I've had my bike on a few sites for the past few weeks 1st at £14500 absolute bargain for condition and extras this bike has! No bites ,dropped price down to £13500 yesterday plenty of enquires but no offers what do they want???
Probably to wait for a 1299 for that money.... honestly.. I haven't seen the bike or the 'extra's' but it's always hard pricing a bike and extra's when in reality you never get that money back. The only ones I think you will get maybe £500 more for on a used Ducati is the Termi's and map. Not wanting to be negative, but when people come on here and ask about 1199/1299 everyone recommends the 1299, so there has to be a step difference in used price in order to make it attractive.
imo, you are better oem the bike and sell your bits seperate. The bits dont make the bike sell really.
^^^^^ This I’m afraid, not many want to pay you for the extra you’ve put on. They’ll pay the same for a standard and the extras won’t make it worth a lot more to them. I know it’s counter intuitive but that’s how it works.
I don't really agree with this, I love picking up an 18month old bike, with sub 2k miles and £4k worth of extras. I'll probably only pay ~£1k over a bog standard equivalent, but ready to ride and hopefully looking a little unique - perfect. Some prefer to tart the bike up themselves, have a specific idea of what they want or the skillz to fit the bits themselves which is great, but they pay for that privilege. A problem only arises when you fit $4k worth of goodies and expect to get £4...or 3...or perhaps even £2k back when you sell.
Extras simply make it more attractive amongst others at the same price as bog standard, doesn’t really add value imho.
If it’s just an end can probably right, but if significant improvement, thousands spent on recognised superior or significant parts, you’d need to be a right twat to accept the same price as a basic model. Or a lazy twat and not strip and sell parts online. You not think on average you get…..25-30% back on what you invested? Make that you can get back if not in a rush to sell/have to trade?
Hence why everyone suggests putting back to standard. You can have 10k of kit on it all you like, you’d be lucky to get an extra grand over an equal mint standard bike.
it hasn't sold for one or all of the following.. it's overpriced, the 'extras' put people off/don't add value, you aren't a dealer and lots of people want finance/a warranty/etc. You may love your bike and value the time/money you've spent on it but most punters shop primarily on price. look at ebay/autotrader.. if yours is the cheapest compared to other bikes of the same age/miles then it will sell, if you expect dealer/trader retail money for a private sale you're going to be sat on it for a long time.
And old mate of mine usd to keep his bikes immaculate. Like new. He always looked at selling price of others then went 5% less: his attitude was he’s decided to sell, he wants to attract buyers and move on. He never had a bike for sale long. I follow a similar model.
Buy em cheap and sell em cheap...and if the bikes got a few extras on then it will just attract more buyers.
I expect that strategy will work every time, so job done. The Scotsman in me however would struggle to adopt this approach. Also, I often put bikes up for sale, preferring but not needing to sell/ no replacement yet in mind means I don’t mind it taking a while….but occasionally I do say bollocks I need to make space/ don’t want to renew insurance etc.
I always try selling my bikes privately with everything on, and price the bike with the parts based on what the basic bike is worth second hand, plus the accessories at half the original cost price. That way, the potential buyer gets the bike for the right price, plus a few choice extras they can either keep, or take off and sell. I’ve sold a few bikes on eBay and a couple on forums this way. People are generally short sighted though, and don’t realise they can get a bigger bargain by taking the bike with everything on, so I normally end up stripping everything off the bike and trade it in. As I have done with my 1260 I recently offered on here. For the sake of a few hundred quid, and avoiding tyre kickers, I find it easier to just negotiate a better deal on the next one, and get the purchasing dealer to take off any hard to remove items for me.
I've flirted with selling my 1299S, every now and again someone on FB will ask if anyone has one for sale, I engage and usually a very long FB messenger conversation commences but then silence. One guy spent days/weeks asking questions, even asking the same questions several times, I'd sent him videos even agreed a price, but then just vanished. I'm sure if I actively tried to sell and advertise it would be gone by now, my last Pani (1199 Tricolore) I sold through my dealer on a sale or return, they took £500 to stick in their showroom on the shop floor, do all the sales work etc, I had zero involvement and it sold within a month. Maybe you should try the same or at least get them to give you a valuation so you know what you should be marketing it for.
