Pro Velo bike markets - seller experiences?

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.