RE: Re: [CR]Minimalist eBay listing: Flying Scot "frame"]

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From: "David Bilenkey" <dbilenkey@sympatico.ca>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: Re: [CR]Minimalist eBay listing: Flying Scot "frame"]
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:19:01 -0400
Organization: Bilenkey Industrial Design
In-Reply-To: <002401c5b3df$b0294220$6501a8c0@D5FSLZ21>


Well that's odd, I would swear it said 'ships to the US' when I first looked at the listing but it has changed. :-/ I asked for pics, hopefully they're coming.

David -- David Bilenkey Ottawa, Ontario, Canada dbilenkey@sympatico.ca
> -----Original Message-----
> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of
> Ken Sanford
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:10 PM
> To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org; Phil Sieg
> Subject: Re: Re: [CR]Minimalist eBay listing: Flying Scot "frame"]
>
> Phil
>
> you mis-read. It says local pickup only. IE - NO shipping.
>
> If I lived in Glasgow, I might take a look.
>
> How do you work a scam on a local pick-up (unless you plan a robbery)?
>
> Ken Sanford
> Kensington, MD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Sieg" <triodelover@comcast.net>
> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:01 PM
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [CR]Minimalist eBay listing: Flying Scot "frame"]
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [CR]Minimalist eBay listing: Flying Scot "frame"
> > Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:54:14 -0400
> > From: Phil Sieg <triodelover@comcast.net>
> > To: Thomas Adams <thomasthomasa@yahoo.com>
> > References: <20050907184408.24087.qmail@web30501.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> > Lessee, zero feedback, joined eBay today, picture of a
> headbadge that
> > could have been cobbled from any website, no sizing info,
> ships only to
> > the US. Nah, I'm not suspicious.
> > --
> > Phil Sieg
> > Knoxville, Tennessee
> >
> > Thomas Adams wrote:
> >
> >>Here's the minimalist approach to listing a frame on eBay. Seller
> >>writes
> >>one brief paragraph and potential buyer knows hardly more
> than when he
> >>started. This could be a tremendous bargain, or a pig in a
> poke. I saw
> >>it as "Flying Scot" trips my search monitors, and at least
> I got a chuckle
> >>out of it.
>
>>http://ebay.com/<blah> QQr dZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>> or ebay item 6559572167.

Zero feedback seller too. I hope that the
>> Flying Scot hasn't joined the ranks of Cinelli and Masi as eBay scam
>> bait.
>> Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ