Consign your bike. Orlando/Clermont FL area (1)

Please contact me via offthebackagain@hotmail.com with questions.

West Orlando area, serving all of Orlando. We are expanding our sales floor to handle used bicycles. We require/want bicycle shop purchased bicycles (no department store bikes). Quality bikes (road, mountain and tri bikes). We are expanding our used bike catagory, having success on those we have sold so far and would like to become a premier recycled cycle shop destination for Orlando. There is no contract, so you can take your bike out of consignment at anytime. We just offer exposure at the shop and other networks. Always remember though, you have to give the bike to our sales department and physically have the bike on our floor and to make money on our end, we do not consign bikes without a profit to us (makes sense, right? Obvious to many, but amazingly thought of as a charity service by others…haha), so anticipate this (we sell via shop’s sale floor to walk-in customers, email blasts, cycling camp and team sale nights, promo/advert’s on internet). We will realistically check pricing of similar bikes and Bicycle Blue Book to help you determine what we guess the bike can be sold for (though ultimately, it’s your decision on price and what you want to make, noting there are quick sales and not so quick sales). Okay, please contact me with questions, noting most estimations $ will need to be done when we see the bike itself. Thanks for all!

I’m a complete newb to all this, but it seems to me that most people sell off Bike A, in order to afford Bike B.

If you make then turn over Bike A, before they can purchase Bike B, that leaves them riding, wait, NOTHING.

Seems like a hard sell to me. You are forcing someone to go without a bike so you can make a little profit? I think maybe most sellers would gain more from increased (or specifically NOT DECREASED) training time as opposed to maybe a slightly higher price from exposure.

And I have serious doubts that a lot of people just wander in off the street and instantly drop thousands on a used bike anyway. If a buyer needs time to think about it, why not let them browse pics and specs and only bring in the bikes when a deal is ready to close?

Don’t get me wrong, I know merchandise you can see and touch and test out will sell easier, but it would be mutually beneficial IMO if sellers with limited stables could keep their bike UNTIL a buyer were lined up.