10-24-2025, 10:09 AM
Congrats, Ferret, sounds like you came across the perfect seller who took such great care of the bike that you don't have to second guess much, if anything.
Regarding selling used bikes: I try to imagine what I would want to pay for my bike. Example: I bought my RE INT650 (msrp around 6000 at the time) for 5200, it had 700 miles on it, not even a year old. Guy wanted 5500. I rode it 7k miles and a year later I started selling it at 4900, a few interests but no offers. I knew others were selling for 4000-5000, so I lowered it to 4500, knowing that someone would offer a bit lower. If I were buying it, I would have paid no more than 4k. A guy offerd me 4k and I said 4200 and he agreed. We were both happy.
With high mileage bikes: I ask myself would I EVER buy a bike with more than 30k miles on it? My answer is no...I guess maybe if it were ridiculously cheap, but there's so many bikes to choose from that I would look for late model, low mileage because they are out there. My KLR650 had 53k miles and I traded it in for my DR650 because I didn't think anybody would be interested in a 15 year old bike with that many miles. Dealer gave me 2200. That was fair. I'm sure he made some money off it, but like Ferret said, I didn't spend time with that sell.
And yes, FB marketplace. I haven't really had any flaky buyers with FB fortunately.
Regarding selling used bikes: I try to imagine what I would want to pay for my bike. Example: I bought my RE INT650 (msrp around 6000 at the time) for 5200, it had 700 miles on it, not even a year old. Guy wanted 5500. I rode it 7k miles and a year later I started selling it at 4900, a few interests but no offers. I knew others were selling for 4000-5000, so I lowered it to 4500, knowing that someone would offer a bit lower. If I were buying it, I would have paid no more than 4k. A guy offerd me 4k and I said 4200 and he agreed. We were both happy.
With high mileage bikes: I ask myself would I EVER buy a bike with more than 30k miles on it? My answer is no...I guess maybe if it were ridiculously cheap, but there's so many bikes to choose from that I would look for late model, low mileage because they are out there. My KLR650 had 53k miles and I traded it in for my DR650 because I didn't think anybody would be interested in a 15 year old bike with that many miles. Dealer gave me 2200. That was fair. I'm sure he made some money off it, but like Ferret said, I didn't spend time with that sell.
And yes, FB marketplace. I haven't really had any flaky buyers with FB fortunately.