This is a plain summary of the seller route on Epic Motor Trading. The pages how it works, FAQ, help center and the vendor agreement are the authoritative sources; where they differ from this article, they win.
Before you list
- Create an account and verify your email address and your phone number. This keeps fake accounts out.
- Choose an account type, private or professional. A professional seller has to complete Stripe Connect identity verification before listing a motorcycle.
- Prepare your photographs (at least ten, including the frame number), the frame and engine numbers and the papers. See preparing your bike and documents.
Creating the listing
You fill in brand, model, year, mileage, frame number and engine number, condition, restoration history and known issues. You upload your photographs, set a starting price and, if you wish, a reserve price, and choose the length of the auction. You submit the listing for approval. Read writing a listing that sells and starting price and reserve price first.
Review
The team reviews your listing, usually within 24 hours, and may ask for more photographs or information. Once it is approved, the listing is published.
Week 1: the preview week
The listing is visible, but bidding is switched off. Collectors can watch it, share it and add it to their watchlist, and they get a notification when bidding starts. Use this week to answer questions, and keep the bike ready for viewing, because serious buyers use the week to look.
Week 2: the live auction
Bidding opens at your starting price. Bidders can bid manually or set a maximum that the system bids up to on their behalf. Bids are binding and cannot be retracted. Anti-sniping protection means that a bid placed just before the end can extend the auction, so there is no last-second win. The default setting is a window of two minutes and up to three extensions. When your reserve is met, the listing shows it. Read bidding at a motorcycle auction to understand what your bidders see.
Week 3: payment and handover
- The winner has 48 hours to pay. The payment goes into escrow, and not to you yet.
- You and the buyer receive each other's contact details and agree a pickup or a carrier.
- The buyer inspects the bike.
- Both of you confirm the handover in your dashboards: you press that you handed the bike over, the buyer that they received it.
- The escrow is released to your wallet, and you can move it to your bank account.
If a carrier collects the bike, the rules for confirmation are slightly different. Read shipping and pickup.
What you pay
The vendor agreement states a commission of 8% on the winning bid (excluding VAT) plus 21% VAT on the commission, deducted automatically from the escrow amount. There is no commission if the bike does not sell. You issue the invoice for the sale to the buyer yourself; the platform provides a template and invoices you only for its commission. Other fees, such as featured listings, photography, storage or transport, apply only if agreed in advance.
Rules to know
- You cannot switch off a live auction yourself. Contact the team if there is a real problem with the listing.
- Do not sell the bike outside the platform to avoid the commission. The vendor agreement has an exclusivity clause with penalties, so read it.
- Do not bid on your own bike or ask others to do so.
- Disputes are handled through the platform's dispute process, and the audit trail of the double confirmation is the evidence.
After the sale
Hand over the papers, the bill of sale and every key. See handover and paperwork after the sale.
