Except one all of my around 80 vintage bicycle related deals on the german eBay went smoothly. The one exception was an ITM seat post sold mistakenly as Campagnolo but I got the money back without problems.
However you have to know that nearly nobody in Germany including bike shop staff knows anything about vintage lightweights. From the sellers of interesting stuff 90% don't know what they have and underestimate the value (remember the 399,- 1960 Masi?), 9% don't know what they have and overestimate the value grossly and the rest is from Carsten Rehbein.
Dirk
-- Dirk Feeken Heidelberg Germany
----- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:09:05 +0200 From: Renaissance-Cycles <info@renaissance-cycles.com> Subject: [CR]German ebay! Oh!.........What a bust!!
Hey all!
4 rounds of German ebay, and 3 of the 4 dealings really = stink!.........