Help on pricing required

[Madmadworld]

Hi looking for help in pricing a bike I am selling, bought for me by my children about 20 years ago and to be honest was overkill costing several thousand pounds I believe, hardly ever used mainly due to ill health and now my old age, been kept in heated garage all that time. It is a blue Specialized Stumpjumper M4, I have looked at the components to try and get a take on what it is worth in sale.
It has Manitou front suspension and Fox float rear suspension, XTR Shimano gearset, original Specialized tyres (testament to how little use it has had) super condition. Any help or advice would be gratefully received thanks.

 

[chris667]

Depends, really. It is not old enough to be really collectible, but old enough to be unfashionable.

It has good quality bits. Take a lot of photos of it and stick it on eBay - get a bike box from a bike shop and be prepared to send it by courier. You won't get thousands for it.

 

[marzjennings]

Definitively collectable to the right person as some folks are building up late 90's early 2000 bikes as retro rebuilds. Check GMBN Tech for some examples and I wouldn't take less than a grand for it. As an older bike for someone who just needs a bike and not interested in it as old classic you'll only get a couple hundred. I'd post it on ebay for 15 hundred and wait for someone who know's what it is to offer a good price. Also if the groupset is hardly used you would get over 500 for just the groupset.

 

[Cycleops]

Difficult to give a value. MTBs go in and out of fashion and most riders want the latest specs and gizmos.
Good condition helps but those twenty year old tyres are likely cracked and perished by now.
A quick look on eBay have the Stumpjumper M4 at between £250-350. Wouldn't be as optimistic as Marz.
I would try to sell it locally as packing and sending could damage it and then you're into a claim. Try Gumtree. Best price might be from breaking it up for parts

 

[Grant Fondo]

Have to agree with @Cycleops on price, you might be lucky and get £400 if really mint. Shame as the price of the new Stumpjumpers with XTR level groupset is ridiculous.

 

[biggs682]

@Madmadworld as others have already said it's a tough time to be selling a bike at the moment

I would suggest somewhere between £50 and upwards if UK based ?

 

[Spiderweb]

I would suggest £200-£250 if mint.

 

[Grant Fondo]

this price looks ambitious?

 

[marzjennings]

Feck, if you sell it for 50 quid I’d consider buying it and paying the shipping to Texas. Or pick it up when I’m over seeing mum in May. As just a bike everyone is right you won’t get more than a couple of hundred, and as a mtb it’ll be terrible compared to modern bikes. But for someone who used to race specialized back in the day, or worked in a bike shop back then, or someone like me who wanted a bike like that but couldn’t afford it the time I still think a grand is a fair price. Especially if it’s as clean as you say it it. Heck you can’t find XTR M950 cranks on eBay for less than a 100. There’s probably only a few folks in the UK who’ll want it actually as a collectible bike and a few thousand who’d appreciate a cheap bike to get around town. If you want it gone then I recon it’ll go very quickly at 250. If you want it appreciated by someone who’ll ride it as a classic bike and you’re in no rush to sell it, I then go for over a 1000 and be happy to get knocked back to 750.

P.s. apologies to all for not using a pound sign, but it’s a bugger to type using a US keyboard,

 

[davidphilips]

Just looking at Ebay sold listings they sell quite well and there was a 2016 sold in January for £686,most seem to sell for between one and three hundred,my advice would either sell it in an Ebay auction and just accept the sale price as what its worth or advertise it on gumtree, facebook etc for whatever you would be happy with and then readvertise and reduce the price every few weeks until it does sell.
Theres no way i would sell it for £50 would rather give it to a charity shop even if they did only sell it for £10.

 

[Madmadworld]

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to help out, quite interesting that the prices range from £1500 to £50. given the condition, it has never been ridden on anything harsher than a tarmac cycle path with probably around 500 miles use and cleaned after each outing, I feel it has more worth than the £50 end of things however Asking £1000+ would probably be a little ambitious. My initial feeling was around the £500 mark which given the comments may just be achievable. Appreciate your input.
John

 

[rogerzilla]

Breaking it down and selling the frame, fork and parts separately always gets the best prices.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to help out, quite interesting that the prices range from £1500 to £50. given the condition, it has never been ridden on anything harsher than a tarmac cycle path with probably around 500 miles use and cleaned after each outing, I feel it has more worth than the £50 end of things however Asking £1000+ would probably be a little ambitious. My initial feeling was around the £500 mark which given the comments may just be achievable. Appreciate your input.
John

Good luck John, maybe an ad in one of the specialist magazines is the best route? MBR or MB uk?

 

[wafter]

Breaking it down and selling the frame, fork and parts separately always gets the best prices.

While I'd usually agree with this synopsis (if not the morality of doing so), I'd not be so sure if it's a mint, low mileage original.

 

[Gunk]

I sold a very nice S Works CF Epic 26er last year, full XTR, it only made £475. Old 26ers aren’t making much at the moment I’m afraid.