Re: [CR]Was: Hilary's eBay outing. Now: All that & Dave Davey frame

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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:14:50 -0600
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Was: Hilary's eBay outing. Now: All that & Dave Davey frame
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From: "John Thompson" <johndthompson@gmail.com>


Dale Brown wrote:
> First, it struck me how lucky we are to have Hilary as a reseller of vintage lightweight bicycle merchandise!
> I know, I know, some of the boys get upset when he buys goods and then resells them for a profit.
> But I do that everyday myself to feed my family, just new stuff vs used, so...

Hilary does the legwork finding all this stuff, and organizing it for auction. That's "value added" in my book.

Now, if the dollar weren't doing so poorly vis-a-vis European currencies, and if it didn't cost so dang much to ship from the UK...

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA