Low-balling Webuycycles

[Rowl]

11 minutes ago, ChrisF said:

Question - is it possible to block a member, as one can do on the forum side of the Hub ?

(And can one block/ignore threads on mobile?)

[Kom]

I've bought a couple of "sight unseen" Diverge gravel bikes from Bike Market/WebuyBicycles and had good experiences both times.
 

I've also been low balled a ton of times on some of my ads, which i simply ignore.

What is useful is that the bikes they make offers on,  are literally all sold with in a couple of weeks after that, giving me indication of product popularity. 

[Zwendog]

At the end of the day, the fact is that it is annoying that Bike Market is taking advantage (leveraging) a platform like BikeHub to get access to users that post their bicycles on this platform

[Kom]

12 hours ago, Zwendog said:

At the end of the day, the fact is that it is annoying that Bike Market is taking advantage (leveraging) a platform like BikeHub to get access to users that post their bicycles on this platform

FWIW i 100% disagree with this statement.

Its an open/free market - you can ignore the offers.

[throttles]

1 hour ago, Kom said:

FWIW i 100% disagree with this statement.

Its an open/free market - you can ignore the offers.

How can it be? Ignore possibly but, We can’t opt out? So we don’t really have a choice.

[Hairy]

1 hour ago, Kom said:

FWIW i 100% disagree with this statement.

Its an open/free market - you can ignore the offers.

yes and no

a "hubber" could be picking up the same item for more than what the dealer is offering and yet still walk away with a great deal and the seller also gets a little more out of the deal.

then again if someone wants to sell fast, then yes a dealer makes sense.

what irked me was the tone of the message with a low ball offer that did/does not sit well with me.

[betaboy]

..interesting chats and points of view all round. My only observation is… Most okes would rather sell their 4 wheels than  2 wheels! 🤭

Low balling is what makes capitalism work, I say.. comrades, embrace the pain, it ‘any going away. 😅 viva viva BikeHub.

[RossTopher]

thought this was worth sharing.
so after bikemarket offered me 3k for my MTB that i sold for 10, and 9k for a gravel bike i sold for 23, i called them. i wanted to just be a voice of reason, that their bidders were doing major damage to their name, i'd supported them in the past, and backed them up on forums, and it wasnt a good look. they said they'd raise it interally. this was quite a while before this thread emerged, so clearly they took no heed.

around the time of this thread, a friend is in the market for a bike. reluctantly, and against my better judgement, having sworn off even recommending them to a friend, i mentioned they had a silverback siablo. it hadnt moved, and had been in stock for at least 6 months, and i'd seen it drop from over 30k to 25.

given my experiences with their low balling, i said he should offer 19. he started at 21, they basically told him to take a hike. a few days of back and forth, and suddenly/coincidentally, he was informed someone had put a deposit down, and he'd lost out. it smelled fishy. that was nearly 2 months ago... that bike is still available.
i just see them buying up more and more stock, nothing is shifting, and the schadenfreude is overwhelming.