Both james and simon( risfuk ) have made me offers on some bits and then not come through with the dosh.
jamesabaldwin said he'd send a deposit on some brakes as he definately wanted them and would pay the rest in two weeks. Then no contact from him for a week with no deposit. Thanks James.
Then simon ( risfuk ) offers me £130 for a mech, cassette and chain which i accept. Then silence for a day and after a probing email I sent I get -
"Sory mate change of plan going to get a clutch rear mech
But thanks and good luck with the sale"
Cheers simon . I took the mech of ebay for you. Dick .
i dream of having problems in life as big as yours mate.
like it straight to the point and no messing, how it should be
You sound like a horrible character
Still time to delete the thread OP, and chill out a bit.
This will go spectacularly wrong 8)
RealMan to the thread...
Having said that the OP looks pretty much like a 'classifieds only' user (although I accept they may lurk a lot). Do people who only use the classifieds deserve as much sympathy as a regular on the others?
You have just named and shamed only yourself here...
yesterday I screamed at a dog that looked at me funny.
How dare they!!!!!!!!!!
Surely the stuff's only sold once cash taken? Money talks...
maybe james and simon got together and decided to spend the money on a hotel room.
Love can do these things...
I can kind of see where the OP is coming from. If you agree to buy something you should either go through with the agreement or proactively inform the seller that you have changed your mind.
If the OP agreed to hold the brakes pending payment from James and then sold them to the next person who emailed him James would have every right to feel pissed off.
Crikey.
And you're assistant manager of an LBS? No wonder so many struggle.
James Baldwin ......rings a bell ..did the same to me on my frame .......but don't stress it's no biggy ,,people can change their mind .....be nice if they let you know though .
Thats what it's like selling ......
Tracknicko +1, really no big deal.
EDIT - wrong window.
anyway, what a lovely thread 😀
Did I hear ........cake ...!!!!
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I thought it was an interesting contribution.
I kinda agree with the OP too. There's plenty of time to change your mind [i]before[/i] you agree to buy anything.
Once you've agreed it's a done deal, you've entered a verbal contract. So many people seem to treat second hand sales the same as they would if they were buying from the high street. It's a bit shady.
Kind of makes my reply look a bit odd too ..........thanks Phil
I expect restaurants to provide me with washed cutlery. Maybe you have lower standards.
(does that help?)
OP, you posted up here that you were after a pair of shiver SCs, I responded saying I had some, giving you my mail address. You never responded with a yes or no.
Jus' sayin'....
Classifieds can be a bit hit and miss. Most of the folk I've had dealings with are lovely.
As to the bloke for whom I sat in and ruined a nice sunny day with my family, that wasn't so good, but that's how it is.
Now, shouldn't we all be out riding?
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Cheers simon . I took the mech of ebay for you. Dick
A nastier person than me might say that's what you get for not abiding by eBay rules, karma and all that.
TuckerUK: Agreed.
and if you do take it off ebay, make sure to get the money first or hope the guy sticks to his word. There are good fellas just like me 😀
A nastier person than me might say that's what you get for not abiding by eBay rules, karma and all that
I would hope Karma has got bigger fish to fry.
If you think there are a few tyre kickers on this site you want to try advertising on pinkbike
You can get tyre kicked and scammed all at the same time 😯
i only hold stuff for people when i get the deposit through now. Too many timewasters.
It happens a lot - why get worked up - did you spend the money before receiving it? Just move on.
yesterday I screamed at a dog that looked at me funny.
Brilliant - I've just snotted a cup of tea!
"Time's fun when you're having flies." -- Kermit the Frog 🙂
njee20 I dont get ur point..
I doubt I ever will.
anyway.. I just hope when people make an agreement they stick to it.. otherwise it becomes like pinkbike which ive used maybe once and was messed around. I guess some people have lower standards..
good night all
I hope they both decided to back there LBS's and buy from them instead, thus keeping them afloat and open.............
The sad truth of the matter is bike shops are closing due to Ebay, CRC Merlin etc. - Soon there will be no-one to fix our bikes and we will need to rely on videos via Youtube to face our headtubes / BB's, set-up gears, bleed brakes and cut steerers etc. - [b]Oh and buy / share the appropriate specialist tooling[/b]
[u][b]R.I.P. Bikework, Dundee :([/b][/u]
Good coming from me, AKA Delboy 😉
An offer isn't an agreement of a sale.
No need to aggressively hound a bloke because he back tracked on an offer. Burmaboy sounds like a wangsta.
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Got to agree. Would be far more sympathetic if he wasn't a classifieds-only sort of person