Hi all,
At the Mount Rainier Bike Coop in Mount Rainier, Maryland, a suburb of
Washington, DC, we are working how to sell our bikes that we
refurbish. We really don't have any fixed or regular costs; the city
gives us the space (a garage), so we just use our money on spare parts
and tools. We have an earn-a-bike program so youth can build up bikes
for us, learning mechanic skills, and then after fifteen hours of
voluteering, the youths can build a bike for themselves. Volunteers
who have already put in 15 hours of work can basically just keep
refurbishing bikes. No one gets paid anything at this point.
Generally, at this point, we just sell our refurbished bikes in one way
or another. Do other shops do this? Also, presumably, volunteers
could, after working fifteen hours, refurbish bikes for themselves, and
then sell them on craigslist or something. Do other coops have a
policy with regards to refurbishing bikes for yourself, one after the
other, and then selling them for your own profit? Or perhaps a system
where you refurbish a bike and then you have to give a certain
percentage of the sale to the coop?
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PJ Park
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