PH Bike sales

[supermono]

I advertised my 748SP a while back on autotrader and apparently 1000 views and not one call. eBay sold it for more money than I'd advertised it for easily. I've just put my GSXR750 on here but I see hardly any bikes at all. Is this a decent outlet?

What about MCN? eBay charges a fortune!

[DuraAce]

Almost hopeless on here.

Sold my last 3 via ebay very quickly.

I thought the fee was pretty reasonable! (you do know classified ads are fixed cost and not a %of final selling price?!)
Edit... Seems its now £15 to list and max of £35 selling fee. £50 all in. Still on though I thought, I got loads of calls and sold them quickly.

Edited by DuraAce on Wednesday 20th December 15:41

[Gunk]

Sold both my Ducati 600SS and my BMW F800ST on eBay. Both buyers were utterly genuine and I felt that I both sold for strong money.

The advantage with eBay is that there is plenty of room for a decent detailed description and the photos display well. I know there are lots of people knocking eBay, IMO it’s still the best way of selling privately.

[crofty1984]

I'm on PistonHeads pretty much daily and it wouldn't occur to me to look for a bike on here.

[smiles1]

It's auctions that seem to be the issue with ebay. Buyer wins then makes some excuse as to why he can't buy it 'my son used my account etc'.

With cars it is a nightmare!

Ebay classified ad seem to be ok though.

[podman]

Pistonheads has worked well for me on many occasion, buyers here dont muck you around and have the cash, ive successfully sold bikes and cars on here, as its free to advertise, why would you not at least start here.

If you google "x" for sale uk", the adverts from pistonheads always come up in the search results.

[Max5476]

Sold my last 3 bikes on gumtree, all sold within a month, and at a reasonable price. As a bonus the ads were free.

[podman]

Max5476 said:

Sold my last 3 bikes on gumtree, all sold within a month, and at a reasonable price. As a bonus the ads were free.

Yep, also rate & use Gumtree, sold the OHs YBR125 in a couple of hours via Gumtree, personally, eBay is the last place I use,owners forums ,Pistonheads and Gumtree being my list of preferences.

[CarsOrBikes]

most of the enquiries via here are scammers using gmail accounts, hoping you'll release it to their 'agent'

[podman]

CarsOrBikes said:

most of the enquiries via here are scammers using gmail accounts, hoping you'll release it to their 'agent'

For sure some scammers lurk around PH but they are easy to spot and ignore, unlike the cretins who lurk on eBay that you hope will be a buyer but piss you around with mindless questions and making arrangements they damn well know they have no intention of making.