We'd like to know how everyone assigns value to donated bikes?
The Bozeman Bike Kitchen gives all bikes a minimum value of $50. These are available for free to anyone with one of the vouchers we provide to our social partners. Bikes with higher re-sale value are priced according to the market and sold to the general public to cover our overhead. Any of our bikes can also be traded in exchange for hours volunteered in our earn-a-bike program.
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Thanks for your response Sam! How did you all settle on $50?
Justin Smith
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On 02/26/2015 10:33 am, Sam Haraldson wrote:
We'd like to know how everyone assigns value to donated bikes?
The Bozeman Bike Kitchen gives all bikes a minimum value of $50. These are available for free to anyone with one of the vouchers we provide to our social partners. Bikes with higher re-sale value are priced according to the market and sold to the general public to cover our overhead. Any of our bikes can also be traded in exchange for hours volunteered in our earn-a-bike program.
- Sam
-- http://bozemanbikekitchen.org [2]
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Thanks for your response Sam! How did you all settle on $50?
Having a $50 tag on a particular bike signifies to our volunteer staff that the bike qualifies to be given away at no charge (as part of our "Community Bikes" program where we partner with the local food bank and other social organizations). So essentially that number has meaning to our staff. How we actually settled on the $50 was based in what we feel these bikes are valued at in terms of hours of work and any parts that go into them. Our organization gives away approximately 50 bikes per year so at any given time we'll have maybe a 1/2 dozen Community Bikes on hand. Also in stock will be a one or two dozen bikes ranging in price from $100 up.
- Sam
We use the following checklist, which has been refined a lot since this was written. Glad to send a copy of the worksheet if you reply off-list.
http://ohiocitycycles.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...
Jim Sheehan Director, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op 1840 Columbus Rd Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216 830 2667 OhioCityCycles.org jim@ohiocitycycles.org
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Sam Haraldson sam@bozemanbikekitchen.org wrote:
Thanks for your response Sam! How did you all settle on $50?
Having a $50 tag on a particular bike signifies to our volunteer staff that the bike qualifies to be given away at no charge (as part of our "Community Bikes" program where we partner with the local food bank and other social organizations). So essentially that number has meaning to our staff. How we actually settled on the $50 was based in what we feel these bikes are valued at in terms of hours of work and any parts that go into them. Our organization gives away approximately 50 bikes per year so at any given time we'll have maybe a 1/2 dozen Community Bikes on hand. Also in stock will be a one or two dozen bikes ranging in price from $100 up.
- Sam
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we use http://www.bicyclebluebook.com/.
Aaron Southwest Rides Detroit, MI
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Jim Sheehan sheehan.jim@gmail.com wrote:
We use the following checklist, which has been refined a lot since this was written. Glad to send a copy of the worksheet if you reply off-list.
http://ohiocitycycles.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...
Jim Sheehan Director, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op 1840 Columbus Rd Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216 830 2667 OhioCityCycles.org jim@ohiocitycycles.org
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Sam Haraldson <sam@bozemanbikekitchen.org
wrote:
Thanks for your response Sam! How did you all settle on $50?
Having a $50 tag on a particular bike signifies to our volunteer staff that the bike qualifies to be given away at no charge (as part of our "Community Bikes" program where we partner with the local food bank and other social organizations). So essentially that number has meaning to our staff. How we actually settled on the $50 was based in what we feel these bikes are valued at in terms of hours of work and any parts that go into them. Our organization gives away approximately 50 bikes per year so at any given time we'll have maybe a 1/2 dozen Community Bikes on hand. Also in stock will be a one or two dozen bikes ranging in price from $100 up.
- Sam
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Jim,
If you can send me the refined checklist, we'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Justin Smith
Bike Erie
www.bikeerie.org [4]
(814) 580-9108
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On 03/04/2015 1:57 pm, Jim Sheehan wrote:
We use the following checklist, which has been refined a lot since this was written. Glad to send a copy of the worksheet if you reply off-list.
http://ohiocitycycles.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&... [1]
Jim Sheehan Director, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op 1840 Columbus Rd Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216 830 2667 OhioCityCycles.org jim@ohiocitycycles.org
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Sam Haraldson sam@bozemanbikekitchen.org wrote:
Thanks for your response Sam! How did you all settle on $50?
Having a $50 tag on a particular bike signifies to our volunteer staff that the bike qualifies to be given away at no charge (as part of our "Community Bikes" program where we partner with the local food bank and other social organizations). So essentially that number has meaning to our staff. How we actually settled on the $50 was based in what we feel these bikes are valued at in terms of hours of work and any parts that go into them. Our organization gives away approximately 50 bikes per year so at any given time we'll have maybe a 1/2 dozen Community Bikes on hand. Also in stock will be a one or two dozen bikes ranging in price from $100 up.
- Sam
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I'm re-visiting this thread.
The bike valuation guides provided refer to bikes that have been fixed up and gone over by a mechanic or trained volunteer, I assume.
How do you determine the value of Earn-a-bikes that still need fixed (assuming you have such a program)? How do you account for the time required of the Earn-a-biker to fix up the bike? For example, do you reduce the value by $x per bearing overhaul needed, shifter needing replaced, cable needing replaced, chain needing replaced, etc.? Or do you count time spent working on the bike as volunteer time applied towards earning the bike?
Thanks much!!
Marissa Pherson
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Aaron Surma aaronfsurma@gmail.com wrote:
we use http://www.bicyclebluebook.com/.
Aaron Southwest Rides Detroit, MI
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Jim Sheehan sheehan.jim@gmail.com wrote:
We use the following checklist, which has been refined a lot since this was written. Glad to send a copy of the worksheet if you reply off-list.
http://ohiocitycycles.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...
Jim Sheehan Director, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op 1840 Columbus Rd Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216 830 2667 OhioCityCycles.org jim@ohiocitycycles.org
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Sam Haraldson < sam@bozemanbikekitchen.org> wrote:
Thanks for your response Sam! How did you all settle on $50?
Having a $50 tag on a particular bike signifies to our volunteer staff that the bike qualifies to be given away at no charge (as part of our "Community Bikes" program where we partner with the local food bank and other social organizations). So essentially that number has meaning to our staff. How we actually settled on the $50 was based in what we feel these bikes are valued at in terms of hours of work and any parts that go into them. Our organization gives away approximately 50 bikes per year so at any given time we'll have maybe a 1/2 dozen Community Bikes on hand. Also in stock will be a one or two dozen bikes ranging in price from $100 up.
- Sam
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