Private-party secondhand sale (classifieds, word of mouth)
peer to peer, no platform involved
41/100Weak fit
on a balanced view of all values
Assembled, inspected or backed if something goes wrong: Limited. Bike Index, a nonprofit bike registry, reported reaching "a record 800,000 registered bikes" by mid-2022 and that "1,669 stolen bikes were recovered through Bike Index" that year alone, evidence of how much bike theft the secondhand market absorbs. A private sale carries none of a shop's inspection or a certified program's ownership check; a buyer has to look the serial number up themselves. source↗ 2022
One source: bikeindex.orgbikeindex.org
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