How do you begin to sell a mobility scooter?

Nine_Lives

No idea what the appropriate forum for this would be. I thought about the benefits one due to the disability, but figured this was more appropriate than that one.

Anyway moving on -
We have a mobility scooter we want to sell. My dad picked it up shortly before he died. He bought it for my mum who refused to use one before he bought it & maintained after he bought it.
He used it for a little play on land near our house but that was it. IIRC he bought it for £350 from a college friend who said they'd have sold it for more if it was to anyone else.

That's all we know really.

I know how to sell cars & dress up the advertisement (no, NOT lie!) but i knew absolutely nothing about mobility scooters or more importantly how to price them.

£350 could be more than it's worth, it could also be shorting us by a good bit.

Also what's be the best place? Somewhere like your local supermarket sales board?

Fire_Fox

Why don't you read through the completed eBay listings?

pmduk

Nine_Lives wrote: »

£350 could be more than it's worth, it could also be shorting us by a good bit.

Anything you get for it at all is profit.

BlondeHeadOn

Ebay - or ask around at work, if you work in a big office or university. There is often someone thinking of buying one for an elderly relative, or have just sold one.

I got mine that way - OH's workplace, colleague had one to sell (that used to be her mothers).

If it works okay then they are still worth a fair bit of money - they tend not to have had an awful lot of usage, just by the nature of the people who buy them. They are pretty simple machines (unlike e.g. a car), so they don't have so much to go wrong either. And they are still expensive to buy new.

I love mine, it is freedom! (I am disabled).

LEJC

Do you know where the scooter was purchased from?...was it a shop originally or do you have a local mobility shop near you? if so perhaps they would be willing to sell it on for you either by allowing you to put a card in the window or on a commissin basis....surely someone looking to purchase a mobility scooter might be interested in a "lightly used " model instead of a new one.

Nine_Lives

Thanks.

Regards eBay - I have my reservations with that place. First off eBay stings you for a good percentage & then PayPal, who is owned by eBay, stings you for even more. I remember selling an exhaust on there for around £80 or so about 1-2 years back & when it was all done i only pocketed about £45-£50 for it IIRC. Wasn't much. Yes it was more than my exhaust just laying on the garage floor, but £30 to give up out of £80 is quite an amount.

Sorry i don't know where it was purchased from. I also don't know if we've a mobility shop locally - i'll have to google that. I know that my dad bought it off this chap because he (the seller) had replaced it. That gives me the impression it's been used a bit.