I couldn't help myself. I emailed the guy with, "I wish MY dad would pay that much for a bike." And I do :^)
Jeff Slotkin
TheLocalSpoke@bigfoot.com
> Further update: I wrote this guy and he admitted, with tons of
attitude along
> with it, that '1woeman' is in fact his dad in Austin and he was
intentionally
> trying to jack the price up. I believe this is against eBay's
guidelines.
>
> Could someone verify this before I make a formal complaint?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Grenader
> Smell A.
>
> Donald Dundee wrote:
>
> > There is a pretty nice DeRosa on Ebay, item number 475626185.
Worth, in my
> > guess, about $900 tops. However, I looked at the bid history and
something
> > struck me kinda funny. The current bidder, "hoelman", has the
price up to
> > around $1100. Prior to his bid, "1woeman" jacked the bid 8 times
after
> > "1woeman", to the current price. Prior to this, "hoelman" was
outbid several
> > times by "1woeman".
> >
> > so, I checked both the seller "cjbuilder" and "1woeman". Although
they live
> > in two different cities in the southwest, they both have the same
last name,
> > "Sowers".
> >
> > Sounds very fishy.
> >
> > Nice bike, but unscrupulous behavior may prevail.
> >
> > Ken Denny
> > Boston, MA
> >
> >
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