Bike shops don’t have big parking lots for used cars.
Used car dealers will buy anything, and you can take that cash to the bike store.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Yes, but in the meantime you no longer have a vehicle to get from the car dealer to the bike shop.
I like the idea in theory, but I think it would be a hard sell of “hey trade in your $10k+ car for this few hundred dollar bike”
Bikes can reasonably get to 1.5k at least without things getting too absurdly overpriced. If there's a trade in it would at least be for bikes in that range.
$1.5k is still not a very expensive bike. Only at the low end of "non trash components".
True, but I don't want to scare the carbrains. :P
Honestly though yes. My pretty basic road bike was 1600 and that was one of the lower prices in the shop. I think they averaged at around 5-8k in that shop at least.
"Hoo boy, a car? Those take a while to sell, but I know someone who can scrap it for parts, so I'll do you a favour and take it off your hands... Ten bucks?"
Some pawn shops might take you up on this