Re: [CR] Ebay Eddy Hour Bike and a fair warning quandry.

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:43:41 -0500
From: "Angel Garcia" <veronaman@gmail.com>
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Ebay Eddy Hour Bike and a fair warning quandry.
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Is that a typical EM seat tube lug? Don't recall seeing one like it. And, i s that a 7 in the center of cut-out? Angel Garcia Verona, IT

On 1/20/06, gpvb1@comcast.net <gpvb1@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:53:51 -0800
> From: vjp@telus.net
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Ebay Eddy Hour Bike and a fair warning quandry.
>
> Last night I was on EBAY and looked at this auction,
>
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah> gor
> yZ98084QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> The whole story seems a lttle suspect to me, and that bike is not a
> Colnago,
> DeRosa or Merckx as far as I am concerned.
>
> It was supposedly "built" up in the early 80's and the decals added then.
> The decals look to be late 80's early nineties, the rims are early
> nineties
> and well...it just looks like it was recently built up with some NOS
> parts,
> some in the 80's and some not. It has been built up for 25 years and neve r
> ridden? Never?
>
> I started to send a message to the seller that maybe the person they got
> the
> bike from had "embellished" but that it was probably not correct. Then I
> thought, what if the seller knows that and is not being truthful...???
> Would
> they change the auction?
>
> I deleted my message to the seller and instead sent a short message to th e
> highest bidder that I didn't think that the listing was correct and if
> they
> wanted I would give my reasons in a following e-mail.
>
> This morning I received an email from the SELLER!! He wanted to know why I
> didn't contact Him of I thought something was up and to "stop sabotaging
> my
> auction".
>
> I felt stupid. Why didn't I contact him first? I would appreciate it
> myself.
> But I was even more surprised that the high bidder would have passed alon g
> my email to the seller without asking what my thoughts were first...???
>
> I have been pondering all day, mainly thinking that I should mind my own
> business, and the I had the thought that maybe the high bidder was a shil l
> bid. I don't know.
>
> Minutes ago I received an e-mail from the high bidder stating "I don't
> really care if EDDY rode it or not, I'm just interested in the bike". But
> asked for my thoughts on the bike.
>
> I then checked on the high bidder and realized that he/she is also in
> wisconsin, like the seller.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Victor Penner
>
> Vancouver/bc/canada
>
> Victor:
>
> That sounds like a shill to me. I'll bet $100 that he isn't the high
> bidder at the close of the auction, if the reserve has been met. Shills
> never push a listing to its reserve, as a general rule.
>
> That story about that frameset sets off my BS alarm pretty loudly. Nice
> parts, though. Scott, what do you think about it?
>
> Greg Parker
> Ann Arbor, Michigan