Best SA country to sell/leave bike

**Martin Alexander** · #1 7 Jan 2005

Excluding Colombia,Venezuela, Surinam and the Guianas, which SA country is the easiest to sell a bike so as to return home by airplane? Or, if I must just leave it, which countries would not give me a problem leaving without it?Thanks

**richardb** · #2 7 Jan 2005

I entered Paraguay via Brazil, and Paraguayan officials gave me no stamps or paperwork at all - they were not interested. So you might try that one out.

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**Muno** · #3 29 Mar 2005

i sold my motorcycle in paraguay too. there was absolutely no problems about the papers. due to high luxury taxes in SA, the price will be even higher than in europe.

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**JamesCo** · #4 29 Mar 2005

Muno, do you mind posting some details about selling your bike - what it was, how you found a buyer, the price, etc?

Cheers,
JC

**sohrakoff** · #5 31 Mar 2005

yes, please send details. I might consider selling my bike in Paraguay also... a bit of competition! (:

What I've found in most countries is that nationals won't buy a foreign vehicle because they can't get papers for it (nationalize it) without getting shafted by customs taxes, and they are not permitted to own a foreign-registered vehicle without nationalizing it. Obviously this really limits the potential market of buyers... basically you can only sell to another foreigner. Is this not the case in Para?

**Muno** · #6 31 Mar 2005

you are right. the official way to make a motorcycle legal is to pay the tax. but what if someone just want to use the motorcycle on his farm? there are also a lot of other ways to leglize a registration. you can not compare paraguay with europe. (if you now what i mean)
just drop me a mail an i will mail you my friends e-mail address.

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