Zero feedback, person joined ebay yesterday - and images non-existent - and offers to take COD to buyer out of country, but payment by paypal?
I'd ASSUME fake auction until proven otherwise.
Mike Kone in Boulder CO
> see interesting bike here..
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\r?\n> http://ebay.com/
\r?\n> B:SS:US:1
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\r?\n> this is an interesting example of an auction featuring an
\r?\n> item about which it is almost impossible to tell much of
\r?\n> anything. Potentially, it's a very cool bike. Or, it's
\r?\n> just an average cool bike. Without better pics and a much
\r?\n> more detailed description, who would know??
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\r?\n> I'm assuming the seller doesn't understand how important the
\r?\n> details are. On the other hand, maybe he's leaving the
\r?\n> details obscure on purpose.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> The reason I say this is that I bought a bike, a long time
\r?\n> ago, when I was just getting back into all this stuff, for
\r?\n> way too much money, that was deliberately mis-represented,
\r?\n> or under-represented, by the seller (a well-known
\r?\n> personality in the vintage-bike world, but not on this
\r?\n> list). It was a total rip-off, as it turned out..to this
\r?\n> day I wouldn't trust that guy as far as I could throw him...
\r?\n> and I still wonder, to this day, if he really meant to be
\r?\n> deceptive, or if he really thought he was being honest, or
\r?\n> what.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> And that is why auctions like this one bug the hell out of
\r?\n> me.
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\r?\n> It'd be worth asking some questions about that bike, if it's
\r?\n> your size, though. it might be a keeper.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Charles Andrews
\r?\n> SoCal
\r?\n>
\r?\n> "our brains are wired to see connections
\r?\n> and correlations, not coincidences and
\r?\n> happenstance. Moreover, our brains are
\r?\n> wired to believe that a correlation is also
\r?\n> a cause. The same part of the brain that
\r?\n> lets us learn what we need to know and
\r?\n> find the things we need to stay alive is
\r?\n> also the part of the brain that produces
\r?\n> delusional thinking and conspiracy theories
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\r?\n> -- Temple Grandin