Hi all,<br><br>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.&nbsp; We really don&#39;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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Volunteers who have already put in 15 hours of work can basically just keep refurbishing bikes.&nbsp; No one gets paid anything at this point.&nbsp; Generally, at this point, we just sell our refurbished bikes in one way or another.&nbsp; Do other shops do this?&nbsp; Also, presumably, volunteers could, after working fifteen hours, refurbish bikes for themselves, and then sell them on craigslist or something.&nbsp; 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?&nbsp; 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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