Selling Advice - Where to sell vintage frame?

banana pilot

I have an old Holdsworth frame, forks and other bits that I need to get rid of. It's from the 60's I think, though need to do some proper research and date it. It really is a beautiful piece of engineering and deserves to be brought back to it's former glory by someone with the funds to do it.

Long and short, where's the best place to sell vintage bits? eBay? Other forums?

supertune205

Try here http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=22

rolf_f

You could try retrobike or CTC forums but the problem there is that people expect to buy and sell frames at a reasonable price. On the other hand, a careful description and some good photos and the mention of 531 and "Fixie conversion" should get you twice what it is worth on Ebay. Particularly as an incomplete bike (frames often sell for the same price as a good complete bike).

passout

E-Bay. But advertise on the forums (if rules allow) - you can link to E Bay on Bike Radar classifieds if you title it as an E-Bay sale.

banana pilot

Thanks, not looking to fleece anybody, just sell it on for what it's really worth. I could blab on about the 531 and horizontal dropouts but I think the bike is worth more to a collector/hobbyist than to a hipster schmuck ;-)

RDB66

BP, stick it on here first...i know someone who might be interested.

rolf_f

banana pilot wrote:

Thanks, not looking to fleece anybody, just sell it on for what it's really worth. I could blab on about the 531 and horizontal dropouts but I think the bike is worth more to a collector/hobbyist than to a hipster schmuck ;-)

In which case a collector will buy it - the point is people bid up like mad on Ebay. It's their choice to do it so nobody is fleecing anybody. If you want to hopefully guarantee it a good home Retrobike is probably the best place but you'll need to put a price on it yourself and that probably won't be as much as it would make on Ebay. The advantage with Ebay is that the buyer chooses how much they are prepared to pay.

But it you don't want to go on about the dropouts and 531 you could just bang it on Gumtree for £50

Edit: Mind you, I think there might be an evaluation thread on Retrobike. Ahh, yes. Here we go. Start with some pics on here and hopefully you'll get a fair evaluation. http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... 86e0f0f007

banana pilot

Awesome, thanks. I'll give that a try. eBay sounds like the right way. One of the guys in my LBS said there's a big following for older bikes in Greece, China & Australia for some reason!

Still need to clean it all off, take photos and do some research. Thanks very much for the steers in the right direction all.

goonz

How much do you want for it, and what size is the frame?

banana pilot

goonz wrote:

How much do you want for it, and what size is the frame?

It's not actually up for sale right now, as I don't know what model it is, what size it is, and how old it is. I was just trying to find out where the best place to sell it would be... Once I've found five minutes to do that research, I'll update details on here, but I obviously can't until then. Busy life and all that...

ugo.santalucia

People only bid like mad for NOS or near perfect conditions... for anything else, don't expect to raise much, unless it is something truly special. There are still a large number of Holdsworth around and the collectable value of one in average to poor conditions is not very high

rolf_f

ugo.santalucia wrote:

People only bid like mad for NOS or near perfect conditions... for anything else, don't expect to raise much, unless it is something truly special. There are still a large number of Holdsworth around and the collectable value of one in average to poor conditions is not very high

No, people bid like mad for anything. I suppose it depends on what you think of as 'much' but I watched an old, locally made (to me) tourer with mixed components make £255 despite no useful info on condition and one terrible photo that didn't even give the colour away! I've been watching a lot of bikes and they mostly just do comically well despites the best efforts of the seller to put any sane bidder off.

Strith

Try LFGSS too. Lots of people sell vintage stuff on there. There's a lot of crossover of users from retrobike though. As suggested you'll most likely get the most on ebay.