M
McGet
Guest
Greetings -- The last five bikes we had in our shop from eBay "deals" : 1 fit the rider and worked
well. 4 were the wrong size. 2 had mismatched, botch bottom brackets. 1 had a homebrew "fixed" hub
-- a freewheel hub with a BB lockring jammed onto it--may hold, may not!?
1 had a bunch of parts that wouldn't work together.
Hey, no problem--just take it to the local bike shop and yell at them when they can't get it to
work. And if all else fails, just eBay with a sunny description and offload the problems.
And if that doesn't work, there's always the swap meets twice a year, where all the eBay mistakes
go to die.
best of all are the guys who make a fake letterhead and convince distributors to sell to them.. they
stack the stuff in their garage and sell to their buddies and the local club... they can be cheaper
because they offer no service, pay no employees, cheat by paying no taxes, rent or insurance, and
when they get tired of the whole deal, they just blow it off.
Oh yes, eBay just sent me a form letter showing me how to set up a slick, pre-fab eBay "storefront"
in 15 minutes, so that any goof can look legit. Ah, progress.
signed, --Michael McGettigan, trophy bikes philadelphia (yeah, I buy and sell on ebay, but very
carefully)
well. 4 were the wrong size. 2 had mismatched, botch bottom brackets. 1 had a homebrew "fixed" hub
-- a freewheel hub with a BB lockring jammed onto it--may hold, may not!?
1 had a bunch of parts that wouldn't work together.
Hey, no problem--just take it to the local bike shop and yell at them when they can't get it to
work. And if all else fails, just eBay with a sunny description and offload the problems.
And if that doesn't work, there's always the swap meets twice a year, where all the eBay mistakes
go to die.
best of all are the guys who make a fake letterhead and convince distributors to sell to them.. they
stack the stuff in their garage and sell to their buddies and the local club... they can be cheaper
because they offer no service, pay no employees, cheat by paying no taxes, rent or insurance, and
when they get tired of the whole deal, they just blow it off.
Oh yes, eBay just sent me a form letter showing me how to set up a slick, pre-fab eBay "storefront"
in 15 minutes, so that any goof can look legit. Ah, progress.
signed, --Michael McGettigan, trophy bikes philadelphia (yeah, I buy and sell on ebay, but very
carefully)