The Classic MotorCycle

Internet Selling

Time it right

Choose when you list your classic carefully to avoid popular holidays and international sporting events. Internet noodling and bike-buying both plummet during big kicky-ball competitions, for instance, and few folk have spare cash to flash during the eight weeks around Christmas.

Once you’ve chosen your moment, be careful about when your listing ends. You might start an auction running at 6am because that’s when you walk the dog… but you’ll get a better surge of frantic last-minute bidding at teatime. 7pm on Sunday seems to be the magic hour; steer clear of Bank Holidays and the working week.

What it costs

eBay fees and T&Cs might change at any time, so it pays to double-check that everything we’ve written here hasn’t suddenly turned into a pumpkin. At the moment, to

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