Re: [CR] Confente

(Example: Framebuilders:Mario Confente)

Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:59:09 -0400
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090802.084225.22216.8@webmail15.vgs.untd.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Confente


At 03:42 PM 02/08/2009 +0000, brianbaylis@juno.com wrote:
>I wasn't looking that closely to the situation; but wasn't the seller a non-cyclist?
>I thought he inherited the bike.

http://tinyurl.com/nuph3j

He appears to be a dealer of sports cards, with close to 500 items up for auction. Said he was "selling for a friend". Clearly they were optimistic estimating what this bike would fetch. With the sad state of the U.S. economy, maybe the owner was hoping to get enough to live on for a few months.

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada