Ebike Centres | Electric Bike Shop | Leicester, East Midlands UK

A service just for Ebike Centres customers

Many customers have asked us recently if we would accept their bike as trade in for a new one, or if we can sell their used electric bike for them. At the same time we have received a lot of requests for second hand bikes. So this is a service which we are now happy to offer.

An effective way to sell

If you bought your bike from Ebike Centres you can now advertise it through our very popular website for a small advertising fee and a commission, with many extra benefits.

Benefits of selling your bike through Ebike Centres

• For only £10 per month you will be advertising on the website of probably the Midlands’ most highly rated electric bike specialist, with hundreds of hits every day from people looking specifically for an electric bike
• Your bike will be given equal prominence with our new bikes, with full product description. You are even welcome to write your own review!
• No need to give up your bike while you try to sell it. We will demonstrate how your bike works using our demo bikes in the shop, and even take potential buyers on a test ride (the same as we did with you)
• If we find a potential buyer we will call you and arrange for you to meet in the shop – protecting your safety and privacy
• When someone buys your bike we will provide a full service and a 3 month warranty included in the price they pay. Nobody else offers that level of service and it takes away any worries that a buyer might have about buying a ‘second hand’ electric bike.

What are the costs?

• A simple advertising fee of £10 per month
• If we sell your bike we will deduct a transaction fee of 20%

For this we will promote your bike through our popular website and city centre showroom, and we will provide the buyer with a full service and three month warranty.
We also accept payments by debit and credit card, which makes selling your bike even easier.

If you want to take the cash

We are not selling your bike. You are selling it and we are just promoting it. So after our fees are deducted the balance is yours, without VAT. This is great if you have just finished paying for your bike through ‘Cycle to Work’ or our 0% financing, as you can go straight ahead and apply for your next bike.

If you want to buy a brand new bike

As a special concession to customers who are using the money to buy a brand new bike we will put the whole amount, without deducting our 20% commission, towards a new electric bike bike. So you can upgrade to the latest and best without losing a penny!

Example

You originally bought your bike for £1000 and sell it through us for £600. We keep the advertising fee of £10 per month. Then you have a choice:
1. Take the cash: We keep £120 as our commission and pay you the balance of £480
2. Upgrade to a new bike: We keep the full £600 as deposit towards a new bike and you just pay the balance. Therefore you sold your bike for free.

What to do next

• Call us and make an appointment to bring your bike in for assessment. We might have to keep it for a day so that we can take it for a ride and see what condition it is in. This allows us to give an honest opinion to potential buyers.
  After that you can take your bike away and carry on using it.
• Decide how much you want to charge for your bike. We can offer advice but in the end it’s up to you. It depends on how fast you want to sell it.
• We will prepare an individual page for your bike with full specifications and photos. You can add your own photos and review if you like.
• We will do our best to sell it for you quickly

Why you should act quickly

Our Leicester store has been open since March 2013. You are probably aware that a manufacturer’s warranty expires as soon as you sell a bike – it can never be carried across to the next owner.
Clearly there is a point at which we cannot continue to offer a 3 month warranty to a new owner at our own risk. Normally this will be 3 months before the original warranty would expire.
So, for example, a FreeGo battery warranty is 24 months. We will offer our own 3 month warranty to any FreeGo bike up to 21 months old.
Similarly for Viking, where the manufacturer’s warranty is 12 months, we will offer our own warranty until the bike is 9 months old from the date you originally purchased it from us.
After this we can still sell your bike but without our 3 month warranty. We also reserve the right to not offer a 3 month warranty if your bike is in poor condition.
However, until 1 November 2014, we will waive the time limit on all bikes which were bought from us and sell your bike with our own 3 month warranty at our risk. After 1 November the normal time limits will apply.

So if you are thinking of selling your electric bike now is the time to do it!

For more information please phone us and ask to speak to Liam, or send us an email.