Selling a foreign bike in South America
 

Everybody tells me, that Paraguay is the place to sell a foreign bike in South America. Appartently eople sold bikes in Bolivia too. Can anybody tell me about the situation in Ecuador, Colombia or Peru?

Karl

hola,

Colombia is difficult to sell a bike to a local, paperwork is the problem.

only if you find a buyer that does not care about papers ...

suerte

mika

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I second that. My journey came to an end in Colombia in June and I had to ship it back home. Not impossible just very difficult.

Good luck

Matt

Almost impossible to sell in Peru without getting hammered for taxes. I gave up.

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Last seen in S.America, missing presumed fed.
http://www.smellybiker.com

hello,

maybe you can sell it to an advised tourist and do the paperwork together "free style" : i ve heard stories like that.

otherwise, when you sell something in a foreign countries, you re supposed to pay the taxes etc ...

in the lonely planet, they say the best place to buy : chile / to sell : paraguay.

argentina : as a tourist, you can t leave the country with a bike you bought there, within a year.

bob or smelly biker sent me this also :
"Hi,
Just saw your post on HUBB.
I've been in Peru for the last year & have been over all the borders you
>>mentioned. No hassles, fairly straightforward. The crossing between
>>Chile & Peru at Arica takes a long time 'cos theres lots of paperwork
>>(and the two countries dont like each other) and takes around 3 hours,
>>all the others are about 30 minutes.
>>
>>No carnet required for the bike, just passport, driving licence & bike
>>papers. Insurance for Peru is called SOAT & can be bought at a large
>>Grifo gas station for around US $40.
Hope that helps.
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Hi,
Taking a rented bike over a border would be difficult as the first thing
that customs want to see are the ownership papers.

Buying a vehicle can take some time. I recently bought a pickup truck in
Peru and it took almost a month before the vehicle registry produced
papers for it....its South America, nobody is in a hurry here.

Selling a bike is best done in the same country as you bought it to
avoid problems with customs, and it would be hard to find a buyer for a
bike thats registered in a different country.
Hope that helps,
Bob"

NB : i arrive in santiago on 1st feb. and need to buy a small bike, 125cc or 250 cc, according to my small budget. then i go to bolivia and peru and try to sell it in peru (end of feb.).

happy trails,

I'm hoping to buy a bike in Santiago, and then sell it again in Peru - Hows this looking, what are the tax rates to do this? Any info much appriciated.

Cheers,

Dave

The taxes in Peru to import the bike are 40% of whatever aduana think its worth...which varies.

Its even harder to import a vehicle thats more than 5 years old. I gave up.



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Last seen in S.America, missing presumed fed.
http://www.smellybiker.com

Bob, so what did you do then with your bike?? Maybe I have to make a decision too.... :-)

Greetings

Still got it here in Peru.

I took it to Chile on the truck for the day to renew the temporary import.


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Last seen in S.America, missing presumed fed.
http://www.smellybiker.com

hmmm think the new plan then is to buy in santiago and ride a loop through bolivia, peru, argentina and back down again in order to sell it in Santiago... should be simpler ay?. Wa hey - getting exciting now...

Another rumor here at Villa Kunterbunt in Valparaiso says, that a German sold his bike in Bolivia: can anybody confirm this?

Karl

I am currently trying to sell my bike in Paraguay. Has anyone else done this recently? What is your advice?

Thank You,
Geoff

I just sold my bike (honda 125) in Peru. I had bought it in Argentina. There is no problem, you just have to get a different paper than the transitpaper you would normally get at the border. But since my buyer and I didn´t want the hassle of going to Lima (you can get that paper here as well) I just lowered my price by a 100 Dollar. He would take care of the paperwork (there is proably a less legal way :-)).