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Is selling on the classifieds becoming more difficult?


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  1. 1. Are you finding it increasingly difficult to sell things on the classifieds?

    • I sell things quickly and easily - it seems people have money
      27
    • I sell things fairly quickly
      146
    • I find it rather difficult to sell things - I struggle to sell and get low ball offers
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PM me, am in the market for a 24" in the next month or so. Maybe we can strike a deal.......

 

Steven PM sent.

 

 

 

For the others that may be interested -

 

 
 
But he still needs to grow a few centimeters to stand over the top-tube of the 26er .... Best guess it is going to be another 3 to 4 months before the 24'' is retired.
 
Post 804 is a nice summary of his bikes to date - 
 
 
As soon as Maritz is properly on the 26'' we will advertise the 24''.  
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Just to go back to the title of the thread... posted ad last night. Dropper sold today. Collection happening this arvo. Done.  

What this man says .....

 

Advertised and sold, packaged and shipped within the last 24 to 48 hours -

 

https://www.bikehub.co.za/classifieds/359037-enve-ses-34-carbon-clinchers-sold/

 

https://www.bikehub.co.za/classifieds/358944-enve-carbon-seatpost-sold/

 

https://www.bikehub.co.za/classifieds/358931-sram-red-10-speed-gxp-sold/

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Yeah and his price is completely silly. He'll get half of that if it was the complete bike!

 

Yeah and his price is completely silly. He'll get half of that if it was the complete bike!

 

So this was "marked down" to R8500 a couple days ago and has just been posted at R6500.

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post stuff at 16:00...sold at19:00. .You guys want to much for your old crap lol :whistling:

Agree that right pricing plays a role, but also some things are just in greater demand than others.

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i agree entirely.

i've called guys, agreed i am happy to buy provided i get some extra info.

only to be told later they sold it

 

in these cases i assume i have dodged a bullet, dodgy selling i correlate to dodge items.

I'm going to take your lead and assume the same.

Was interested in an item, made contacted but waited days for a response.

Asked for bank details and again nothing.!

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In that case, I've taken the liberty of removing the advert listing for you  :whistling:

@Nick, what are your feeling around marking sold items as sold so others can gauge market value for said item???

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@Nick, what are your feeling around marking sold items as sold so others can gauge market value for said item???

 

It's an interesting way of using the classifieds and it's great to get feedback on this. For usability reasons, we don't think the current platform really suits doing this. So for now, we'd prefer that sold items are removed so that active buyers and sellers don't have to trawl through or compete with irrelevant adverts.

 

We are working on a sold mechanism to more efficiently remove these adverts. The first version of this should be out later this year. Initially, we're hoping it will help flush out sold items that are often left active (to the annoyance of potential buyers) but the final goal is to start collecting and displaying market value data at scale. One problem with determining the real value with our current system is that the listing price isn't always the sold price. So we need to encourage sellers/buyers to share that information after concluding the deal.

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