Brian, Not to defend the ignorant or dishonest, but I think many times the sellers of vintage bikes on ebay get educated by the potential buyers, who know one when they see one.
These sellers have not the means or desire to do the proper research, and will get "straightened out" by the ebay crowd and amend their ad, belatedly realizing accuracy will attract buyers better than hyperboly, not to mention avoiding negative feedback.
Of course some are just plain trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Sometimes hard to tell the difference, sometimes not.
-Dan Borden on vacation in Newfane, VT
At 5:52 PM -0700 8/30/02, Brian Baylis wrote:
>Charles,
>
>As the text of this auction has been amended to reflect the fact the
>seller was mistaken pretty much all the way around; I'll go easy.
>This sort of thing drives me NUTS! I really hate the way people abuse
>eBay. I guess some people just can't resist starting off with a load of
>crap in case some sucker gets caught. Why don't these people do the
>research BEFORE putting it up on eBay? Is it really that hard to do?
>These guys just pull "information out of their ass" and off to eBay it
>goes. WHY? Is there some law against being honest and straightforward as
>a seller?
>
>Pardon my rant, but really, what's wrong with being honest and getting a
>fair price based in what the item ACTUALLY is?
>
>Brian Baylis
>La Mesa, CA
>Off to a gig, won't be looking at the flames from eBayers until tomorrow
>morning. Fire away.
>>
>> so, is this Masi really an italian frame, or is it a later California frame?
>> I thought those graphics came only on Cali frames after 1973...
>>
>> Could be an italian Prestige that's been repainted, though.
>>
>> http://ebay.com/
>>
>> Charles "wouldn't buy it, just curious" Andrews
>> SoCal