Decathlon to start selling second hand bikes

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Report from Road.cc here:
'According to Decathlon's head of external communication, tens of thousands are waiting to buy bikes from the retail giant as they have run out of many cheaper models. In an effort to meet demand, they're now reportedly buying second-hand bikes to restore and sell on.

Xavier Rivoire told the Financial Times (link is external): "We've noticed this huge surge. There’s a cycling boom everywhere."

And indeed, there's now a 'Second Hand Bike Shop' section (link is external) on the UK website, with Decathlon saying: "Our Second Life bikes have been bought from us and returned for one reason or another. They may have been quickly tested or used by our customers and have small, superficial scratches, which means we can’t sell them - but they’re still in great working order.

"That's why we'd like to make them available to our customers at reduced prices, so we can fulfil our purpose of sustainably making the pleasure and benefits of sport accessible to many." '
 
Sounds good. There was a story not so long ago (pre-Covid) about Tesco putting ex display bikes in a skip, as they weren't allowed to sell them as 'new' bikes, or even give them away, something about insurance policy? How times have changed eh.
 
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Comes down to economics sometimes, if you have a £75 bike that has already been sold, then refunded it has already likely to have cost the company money, then you have to advertise it so somebody buys it, make it available to be collected, handle the financial transaction, collect the money then risk it coming back again. Although I am surprised they don't do what the catalogue firms used to do & possibly still do just bundle 20 bikes together & either auction them off or sell at a fixed price with a no return policy.
 
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