Where best to sell an eBike?

[Amateurish]

I normally sell my old bikes through eBay but when I tried to list an ebike yesterday it said that wasn't permitted.

I have two used ebikes to sell, looking for a grand each. Where is the best place to advertise?

[anonymous-user]

Face fk marketplace?

[Scrump]

I looked on eBay and there are loads of E bikes for sale. Weird that you weren’t able to list yours.

[silentbrown]

"No private sales: Private sales of e-bikes are prohibited due to fire safety concerns."

[Amateurish]

Cliodci12235 said:

Face fk marketplace?

I've heard bad things

[Barchettaman]

Gumtree?’ Plenty on there.

[Scrump]

Could post them in tje marketplace forum on PH, doesn’t cost anything. I am interested to see what these e bikes are.

[anonymous-user]

Amateurish said:

Cliodci12235 said:

Face fk marketplace?

I've heard bad things

All true as well

[Amateurish]

Barchettaman said:

Gumtree?’ Plenty on there.

I've never used it. Will it be a better experience that FB Marketplace?

[boyse7en]

Amateurish said:

Barchettaman said:

Gumtree?’ Plenty on there.

I've never used it. Will it be a better experience that FB Marketplace?

I doubt it.


Facebook will be the best place. People look for local stuff, which as you're not going to ship eBikes is a bonus.
You might get a bunch of people trying it on with stupid offers and time wasting, but I've had no bother selling (and buying) bikes and bits on there.

[snotrag]

e mtb?

Singletrackworld or Pinkbike

[dontlookdown]

boyse7en said:

I doubt it.


Facebook will be the best place. People look for local stuff, which as you're not going to ship eBikes is a bonus.
You might get a bunch of people trying it on with stupid offers and time wasting, but I've had no bother selling (and buying) bikes and bits on there.

You are probably right that there are more people on FB, but if like me you cannot bear to use it then Gumtree can be quite effective. It's my go to for getting rid of stuff locally that is either low value or too big/heavy to ship.

I have never tried to sell anything as valuable as an e-bikeon it however.

[boyse7en]

dontlookdown said:

boyse7en said:

I doubt it.


Facebook will be the best place. People look for local stuff, which as you're not going to ship eBikes is a bonus.
You might get a bunch of people trying it on with stupid offers and time wasting, but I've had no bother selling (and buying) bikes and bits on there.

You are probably right that there are more people on FB, but if like me you cannot bear to use it then Gumtree can be quite effective. It's my go to for getting rid of stuff locally that is either low value or too big/heavy to ship.

I have never tried to sell anything as valuable as an e-bikeon it however.

I don't see much difference between FB and Gumtree in terms of chancers, but FB gets a lot more traffic in my experience.
TBH I've not had a bad experience on either, apart from people who forget to delete their advert after they have sold the item.

[Amateurish]

Scrump said:

Could post them in tje marketplace forum on PH, doesn’t cost anything. I am interested to see what these e bikes are.

One is a nearly new kids hardtail E-Bike with a Yamaha mid drive. The other is an older BMW E-Bike with Bosch mid drive, also hardtail.

[Scrump]

Amateurish said:

One is a nearly new kids hardtail E-Bike with a Yamaha mid drive. The other is an older BMW E-Bike with Bosch mid drive, also hardtail.

I tried to message you but your profile doesn’t accept emails.

[Amateurish]

OK it should work now

[Amateurish]

Just an update to this - I listed one bike on FB Marketplace. I got loads and loads of spam messages. I don't recommend this to anyone.

[TheDrownedApe]

Amateurish said:

Just an update to this - I listed one bike on FB Marketplace. I got loads and loads of spam messages. I don't recommend this to anyone.

i have my cube GTC and OH electric step through to sell. I will use FB but the time taken to check every seller for a genuine FB account will be annoying.

Let me know where you have success please. Cleaning and servicing this weekend before listing them