[CR] warning: eBay seller "monsterdog7"

(Example: Bike Shops)

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:21:20 -0800
From: "Dale B. Phelps" <losgatos_dale@yahoo.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] warning: eBay seller "monsterdog7"


All:

Last month I purchased the refinished green Griffon offered on eBay that a few of us were talking about (180312938620.) This is the one which had had a very nice cycleart re-spray, unfortunately it was scratched up during s hipping. The seller wrapped the frame in ONE layer of saran wrap around t he tubes (!), and removed the fork and wrapped paper around it and put it l oose in the box (!!!) The threaded headtube of the fork naturally migrated to the space between the chainstay and the inside wall of the box, threads cut through the paper, and scratched the frame. Mostly clearcoat damage, bu t it cannot simply be polished out. Oh, and he didn't ship one of the heads et bearings. Legit mistakes I suppose, but the seller did not even return m y email messages until I said I did not want to escalate my concern, at whi ch point there was a lot of blame-placing but no responsibility taking. I w on't diatribe the details, but this is a seller who obviously has (or had) no clue about packaging, and if you get enticed by his (many) on-topi c offerings, "buyer beware."

Dale Phelps
Montagna lunga Colorado USA