I have three road bikes I wish to sell, but can’t be arsed putting them on marketplace or ricardo, too many scammers.
An alternative is a Pro Velo bike market (Velobörse) . Does anyone have any experience with this, good or bad?
I haven’t sold, but I have bought a few bikes at Velobörse events but these have been childrens/teenager bikes and they’ve been fine.
If you are selling three bikes, how many do you have left !!
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I’ve sold bikes there and it’s been absolutely fine but they’ve only been kids/ teen bikes and one ladies mountain bike so nothing fancy.
They do advise on pricing if you’re not sure, they told me I should ask for more than the price I proposed and they sold at their price so I was very happy.
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I’ll be selling a F.Moser steel frame (ca. 1996), a 2005 Litespeed Tuscany (58cm Ti frame, was too big), and a 2013 BMC SL01 Road Racer. (with Di2).
That leaves me with an 2015 Argon Gallium Pro, an Cervelo S5 (ex Pro bike) , and a BMC SLR01 Team Machine (ex Pro bike). Oh, and a Canyon Spectral CF…(+ 2 commuter e-bikes I share with the other half).
If I sell those 3 bikes, I’ll be allowed to buy a gravel bike.
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I bought one city bike from there, then took it for sale a few years later and a very arrogant guy wouldn’t allow me to sell it stating it was a cheaply built. I told him I had bought it there, he wouldn’t believe me. Proceeded to ignore him and put it for sale, bike sold immediately.
I bought 2 bikes (and sold another one) on the Veloborse. You will have to go early with your bikes. The ‘best buyers’ reach there very early; in about 1 h, the buyers (& sellers) of good bikes are gone, and what’s left is, as Tom1234 states, oldies &children/teens bikes, and low prices on the offers.
I had a look at those bikes online after you posted that and now my feed is getting bombarded with adverts for CHF 8000 bikes!
Although I like cycling, and always have since I was a kid, for me, it’s more like that car analogy:
“It’s more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow”.
I have two bikes - one everyday one with mudguards, racks etc (which is twenty years old), and a cheap aluminium gravel bike for everything else which I only bought as I wanted a bike with disc brakes as I was getting through so many rim brake pads and wheels in the mountains here.
Did one of the Basel ones a few years ago. Sold a bike originally bought in England. We actually ended up selling it to someone outside for more than we thought it was worth. However I think we were considering UK 2nd hand-prices.
So I think they can be quite good, you of course have to factor in what you lose in commission but I think they are a relatively easy and painless way to get rid.
Sadly, a road bike. Hardtail Ti mountain bikes 
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Um, I do ride them fast (or at least I did). I’ve got a radar trap photo from the 2015 Oetztaler Radmarathon doing 96.6km/h on one descent.
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