something goes wrong and ebay side with the buyer, that is).

it’s only worth what someone will pay.

Recently sold a 10 year old S works for £300 originally advertised it for £600, to be fair it wasn’t my decision as was selling for a riding buddy. The guy who bought it was made up with it as his missus was going to use it and TBH in the stark bright daylight of hand over the cash day it was a fair price for it and it was going to a good home.
Sometimes if you want to sell it you have to be flexible with your pricing and accept the offer, but pee takers can be annoying especially asking for 57p after the sale but that’s a separate story.

What I find very useful is having children. ‘In five years time child x can join me in CYB, so I’ll hang on to that bike.
In fourteen years child y will need a pub bike, and so it goes on. I have never sold a bike. My first proper mountain bike (20 year old at least) I’ve recently converted to disc brakes and it is now my canal bike commuter. Storage becomes an issue with this system.

@jkomo, that is like buying a yacht because you have a sail going spare.

Actually, no, it’s like buying a Rolls Royce because you’ve got 2L of petrol in that spare jerrycan in the garage. A Rolls Royce that needs constant maintenance for 25 years.

Thankfully it’s something I’ve avoided, most of my bikes are ridden to destruction and in that time depreciation isnt really an issue either considering how much I’ve ridden then. Bought lots of used, prices offered are based on what else is around and what’s selling. For every buyer making silly offers there is a seller who can only think about what the 3 year old bike cost him…

I couldn’t believe the amount of dick head timewasters I had when I recently sold my Moots on here. Including one bloke who said he wanted it and then pestered me with phone calls to sell it to him for nearly half the price I advertised it at because ‘he’s got the cash waiting’

Thankfully a nice sensible chap from Wales restored my faith in the classifieds and I hope he enjoys the bike.

Curiosyellow, I’m not suggesting mine is a system I would recommend. I’m not buying extra bikes for the kids just not selling mine while I wait for them to grow. I don’t wait too long either, as I’m a short arse, and the children are brought up on England’s finest turkey twizzlers with added growth hormone.

Not just 26″, or indeed limited to bicycles. The old ‘how much for cash m8?’ texting chancer. Firstly, is the cash cold and hard, and secondly, instead of what? F-ing magic f-ing beans? F- off, f-er.

I like a 26″ bargain. I recently sold my 2013 Meta 4X frame and shock for loads less than I paid for it (took a bath on that one!) but it was essentially a used frame, I then used the proceeds to buy a 2013 Sunn Charger frame and shock (which is what I really wanted but by the time I could afford to buy one they’d sold out at Chain Reaction). The Charger frame and shock cost me £50 less than I sold the Meta for, and it looked like it had done nothing, so I’m happy.

Realistic pricing and a willingness to accept the ‘nearly new’ thing you’re selling is actually ‘second hand’ and therefore worth loads less than you paid for it is quite liberating 😆