Bike shops should take car trade-ins

i_ben_fine@lemmy.one to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 62 points –

Cash-for-clunkers but make it eco-friendly

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I like the idea in theory, but I think it would be a hard sell of “hey trade in your $10k+ car for this few hundred dollar bike”

Bikes can reasonably get to 1.5k at least without things getting too absurdly overpriced. If there's a trade in it would at least be for bikes in that range.

$1.5k is still not a very expensive bike. Only at the low end of "non trash components".

True, but I don't want to scare the carbrains. :P

Honestly though yes. My pretty basic road bike was 1600 and that was one of the lower prices in the shop. I think they averaged at around 5-8k in that shop at least.