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Where to sell a bike ?

Planning to sell my Dawes Touring bike but I am at a bit of a loss as to where to sell it as there's conflicting advice out there. Seems to be narrowing down to either eBay or a specialist bike sale site. Would appreciate any advice.

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Seventyone | 11 months ago
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Gumtree worked well for me. I got a lot more interest than I was expecting and sold my 10 year old heavily used planet X for £300. When it cost me £1000 new

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Dnnnnnn | 11 months ago
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Ebay can be quite good but list it when they have one of their 80% off selling fees weekends (seem to be every second Friday-Monday), or else you'll pay a hefy commission.

I've used Facebook Marketplace and Gumtree too - it's fairly quick to use the same text and photos across all three.

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quiff replied to Dnnnnnn | 11 months ago
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Also worth noting - I think usually the 80% off only applies if it sells in the first listing period - not on any automatic re-listing. 

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Dnnnnnn replied to quiff | 11 months ago
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You're right - I re-list things if they aren't selling towards the end of that 30 day promotional period (which always almost coincides with another promotional listing period). Bit of faff but worth it for valuable things.

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quiff replied to Dnnnnnn | 11 months ago
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Ah, that's interesting. I got back into ebay selling in preparation for listing a bike, but so far I've only sold smaller items where the maximum listing duration seems to be 7 or 10 days. It's then very easy to accidentally find it's automatically relisted and you've lost the discount. Sounds like other categories or sale formats have longer durations. In fact, to the original poster, somewhere on this forum about 2 years ago I think I started a thread like this where people gave useful tips on ebay selling for bikes. Good luck finding it though.  

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Dnnnnnn replied to quiff | 11 months ago
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Are you putting things on for auction? That's only 7 or 10 days duration, I think.
I tend to put things on as fixed-price, 'Buy It Now' listings - those continue until they sell - just the discount period lapses after 30 days.

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quiff replied to Dnnnnnn | 11 months ago
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Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I've been auctioning so far, as it's generally been stuff where getting it out of the house is more important than the price I get!   

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Eton Rifle | 11 months ago
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Apologies if I'm stating the bleeding obvious but don't expect to get much for it. I sold my four pannier plus bar bag set-up and my Dawes Galaxy a couple of years ago. Effectively sold the luggage and threw in the bike for nothing.

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chrisonabike replied to Eton Rifle | 11 months ago
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Pity but you're likely right. I've an old Galaxy needs replacing (mine's now scrap value though still limping on) and I'd probably replace with the same. It's by far the most generally useful and tough bike I've ever owned. Although maybe one with a more modern fork - mine can only accept some very old-style canti brake shoes at the front.

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BobL replied to chrisonabike | 11 months ago
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Mine is a 2005 model with 631 frame. Shout if you're interested. 

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BobL replied to Eton Rifle | 11 months ago
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I was hoping for a couple of hundred but suspect you are right...the local cash converters type shops sell much less quality kit for £100+.....a few months ago one had a 70's vintage Dawes for only £90 - sadly I didn't buy it!

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matthewn5 | 11 months ago
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As it's a touring bike, I'd think of putting it on Cycling UK's whole bikes forum page. Cycling UK is what used to be the Cyclists Touring Club (CTC):

https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewforum.php?f=40
 

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BobL replied to matthewn5 | 11 months ago
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Thanks I may try that

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