Cycle Trader Reviews

I find that CycleTrader tends to attract more "serious" buyers than the other/local marketplace. I had two offers for my motorcycle, both who found on CycleTrader. Also, the bikes which are listed tend to be a little nicer/better shape. I would certainly recommend them to list a cycle.

Great folks at Cycle Trader.I kinda screwed up my ad and Michael helped me re-do the ad with no extra cost to me.I highly recommedn the Premium to sell your vehicle.
Bike sold and everything went smoothly.
I would have given 10 stars but only 5 were available.

I was really hoping for more interest on a paid listing. Unfortunately, after 2 weeks on Cycle Trader I only had two interested parties email me. Compare that to just one week on FB marketplace, where I received over 5,100 clicks, 133 saves, 77 shares, and 25+ dm's with several offers to purchase.

Cycle Trader reaches more people to view my listing. Very pleased with the experience.

Cycle trader and AutoTrader used to be the go-to publications for finding used vehicles. But nowadays everybody is on Facebook marketplace shopping for their next ride. The last five vehicles that I've had for sale have all been sold through Facebook marketplace for free. And every one of them I actually listed on cycle trader and or AutoTrader and paid for premium services with no success. In the future I will not even attempt to list my vehicles on trailer publications. I don't think it's your fault or anything that you did wrong It's just people are on social media nowadays and they don't even think about other sources like trader publications.

Cycle Trader sucks. And I'm not even talking about using it as a seller, (that's a whole different situation of poor posted reviews I've seen). I'm referring to using Cycle Trader as a buyer. After reaching out to half a dozen options of listed bikes...i simply gave up, and didn't wish to waste any more of my time. EVERY SINGLE BIKE I CALLED ABOUT, had already been sold...and I'm talking 2 months or more earlier! Hell...my first choice i called on had sold in December...5 months ago! If you try to purchase a bike on Cycle Trader...prepare to spin your wheels, (no pun intended).

Motorcycle sold in 17 days. Ad looked great and had great placement as promised. The extra money was worth spending.

Literally every one who contacted me was a scam (about 17 contacts). (I’ll send you a certified check if you provide your address, trying to get me to buy a fake VIN report, and the rest of the scams). Eventually sold it on FB marketplace with no fees.

Cycletrader made posting and selling my bike very easy. From posting to sale was all of 48 hours. Excellent product if you're trying to sell your bike.

Communication on live chat very helpful and also by email!!!

Website is hard to navigate. Keyed in make and year but had to scroll through many newer machines to find what I was looking for.

Nothing particularly wrong. Posted the bike on Cycle Trader for a day with no response and spent $65. Listed it on Craigslist for a few hours with a lot of response for $5. Sold it to a cash buyer on the first showing from CL.

I first tried to re-submit an ad I placed last fall. I could not find it so called and emailed for help over several days. There was never anyone available to chat eiither. So I spent a couple hours creating a new ad with pics, went through the whole process and at the end I clicke on "checkout" and nothing! Then I got emails the following business day to finish, I still could not! Private seller. VERY FRUSTRATING!!!!

I had two bikes to sell. I listed one on Cycle Trader and the other on Craigslist. The one on Cycle Trader was there for a month without a single lead. After listing it for a month for $20, I realized they have different tiers, and in order for the bike to come up on a search, I'd have to pay more to have it "featured". Meanwhile, the bike on Craigslist sold in a few days. So I listed the Cycle Trader bike on Craigslist and it sold in two days.

Lesson learned.

Meanwhile, when the Cycle Trader listing expired, they sent a question: "Did your bike sell?", Y/N question. I clicked yes, and they assumed it was sold on Cycle Trader. So somewhere in their database they show a success story, when in reality I didn't get a single nibble off the site.

It was a quick sale. About one week.