Why we also sell used gear
Second Life is the part of the catalogue that costs us the most work and earns us the least. Here is why it exists anyway.
A good-quality leather jacket outlasts the person who buys it. The size changes, the bike changes, the kind of riding changes — and a garment with ten years still ahead of it ends up at the back of a wardrobe. Second Life is the attempt to intercept those garments before they become rags.
What we accept
Only items with no declared crashes and no signs of impact. On helmets and protectors we are stricter than on anything else: a helmet that has done its job does not go back on sale, full stop. On everything else we look at actual wear, the integrity of the stitching, and whether the CE labels are present and legible.
How we describe them
Every item has a condition report written before you buy, with the defects declared one by one and the measurements taken by hand on the garment laid flat — not the nominal ones on the label. The photos are of the actual item: on Second Life listings catalogue images are forbidden, because they would make everything else pointless.
| Grade | What it means |
|---|---|
| A | As new, no marks worth noting |
| A− | A single cosmetic mark, declared and photographed |
| B+ | Visible light use, function intact |
| B | Obvious use, no structural problems |
| C | Major cosmetic damage, priced accordingly |
Why they are bought at auction
A one-off item has no list price: it has the price someone is willing to pay that day. The auction is the most honest way of finding that out, and the proxy bidding system means the winner pays what it took to beat the second bidder, not the maximum they had declared.
What we get out of it
Little, honestly. A used item has to be collected, checked, measured, photographed and described: that is more work than ten new helmets taken sight unseen. We do it because a serious used market is what lets a beginner start out with real gear instead of the cheapest helmet on the shelf.
Returns on Second Life items run to 14 days, the same as on new. The only condition is that the garment comes back in the condition described in the report — that report is the contract.