Re: [CR] ebay outing: eisentraut touring bike

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From: "Jim Ready" <jimr@rfj.com>
To: Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <A7FC569918BB4044B1DF2ACEFB715A7A@DELL>
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:55:41 -0800
Subject: Re: [CR] ebay outing: eisentraut touring bike


I wrote the seller and asked for better pictures which he quickly sent me. It's a Eisentraut Limited by the way.

Jim Ready Cupertino, CA USA

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From: "Charles Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 9:43 AM
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] ebay outing: eisentraut touring bike


> So, here's my question: how does it happen that one comes to sell an

> expensive bike on ebay, and one does not, apparently, bother to look at

> other successful auctions of similar bikes, to see what sort of

> presentation is most effective? I am baffled by auctions like this:

>

> http://ebay.com/<blah>

>

> Charles Andrews

> Los Angeles

>

>

> Q: "Why do people spoil everything for

> themselves?

>

> A: "In big ways, and little ways too,

> people do that all the time to themselves.

> We can't stand prosperity.

> We have to tinker with the machinery."

>

> --John D. MacDonald