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You buy it! You've already got the parts to build it up. I reckon Tricity would be well chuffed with a new time trial bike for getting back to speed.

Frame too big, wheels too small, shed doesn't exist yet and there's not enough room in the house
#stockresponses

haha maybe they are right!

because if the size is good,

this may be one of the only opportunity you have to find one in such good condition

D0 lT!!!!

I bought this for my girlfriend for Christmas, I paid for it on the 1st of December.

Total was £335, which included £80 for postage and the balance a fee for (me insisting on) using PayPal goods to pay, rather than gift.

Mick doesn't have a PayPal account, so I paid a friend of his (also "on here").

Mick posted the bike two weeks after I'd paid for it, and then according to the tracking information it went to Germany.

The most recent tracking data is from the 22nd of December, showing it to have arrived in Germany.

It's now the 5th of January, I have no frame, Mick assures me that it's coming, but has not provided any tracking data as La Poste are rectifying the mistake they made when they sent it to Germany.

I have initiated a claim via PayPal, and am in the "try to sort it out with the vendor" period, however the chap to whom I paid the money is not the vendor, which makes this complicated.

My girlfriend doesn't want the frame, I just want my money back.

However, the frame is apparently "on it's way, can't be stopped", so the vendor doesn't want to refund the money.

There is no ETA.

What to do, LFGSS?

How does the vendor know where the frame is?

As far as Paypal is concerned, the person you paid is the vendor. As far as you are concerned, the person you paid is the vendor too - the money man has agency for the bike seller. You can view them as a single entity for the purpose of this sale.

Paypal should refund you in due course.

By going to the local post office and asking, apparently.

The person I paid is, annoyingly, an innocent party in this (seemingly), he was just doing the vendor a favour.

I will, ultimately, reclaim the money from him, as I don't have a choice if the vendor doesn't come up with the refund.

I feel truly sorry for the owner of the PayPal account here, as I suspect he's going to end up out of pocket for doing his mate a favour.

don't do it