[Closed] 2nd hand bike purchase help !

I can't say. I'll get another PM.... 😆

we were setting it up so the bars and saddle etc were all ready to go on the day.

ach, you'll have swopped the bars and saddle out too by then.... 🙂

I'd be writing a ebay message to the seller

He bought it off a Facebook group so caveat emptor. People use groups and forums because it avoids fees, the flipside for a buyer is no protection.

Personally I'd stick the bike in the classifieds for more than I paid for it, make a profit, and buy a bike without a defective freehub*.

*I've never had a STW PM and I've only just seen it's a thing on your profile page so I am feeling left out. I would of course just suck it up and buy a new freehub.

...oh dear....Who allowed the PM function I much prefer the open forum telling off. Don't mention the previous buy/sell debacle and or any profits made.

Seriously Renton you won with one purchase, lost with another. You played the used market and as a result these things do happen. It's £25, the lad has said he will sort it. In the mean time buy a freehub and get the bike ready for you kids birthday

Just copy and paste the PM content into the thread, everyone wins!

Renton private messaged me asking to meet up for a fight. I'd say he's easily agitated, lol.

No I asked you to meet up to see if you would call me a pussy and a **** to my face.

As i said we don't want that on hear so glad be your mom or dad their phone back. It's nearly bed time for you lad.

Wrong. You asked me to meet up for a fight. It's obvious you're butthurt. Why are you sending everyone PM's anyway ? 😆

Do you mean 'here' ?

.No I asked you to meet up to see if you would call me a pussy and a **** to my face.

Oh man, you never, surely?

I can copy and paste all of the on here. Not once did I mention a fight.

renton Sent 7 hours, 53 minutes ago
Im sorry but do I know you and if not then whats with the lol ?
andy10011andy10011 Sent 7 hours, 50 minutes ago
It’s a public forum, i don’t need to know you.
rentonrenton Sent 7 hours, 40 minutes ago
very good, come back when you have more than two posts on the site.
andy10011andy10011 Sent 7 hours, 39 minutes ago
I’ll gain a few on your thread
andy10011andy10011 Sent 7 hours, 36 minutes ago
Have you bought a freewheel yet? You tight ****.
rentonrenton Sent 7 hours, 36 minutes ago
Nice thats just what we want on this forum.
andy10011andy10011 Sent 7 hours, 32 minutes ago
I know
andy10011andy10011 Sent 7 hours, 17 minutes ago
Pussy boy lol
rentonrenton Sent 3 hours, 55 minutes ago
fancy meeting up then you keyboard warrior
andy10011andy10011 Sent 41 minutes ago
Yes, give me your address

Where does it say fight in there.

Andy10011 you are just being childish. Not one of your posts has been helpful.

I suggest you just go away.

Save the fuel cost of driving to meet Andy and spend it on a ....... Freehub? It's the chance you take with 2nd hand bikes, some bits not quite as described. Heyho.

Wow! Renton?
You really are a dick it would appear.. 🙄

Teetosugars how am I the dick ??

I can on here asking advice on how long a freehub should take from ATB and get nothing but abuse ?

Then I'm verbally abused by someone that's commented on two topics on the forum since he joined and I'm being the dick ??

How does that work ??

Renton - you generally come across as a nice chap, but if people gently taking the piss on a public forum has this effect on you, perhaps forums aren't a healthy thing for you.

How does that work ??

Maybe you should think how it looks from our perspective before you post? You can't ask one question and expect everything you've previously posted to have no effect on how it's answered. Renton's bike buying and selling soap opera is just that...

I can on here asking advice on how long a freehub should take from ATB

I am a nice chap as those who have met me should confirm ( I hope :mrgreen:)

I just get wound up far to easily when people who haven't got useful answers and contribute nothing to the forum start verbally abusing me.

Try and ignore them. You're your own worst enemy.

Lol why did you bother sending me a private message in the first place ? 🙄

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comedy gold thread. 😀

Renton you'd be a much in much better position if you spent as much time and effort just getting a freehub rather than getting wound up on here.

If that was me I'd just accept the freehub is shagged, buy one and move on.

It seems most of the pussies on this forum would just roll over and die, and pay the money themselves.

I think you're a bit more tenacious than that though, renton.

I think you've got two options:

Split the bike and sell the parts in the classifieds for a 40% profit. Then buy your lad a better bike. People will be more understanding if you explain that the profiteering is for a good cause.

Send him an aggressively worded message on Facebook, with a view to meeting up to exchange freehubs/money/punches. Explain you're one of the hardest members of the STW forum; that should bring him round.

hahaha,. 😆

Fantastic thread, thanks renton

cba

renton ..probably your best course of action would be to change your STW name etc and start afresh as although i personally don't get involved in winding people up or arguing much on here ( been a member for 12 years )it appears you get targeted for whatever reasons .As people have said you win some and you lose some when buying 2nd hand and disappointment is sometimes to be expected when buying blind . I expect the freehub will turn up and if not it's not the end of the world . If you don't want the risk of possible disappointment i'd suggest buying new like many do but even then things go wrong. It's the way of the world.

Brilliant thread, thank you.

And a reminder to be thankful that the worst of my idiocy was confined to pre internet days.

Mostly.

renton ..probably your best course of action would be to change your STW name etc and start afresh as although i personally don't get involved in winding people up or arguing much on here ( been a member for 12 years )it appears you get targeted for whatever reasons

Why should I change my username just to please all the people on here that like to do nothing more but to reply to threads to wind folk up.

Yes you are right I do seem to get the brunt of it .... Am I bothered .... Sometimes yes maybe but not always.

It used to be a good forum this as far as the biking community goes now it seems it's full of folk like them that have posted on here.

Yes I like to change my bikes quite often, where's the harm in that. I don't see any ?

Yes I might of took the piss a bit on the bike I bought from pops, I've held my hands up to that. Nobody is perfect.

I'm up for a good bit of banter but as you can see from this thread it's all turned a bit nasty really.

I've got people messaging me calling me the c word ..... Absolutely no need for that what so ever.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. If people want to take the piss then so be it.

I'm with you Renton , just re-read your original post and can't see what you have done to deserve all the abuse , I know you have a bit of " previous " but it's totally over the top . It doesn't even have to be about the money , it's the principle and if the seller agreed to replace it then he should do that . I'm not to sure what you can do if he doesn't though . As you paid by PayPal could you not raise a PayPal dispute for £25 and just order the freehub yourself .

Why should I change my username just to please all the people on here that like to do nothing more but to reply to threads to wind folk up.

You wouldn't be pleasing them, you'd be helping yourself I'd imagine.

Yes you are right I do seem to get the brunt of it

Because people put the bait out, and you bite.

I've got people messaging me calling me the c word ..... Absolutely no need for that what so ever.

Agree, absolutely no need. Pathetic forum users hidden behind an online alias.

.It used to be a good forum this as far as the biking community goes now it seems it's full of folk like them that have posted on here

After all the help I've seen in the last few years and people being gifted bikes, people fixing cars and people being dragged out of depression etc, I'm simply not having that at all.

Fwiw, just because i completely disagreed with you, doesn't make either of us bad people, just different to each other.

Can't believe I missed this thread, top fun after a tough day. Thanks guys

It used to be a good forum this as far as the biking community goes now it seems it's full of folk like them that have posted on here

Fwiw, just because i completely disagreed with you, doesn't make either of us bad people, just different to each other.

Weeksy it wasn't aimed at you dude , not sure if you remember lending me your machine polisher a few years back at all ??

Here is the bike in question...

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It's my eldest lads first MTB and he is dead excited about getting out riding with me. Sort of makes all the abuse worthwhile.

His younger brother who's birthday is first is also getting his first MTB too.........

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Cheers.

Steve.

Do you have the lumi one still as well? A satisfying rainbow of Whytes.

Yep still have it Matt...

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I have to admit, i didn't know I'd lent it to you, do you need it again?
You can still have it.

No mate I've bought one since. I had a Mazda at the time and you suggested giving it a good polish before selling it of i remember.

I was over at the pub by yours the other day picking some bits up off cokie.

Nice looking bikes, though perhaps a trio of Spesh's would suit you all better ?........ 😀