Bike Selling via Ebay Classified with Best Offer

[Andy C]

So I have taken the plunge and put the 'Four on ebay at £2200 which isn't unrealistic when you see similar ones up for around this.

Being a Sunday evening (went up about 5.30pm) was expecting to get a few calls about the bike over the week and hopefully a few viewings.

But no, already I have had 3 offers which have been at least £400+ under the asking.

Now I understand you haggle but ebay seems to be full of chancers and according to ebay you can only have 10 offer (this correct??) of which I have had 3 and its not even 24 hours of:
£1600
£1400
£1695

Anyone else used ebay classified ads? Did it work for you?
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[T0MMY]

What happens after you've had your ten offers? The advert gets pulled?

That's crazy, you could easily get 10 arseholes chuck in offers of £100 and kill off your advert; it's hardly your fault.
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[Andy C]

[instigator]

It's simple - Do not use "best offer" function.

No-one in their right mind would use the buy it now of £2200 so they reckon since you've used the best offer function, you'll be looking for £1900-2000 realistically. Course, they'll want to save more money so will take a chance. Best offer function is imo a complete and utter waste of time for sellers.

Put the amount you are willing to sell your machine for and leave it as a buy it now.

[swiftb]

Im having similar trouble with ebay. Selling my car tho. I was expecting a bit of interest but to be honest its been an utter waste of time so far. Ive had one person come to view who was clearly a time waster, and then an utter dickhead who used the best offer function to make an offer of £500. The car was listed for £2200. Seems ebay is ripe for utter dickheads when it comes to trying to sell a vehicle. Bare in mind I have had nearly a thousand people view my advert and had only one offer and one viewer.
It seems ebay is used as a portal for people trying to achieve a ridiculous bargain hence if you really want what your motor is worth, spend a bit more and advertise elsewher IMO.

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[swanny]

my bikes currently on ebay (zxr750).. its starting at 500 with a 700 buy it now..

had some guy ring me yesterday saying he wil come from london right now if ill take 500..

a lady rang me from wales tother day wanting the same..

::confused:::
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[b-f-c]

I had this selling my wife's virago the last week.

Someone asked for my number as he wanted to discuss buying it. Fair enough I thought. When he called he demanded I sell it too him for £800 (BIN was £950), he got most pi$$ed off when I said no, the BIN is £950. In the end he was shouting down the phone at me.

Needless to say I further declined, hung up and banned him from bidding. And in the end it sold for £985

Ebay has definitely become a tw@t magnet.

[iooi]

[Mudskipper]

To avoid having to refuse stupid bids, I use the 'auto decline bids below £X' option when selling BIN/BO.

Not sure if the auto declines count as one of your 10 though, as I wasn't even aware there was a limit.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

My bike's on ebay, starting bid of 99p.

Lets see how it goes.
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[MarJay]

I always use an auction format and put the price at the very absolute minimum I'd accept for the vehicle. No buy it now, no best offer. I always point out that people should view the vehicle, and I always do a ten day auction starting on a Thursday evening so it ends on a Sunday evening.

Its only failed once, and I've sold about eight vehicles via ebay now.
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[bacon]

sold my cbr this way, had it up for £2500, stuck it up for a month, like you had some aweful offers, just ignored them mostly

few days gone a guy phoned wanting to see the bike, i sold out of ebay to this dutch fella, cash in hand etc, pulled it off ebay and the £13 or whatever fee it was, i had £10 of it refunded as it was only up for a week or so

so sold the cbr for £3 fees all in

sold it for £2380 plus i kept £30 odd worth of tax as he was exporting it

i would use it again, if only to let people see the bike and take the sale out of ebay

[sickpup]

Others may be similar but yours has a hole in its service history, you might want to fill it.

[njd27]

[Andy C]

[Andy C]

[carlperkins00...]

what ive done in the past is to advertise an item at 99p then get mates to bid on it to the minimum price i would take,
then you dont have to pay insertion fees.
and if one of your mates accidently wins you just tell ebay they havent paid, then you dont have to pay final value fees.

its a bit of a bastard thing to do, but ive only done that to sell a few items that havent reached the reserve price.

[vt6]

I find ebay a bit hit and miss tbh. I sold my bike recently, started with a buy it now or best offer, had loads of time wasters but not silly offers. Then i lowered the price, same format got silly as offers and even more interest but not the right price. Finally I scrapped the buy it now, started the auction at slightly under what I would accept and I got a call offering me more than it was upto in bids for a straight sale. I do find there are a hell of a lot of chancers on there though

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Mudskipper]

Having both bought and sold bikes on eGay, I can see both sides.

Yes, the dreamers and chancers giving stupid offers is frustrating when you're a seller, but as a buyer you desperately want a bargain, it's what the site has a reputation for.

Often the bike you want is not within viewing distance (I bought both CBR's blind - one from Wakefield, one from Aberdeen!), so in taking a chance you try to minimise the risk by offering as low as possible.
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[Hazylogic]

Trying to sell my bike on ebay too.

1) Guy wanted to swap his 'honda 500' for it.

2) One offer of 800 quid. The guy was in India.

GOOOOOOOO EBAY!

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Just had someone offer me half a pack of wine gums and some soiled knickers. Which one of you lot was it?
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