The Classic MotorCycle

Choose Your Auction

Everyone already knows about the big auctions, the headline events, the sales which rack up all the column inches in the press and miles upon miles of chatter out in the ethers. There are a whole lot of others out there too.

Everyone already knows all about eBay, the most popular and well known of the very few online auction sites, but there are many other places to look, some well promoted and easy to find, others considerably less so. Did you know that several trade players buy stock at the smaller, local sales and then simply re-sell them at the huge multinational events? They do. You can usefully learn from them, too.

Local Sales

It’s a recurring surprise in this internet age that so many small local sales do not promote online. Or if they do that wise thing, they do it so badly that you’ll never see their ads unless you already know that there’s an event.

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