Earlier today the seller told me he had taken the ad down due to the many e-mails and that a relative of Ernesto's, I believe he said his son, suggested the bike is worth $10,000 and offered to build him a one-off carbon frame bike in trade. It was pointless to pursue it further as I don't have anything, carbonium or otherwise, to trade at that level and left him to mull over the Italian offer.
Terry McClintock
San Anselmo, CA