I had a less satisfactory encounter with the Baines seller. I e-mailed expressing interest and asking for the answer to two questions. The questions:
1) What is the frame size? 2) Who (the previous owner, the restorer or yourself) removed the two supplementary seat stays from the back end of the top tube and for what reason was this done?
...and answer there came none.
Martin Needleman in Annapolis
The Maaslands wrote:
>
> Jerry wrote about the De Rosa Time Trail bike seller:
>
> > As a completely opposite example of an eBay seller, I had contacted the
> > seller of the Baines someone outed a week ago with some questions to which
> > he promptly replied. When he ended the auction early, I emailed him twice
> > in the last few days to expesss my disappointment and my continued
> interest
> > if he relisted. Today, he replied, apologizing for not answering sooner,
> > explaining that a deal to buy a used BMW, to which he was going to apply
> the
> > Baines proceeds, had fallen through, and offering to make me a copy of the
> > original 1935 Baines brochure, if I was interested.
> >
> > Fortunately, I think there are more good people like this on eBay than
> there
> > are jerks like the one selling the Derosa. I'm thinking of inviting the
> > Baines seller to join our group.