selling my bike

squeeky · Banned Joined: 25 Sep 2016 Karma :

anyone tried to sell to any site like webuyanybike.com

I know they offer less being trade but I cant be dealing with idiots. anyone got any positive or negatives?

P. · Red Rocket Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Karma :

Depends what you are selling to be honest. If its high value and mint, the right seller will come. If its something like a 125 that you want shot of then just listing on here is easy.

Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

Negatives: They'll give you fuck all compared to what you could get anywhere else.

Positives: They might pay the agreed amount and not find reason to lower the already painfully low price.

I suppose I might consider getting a laughable quote from them if there were no other options.

As an experiment, looking at bikes on eBay I found a ZX6R which sold last week for £3,750.00 with 45 bids, webuyanybike.com quote £2,225 for it. Laughing

I'd fully expect you to be able to sell for a better price on here or eBay without much effort.

What bike is it?

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squeeky · Banned Joined: 25 Sep 2016 Karma :

I have a Suzuki Bandit 2008 WeBuyAnyBike offered £1100 its got 10k miles on naked one.

I have ran my bike through a few different websites webuybikes bikes4 cash blah blah

AnyBikeBought.Com offered me the most £2100 a grand more. That's with a small dent in tank. I was only looking at selling realistically for £2300-£2400.

Seriously £1100? how do they get away with it.

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Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

But their adverts have Philip Schofield and kittens on it. Must be good! Wink

In serious mode, I presume they just clean the vehicle and punt it straight out again. It would be interesting to find out what outlets they use.
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ADSrox0r · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2012 Karma :

Well, I can give a positive review of webuyanybike. I wouldn't normally entertain selling through these sort of avenues but when I got rid of the ZZR I was getting royally messed around by potential buyers for months (Just loads of dickheads wanting a go on a hooligan bike). These guys kept ringing me and I kept fobbing them off and to cut a long story short, in the end I actually got off them what I paid for the bike in the first place.

The guy that came round to do the 'inspection' was really decent, a proper biker's biker knew his stuff. Had some good banter with him over a brew and because the Zed was in absolutely stunning condition and ran fine he told me he wouldn't even bother haggling, even though he is meant to. He actually explained the process and said a lot of the other guys will go to the far end of a fart to chip away at the offer price to get their commission but he was of the opinion it's a good bike and a good price so crack on.

Money was bank transferred instantly, keys not handed over until it appeared in my online banking. Loaded her up and job done. They are effectively a middleman, it was going to Superbikefactory apparently.

One thing I will say is I took an absolute SHITLOAD of super high res photos in my adverts and detailed every little thing you could possibly pick up on and was completely honest about anything negative (It had some small rash damage on the carbon fibre panel) so this helped when it came to the conversation over the phone with the 'agent'. There was pretty much nothing they could get pissy about on the day.

I was happy, I got to put a few thousand miles on an absolute monster for a year and all it cost me was insurance and petrol.

Would I do it again? Probably not....I think I just got lucky.

Now, on the flip side. Father in law tried to sell his car through webuyanycar and got utterly dicked around to the point he threw the guy off his property....
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Baffler186 · World Chat Champion Joined: 31 May 2013 Karma :

Same as all the rest of these companies. They prey on people who are too naive or too lazy to sell privately. I once had a banged up Nissan with 90k on the clock. I was offered £45 from webuyanycar. I sold it for £400.
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ADSrox0r · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2012 Karma :

Oh they certainly do, if you have no spine then don't even bother they'll just bend you over and fist...no lube.
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NeverAgain · Nova Slayer Joined: 29 Oct 2016 Karma :

I sold an absolute shitter of a car to we buy any car. I got sick of dick heads coming to test drive, me taking time off work and people not turning up and offering less than the scrap value for it. Knowing what I know now, I'd go there for a quote first. How much would you pay to not deal with all those timewasters?

Shit vehicles attract shitty people though. If you've got something that's not going for pennies, you'll probably deal with less timewasters.

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M.C · Super Spammer Joined: 29 Sep 2015 Karma :

Meh, I've done alright putting an honest ad' on Gumtree, and the first to view has bought them. You get a lot of communication time wasters which's why priority goes to whoever turns up first, although I did hold the bike last time as they were the only one offering what I wanted.

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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

Scammers like bank transfers because they use accounts which don't belong to them.

Payment gets reversed when the account owner notices what's happened and the scammer has already collected your bike so you're left with nothing.

thx1138 · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Karma :

I always used to sell bikes on ebay classifieds, but I did sell one on gumtree last year.

I don't haggle, I always state something like "the lowest price is the asking price, no offers please I will not reply". This seems to have reduced time wasters some what.

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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

That letter is fake. Shocked

owl · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Oct 2016 Karma :

Life is fake Sad

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/motoring/motoring-news/real-life-little-tikes-car-10255990
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DarthBlazer · L Plate Warrior Joined: 29 Mar 2021 Karma :

I'm waiting for a reply back on a similar site to get rid of my bike. Anyone had any recent experiences, hows the market? Really don't want to get ripped off. Sold my car to somewhere similar and was happy but it was an old banger to be fair. Razz

Update; Ended up getting a quote from a site called https://themotorbikedealer.com Decent price to be fair and they're coming in a couple of days.