My recipe these days would be:
Bid on the bike.
Do a search by seller and get the contact information which you can do since you are now in the auction.
If a phone call discourages you in any way, cancel your bid, stating the reason.
I see no reason not to seek personal assurance on large ticket items with all the scams going on.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Greatn Notch, NJ
> Item #3642013607 is a beautiful Rivendell with only 250 claimed miles on
it. Starting bid with no takers yet is $1500. It seems like a nice buy and
I love the look of the bike. However myself and several other list members
have noted that the bike is claimed to be a 58cm size. Looking at it, it
seems much smaller, more my size. Upon questioning the seller, he sent some
measurements entirely consistent with a bike of the claimed size. His
choice of English words were strangely like those Nigerian scam letters we
all seem to be getting. I go back and look again, he has decent feedback,
but the bike just does not look that big to me or anyone else who has seen
it.
> Am I being too paranoid here? Anyone know this seller?
> Tom Sanders
> Lansing, Mi