The worse conditions for selling a bicycle at a flea market, this is the seller’s story

Jakarta –

There was a bike commercial at Parar, South rumors talking about the real conditions he was suffering. One of them is Rony, who said that bicycle sales in the store are going down.

Even in a day or a week he may not get customers. He also explained that the number of new and used bike buyers had decreased in the last 1.5 years.

Rony admitted now that he even finds it difficult to sell one bike a day. This situation often makes it impossible to pay costs when selling, such as daily food costs and shop rental costs.

“Now bicycle sales are just about to cry. It’s not going down anymore, it’s far away (compared to previous years),” said Rony.

“If you look at the book, it’s negative. Just go to the store and you’ll often get money in for tomorrow. If you get money in for tomorrow. If you get money in for tomorrow If you get money into tomorrow. If you get money into tomorrow. If you get money into tomorrow. If you get money into tomorrow. If you get money into tomorrow. If you get money into tomorrow. If you get money into tomorrow you get money into tomorrow. if you get money into tomorrow. if you get money into tonight in,” he said.

Instead of accepting buyers, Rony admits people who come looking for used bikes often get them. He suffered with those people ‘suffering with the people who succeed like that during the last shortage.

“It has suffered with all that success, during the pandemic, many people would buy with rich people until they bought everything.” This is why people are selling,” he said.

Not to mention, according to him, the selling price of food on bicycles in the part of the van, when many people bought bicycles, was very different. This situation makes many people unstable to sell their bikes at very low prices, especially compared to the beginning.

“Even those who sell the prices that sell, there are people when they bought them at the time of the majority, Right, they bought RP. 1.2 million,” said Rony.

According to Rony, other traders got to get similar conditions. In fact, as many as four out of ten bike shops in the area have closed or gone out of business because there are no buyers.

“Some have gone out of business, there are already four shops. Yes, starting after Covid, before that there were 10 shops on the side of the road,” he explained.

According to Rony, the owner of another bike shop in the area, another Kode, has started to decline since 2022 and has gotten worse since mid-2023 until now.

“During the recession it was booming, from 2020 to 2021 there were still a lot of people buying. Here it was still normal (the same thing next to the year before the election it was busy, it kept falling,” KODE said.

“More people come to buy than buy. Yes, we have a lot of people selling but there are a lot of bikes here that sell,” he continued. “

What is even difficult is the number of customers he can count on his fingers in a month that comes according to the bikes that come out every day. So he gets very picky when someone gives him a used bike.

“So not everything (people selling used bikes) we will at least have the condition is still good, even if the price is suitable for them to see the condition of the pocket as well, “Continuous code.

Kode said the decline in bicycle sales had put many traders in the area out of business because they were unable to pay shop rental fees.

“So it’s worse now than before (before the pandemic). A lot of people have gone out of their heads, they would have gone out of their heads (on bikes, new bikes, many They would be closed,” he explained.

Even to detikcom Kode admitted that he will also close his bike shop soon because he could not pay the shop rental fees with the current sales conditions.

“The next day it’s like you won’t be here anymore, your income won’t go to Uber. Even though you’ve been here for eight years, you’ve been here for eight years. The more you come here, the worse you get,” he said, laughing sadly.

When he was sitting still with a sad face, Kode got up that he would sell bicycles in the area, but he is no longer in the shop but on the side of the road. If it is true that later it is after that, Aka closes shop, then he will be the fifth person who has suffered until now this decline in sales.

“Let’s just spread out. Besides, we only have one or two people who want to find a bike, I can help them find it, right? Yeah, I can share the profits there the small way,” Kode said.

(rrd/rd)