Specialist dealers and private individuals can offer new and used bikes for sale on velocorner.ch. With 6000 active advertisements, velocorner.ch is already the largest online platform of its kind in Switzerland five months after its launch, reports Marco Friedli, co-founder of the platform. According to Friedli, 130 specialist bicycle dealers have listed their products on velocorner.ch, making their bikes available online to end customers and other dealers.

The aim of the platform is to make a large proportion of the bicycles and e-bikes available from dealers in Switzerland accessible as soon as possible. Private individuals can also offer used bikes for sale. So if someone is looking for a specific model, they should be able to find a large selection of bikes for sale in Switzerland on velocorner.ch - from the latest version to test and exhibition models to second-hand bikes - and can compare prices and specifications online. If he is interested in a specific model, he contacts its supplier. The purchase is then completed with the supplier. In this way, velocorner.ch also aims to bring customers to specialist dealers.

Ambitious goals

The new provider continues to set ambitious goals: velocorner.ch aims to create what has long been essential in the automotive sector, a successful online marketplace for the bicycle industry. And velocorner.ch is well positioned in terms of personnel, as it is backed by founders who have acquired their professional skills at Scout24 Schweiz AG. Their marketplaces autoscout24 and motoscout24 are Switzerland's leading online sales platforms for two- and four-wheeled motor vehicles. The reason for founding velocorner.ch was that there was no comparable platform for bicycles in Switzerland.

From 60,000 page visits in April 2019, when the first ads went online, the number of visits had almost tripled by August. "This is impressive proof that the interest in velocorner.ch is significant and that a platform is being created here that bike dealers will no longer be able to do without in the age of digitalization," says Friedli.The founders know that online marketplaces do not develop their potential from day one. Many such marketplaces need two to three years to establish themselves in the minds of customers and to be presented by search portals in line with their importance. In view of this fact, velocorner.ch has already come a long way in the first six months of its existence, the creators of velocorner.ch further announce.

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