Used bike sales are seasonal so that may be a factor in what you've observed. I've found the best time to sell bike stuff is in early Spring as folks are taking stock of their stables, thinking about what kind of riding they're going to do through the fall, and reading up on the new models released by the big brands. Winter is the worst time to sell, with fall a close second. (There's a small spike around Thanksgiving and early December when you can get lucky catching the eyeballs of some wayward Christmas shoppers.) If you've got the room, probably best to stash the bike today and wait until late Feb/early March to list it again. If it's slow going then, I think at that point something else bigger is going on and maybe it's time to drive down to the co-op.
I like the point others made about e-bikes as well, though I think the impact on the used (non e-bike) market is that tinkerers would be searching for models that are easy to convert it into e-bikes. If the used bike or frame your selling is conducive to such a conversion - like an old school MTB or a Clem L- and it's still not moving, that may also indicate something bigger is going on. --Ed C. On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 7:49:54 AM UTC-7, Eric Myers wrote: > > I've been working on selling off my older bikes and there just doesn't > seem to be any buyers out there. Riv content is that these are decent > steel bikes, from the 80s-90s, still comfortable to ride, with new parts > like cables/housing/brake pads, and tuned up so all the remaining older > parts work smoothly and reliably. Most recently I had an early 90s > Specialized Hardrock on Craigslist for a month. When I wasn't even getting > any interest calls at $80 I just gave it away instead of dropping the price > any further. > > Is anyone else experiencing this, or have ideas about what is going on? > Is the economy doing too well for people to buy inexpensive used bikes? Is > there less of a market due to Jump and other bike share companies? At this > point I may just donate some of the bikes to the local Bicycle Kitchen > instead of tuning them up to sell myself. > > Curious in Sacramento, > Eric > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/69d16305-4dfa-44d6-aa88-83090b5ed241%40googlegroups.com.
