Hi Ken (and everyone else interested in the bike of topic),
Please don't feel any guilt on my account if you're interested in that frameset. I have no issues other than with the seller, so on principal I won't bid again but by all means I'd be happy if the auction worked out better for someone from the list.
Best of luck and I appreciate the sentiment, Tam Pham Huntington Beach, CA
On 3/3/06, Ken Sanford <kanford@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> All
>
> Well, I did query the seller as to why he was reselling the bike. For th
e
> record, I got no response so far (after 36 plus hours). Not a surprise t
o
> me.
>
> Thus I cancelled my bid.
>
> Trouble is, It is a bike that interests me a lot at 57 cm c-c; only 1
> centimeter smaller that I want.... But I would not feel right every time
> I
> rode it knowing it ought to be Tam's bike.
>
> Ken Sanford
> Kensington, MD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tam Pham" <terminaut@gmail.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Interesting Track Frame & San Marco Swallow Saddle
> again???
>
>
> > Wow - what a bunch of jerks that operation is. They charged me $90 to
> ship
> > the frame by ground, then somehow the package ended up getting lost in
> > transit. The seller's communications is the worst as they almost never
> > repl
> > y
> > to emailed questions, and I had to deal with FedEx for many days trying
> to
> > figure out what happened to the frame. The FedEx agents thought that th
e
> > frame was likely poorly packaged/labeled and that the label fell off.
> >
> > When I emailed the seller to tell them that FedEx said the bike was
> lost,
> > they amazingly sent me a different (and wrong) tracking number saying
> that
> > things were OK.
> >
> > Anyways, the frame never arrived and after no success in getting the
> > seller
> > to refund me (at that point could make a claim with FedEx to recoup
> their
> > loss) I had to file a complaint with Paypal. That step worked in
> > motivating
> > the seller to issue me a refund and they threw in some bonus surleyness
> to
> > go with it.
> >
> > The short of it is that they're one of those "drop it off and we'll sel
l
> > in
> > for you on eBay" places. My biggest gripe is their very poor
> > communications
> > throughout the entire transaction. Now it looks like they got the frame
> > bac
> > k
> > and didn't bother to email me to see if perhaps we could resume where w
e
> > left off. Oh well.
> >
> > Tam "hey that was my frame!" Pham, in Huntington Beach, CA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/1/06, Kevin Kruger <ktk1_7_0_2_8@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I brought the following eBay auction to the list's attention first tim
e
> >> around, and now the same frame/saddle are listed again. Seem to recal
l
> a
> >> list member stating that he purchased the frame, but that it was never
> >> delivered because it was lost in transit.
> >> Don't know the seller, but something doesn't appear to be right if I
> >> follow what happened???
> >>
> >>
> http://ebay.com/
> > QQitemZ7223232072
> >> Regards,
> >> Kevin Kruger
> >>
> >>
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