Because I knew the original French seller (only professionally), I notified him, the buyer, eBay and the current seller (or re-seller). Really it's not my business-I was just curious as to what would happen. eBay gave me the reply I've mentioned, and everyone else is just "lying low" for the time being.Meanwhile folks are bidding. Interesting isn't it? George Hollenberg MD Westport, CT, USA
> That's weird what they told you about shared images, because I
> complainedonce and they closed the person's auction, using the
> fact that it states
> clearly in eBay rules that you cannot use another seller's
> image. You have
> to be the other seller to get quick action I guess.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> > [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of
> > gholl@optonline.net
> > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:02 PM
> > To: dima
> > Cc: Classic Rendezvous
> > Subject: Re: [CR]Colnago Mexico Saronni on eBay
> >
> > Hi: In my opinion the currently listed item #27014629274 is
> > the same bike previously sold as #140132743800.
> > Two of the original photos have simply been pirated and
> > re-offered as another bike!
> > George Hollenberg, MD
> > Westport, CT, USA
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: dima
> > Date: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:46 am
> > Subject: Re: [CR]Colnago Mexico Saronni on eBay
> > To: gholl@optonline.net
> > Cc: Classic Rendezvous
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Thursday, July 19, 2007, 8:29:19 AM, gholl wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > This bike, a very nice Colnago Saronni type Mexico, was
> under-
> > > bid by
> > > > me on eBay and purchased by a Canadian collector from a
> > well known
> > > > and respected French collector/dealer recently. It was then
> > > listed as item#140132743800.
> > > > Now, with only two of the original photos and a garbled
> > > description,> it now appears as item #27014629274,
> > >
> > > Just to note that a "1" was lost from the end of the item #,
> the
> > > correctnumber of the apparently fake bike is 270146292741.
> > >
> > > (FWIW, I also remember the original listing, and the new one
> looks
> > > ridiculous... IMO obviously a fake. I'm surprised though -
> > currently
> > > there are already 3 bidders for this, all with quite some
> eBay
> > > experience - I would imagine that anybody likely to be
> > interested in
> > > buying such a bike would've seen/remember the original
> > listing, esp.
> > > as the photos include a very specific background that's
> obviously
> > > unique to the original seller...)
> > >
> > > > being sold by "sagalnic1", a
> > > > seller with 0 track record. One person has bid on the item.
> > > > I informed the French the French seller and eBay.
> > > > eBay responded by stating that they did find anything
> > unusual about
> > > > the listing since," members sometimes share images or derive
> > > images from a similar source."
> > > > George Hollenberg MD
> > > > Westport, CT, USA
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dmitry Yaitskov,
> > > Toronto, Canada.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > George Hollenberg MD
> > CT, USA
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
>
>
George Hollenberg MD
CT, USA